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 …
Tag: Climate Change
Yes, Human Activity, in its Current State, Is Unsustainable
The fact that human activity is unsustainable has been revealed to us gradually over the last century. Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” was published 63 years ago. That said, the ideas of climate change, ocean acidification, and loss of biodiversity have …
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Original Opinions
I’ll be the first to admit that most of what readers come across here is not my original thinking. That said, people who are loud, rich or popular don’t impress me. If I’m going to talk to you about wind, …
Biggest Threat to Human Civilization
Until Donald Trump rose to power, I probably would have said climate change. Now, I would say it’s world fascism, as the world’s most powerful nation, at least at this point, is no longer a democracy in any meaningful sense …
Ayn Rand Is No Longer a “Thing” — Here’s Why
A reader asks: Isn’t it time for the Libertarians to cast aside the whole myth of objectivism championed by Ayn Rand? She said we should be realists, so let’s be real and see her for who she really was … …
Far-Right-wing Politician with No Scientific Training Says Climate Change Is a Hoax —- ZZzzzzzzz
This is Germany’s Alice Weidel, a politician from Germany’s right-wing extremist party, Alternative for Germany. She studied economics and finance in college. Who could possibly care what she thinks about climate change?
“No War Required”
The shot at left was taken in 2006, during another war in the Middle East. We often talk about the “externalities” of fossil fuels, normally referring to things like lung disease, climate change, ocean acidification, and so forth. But we …
Cancelling Renewable Energy
This will result in lung disease, climate change, loss of biodiversity, and higher electricity prices. It will also further alienate the rest of the world from our country, as every other nation on the planet is making gains in the …
Elon Musk on Population Growth
The world population growth is 0.85%. In the developed world (OECD countries), it’s about 0.5%. It’s not credible to me that our civilization is threatened by this. But if I were concerned, I’d ask a scientist whose life’s work is …
Trump Trying to Prevent Other Countries from Lowering Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Even those of us who detest Trump didn’t see this coming. Withdrawing the United States from the global effort to prevent environmental collapse wasn’t bad enough.
