It would be comforting to know that there are elements in our society that are likely to improve our lives, to make them safer, more productive, and more sustainable. Apparently, the author of the meme here is having trouble thinking …
Category: Sustainability
Help
I hope you’ll check out this short video, and then ask yourself where we’re going as a society. Of course, there will always be good, helpful people, regardless of how greed and selfishness rack our culture. But it’s gratifying to …
Tagged with: greed and selfishness
Society Slow to Deal with Threats–Ben Frankin
Below is another amazing video from the “Veritasium” series, this one focusing on the science behind the vast damage to human health and environmental quality done by one man. Fascinating stuff. Of particular interest to me is the role that …
We “Didn’t Like Hillary,” and Here’s Where This Has Taken Us
It’s good that Americans are starting to look back to 2016 and identifying that point in time as the one where we lost our way.
Critical Thinking Is a Good Thing, But …..
The meme here is a fine example of how right-wing ideologies are hard to refute. I happen to believe that people who are capable of critical thinking are more likely to be progressives, but it’s impossible to disprove the theory …
Tagged with: Critical Thinking
Public Education
This from the fellow pictured here, often called “the father of American education,” Horace Mann: Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark, all is deluge. That’s a poetic way of expressing an idea that’s very much a …
Tagged with: public schools
Human Evolution Hasn’t Stopped, But It Soon May Take a Radical Course Correction
The assertion in the meme here is true, but it raises an importation question: how well equipped is our species to deal with events that were unthinkable just 10 years ago? I’m referring to things like massive disinformation campaigns and …
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Tagged with: environmental collapse
The True Measure of a Society
This sentiment is alive in the United States today, but it exists in theory only. Unless the U.S. makes a transition to align itself with the political philosophy of the rest of the developed world, which seems virtually impossible, it …
The United States Is a War Zone
Despite the overwhelming support of the American for common sense gun laws, this entire subject is going nowhere.
Unplug?
There is no doubt that people who disconnect from the news cycle have happier and less stressful lives. And today’s bad news isn’t about car accidents and house fires; it’s about global pandemics, environmental collapse, and our trajectory towards world …
Tagged with: environmental collapse
