The vast majority of 2GreenEnergy readers are too young to have watched The Andy Griffith Show of the 1960s. Having said that, this excerpt from one of its best episodes speaks to guns and policing. Worth a watch. An important …
Category: Sustainability
Trump Supporters–An Endangered Species
We’ve previously noted that Trump supporters tend to be anti-vaxxers, and that anti-vaxxers are far more likely to die of COVID-19 than the rest of the population. Something that needs to be added on top of this phenomenon (death), however, …
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Animal-Free Diets
In an earlier post I mentioned that there are several reasons not to eat meat. Here’s one of them. Enjoy.
Why Vegans Don’t Eat Meat
Let me take a stab at answering this stupid question. Meat tastes good. There are good reasons not to eat hamburgers, but “because they taste bad” isn’t one of them. Btw, Gene Wilder would turn over in his grave if …
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Another Hillsdale College “Survey”
When readers ask me to comment on ideas like the one expressed in the meme here from Hillsdale College, my first response is to ask: Well, is America in fact the freest and most prosperous nation in history? The answer, …
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Folks, This Is Unsustainable
A sustainable society is one that meets its own needs without preventing future generations from meeting theirs. So, what can happen to make a society unsustainable? We normally think of environmental issues like pollution, climate change, over-fishing, etc. Yet consider …
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Ignorance Ultimately Brings Violence
“Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, hate leads to violence. That is the equation.” Access to high quality public education is absolutely critical to our ability, as Americans, to reverse the course of all the horrific behavior that …
Ending Citizens United
It’s good to see that the U.S. legislative world hasn’t forgotten about overturning, preferably via a Constitutional Amendment, the Supreme Court decision FEC v. Citizens United, that granted corporations free speech protection to donate as much as they want to …
Bucky Fuller Was Right, But…..
The problem that we face is some people are selfish by nature; they find hoarding resources to be fun and rewarding. Yes, the majority of people on this planet care about the well-being of others, but those who call the …
Behaving Kindly Towards One Another
When I saw this supposed quote from George Carlin I looked it up immediately. Was it real? Does this man of such great insight regard kind and law-abiding people as cowards? Carlin was an astute social observer, who may have …
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