I just signed up to receive Bill Gates’ newsletter on fighting climate change. It’s always good to know what the planet’s most powerful people are thinking and doing, and we’re all certainly better off when the multi-billionaires out there are as committed to philanthropy as Gates is. (more…)
I like this guy, Bryce Tache. He makes predictions, and he’s obviously a person of conscience.
Whether he’s right or not remains to be seen. A few comments. (more…)
This cartoon sure made me laugh.
My theory is that rank and file Trump supporters know they’re not living any better as a result of anything the president has done (though perhaps some wouldn’t admit it). (more…)
A reader asks: Why don’t we put power lines underground? I know it can be done.
I have moments of pessimism where it’s hard for me to imagine a soft landing for human civilization given the direction it’s headed, vis-a-vis environmental collapse, the trend toward world fascism, and the threat of nuclear war.
Wendell Berry sure doesn’t. Bless him.
We recently celebrated the birthday of the religious leader Desmond Tutu, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his role in the opposition to apartheid in South Africa.
Tutu said: “How does peace come? Peace doesn’t come because allies agree. Allies are allies — they already agree! Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes.” (more…)
From Bill McKibben’s recent piece in the New Yorker:
Adam Kinzinger, a Republican of Illinois, went first, patiently explaining to Thunberg that, “while some may say that the United States needs to be the leader of combating climate change, I would say that we already are. (more…)
A reader offers this:
It would be nice if all parties would take the official stance of avoiding pointing fingers at the other parties’ candidates while only speaking truthfully about their own policies and platform. (more…)
Considering the circus that is the executive branch of the U.S. government, saying that something is “obvious” is no longer a meaningful statement. What was obvious to all Americans 20 years ago, e.g., Nazis are bad, pathological liars shouldn’t run countries, and environmental stewardship is good, are now subjects of debate.
Those looking for a bit of comic relief will find it here; some of these made me laugh out loud.
As noted in this brilliant article, Trump’s decision to abandon the Kurds and leave them to face slaughter at the hands of the Turks has implications far past Syria. Anyone looking at this moral catastrophe who has any current or potential relationship with Trump, either domestically or internationally, in business or in diplomacy, must now realize the intense danger in which he finds himself. If he’d do that to an entire population of heroes, how much honesty and loyalty will he show towards me? (more…)
