There are plenty of places on Earth where fans could (and would) be “held accountable” for booing the president, but America most certainly isn’t one of them. Here, with very few exceptions, we’re free to express whatever thoughts we choose, …
Author: craigshields
Getting Trump Gone: How Far Need We Go?
Readers understand that I desperately want to see Trump gone, but if they want to see real passion here, they need to meet my wife. Becky’s having such a tough time with the day-to-day news about the climate denial, the …
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Backing Out of the Paris Climate Accord Is Terrible, But We’ll Get Through It
Try as we might, there is no getting around the fact that the United States is a pariah in the world, having become the only one of 188 sovereign countries on the planet that is refusing to work in concert …
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Evaluating Social Democracy
A reader notes: There is a huge conceptual misunderstanding in the world of politics and political philosophy. We keep hearing about the left and the right, which delivers a completely incorrect concept of reality. It is not left and right …
Financial Times: Climate Crisis Carries Unknown Cost
The notoriously level-headed Financial Times, an international broadsheet daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news, writes as follows about the ramifications of climate change, based partially on last summer’s heat wave in Europe: Hot enough for …
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Florida Says No To “Fake News”
From the Washington Post: The librarians of Citrus County, Fla., had what seemed like a modest wish: A digital subscription to the New York Times. For about $2,700 annually, they reasoned, they could offer their roughly 70,000 patrons an easy …
Anti-Trump Sentiment Has Its Lighter Side
Comments on the pic at left: Jean: I have a “my dog is smarter than your president’” but I’m too scared of the Trump supporters to put it on my car. Me: Love it! I’m with you, Jean. My car …
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Waste to Energy: It’s Complicated
Here’s a video on a waste to energy plant in Africa that readers may enjoy. W2E, as it’s sometimes called, is a complicated subject, due to a number of factors: Cleanliness of the technology is a relative matter
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Beef and the Environment
A reader sends this article from the USA Today: Let them eat steak: Hold the shame, red meat is not bad for you or climate change. Let me begin by saying that I tend to be more impressed with peer-reviewed …
Tagged with: animal methane, beef industry has a horrific impact on the environment, effluent waste, Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), fossil fuel usage, largely to grow beef, losing 150 acres of the Amazon rainforest per minute, stress that the mass consumption of beef places on the environment, unlimited supply of red meat, water and land consumption
Mourning the Loss of Truth
As you read the exchange to the left, ask yourself: how did it become this way? How have facts ceased to matter? Sure, there have been hundreds of discussions to the effect that truth is the biggest and most tragic …
