Perhaps the saddest single feature of our world today, and the United States in particular, is what we do with power. We look at our billionaires, those who could be putting an end to world hunger and climate change, but …
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Republicans Will Carry Shame Through History
Almost all Americans have a passionate interest in the outcome of today’s presidential election, but how many of us see these results as something that will be meticulously studied by historians over the coming decades? According to polls, it’s possible …
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Trump Supporters’ Motivations
It’s true that Trump supporters don’t care about morality, legality, or the truth. But almost half of these American voters do have things they care about very deeply: White Nationalism, the rejection of science, and the end of women’s rights.
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What Vegans Actually Believe
At left is another good example of a “straw man fallacy,” one that occurs “when someone misrepresents an opponent’s argument in order to make it easier to attack and refute. The person using the fallacy pretends to be arguing against …
No Guardrails for Trump
As pointed out here, if Trump wins re-election, there will be no voices of reason and civility to prevent him from becoming just one more authoritarian dictator in our already-troubled world. Of course, that’s what his supporters like best about …
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Many Women Support Trump
As shown here, American women have made great progress over the last century in terms of establishing their basic rights as human beings. One may think, as a consequence, women would be virtually uniform in their disgust with the Republican …
Climate Change Effects Are Not Equally Distributed
The cartoon here has many societal implications surrounding the idea that our planet is actually a small island on which everyone is affected by the vast damage we’re doing to our environment. The truth, however, is a bit different. The …
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An Important Reason to Decarbonize
When 2GreenEnergy was launched in 2009, one of its most important claims was the one Pete Buttigieg makes here, i.e., that a nation’s commitment to cleantech is perhaps the single most determining point to its future economic prosperity. Of course, …
“Views” or “Beliefs” on Climate Change
When my childhood friends came to learn that I’d become an author of materials of environmental sustainability, they sometimes asked for my opinions on climate change. I explain that because climate change is a science, it’s inappropriate to apply the …
How Married Women Vote
I had to laugh when I saw this. “This is not controversial?? I would say that it is controversial if it’s deemed so by those who read it.
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