This might not be the best day of the year to write a post about an atheist, but there is never a bad time to note what the late Christopher Hitchens thought about people like Donald Trump. The world isn’t …
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The Presidential Pardon
No one expected Trump to leave office before pardoning all his allies and mega-donor felons, so what he’s doing right now is anything but a surprise. Clearly, we need a constitutional amendment to prevent this massive level of corruption from …
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Climate Science Presented Brilliantly
Those looking for a wonderful presentation from several top climate scientists will enjoy the video below. There is so much here about ozone depletion, ultra-violet light and the electromagnetic spectrum, water vapor in the stratosphere, changing ocean currents, ice formation, …
Is Politically Motivated Violence Inevitable?
It’s hard to know what will happen in the coming month or so. Trump will never admit that he lost the election, and tens of millions of Americans, egged on by Fox News and extremist social media, believe him. It …
C.S. Lewis Brought Us Great Thoughts, Reading Pleasures
C. S. Lewis is now a subject of discussion primarily by virtue of his adopting Christianity, given his former position as an avowed atheist. But doesn’t this fixation on his religion seem like something of a shame, given that he …
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Give Your Five-Year-Old the Gift of Science This Christmas…No, Wait, She Already Has It
Here’s a video on hydrokinetics that I hope readers will check out. We Americans live among the most scientifically illiterate people on the planet. But that’s not really the issue here. If you took 100 average five-year-olds to a slowly …
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Planet Earth Isn’t Falling Into Line
I like to think that the blog here at 2GreenEnergy.com is a set of instructions to a world that desperately needs them. I’m not suggesting that anything here is profound, or even that it’s controversial; they are mostly ideas like: …
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Aeroponic Farming
My good friend Bill Moore of EVWorld fame writes: Love this, but what are the energy costs and nutrient levels? I first ran across aeroponic (vertical) farming about the time I met Bill, perhaps 12 years ago, and I have …
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Politics Permeates Every Aspect of American Life
Politicization is the watchword of our American culture as we head into 2021. If something, regardless of how cut and dried, can take on a political spin, that’s exactly what will happen–as asinine as that may seem to outsiders.
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Selecting an Educator as Secretary of Education? Seriously?
Is this real? Is it possible that we’ll have an actual educator serving as the United States Secretary of Education? Yes, Biden had said he would choose someone who taught in public schools for this post, but it’s hard to believe …
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