R W KarpRick Karp was a high school teacher for 14 years, in business for close to 30 years, and was President of the Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce for 14 years.

In 2017, he founded the Yukon Science and Technology Advisory Society (YSTAS) and nw works with more than 20 PhD holders and several other researchers. He realized, from discussions with one of YSTAS's economists that we need to make changes to our economic and social paradigms if our world is to be saved for future generations. Green's Discovery was originally a short story that Karp decided to expand upon to show what we have to do to preserve our world.

Now retired, Karp lives in Whitehorse, Yukon. He lost his wife in 2017 and lives on his own. Read More Read Less