As suggested at left, big money bets on science every single time. As Aesop noted 2500 years ago, “A fool and his money are soon parted.” And, since generally the wealthiest individuals and corporations are anything but fools, they can …
Category: Climate Change
Why Wasn’t the January 6th Insurrection the End for Trump?
The answer is simple: There are issues that are far higher priorities than Trump’s lies and criminality. More than half the voters in this country place extreme amounts of value on: • The supremacy of white people. • The rationing …
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Science V. Capital
From his Wikipedia page: Jason Edward Hickel is an anthropologist and professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Hickel’s research and writing focuses on economic anthropology and development, and is particularly opposed to capitalism, neocolonialism, as well as economic growth as …
America’s Role in Climate Change Mitigation
It would be great to see the United States make substantial investments in climate change mitigation, and certainly the Inflation Reduction Act is an excellent start here. Even better would be our nation’s leading the way towards a broad, international …
Observation on Today’s America
The reader who sent the meme here nailed it. The last half century, in particular the last decade, has seen a dramatic reduction in the number of Americans who live humanitarian lives of kindness, compassion, and intelligence. A good example …
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Happiness and Environmental Sustainability
This week’s “TED Radio Hour” on National Public Radio is called “Paradise Lost–and Found,” and, as the title suggests, it’s about the things in our lives that make us happy. Below is a talk given by Ramón Méndez Galain who …
Are Climate Scientists Liars?
Re: the meme here, a reader offers this dare: I challenge you to go to a climate science convention, get up on stage, present this image and then give a talk on why you think it is true… and then …
The Next Four Years in the United States
If the next four years in U.S. politics is simply a reprise of Trump’s first presidency with its ignorance of world affairs, petty corruption, profound indifference to the well-being of the common American, rejection of science, its overt racism, and …
Capitalism’s Pros and Cons
I agree with all this, with the exception of “disorder.” Capitalism is extremely well ordered. Those old enough to remember the movie “Wall Street” with its character Gordon Gecko, played by Michael Douglas, will recall the talk he gave to …
Will We “Perish Together as Fools?”
When MLK said this in the 1960s, he was probably referring to war, specifically nuclear war. In any case, it was a time when there was very little awareness that humankind was on course to ruin our planet’s environment and …
