When Americans went to the polls earlier this week, the idea expressed in the meme here went from a real possibility to a pipe dream. On a related note, 54% of Americans aged 16–74 read below a 6th grade level, …
Category: Climate Change
Climate Change Effects Are Not Equally Distributed
The cartoon here has many societal implications surrounding the idea that our planet is actually a small island on which everyone is affected by the vast damage we’re doing to our environment. The truth, however, is a bit different. The …
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Tagged with: Climate Change Effects, climate refugees, everyone if affected by the vast damage we're doing to our environment, homelands have become uninhabitable, our planet is actually a small island, people who live within a mile of a freeway have rates of cancer that are several time higher than those who don't, sea level rise, the world's poorest people are disproportionately affected by storms wildfires and loss of land mass
“Views” or “Beliefs” on Climate Change
When my childhood friends came to learn that I’d become an author of materials of environmental sustainability, they sometimes asked for my opinions on climate change. I explain that because climate change is a science, it’s inappropriate to apply the …
Project 2025
Anyone who wishes to see an organized human civilization survive the next 50 years needs to hope that the GOP agenda embodied in Project 2025 loses at the polls on November 5th.
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Cartoons Depict Our Future
I’m reminded of the cartoon in which a corporate CEO is looking out of his conference room window and sees the entire city and surrounding countryside in flames. He tells his people, “We have to monetize this.”
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Extremist Republican Boob Fred Upton Endorses Kamala Harris: Alarm Bells Ring for Trump
If you’re a Republican politician and you’ve lost Fred Upton, you’re in deep fertilizer. From The Los Angeles Times: Due to his environmental policies, Upton represents one of the biggest threats to planet Earth on planet Earth. From Mother Jones: …
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Tagged with: Trump has lost the core of the anti-science GOP base
Straw Man Arguments
From Wikipedia: A straw man fallacy is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction. One who engages in this fallacy is said to be “attacking a …
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Melting Glaciers
From “David Attenborough Fans”: 150 ft. Iceberg passing through Iceberg Alley near Ferryland, Newfoundland, Canada. Only a few of us live around see in-your-face evidence of glaciers calving and floating around in our front yards. Yikes.
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Putting One’s Head in the Sand Doesn’t Change the Facts
School boards in deeply red states like Florida are using textbooks with all reference to the subject of climate change removed. Of course, that does not change the fact a warmer climate is one in which storms become more destructive …
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Public Opinion on Climate Change
Right now, we are seeing a slow but steady increase in the recognition that our climate is warming due primarily to the consumption of fossil fuels. However, as 81-year-old climate scientist James Hansen said recently, it’s possible that, in his …
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