This video on at-home plastic recycling has 46 million views, so I have to think some people believe that the construction and operation of the machine presented here could conceivably be a net positive for the environment. Wow, that’s a depressing thought.
Category: Sustainability
If It’s Evil You Want, Hire a Professional
Suppose your goal is to accelerate the decline in the U.S. educational system. Maybe you look at the fact that 35% of our kids still read at grade level and you think you can bring that down to single digits …
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Who Needs To Take Responsibility for Environmental Stewardship?
What should happen when we, as a civilization, come to learn that the use of a certain substance represents an unacceptable environmental danger? This is not an idle exercise; in fact, it happens every month or so, and the pace of …
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When This Is Over…..
This is interesting, but it rests on the assumption that this will, at some point, be over. Unfortunately, it’s perfectly possible that this country will find the toothpaste impossible to put back into the tube.
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Wow! You Really BELIEVE That?
The author of the meme here has accurately summed up the biggest problem facing our civilization: the frailty of poor thinking. We have a horrific inability to question anything that undermines what we want to believe, when these beliefs are …
A Sustainable Future Can Only Be Built on a Base of Compassion
A couple of days ago, I quoted someone who took umbrage at the Trump administration’s disdain for Puerto Rico and the appalling lack of compassion it showed for the 3000 people who died as a result of the fifteenth-rate response …
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Small Wins Count
Given the aggression with which the Trump administration is both rolling back environmental protection and killing anything whatsoever that came from the Obama era, it’s easy to assume that the damage they’re wreaking is going unchecked. Fortunately, that’s not the …
Does Philosophy Have any Real Importance?
I laughed out loud at this cartoon, perhaps only because of the considerable ribbing my father received when I was in my graduate program in philosophy. On the golf course one afternoon, one of Dad’s friends asked him, “How’s the …
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A Civics Lesson Every American 10-Year-Old Understands: Balance of Powers
Here in the good ol’ USA, we have three branches of the federal government: the legislative (makes laws), the judiciary (interprets laws), and the executive (enforces law and appoints judges to the judiciary). Case in point, the Clean Water Act …
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Mueller Report: A Dark Day
It’s safe to say that every single one of us who disapproves of Trump (55% of Americans and 72% of U.S. allies, among those expressing opinions) is saddened by the result of Robert Mueller’s inquiry into the president’s alleged conspiracy with …
