It would be interesting to see the results of a large poll in which Americans were asked their viewpoints of Trump’s actions since his return to the White House in January 2025, Imagine we had to choose precisely one of …
Category: Climate Change
What the Earth Is and Is Not Doing
In conversations with senior energy analysist Glenn Doty, he’s warned me of the dangers of promoting ideas like “Mother Nature,” or other suggestions to the effect that the planet is animated by a kind of spirit that protects it from …
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Dying of Climate Change
Of course, it’s impossible to predict the future of climate change, but it’s improbable that this young lady will die of it. The only way affluent white Americans will get killed by the effects of global warming is if they …
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Having Children
My wife and I had our kids in the mid-1990s. Bill Clinton, a sane human being, was the U.S. president, the economy was strong, the USSR had dissolved, the world was largely unaware of global warming, and the times were …
Ignoring Reality
What Aldous Huxley said here is absolutely true, and it applies so broadly across human society. Most obviously, we have environmental collapse in general and climate change in particular. The longer we delay our efforts to decarbonize our energy and …
Climate Change Mitigation and the Economy
We’ve all heard the claim that decarbonizing our energy and transportation sectors will harm the economy. This narrative is critical to the far-right-wing’s claim that environmentalism is anti-capitalist, and, in particular, anti-American. But does it make sense? Granted, there are …
Propaganda Is Hitting U.S. Society from All Angles
As suggested at left, Trump’s PR team is not ignoring America’s kids. Maybe a reader can clue me in as to how what the president is doing is delivering a “stronger, safer and more prosperous America” as he: • Abolishes …
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Climate Denial Requires Two Parts
There is a great deal of truth in the words at left. Yet any significant amount of climate change denial needs two components: Big Oil — and a huge population of uneducated people. The whole deal is akin to Trumpism …
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The Forms of Ignorance
This is an interesting thought, though it’s unclear why rejecting something one knows nothing about is any more ignorant than asserting something on a subject that one knows nothing about. Maybe both are equally harmful. I’m constantly running into people …
Trump’s Motivations for his Current Actions
Re: Trump’s action here, a reader remarks: Same as his first term following Obama. Just reverse everything good or bad to eliminate any legacy of their time as President. It is also important that the opposing political party’s successes be …
