What Kurt Vonnegut said here is interesting, but I doubt it’s correct. Yes, people talk about religious people’s “imaginary friend in the sky,” which would be, of course, a remedy for loneliness. But I believe that the primary driver for …
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Is the Earth Trying to Get Rid of Us?
This line from Kurt Vonnegut calls to mind what George Carlin said about the Earth’s expelling the human race. On two different occasions he used the following similes as to what the planet is doing: Shaking us off, like a …
Summoning the “Ingenuity and Courage”
The question posed at left by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is a good one: Can we summon the ingenuity and courage required to save us from environmental collapse? FWIW, lots of smart people say no. Kurt Vonnegut, for example, predicted …
An Indecent Society
It’s unclear when Kurt Vonnegut said this, but given that he died in 2007, it couldn’t have been too recently. And keep in mind that our society has become far more indecent since Vonnegut’s passing. I doubt he’d be too …
The Keen Perspective of Kurt Vonnegut
Just as everyone over the age of 30 knows where they were when they learned that the World Trade Centers had been attacked, I know where I was and what I was doing when I heard that Kurt Vonnegut, one …
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Writing About Environmental Sustainability
In the last four years, I’ve written about just over 3,300 blog posts on various concepts affecting environmental sustainability. But every once in a while, I think it’s worth writing about writing itself – or at least referring readers to …
Does Our Dependence on Fossil Fuels Cause Extreme Weather Events?
Yesterday saw the publication of a paper in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society to the effect that climate change caused by human use of fossil fuels played a role in about a half dozen extreme weather events last year. …
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