I guess I’d never looked at it like what’s shown in the meme here. One way to assess an ideology is to quantify how likely you and others are to die from it. On average, the U.S. suffers a mass …
Category: Sustainability
“We” Haven’t Lost Sight of Environmental Responsibility
Depends on what is meant by “we.” Most people are completely aware that what we’re doing to our environment is creating huge damage to us as individuals. Corporate greed, on the other hand, which is completely out of control, is …
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Tagged with: environmental responsibility
Protecting the Amazon
From The Economist: Brazilian businesses rarely preach greenery. Yet last July, 20 months after Jair Bolsonaro was elected president, rampant deforestation in the Amazon roused 38 CEOs to speak up. Foreign investment was falling and trade talks were stalled. This …
A Troubled Future?
From this piece by CBS News: More frequent and intense global challenges — in the form of disease outbreaks, financial crises, or the negative effects of climate change or new technologies — are likely to stress already brittle systems of …
Guns Need To Be Everywhere
There are no good arguments for the proliferation of guns in the United States (see chart below), but some are worse than others. The reader who sent me this seems to think that other countries don’t attack us because of …
Tagged with: proliferation of guns in the United States
Pete Buttigieg Carves Up Attacking Interviewer–Yet One More Time
I find it amusing that Fox News and the other ultra-right wing “news” sources still interview Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and throw “gotcha” questions at him. There is no faster or more effective way to look like an idiot than …
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Humankind Needs To Share the Planet with Nature–And Vice Versa
Each year we learn more about the horrific effects that human activity is having on the natural world: over-fishing, encroaching on habitats, etc. Of course, there are examples of the reverse, i.e., the natural world encroaching’s on us. Here’s a …
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Kids, Screen-Time, and Sustainability
It’s intuitively obvious that kids who spend huge amounts of time on social media become physically unfit, introverted and anti-social, and develop tendencies towards bullying. This isn’t empirically proven, at least to the best of my knowledge, but it’s hard …
Tagged with: lack of empathy for others works directly against the development of real solutions, MagTrax, problems that our civilization face will be successfully resolved to the degree that its participants see themselves as part of a group with a common goal (preferably the entirety of humankind)
Owning the Libs
A mentally ill reader sent me this. It’s true that people of reason and compassion find this hard to look at. Scarcely a day goes by without a major shooting somewhere in the U.S. Sometimes we lose random grocery store …
How We Choose Our Leaders
At left we see an interesting thought. We all have images of packs of wild animals and their leaders. We remember Mufasa from Disney’s “The Lion King.” Wise, brave, selfless, and honest. Of course, we have no way of verifying …
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