The text here translates as “The next big evolutionary jump will be humankind’s discovery that cooperation is better than competition.” This is an increasingly important concept as planetary resources become scarcer, and a business-as-usual approach means the slow but certain …
Category: Sustainability
Cooperation
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A Powerful Voice for the Freedom of Ideas
Stephen King: If Penguin Random House gets its way, it will soon own Simon & Schuster—leaving only four major publishers in an industry that once had dozens. In a country built on free press, where Common Sense helped launch the Revolutionary War …
Jeff Sparrow from the Guardian: Nuclear War No Longer Seems To Scare Us as Much as it Used To – Have We Become Accustomed to the Unthinkable?
This piece in the Guardian is a wonderful short essay on the topic. I speculate the following: • That China is effectively sinking the U.S. with economics. • Russia has hurt us very badly installing Donald Trump as president. • …
Trump’s Legacy of Tremendous Harm
The death of the man who attacked an FBI office in Cincinnati reminds us that, by the time Trump is removed from our lives, and his active influence finally dissipates into virtually nothing, the amount of damage he will have …
When Faith Trumps Reason
The meme here reminds me of a conversation I had with a park ranger in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Eastern California, when I went into her office to get a permit for our party to hike and camp. I …
Tagged with: Earth is older than 6000 years
Right-Wing / Libertarian Think-Tanks
I interviewed the spokesman for the CATO Institute for my third book, Renewable Energy — Following the Money, and I have to say that it was a profound experience. Here’s a group whose only reason for being is its attempt …
From the File Named, “Now THAT’S a Human Being” ….
… comes this video of sportsmanship and true decency. We have every reason to be utterly disappointed in the character of the people we live among. But maybe we have an even better reason to love and respect one another.
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We Can Be Better People
American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, and cultural critic Wendell Berry is often quoted nowadays for his unflagging optimism and his fierce confidence in the true goodness of humankind. IMO, we can’t get enough of this.
Tagged with: environmental activist
Biodiversity
This translates as: Ants rely for their physiological health on food variety. Please take care of biodiversity. The sign reads: I’m hungry. Please plant flowers. I had standard, boring, grass lawns around every home I every owned. But if …
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What Type of World Do We Want To Live In?
Among the problems associated with unbridled capitalism is that it creates a society that is both mean and stupid. Speaking for myself, I really don’t like living among hateful idiots. It’s depressing. Fifty years ago, we had our share of …
Tagged with: unbridled capitalism
