What a Sustainable Future Looks Like
Here are a couple of my reactions to the meme here:
I really don’t think anyone, regardless of where he resides along the political spectrum, wants any aspect of our behavior to be required, even as benign as composting may be. When I was a little boy in the early 1960s, all families in our township were offered “bottle day,” every other Wednesday, where left-over glass containers that were left out on our curbs would be swept off, melted, and reused.
Participation wasn’t compulsory. If you hated the idea of being a team player, i.e., you were a hateful moron, you were completely at liberty to throw away your bottles in with the rest of your garbage, store them in your attic, or do whatever the rest of the sociopaths did. The idea of choosing to be a good citizen was as appealing then and it is today.
Similarly, I’m not sure I want fashion to go away. Yes, I would say that fashion, generally, is frivolous, wasteful, and decadent. But no one wants to see a path from our consumer world to one where fashion means nothing and no one is permitted to express himself with the way she dresses, wears make-up, etc.
The best we can rightfully expect to see is a world where living small is the new living large.
Most of us would love to see the world of 2038 as a time where values like justice, kindness, and peace supersede the thin veil of riches that mean so much to us today. But they need to proceed naturally from where we are today, not forced upon us.
Here’s an interesting interpretation of monotheism in general and Christianity in particular.
Here’s a clever reminder of the fact that “pro-life” means one, extremely narrowly defined thing, and it has very little to do with life in any real sense of the word: forcing pregnant women to carry their fetuses to term, regardless of how horrific the consequences for all concerned.
The quote at left has been attributed to many of the world’s wisest people. Certainly the concept of Socratic Wisdom, i.e., “if I’m wise in any sense it’s because I know nothing,” goes back 2300+ years. This from 
Here’s a sad truth.
It would be interesting to know what percentage of U.S. citizens agree with this statement.
Plato wrote this, the longer form of which is “Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly. While bad people will find a way around the laws.” 
From the 
Economist Robert Reich says, “Clarence Thomas should not be allowed to rule on Trump cases after his wife was directly involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Recusal should be the absolute minimum. Your thoughts?”
There is no reason that the statement here can’t be true.
