The implication here is that folks like the Amish who eschew technology like television are incapable of receiving and understanding climate science. I would find that offensive if I were they. They can’t read? They can’t think?
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You Probably Won’t Die of Climate Change
I don’t know anything about this young lady other that she’s English-speaking, and that she has enough time to herself to spend some of it protesting our civilization’s disgusting disregard for the existential threat that climate change represents. And because …
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What Children’s TV Programming Should Promote
When Elon Musk said recently, “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy,” he opened our eyes to a shocking element of who’s running the United States government at this time and the sick ethos that is currently the rule …
Worse Times for America?
The reason that Dan Rather can’t remember a worse time for the United States is simple: there has never been one. Nowhere close. Even worse, it’s likely that you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
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Greenland Says NO! to U.S.
In this video, we see a massive demonstration outside the U.S. consulate in Greenland, featuring a banner that reads,”99.7% say NO!” Are you telling me that only 3 out of 1000 Greenlanders want to see their country annexed by the …
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What Children Learn at School Differs Greatly According to Region
In a recent post I mentioned that Denmark puts its schoolchildren through a course on empathy, where they’re taught that other people should be treated with kindness and decency. At left we have another element of what kids in this …
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Free Education, Pros and Cons
I had a conversation earlier today with a woman from Melbourne, Australia who lamented that her country recently ceased providing free education to all her country’s citizens. “It’s a shame,” she said, “that we couldn’t have followed the developed countries …
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Privilege As It Applies in American Society
The video here has been around for several years, and provides a metaphorical look at the concept of privilege. In this regard, we all have our own stories to tell. Here’s mine: I was adopted by two sane and productive …
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Red Meat and Ultra-Processed Foods
The meme here presents a grossly stupid and unfair comparison. A diet that consists of too much snack food hurts one person: you. The beef industry, by contrast, exists by 1) destroying vast areas of rainforest that formerly was absorbing …
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The U.S. Economy Is in Trouble, but What Exactly Did We Expect?
To me, the funniest part (if there is one) of the fiasco we Americans are experiencing is that somehow, voters elected a president who has no training in economics to make decisions that are having enormously destructive effects on the …
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