Human Life Is “Unraveling,” But No One Seems To Care
This from British scientist and conservationist Charlie Gardner. It really is astonishing how little humankind is doing to prevent environmental collapse and other forms of societal decay.
An important factor at play here is that the vast majority of the world’s people live under great financial duress. Whether that means the poor or the working-class, stressed-out people don’t have resources to become activists, and organize against a societal structure that is in the process of driving us into extinction, or at best, a hellish existence.
As 20th Century American author Upton Sinclair wrote, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
The response to all this from the top 1% is truly appalling: We have no interest whatsoever in making changes to a system that is making us even richer by the day, regardless of the irreparable damage that our current life modalities are having on this planet.
Every once in a while I write a short post extolling the virtue of planting trees as a tool in climate change mitigation.
Perhaps the single most telling aspect of the moral demise of the Republican Party is its failure to criticize its congresspeople for things like entertaining racists at the White House and running election campaigns based on pure lies.
Re: the words at left, a reader notes: New Year’s Resolution: “I can not tell a lie… Neither can you!”
The separation of church and state is one of many social and political breakthroughs that resulted from the Enlightenment, aka the Age of Reason, in the 17th and 18th Centuries. It forms the cornerstone Americans cherish;; it’s the essential difference between life in the developed world versus countries that are racked by ISIS, the Taliban, and other oppressive regimes.
The United States finds itself up to its hips with some of the most disgusting people imaginable, and the governor of Texas is one of the most revolting.
The content of the meme here is, of course, completely correct. The right-wing “news” media label the various aspects of a functioning society that are enjoyed by the rest of the developed world as “radical.”
Re: the meme at left, seriously? How many Americans understand that the middle class has largely evaporated? That we have a massive chasm between rich and poor? That more than half of 
This meme came from a reader. It’s a a reminder of what happens in the absence of a separation between church and state.
At this point, most Americans are hoping for a smooth transition between Trump-as-political-leader to Trump-as-prison-inmate.
