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 … …
Tag: environmental collapse
Problems and Solutions
This country has real problems–ones that actually exist. Here, I mean things like poverty, child hunger, environmental collapse, lousy education, and the absence of affordable healthcare. I tend to vote for the party that is at least attempting to deal …
We’re Running Out of Time
There really are threats to human civilization that seem to be mounting in intensity: • World fascism. (If it can happen in the U.S., it could conceivably happen anywhere.) • Environmental collapse. • Malicious use of AI. • Pandemics, as …
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Apathy Towards Politics
The United States still suffers from eligible voters who are unregistered and registered voters who do not show up at the polls. That said, these numbers are shrinking, now that there is so much at stake: an illegal and purposeless …
Where Is All This Meat Coming From?
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 …
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, …
