The groups listed at left are certainly under pressure at this point. But let’s not forget about everybody living on a warming planet who may not have the wherewithal to pack up and leave their homelands that are becoming uninhabitable.
Category: Climate Change
Taking Action Against Environmental Collapse
Yes, our planet is facing ruination in the form of droughts, wildfires, flooding, desertification, loss of landmass, food shortages, loss of biodiversity, and ocean acidification. The question: Why didn’t we do anything about it? can only be answered as follows: …
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Dealing with Climate Change
While what Bill Nye said here is true, here are a couple of points: Obviously, there are parts of the globe that will be inhabitable far into the future, even as most of the globe is subject to extreme levels …
Scientists’ Integrity
If you’re a conspiracy theorist who believes that only 3% of scientists are honest, you most certainly have never known anyone who plays a role in this discipline. Now, you don’t have to be a QAnon/MAGA Trump supporter to harbor …
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Why Libertarianism Doesn’t Work
Earlier in my life I was a libertarian, a viewpoint that I maintained until I realized the truth in what Naomi Klein say at left. In the absence of government regulation, corporations, whose sole duty is to turn a profit …
World Peace
The reader who sent this question posed at left provided his one-word answer: Greed. I’m afraid he’s right. As Socrates said, “All wars are about money.” And as our annual military budget gets ever closer to $1 trillion, all that …
Tagged with: Big Oil profiting enormously from their actions that are warming our planet causing loss of land masses droughts fires desertification floods, consider climate change, loss of biodiversity, national security issues as climate refugees are forced to emigrate from their homelands, ocean acidification
Who Are These Climate Deniers?
As suggested at left, big money bets on science every single time. As Aesop noted 2500 years ago, “A fool and his money are soon parted.” And, since generally the wealthiest individuals and corporations are anything but fools, they can …
Why Wasn’t the January 6th Insurrection the End for Trump?
The answer is simple: There are issues that are far higher priorities than Trump’s lies and criminality. More than half the voters in this country place extreme amounts of value on: • The supremacy of white people. • The rationing …
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Science V. Capital
From his Wikipedia page: Jason Edward Hickel is an anthropologist and professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Hickel’s research and writing focuses on economic anthropology and development, and is particularly opposed to capitalism, neocolonialism, as well as economic growth as …
America’s Role in Climate Change Mitigation
It would be great to see the United States make substantial investments in climate change mitigation, and certainly the Inflation Reduction Act is an excellent start here. Even better would be our nation’s leading the way towards a broad, international …
