Part of the beauty of the societies of Scandinavia and most of the rest of the developed world is their understanding of the fact that a well educated populace tends to commit very few crimes. Sweden, for example, is closing …
Tag: destroying public education
How Qualified Are Trump’s Appointees?
To the reader who sent me this meme, my answer: It depends on how we define “qualified.” Every single one of these people is uniquely qualified to do precisely what Trump appointed him/her to do: make the president wealthier and …
Tagged with: climate and human health, destroying public education, Ending NPR PBS and any other news institution that could be critical of Trump, extending the life of fossil fuels, killing public services that formerly benefitted the common American, making the electorate less capable of critical thinking, rejecting science as the core of policymaking, revoking support for renewables, rewarding wealthy donors with tax breaks, weaponizing the Justice Department against the president's enemies
MIT’s Look at Civilization’s Megatrends
Here are 9 top megatrends as seen by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Tagged with: climate change mitigation, climate crisis, destroying public education, massive disinformation campaigns and denial of science, sustainability means meeting our own needs in a manner in which future generations are able to meet theirs, Water a stressed resource, water shortage and drought
