Changing Our Diets
From magician and actor Penn Jillette: For (millions of) years our biggest problems were too few calories, too little information. For about 50 years our biggest problem has been too many calories, too much information. We have to adjust, and I believe we will really fast. I also believe it will be wicked ugly while we’re adjusting.
Keep in mind that our capitalist society really doesn’t give a damn about what happens to the consumers who live on the garbage sold at fast-food restaurants and the interior aisles of our grocery stores.
As shown in the video below, submitted by Gary Tulie, Harvard University reports that coal dust and the exhaust from coal-fired power plants killed at least 460,000 people over the last 20 years.
FWIW, this makes perfect sense to me.
The cartoon here provides us with a great deal to think about. What precisely does the ever-accelerating rate of change in our world actually translate to in terms of the survivability of our civilization?
Astonishingly, there are people who refuse to take a few minutes per week and separate their recyclables from their trash to be landfilled.
As previously mentioned, 2GreenEnergy “headquarters” is located in a rural part of California, one whose political leanings, in the main, could be described as “God and country,” or simply “MAGA.”
Here’s a supposedly neutral “survey” from ultra-right-wing educational institute Hillsdale College.
This from author Fran Lebowitz:
I hear England wants its 13 colonies back, too.
Hegel said, “The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.”
