The other day I was walking to a meeting in downtown Los Angeles and I came across this sign in front of a shop. In my book, kindness needs to be re-enforced at every opportunity, so I ducked in, found …
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Scientists: Earth Endangered by New Strain of Fact-Resistant Humans
Here’s a fantastic piece in the New Yorker. There are probably 20 posts here related to the bizarre repulsion for science maintained by the common American, but none handles it with panache like this.
An Instruction in Life from Aleksandr Pushkin
Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool. -Aleksandr Pushkin, poet, novelist, and playwright (6 Jun 1799-1837) Let that last thought sink in for a bit. When …
Per Capita Energy Consumption
There are two important takeaways from the graphic here: • We Americans use huge amounts of energy, and feel completely entitled to do so. Insofar as there are no pressures that would militate away from this level of overconsumption, it’s …
Some Decisions To Protect Our Environment Are Symbolic, But Is That Wrong?
In one of yesterday’s posts I wrote on the U.S. rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline: “My viewpoint is that rejecting the pipeline was symbolic, but that it was an extremely important symbol.” In response, a reader remarks: “That would appear to …
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Our Patience With Oil Train Wrecks Is At An Ebb
Here’s a piece that covers one of the many hidden costs associated with petroleum: cleaning up oil train wreckages. That, in and of itself, wouldn’t qualify it as unique, or even terribly interesting, given how increasingly common these disasters are …
A Feasible Plan To Migrate To Renewable Energy
A friend asked me if I’d be interested in collaborating on a book that would offer a sensible plan to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. I responded that I’d be thrilled to collaborate on such a project and offered …
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New Solar Thermal Farm Boasts Enormous Scale
As we sit here in mid-2016, there are two camps in the overall migration to renewable energy: those who say it can’t be done, and those in the process of doing it. Here’s an article about a team that operates …
Evaluating Efforts to Migrate Towards Clean Energy
A reader challenges my post hailing Sweden for its success in the migration to renewables. I wrote: “Sweden managed to reach its goal of a 50 per cent renewable energy share several years ahead of the Swedish government’s 2020 schedule, in …
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Different Styles of Writing on the Destruction of Our Environment
I try to minimize the use of sarcasm in my observations about the perils our civilization faces vis-a-vis the decay of our environment and the horrific apathy with which our society addresses the challenge. It’s not that being snide and …
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