There are so many tragic aspects to life in today’s United States that it’s hard to name them all. For my money, one of the saddest elements to the American zeitgeist is its glorification of ignorance. Up until recently, if …
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Belief in God Is Not a Choice
I find it very hard to believe that Camus (author of the profoundly existential and nihilistic short novel “The Stranger”) said this. It is, of course, reminiscent of Pascal, four centuries earlier, known for his “wager,” i.e., that a rational …
Speaking of Sustainability
When I was asked to speak at the MIT Enterprise Forum on “green business” a couple of months ago, I took my usual tack in such situations, i.e., getting my audience to examine its thinking on the larger issues associated …
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Talk on Sustainability Leaves Few Stones Unturned
My talk the other day to the Santa Barbara Savvy Investors’ Club went very well. As I told my wife when I pulled out of the driveway on my way, “It’s a room full of people who read a lot …
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Thanks to Stephan A. Schwartz For His Contribution to “Is Renewable Really Doable?”
For those who may want a perspective on the migration to renewable energy that you’re extremely unlikely to find elsewhere, I present to you Stephan A. Schwartz, whose life has been spent exploring extraordinary human functioning, and how individuals and …
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