Anthropologists generally consider the assertion here to be true. Over most of the past +/- 200K years, humankind has fared well, largely due to its capacity to take care of its fellows. Yes, we’ve had our tyrants over the millennia, …
Category: Sustainability
Growing One’s Own Food
Re: the meme here, the answer is no. Think, please. For at least tens of thousands of years, humankind has figured out how to barter. I’ll cut your hair for 20 ears of corn. I’ll watch your kids for a dozen …
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Broadening Our Scope in U.S. Education
The United States has not benefited from its decision to systemically defund public education. There are kids graduating from our high schools who think that Wisconsin is in Africa. Yet, as illustrated here, there are children, like this genius, for …
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Considering Future Generations
Native Americans are famous for the role they play as caretakers of the natural environment. By contrast, we European emigres are infamous for our reckless disregard of anything that doesn’t make us richer in the next fiscal quarter.
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Sustainable Lawns
Many baby-boomers, if given the chance to go back in time and rethink what type of lawns would surround our houses, might have made the choice our ancestors made.
The Beef Industry
This is funny, I admit, but I don’t think most people have a problem with hunters who eat what they kill. This is not morally equivalent to factory meat farming, and the clearing of our rainforests to support the beef …
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Bleach as Cure for Disease
Earlier this week, a Florida man and his three adult sons were convicted in a Florida court of selling industrial bleach as a cure for COVID-19 through their online “church.” This is reminiscent of the criminal proceedings against the 1000+ …
Re: John Wesley’s Manifesto: “That Dog Don’t Hunt”
This from 18th Century theologian and founder of Methodism John Wesley. To put it simply, we’ve replaced all these ideas with our love of money. Anything that doesn’t make rich people richer is a non-starter in 21st Century America.
Putting War in the Past
From the late poet and writer Eve Merriam: I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, “Mother, what was war?” Let’s hope that the International Criminal Court have some major success in prosecuting war criminals, as this …
Another Energy Lie
Here’s a company that claims it enables its customer to reduce emissions associated with heating their homes by 90%. The concept is the operation of a heat pump with off-peak (cheap) electricity, and the distribution of that heat to the …
