For those who think that human attitudes and glaciers move at the same pace, check out this gag set of Christmas cards from Ayn Rand. Yes, you’ll chuckle, but remember that it was only 50 years ago that many intellectuals …
Our Sensibilities Are Changing at an Incredible Speed Read More »
Here’s a comment that a friend sent me in response to my post in which I lamented how little Americans know and care about environmental issues. As you’ll see, my buddy doesn’t disagree, but he frames his thinking in a …
Americans’ Level of Concern for Environmental Issues Can Change Very Quickly Read More »
I received a comment from one Hugh Haskell on my recent post in which I expressed my displeasure at my fellow Americans for their failure to “get it” with respect to environmentalism in general and climate change in particular. Since …
Where Do Americans Learn About Environmentalism, Climate Disruption, Etc.? Read More »
A few years ago I wrote this post expressing my displeasure at my countrymen, as they had adopted wholesale the explanation that our government provided for invading Iraq. Immediately before the attack, this message, without a comma’s worth of variation, …
Want the Truth in Energy? We Need to Think for Ourselves Read More »
As we’ve seen, any move by the U.S. legislature that would send us in the direction of clean energy is far too contentious at this time. Fortunately, our Congress has stumbled upon another good thing to be done in the …
I wrote a post recently in which I mentioned the Black Swan effect, i.e., the tendency of human beings to underestimate the importance and frequency of unforeseeable events in the future. This concept, popularized by Nassim Taleb in his 2007 …
We All Wield Tremendous Power to Restore Environmental Justice Read More »
Here’s another piece of my conversation with a reader on the subject of government’s role vis-à-vis bringing about positive change re: the deteriorating conditions surrounding our environment: climate disruption, ocean acidification, increasing levels of toxicity, loss of biodiversity, etc. I …
Humankind’s Chances for a “Soft Landing” Re: the Environment Read More »
Here’s a short but wonderful article by Allan Hoffman, PhD USDoE (Ret.) that summarizes U.S. energy policy and where it may be headed vis-à-vis the Earth’s great empires and what eventually brought them down. Of course, there are many great aphorisms …
Our Future of Energy Policy–and Defunct Civilizations Read More »
As I wrote a few weeks ago, there are tiny bits of land all over the world that are swearing off fossil fuels entirely. Who knows which country will be the first household name to do the same. Denmark is …
What Happens to Big Energy as Whole Countries Say Goodbye to Fossil Fuels? Read More »
In conversations I had many years ago with people who followed U.S. energy politics closely, I received several suggestions that I not criticize Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) too harshly. “He’s a laughing stock,” I was told repeatedly. “The incredible ignorance …
Tragic Irony in U.S. Politics Re: Energy and Our Environment Read More »
