Category: Sustainability

There is exactly one winner in Donald Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal: Trump himself.  His relationship with Fox News viewers will be strengthened, at this critical time when he’s under fire for dozens …

The Iran Nuclear Deal: Just Another Sad, Terrifying Day for the U.S., Planet Earth Read More »

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As we’ve discussed elsewhere, there are three good reasons to stop eating red meat, or at least heavily reduce its consumption.  Doing so is: Better for your health, Better for the cow, and Better for the environment.

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Re: the meme at left, yes, of course, there was such a story, but you’re living in the old fact/truth-based world. Those things are more or less irrelevant today.

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If you have e-waste, the most important thing is to not just throw it away in the trash. It ends up in a landfill and could be there for thousands of years.

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I’m always amused when the libertarians talk about how overly burdensome the California state government is, and how it’s causing masses of people and businesses to leave in favor of less restrictive parts of the country. 

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Ironically, it looks like EPA administrator Scott Pruitt is going to lose his job because of rash expenditures like his $43,000 soundproof phone booth. In truth, the only reason anyone could possibly care about this is that it was made to …

What the Environmental Protection Agency Used To Do Read More »

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I don’t present the meme at the left to engage in any discussion of religion.  While I “don’t go there,” it’s a great representation of the enormous hypocrisy of the times in which we live.  The more adamant some people …

American Values Gone Awry Read More »

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I hope the 95% of the world’s population living outside the U.S. understands how deeply ashamed of our country most of us Americans are. Before this nauseating trend, we had to embarrass ourselves by traveling around Europe with our gauche …

Embarrassment Read More »

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I had a sad realization when I woke up this morning, summed up in the following little story: About 40 years ago, I played poker with a friend’s relatives, who were relatively poor and uneducated but laudably honest, hard-working, good-willed …

It’s Come To This Read More »

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Here, Dan Rather makes the point I’ve been trying to communicate since environmentalism started to dominate my life about 10 years ago.  What exactly is the attraction of enriching oneself by ruining the quality of life for everyone living on …

A Few Are Getting Rich By Ruining Our Planet, But What’s the Attraction? Read More »

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