Here are a few words from the Sierra Club: Our public lands are under threat. Elon Musk’s DOGE team has fired thousands of rangers, docents, educators, scientists, and caretakers of the National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and …
Category: Sustainability
What Hath God Wrought?
We live among people who believe that God wants the United States to function according to the ideals of the modern-day Republican party: • Round up and deport everyone living here without documentation. • Re-instate the death penalty. • Destroy …
Trouble with DOGE
The author of the meme here doesn’t seem to understand that the youngsters in DOGE are making policy decisions that do violence to the health, safety, and general well-being of every American, and, indirectly, most of the people in other …
Tagged with: environmental sustainability
What We Can and Cannot Demand of Musk
We shouldn’t expect people with hundreds of billions of dollars to become heroes, but we shouldn’t allow them to become terrorists, either.
Tagged with: What We Can and Cannot Demand of Musk
What Most of Us Would Do with Hundreds of Billions of Dollars
I’m sure that millions of people have had the thought offered at left. Personally, I would tackle the environment, making large investments in decarbonizing our energy and transportation sectors, and moving to sustainable agriculture.
Reading the Bible at School
As at least 99% of us know, school students can read the Bible if they so choose. School students cannot be forced to read the Bible, any more than they can be forced to read the Quran.
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The End of Capitalism
Well, that didn’t happen, did it? Human society is so deeply wedded to capitalism that we seem to be 100% incapable of reversing the collapse of our environment. The top priority of rich people is to become richer. Actually, it’s …
Corrupt Governments
There are probably many ways of going about trying to answer this question. I would head for the Freedom House, which “rates people’s access to political rights and civil liberties in 210 countries and territories through its annual Freedom in …
Re-Inventing the Lawn
We Boomers grew up at a time when lush green grass lawns and large expanses of concrete were the paradigm for our yards. Yet many of us today, if we had the chance to do all this over and re-invent …
An International Tragedy
A key tactic employed by the Donald Trump / Elon Musk duo is to inflict so much damage to our nation and the rest of the world that individual citizens like you and me are paralyzed by the sheer velocity …
Tagged with: Donald Trump / Elon Musk
