It’s good to see this concept gaining ground. We have the resources to deal with each of our civilization’s woes: starvation, destitution, ignorance, baking temperatures, and so on. All we need is the political will.
Category: Sustainability
What Happens when Empathy Dies?
Good quote here, but I’m wondering if the death of empathy and the fall into barbarism aren’t the same thing. In any case, life here in the United States is most certainly marked by our gross indifference to the suffering …
Tune Out the News?
The meme here came from a reader. There is no doubt that Trump and his Republican minions would be ecstatic if the nation looked the other way while: Matt Gaetz is appointed to be U.S. Attorney General. Let’s suppose that …
Tagged with: Environmental Protection Agency
Trump Won. Now What?
Now what? We can start by feeling sorry for many different groups of people, mostly here, but some abroad as well, who will experience terrible consequences of Trump’s re-election, either directly or indirectly. Americans Directly Affected Muslims Women who …
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Have the Prospects for Women Changed?
When American actor (then called an “actress”) Katherine Hepburn made this statement in the middle of the 20th Century, it hit home with our country’s women. After all, how many females at the time could expect to live with the …
Tagged with: women’s rights
What Vegans Actually Believe
At left is another good example of a “straw man fallacy,” one that occurs “when someone misrepresents an opponent’s argument in order to make it easier to attack and refute. The person using the fallacy pretends to be arguing against …
How Married Women Vote
I had to laugh when I saw this. “This is not controversial?? I would say that it is controversial if it’s deemed so by those who read it.
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Universal Healthcare
I had a conversation with a senior hospital administrator the other day, and the subject of universal healthcare came up. I mentioned that the United States is the only country in the developed world that doesn’t offer this to its …
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Primatologist Jane Goodall Asks a Powerful Question
I would say the answer is a combination of greed and tribalism. We evolved living in groups, distrusting/hating people from outside our group who do not look like us, worship like us, etc. At the same time, the socio-economic paradigm …
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Propaganda on Law Enforcement
I think I speak for at least 99% of progressives when I say that I care about the safety and well-being of police officers. At the same time, I resent the efforts of the extreme right-wing to suggest otherwise. …
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