Have you ever wondered why every dictator in human history follows the exact same playbook? Check this out. Plato nailed this 2400 years ago, and it’s been on “rinse/repeat” ever since.
Category: Sustainability
How We Structured Our Society
Regarding the deluge of reports concerning the acceleration of climate change, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, and other forms of environmental collapse, Nick Young offers his comments at left. But did we have a choice when it came to organizing …
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Yes, Human Activity, in its Current State, Is Unsustainable
The fact that human activity is unsustainable has been revealed to us gradually over the last century. Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” was published 63 years ago. That said, the ideas of climate change, ocean acidification, and loss of biodiversity have …
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Setbacks
We need to keep a couple of things in perspective: 1) Humankind has experienced setbacks a great number of times, including the Dark Ages, the Spanish Inquisition, the Salem witch trials, totalitarianism, and the Nazis. 2) Where the cause of …
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Natural Methods Are Best
As we all know, a great deal of what we see on social media is simply made up, but the meme here is spot on, as I know from personal experience. I needed to rid our ranch of ground squirrels, …
Why the California Wine Industry Is Failing
Most 2GreenEnergy readers don’t live in California, and many don’t live in the United States, so they will be excused for not knowing that the Golden State’s wine industry is falling into the crapper. Young people are drinking far less …
A New Low in Americans’ Capacity to Think
Many Americans believe that the water delivered to our homes in five-gallon plastic containers brought to us in diesel-powered trucks is the best way to keep them hydrated. Every ounce of water in the United States exceeds all potability standards. …
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Some Nations Care
There are many countries around the globe whose people have a deep and honest concern for the wellbeing of their planet and its civilization. As shown at left, Costa Rico is most certainly among them. Perhaps you live in such …
JD Vance and His Certainty Re: God’s Work
At left we see illustrated the core problem with the world’s theistic religions, i.e., that adherents are so certain of the rightness of their beliefs that they have no problem destroying the world. FWIW, I have a friend who takes …
Why Are We Doing This?
I join those who say that the human race has evolved to be tribal and selfish. We are largely indifferent to the needs of others, and the capitalist society we’ve built has only served to reenforce this. As Tom Waits …
