In a great number of respects, mid-Century “Bucky” Fuller was correct in what he said here. The Iron Age didn’t win out over the Bronze Age because of humankind’s resentment of bronze, nor did the Information Age come along because …
Author: craigshields
Biodiversity
This translates as: Ants rely for their physiological health on food variety. Please take care of biodiversity. The sign reads: I’m hungry. Please plant flowers. I had standard, boring, grass lawns around every home I every owned. But if …
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Greetings from Jakarta, Indonesia
That’s quite a fleet of high-speed, all-electric trains you folks have there. Congratulations! Not unlike the rest of Asia, Japan, and most of Western/Central Europe. Pity you will not find anything remotely resembling this in the United States.
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Questions on Renewables and EVs
An old friend asked for my response to three (multi-pronged) questions on renewable energy and electric transportation. Here are my responses: Question #1: How long do you believe it will take until the RE technologies will be able to …
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What Type of World Do We Want To Live In?
Among the problems associated with unbridled capitalism is that it creates a society that is both mean and stupid. Speaking for myself, I really don’t like living among hateful idiots. It’s depressing. Fifty years ago, we had our share of …
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The Cost of Climate Change
Sensible people find the meme here to be compelling, while noting that it doesn’t take into account human misery: deaths from hyperthermia, drowning, and wildfires, the disease transmitted by insects, the loss of homeland, the hunger and thirst.
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The Gift That Is David Attenborough
Here’s a good example of what makes David Attenborough an international treasure. In just a few words, he explains precisely where humankind finds itself — “like it or not.”
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Trafficking in Bull****
An anti-vaxxer sent me the meme here. In actuality, Australia’s vaccination rate is 84.6%, and it has one of the lowest per capita death rates in the world, at 471/M. The problem with these people seems to be that they …
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Animal Rights
Human civilization is making slow progress in the direction of reducing cruelty to animals. Unacceptably slow, IMO, largely driven by our lack of willingness to change our diets. I’ve always gotten a smile out of the cartoon here. In particular, …
All You Single Ladies: If You Like It, Go and Put a Ring on It
Amazingly, this guy is single! I would have thought that this way of thinking, so in vogue during our Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal days, would have endured over millions of years. I guess times change.
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