Are you serious? Why do you think we’re destroying the Amazon rainforest, other than to make more room for beef cattle? We’re wrecking our planet to make McDonald’s rich beyond belief. The only larger contributor to environmental collapse is the …
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Americans Focus on Bizarre News Items
We live on a planet that features war, torture, environmental collapse, and a criminal sociopath elected as the most powerful person on Earth. Can someone explain why anyone could possibly want to spend more than a few seconds on the …
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.
Solving Problems that Don’t Exist–More
In a recent post I warned again the folly of solving problems that don’t exist, given that there are so many that actually do. If you’re looking for the poster child of this phenomenon, let me introduce you to Trump …
Immigration: Solving a Problem that Doesn’t Exist
When I was in business, my sales team would occasionally write proposals for services that my company had never delivered, and someone would ask, “Craig, if we get this project, how will we deal with it?” My normal response: “I’m …
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Can Technology Save Us?
While there’s no clear answer here, the preponderance of scientific minds through the ages have been and continue to be pessimistic, for the precise reason that Newton asserted at left. It’s entirely possible that humankind, with its blend of greed, …
The Future of Humankind
If I were asked to make the prediction posed below, I would say none of the above, and suggest that some combination of environmental collapse, certainly including climate change, will wipe out many, but not all human beings. There is …
Ignoring Reality
What Aldous Huxley said here is absolutely true, and it applies so broadly across human society. Most obviously, we have environmental collapse in general and climate change in particular. The longer we delay our efforts to decarbonize our energy and …
Now This from Karl Marx
Here we are, about 150 years after Marx made this statement, and we can now see that he was wrong. Humankind has and will continue to embrace capitalism until organized life on this planet is gone, via some combination of …
Taking Action Against Environmental Collapse
Yes, our planet is facing ruination in the form of droughts, wildfires, flooding, desertification, loss of landmass, food shortages, loss of biodiversity, and ocean acidification. The question: Why didn’t we do anything about it? can only be answered as follows: …
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