According to The Writer’s Almanac, it’s the birthday of anthropologist Franz Boas, born in 1858. Boaz stressed the need to study four fields — ethnology, linguistics, physical anthropology, and archaeology — before making any generalizations about any one culture.
Category: Sustainability
We Need To Ask Horrible People: “Do You Think This Is Going To End Well?”
From today’s Daily Stoic: The Stoics were not unacquainted with awful people. They saw tyrants. They saw cheats. They saw toxic egomaniacs and insatiable ambitions. And what was their reaction to most of these people? Aside from a general wariness and …
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Tagged with: sustainable mode of living
Compassionate Immigration Policy
At left is a fabulous expression of what it means to be a person of kindness and decency. One either gets this or he doesn’t.
Sustainable Compensation
Here’s Abigail Disney, an heir to the family fortune, talking about CEO compensation. “There’s nothing wrong with a $65 million payday, as long as the people who work for you aren’t so strapped for money that they’re rationing their insulin,” …
Government’s Role in Protecting Us
I voted Libertarian in a couple of elections in my early days, reasoning there is nothing government does more efficiently than the private sector.
What Will We Live to Experience?
My 64th birthday tomorrow sets my mind in motion as to what I’m going to experience in the remainder of my life, and what I’ll miss. Several items in particular threaten our sustainability:
Fun with Life-Cycle Analyses
If you haven’t already done so, you may want to acquaint yourself with the concept of an LCA — life-cycle analysis (or “assessment”). It’s simply a summation of the environmental inputs and outputs of the “cradle to grave” sequence of events, …
Another One Bites the Dust at the Environmental Protection Agency
From the Washington Post: Environmental Protection Agency air chief Bill Wehrum, who helped reverse Obama-era rules aimed at cutting pollutants, is stepping down amid scrutiny over possible violations of federal ethics rules.
Anthropologist Jane Goodall Poses an Excellent Question
Oooo! Oooo! Call on me!!! It’s because, along with that superior intellectual capacity, comes some really nasty stuff: greed, tribalism, bigotry, selfishness, credulity, lazy thinking, and an indifference to the suffering of others.
Taking a Lesson from George Orwell–On His Birthday
George Orwell would have turned 116 today. Referring to his involvement in the Spanish Civil War (1936) he composed the essay “Why I Write,” in which he said: “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has …
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