I’d say it’s more like 60 years. It’s a regression to the purely patriarchal society we had before the rights of women, LBGTQs, and people of color began to emerge. It’s what those on the radical right mean when they …
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Producing Green Hydrogen and Renewable Natural Gas by Thinning California’s Forests
There are few news stories getting more attention than the devastating wildfire year that the Western United States is experiencing, with more than 4.1 million acres already scorched in California alone, more than doubling the previous record (2 million acres, …
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Oil Industry on a Propaganda Roll
What’s ExxonMobil’s motive for offering you to “test your knowledge about the oil and gas industry?” Is it: a) Providing Americans the opportunity to educate themselves on the breadth of the industry. This includes the value it provides to society, …
Dealing with the Pandemic Rationally
An apparently angry reader says: “PROMOTE THIS!!” I believe we can fulfill everyone’s objectives simultaneously, if we all acknowledge certain truths here: Yes, there is a 1.5% fatality rate, though many will suffer horribly, and a great number will live …
Will the Hyperloop Ever Be Built, Given Current Events?
The video below is an explanation of the Hyperloop, the futuristic mode of transportation in which passengers climb into pods that travel at speeds of up to 700 MPH though tubes with very low air pressure. One can imagine that …
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No Need To Trade a Robust Economy for a High Quality of Life
My earlier post, Focusing on Citizens’ Well-Being lays out how many of the world’s developed countries are examining their priorities to ensure a high quality of life for their citizens. As good as this is, however, it rests on the …
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Focusing on Citizens’ Well-Being
There is an enormous quantity of good taking place around the globe that, sadly, is obscured by the president-day U.S. political circus and its criminal buffoon ring leader. In particular, many of the world’s developed countries are examining their priorities …
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Ocean Acidification Is Hard To Reverse
A friend who quit drinking told me that one’s liver generally recovers when it’s no longer required to process all that poison….but, if one continually starts and stops, or, obviously, if one continues to drink like a fish, the liver …
Biden’s Climate Plan Is a Catastrophe, Both for the Environment and for Biden Himself
There are two main things to be said about Joe Biden: 1) He’s not a sociopath; he’s a sane and decent person. 2) He’s the textbook case of “middle-of-the-road.”
Happy Belated Earth Day
As we oldsters celebrated Earth Day yesterday, our minds went back to 1970, at the height of the U.S. protest movement, and rising dissatisfaction with the environmental abuses of the modern world.
