Category: Environment
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Mark Zuckerberg is a Material Threat to the Human Species
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, which includes Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, has just announced that Meta will be “dramatically reducing censorship across all its platforms”. Obviously, he means that they will dramatically reduce censorship of fascism, specifically. Zuckerberg said Meta would “get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender…
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The Real Existential Threat is Overshoot
Neither Democrats nor Republicans have sufficiently accepted the dilemma we face in terms of the human relationship to our habitat, the Earth. Dr. William Rees explains why this lack of understand is essentially guaranteed to end industrial-technical civilization incrementally over the next 25 years, culminating in a population of no more than 2 billion people…
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Razing Deck Chairs on the Titanic
Israel will not survive to its 100 year anniversary. No, that statement is not meant to imply that Palestine will rise up and destroy it, or that some foreign power will destroy it. The fact that Israel cannot survive has nothing to do with Palestinians or any Muslim group for that matter. The issue at…
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Surviving Climate Change
Can our civilization survive climate change? There’s no short answer to that. People are strongly motivated to believe that climate change can be overcome, and not only overcome, but overcome in such way that their standard of living is maintained, or even improved. They are also strongly motivated to reject any conclusions regarding climate change…
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UN COP 28: Climate Action Conquered
Thanks to Spoonermeme, I recently learned that Columbia’s mayor, Barbara Buffaloe has flown all the way to Dubai to attend the UN’s 28th climate change conference. As Spoonermeme pointed out, Columbia, Missouri is a city that can’t even figure out recycling but it is spending many thousands of dollars to send their mayor to a…
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Climate Change: How Governments Will Respond
The whole reason I’m writing essays on this website now is because in 2004, I stumbled upon the following article on the internet: Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us by Mark Townsend and Paul Harris in New York (The Guardian) Once I’d read it, I realized that the Powers That Be…
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NPR: 6 Scholars on Climate Solutions
NPR released this article recently: 6 scholars explain what a real climate solution is As you may suspect, it isn’t nearly as extreme as what I’ve said previously, and that is probably because none of those scholars are climatologists. The context is that as of now, it is probably too late to save human beings…
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The Climate Predicament
Despite what’s going on — objectively speaking — with the Earth’s climate, the culture of full-fledged climate denial is still in full swing. Certainly, some of these climate change deniers are corporate shills, but that culture is now an independent organism that would produce distorted science and outright lies even without the far-right funding that…
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The Energy Transition Punchline
Right wing propaganda is currently going after two targets: trans people and our society’s shift to less environmentally destructive infrastructure (e.g., renewable energy and EV’s). Certainly, the attacks on trans people are the more alarming of the two things, but they tend to be more confined to far right spaces. In contrast, lies about renewable…
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Higgins vs. Salter: An analysis
You may have heard of the “contentious” interaction between Republican Clay Higgins and Raya Salter (an environmental lawyer) during a House Oversight & Reform Committee hearing on September 15, 2022. If you really need to see the interaction, I will link to it at the bottom, but just be aware that I’ll cover the meat…