I just had the pleasure of meeting four people from Denmark, all about my own age, who are taking two of their six weeks paid vacation touring the U.S. I asked them about their country’s status re: the World Happiness …
Category: Sustainability
Poor Logic on Gun Violence
Mike: Are you saying that people living outside the United States, where mass shootings are extremely rare, don’t have “human hearts?”
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Critically Examining Human Civilization
Here’s a good perspective on human life here on Earth. We wouldn’t regard our civilization kindly were we to discover it on another planet.
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Wildfires Are a Growing Threat, But Is This a Viable Concept to Protect Your Home?
These people are raising investment capital, or at least claim to be, for this idea in homebuilding: the house is constructed over a deep hole, and, in the event of a wildfire, it can be lowered into that hole using …
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Ocean Plastic Waste
The American Energy Society reports: Almost all ocean plastic pollution (80%) enters via 1,000 rivers worldwide. For example, see this time lapsed video of Rio Dulce in Guatemala, which feeds into the Caribbean. This corroborates the idea that fishing this form of pollution out …
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This Concept in Sustainability Is Strictly for Show
Re: the meme here, a reader notes: I don’t understand why we need disposable silverware in such quantities. I carry a little container with me, it was a gift from a friend. It has a complete set of silverware in …
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Meat Actually IS Delicious
Anyone, regardless of his position on the consumption of animal meat–beef, pork, and the rest, has to admit that all this stuff tastes really good. The issue, of course, is that a meatless diet is healthier for the individual and …
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What Orwell Said
Every time I see people watching a football game on TV I’m reminded of this quote. The planet is baking, a sociopathic criminal is leading in the polls to earn his party’s nomination for U.S. president, and the world is …
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What Does a Healthy Lawn Look Like?
I’m sure there are many Americans who agree that, if we had our decisions re: lawn maintenance to make over again, we’d rather have built habitat for bees and rabbits than fashion our yards after the way suburban houses looked …
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Critical Race Theory and Black History
There is an argument being made, particularly in the Deep South, that our schools’ curricula should not include what academics sometimes call “critical race theory,” i.e., the set of facts surrounding black history in the United States. That means the …
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