Category: Sustainability

This from Pastor John Pavlovitz: If there’s a hell, it will be for professed Christians who pretended to care about “life” while making this place a living hell for so much of it. I disagree, and I have to say …

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Here’s my friend, the suspicious dog, one more time.  Like him, I feel that I’m being lied to frequently, e.g., when I come across articles like this one, focused on discrediting lab-based meat.

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

Society Slow to Deal with Threats–Ben Frankin Read More »

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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.

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

Human Evolution Hasn’t Stopped, But It Soon May Take a Radical Course Correction Read More »

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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 …

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