My wife and I had our kids in the mid-1990s. Bill Clinton, a sane human being, was the U.S. president, the economy was strong, the USSR had dissolved, the world was largely unaware of global warming, and the times were …
Category: Climate Change
Ignoring Reality
What Aldous Huxley said here is absolutely true, and it applies so broadly across human society. Most obviously, we have environmental collapse in general and climate change in particular. The longer we delay our efforts to decarbonize our energy and …
Climate Change Mitigation and the Economy
We’ve all heard the claim that decarbonizing our energy and transportation sectors will harm the economy. This narrative is critical to the far-right-wing’s claim that environmentalism is anti-capitalist, and, in particular, anti-American. But does it make sense? Granted, there are …
Propaganda Is Hitting U.S. Society from All Angles
As suggested at left, Trump’s PR team is not ignoring America’s kids. Maybe a reader can clue me in as to how what the president is doing is delivering a “stronger, safer and more prosperous America” as he: • Abolishes …
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Climate Denial Requires Two Parts
There is a great deal of truth in the words at left. Yet any significant amount of climate change denial needs two components: Big Oil — and a huge population of uneducated people. The whole deal is akin to Trumpism …
Tagged with: climate change denial
The Forms of Ignorance
This is an interesting thought, though it’s unclear why rejecting something one knows nothing about is any more ignorant than asserting something on a subject that one knows nothing about. Maybe both are equally harmful. I’m constantly running into people …
Trump’s Motivations for his Current Actions
Re: Trump’s action here, a reader remarks: Same as his first term following Obama. Just reverse everything good or bad to eliminate any legacy of their time as President. It is also important that the opposing political party’s successes be …
Who Gets Hurt in the Second Trump Term
The groups listed at left are certainly under pressure at this point. But let’s not forget about everybody living on a warming planet who may not have the wherewithal to pack up and leave their homelands that are becoming uninhabitable.
Tagged with: Second Trump Term
Taking Action Against Environmental Collapse
Yes, our planet is facing ruination in the form of droughts, wildfires, flooding, desertification, loss of landmass, food shortages, loss of biodiversity, and ocean acidification. The question: Why didn’t we do anything about it? can only be answered as follows: …
Tagged with: environmental collapse
Dealing with Climate Change
While what Bill Nye said here is true, here are a couple of points: Obviously, there are parts of the globe that will be inhabitable far into the future, even as most of the globe is subject to extreme levels …
