Errr…no. This has been a weird little perturbation in the political scene, much like the witch trials in 1692; the phenomenon came and went, and a year later, most people of that place and time couldn’t even explain how it …
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Is Human Civilization Reversing Course?
Tagged with: civil rights, environmentalism, gay marriage, Magna Carta, the abolition of slavery, the Age of Reason, the end of legal segregation, The Enlightenment, the feminist movement/gender equality, the French Revolution, the Renaissance, the U.S. Constitution, women's suffrage, workers' rights
The Perils of Being a “Leftist”
Here’s an article written by a very bright woman who offers 10 reasons she’s no longer a leftist. There are a few good and interesting ideas here. In particular, there is no doubt that people on the left can be …
Looking Critically at Al Gore’s “Hypocrisy”
Apparently, Al Gore lives large, and lugs with him a huge personal carbon footprint wherever he goes; we’ve been hearing about this more or less constantly since his 2006 documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” became a considerable box-office success. In fact, …
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the “Triumph of Myth over Truth”
Here’s an article from ThinkProgress.Org outlining why Elizabeth Southerland, 30-year EPA vet, most recently Director of the Office of Science and Technology for the agency’s Water Office, has resigned from her post. The reason shouldn’t come as a shock: the Trump …
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Making an Introduction
You’re a cleantech businessperson with a solid, commercially viable concept that, if implemented, could make a transformative difference in our civilization’s ability to deal with its environmental challenges. But you have a problem. Maybe it’s lack of capital. Perhaps you’re …
Articles on Tidal Energy
We’ve all had the experience of flipping through an in-flight magazine and finding ourselves utterly incapable of generating even the vaguest interest in any of the articles they contain. We can almost hear the editor ordering the staff journalists to …
Note on Writing
A dear friend from my youth (pictured) wrote to me the other day and asked me about my thoughts on writing. My response: To me, it’s an opportunity to express whatever I’m thinking, with whatever degree of circumspection and perfection …
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The Migration to Electric Transportation Has Many Faces
Well, at least three that I can think of. We’re all aware of steady development of better and lower-cost batteries, which seems to be the putative victor here. Once affordable batteries provide a range of 350 miles, and we’re fairly …
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The Anti-Science Mindset and Climate Denial
Here’s an article that speculates on the psychology of climate denial, i.e., the mental processes that enable people to disbelieve the science on this subject. A few thoughts as you read through this:
IBM Means Business, Addresses Climate Change with a Wealth of Technologies
Here’s a cool advertisement from IBM (former client of mine) that leads with the existential threat of climate change and closes with the corporate icon’s set of solutions–some of which date back decades. The Fortune 50 really understand what climate …
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