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: …
Tag: environmental collapse
What’s the Point?
OK, what exactly is the point? How about this: Rich white people get richer. Everybody else faces some blend of exploitation: discrimination, hunger, impoverishment, disease, poor education, scarce resources, death/injury in war, etc. In the Native American communities. decisions are …
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Uniting the People
This quote from Robert Oppenheimer is interesting. Obviously, there is no precedent in human history for anything resembling this. My best guess: regardless of the type of disaster, i.e., nuclear conflagration or environmental collapse, there will be plenty of survivors. …
LOLL Oil
I’m not 100% sure what this Tesla owner is trying to communicate. I’m hoping it’s something like: “Laughing out loud at the idea that oil is a sustainable auto fuel.” Maybe it’s “Laughing in the face of Big Oil, because …
The Ideas of Our Times
What Voltaire wrote here seems completely true. Moreover, “our times” are marked by existential threats: environmental collapse in general and climate change in particular, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and the trend towards world fascism, as the United States teeters …
Making Progress in Protecting Human Health Is a “Long Battle”
As it turns out, the most lethal kind of cigarettes are those with menthol “flavoring,” and this has resulted in fierce efforts on the part of advocacy groups to force the U.S. federal government to ban the substance. But guess …
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Citizen of the World
Here, Socrates reminds us of the problems associated with being what is essentially a tribal species. We tend to look for differences between us, rather than similarities. Then we use these perceived differences as motivation for hatred and, often, violence. …
Technology Is a Double-Edged Sword
Tocqueville wrote this in the early 19th Century, and there is no doubt that he made an excellent point, given the times. Had he been alive today, however, I doubt he’d be singing the same tune. Technology, while it is …
Pessimism, Anyone?
Between environmental collapse, world fascism, and nuclear holocaust, it’s not easy to name the threat that is most likely to take us down. And let’s not forget runaway AI. Carl Sagan warned us many decades ago that we are a …
What’s Truly Important
Kudos to cartoonist “Emmerson” whose work appears below. We do indeed have a twisted sense of priorities. Most Americans are aware of climate change and other elements of environmental collapse, but we’re a) stressed about near-term aspects of our lives, …
