At left is a solicitation to “stay up to date and learn more about Chevron’s support for the future.”
I don’t know what they say is their vision of the planet’s future, and I doubt it offers the truth: to extract, refine, and sell fossil fuels the combustion as long as possible. This is increasing the temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, but it’s making us filthy rich.
At left we see how a Christian celebrates the birthday of the little lord Jesus.
Look, I know his base is composed of some fairly unintelligent people, aren’t even they getting tired of this crap?
It would be interesting to know if this is a direct reference to Donald Trump, a man who’s made a career out of ripping people off, and a wide variety of other forms of criminality.
I believe so.
It’s hard to have sympathy for those whom Trump has taken to the cleaners, given this is how Trump made his fortune.
Considering that the world is drowning in a sea of pseudo-scientific crap, it’s good that organizations like the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, founded in 1963) are still publishing papers that provide us the truth about where technology is going. This has increased importance today, insofar as certain technologies, e.g., nuclear energy, may well be the make/break point for life on Earth.
Those who have read my books know that I’m desperately hoping for breakthroughs in what is called “advanced nuclear,” meaning safer and more practical ways of converting mass into energy, thus enabling our civilization to decarbonize our transportation and energy sectors. I’m a huge advocate for renewable energy, but I’m concerned that solar and wind cannot scale to remove fossil fuels from our energy portfolio.
Needless to say, the corruption associated with present-day American politics makes this struggle that much more intense, as our president, at the behest of Big Oil, is doing everything possible to put a halt to our capacity to put an end to the baking of our planet.
Here’s a paper on what I hope to be our ticket out of all this: the fission of thorium.
Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger gives us what is possibly the very best view into what life was like in the days of ancient Rome.
As we can see at left, the situation in today’s United States bears a distinct resemblance to life 2000 years ago. In particular, almost none of our scientists are believers, as contrasted against the vast majority of “the common people,” as Seneca put it.
As far as our rulers are concerned, Christianity, and the more fanatical the better, serves Donald Trump very well, as some are convinced that God Himself sent us the president to save our nation from ruin, whether that means gender fluidity, socialism, the invasion of immigrants, wokeism, liberal education, climate change mitigation, etc.
What the current pope is doing is proof that there are many options available to religious people with respect to science.
Some interpret the book of Genesis and its verse: “Only God can destroy the Earth” to mean that humankind has no business concerning itself with things like climate change (or nuclear weapons non-proliferation).
What the pope seems to be saying is that God was good enough to create the paradise called Earth; the least we can do is to use the knowledge we’ve gained to take care of it.
Those who are involved in science are concerned that American society is threated by misinformation.
Of course, the MAGA crowd, the antivaxxers, the climate deniers, etc., believe the opposite, i.e., that people like Anthony Fauci, who have dedicated their entire adult lives to human health, have suddenly become corrupt, and are profiting from fake science while destroying the U.S. economy.
This isn’t a bad idea, if you don’t have a problem selling your house for 65 – 70% of what it’s worth on the open market.
We’d all love to believe this, but if we are being honest with one another, we simply can’t.
Sure, there are young people who were raised well and received good educations, and these people understand that Trump is on a tear to destroy everyone and everything that doesn’t serve his self-aggrandizement.
But, as our educational system continues to erode, the plight of our coming generations grows worse with each passing month.
I’m not sure we need a campaign to make this happen. Anyone who wants to a) listen to Trump or b) be a part of his state sponsored media is both stupid and mean.
If someone wants to watch this crap, I’m not sure there is anything I can say that will change their minds.
