It’s almost funny when we hear that California is a socialist state, or a police state (due to our environmental restrictions), or that people are leaving in droves to go to Texas or Florida. When I come across people who …
Category: Sustainability
Should Humanity Become Multiplanetary?
Let’s examine a few facts here. The thin atmosphere of Mars contains almost no oxygen. Its average temperature is -80F. It contains no water, and it doesn’t support agriculture. Colonizing Mars would be virtually impossible, not to mention pointless. By …
Empathy
As shown here, we live in a society that glorifies the very worst traits of the human animal and seems to be on a rocket ride to its own destruction.
Cashing in on Ignorance
Ignorance has terrific value to the billionaire class. If you’re filthy rich, you really don’t want a nation full of people learning that pure market capitalism is, by its very nature, exploitative, or that the consumption of fossil fuels is …
A Message to All
If the question at left were posed to me, I would respond: love one another. Below is the seal of the school I attended as a boy. The motto in ancient Greek, close to the bottom, is pronounced “fuh-LAY-ta a-LAY-loose,” …
Huge Corporations Are Slapping Their Customers in the Face
What do you notice about the shopping bag in the photo? It has no handles. That’s right, Albertson’s, with annual revenues of more than $83 billion, has decided to inconvenience its customers, forcing them to wrap both of their arms …
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The Course Toward Authoritarianism
What Krishnamurti says at left reminds us of the direction that essentially everything takes in human civilization. What once was pure eventually becomes adulterated and ultimately monetized. The most egregious example of this is how the wealthiest human beings on …
Plant-Based Meat Takes Unusual Marketing Tack
I encourage readers to check out this tongue-in-cheek ad for plant-based meat. There is a maxim in marketing warning against “promoting the enemy line,” this is so clever, I can see where it could be quite effective.
A Profile in Corporate Greed
I just met a woman who’s been a flight attendant for Delta Airlines since the early 1990s, who laments that her company has been ruined by corporate greed, which has trashed so many other things in our lives. As it …
Humanitarianism
The other day, someone asked me, “If you had to answer this question in only one word, what gives your life meaning?” I replied, “Helping.” Now, unlike Richard Branson, I’m not a billionaire, so my capacity in this arena is …
