This year is the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Limits to Growth (LTG), a report on the exponential economic and population growth with a finite supply of resources, by Donella H. Meadows et. al. People long before them understood …
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Old Fogies Generally Rebuke the Younger Generation
“Grown-ups” have always had issues with the culture of young people. Adults in ancient Athens thought that Western Civilization was doomed because they deemed the youth of the day to be lazy, decadent, and uninterested in learning. I remember quite …
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Tagged with: Western Civilization
Feeling Sad for Stupid and Mean People
The popular Christian reverend John Pavlovitz writes: It’s simply demoralizing sharing a country with people who think Donald Trump is someone worth emulating: to be surrounded by that kind of moral inversion every single day, to be continually encountering such …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Education and Politics
Question: OK, Americans, if you had to do it on your own, how would you rank the 50 states in terms of education? An old friend who went to college with me in Connecticut boasts that the state of our …
Why Do We Regard Johnny Cash and Colin Kaepernick So Differently?
Simply put, there is a big difference between a white American country music star and an African American football player peacefully protesting police brutality and racial inequality.
Tagged with: racial inequality
How Far to the Right Do You Take the Fight?
Here’s Morgan Ortagus, a well bedecked woman running for the seat in Congress that represents Central Tennessee, who proudly claims that she’s supported by Donald Trump, and wans to distinguish herself as being to the right of her opponent Robby Starbuck …
What Supports the Poor and Working Class?
There is something to be said for the content of the meme here, but only if you’re unwilling to look around and consider different ideas (see below, sorry about the typo). Before labor unions came along, there were eight-year-old kids …
Tagged with: environmental and safety restrictions
Trump and Tax Evasion
Funny, but the probability that Trump goes down on tax evasion is minute, and getting smaller with each revelation about his conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government.
Big Tech Takes on Disinformation Campaigns
Here’s Donald Trump announcing his lawsuit against “Big Tech” on the basis that Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have “silenced” him unfairly. Actually, they’ve banned a great number of people from their platforms in order to reduce the dissemination of harmful …
Yes, Putin Wouldn’t Have Threatened Ukraine Until Trump Left Office
Apparently, Fox News was able to come across a retired Army general who would say on camera that Putin wouldn’t have messed with Trump, implying that Putin perceives Biden as a weaker president.
