The 'Simple Living' movement, generally active in churches, attempts to get people to, you know, consume less -- much less -- crap. Those who cite spe...
As there is in Christianity. Matthew 25:31-40, which lays out the basis of God's judgement. Many churches ask for (and receive) a 10% tithe from membe...
"Millennial" is not a very substantive term; I wish people would stop using these "generation" labels. They might be useful as marketing concepts; not...
Things that go Trump in the night at the White House haunted by insane policy https://66.media.tumblr.com/9d9b37973fcf83760a016c5b60f21d2a/1836ae3d609...
Wait a minute, your take on family composition is way, way off: According to the US census and Bureau of Labor Statistics, 69% of children (<18) live ...
This is probably true. I started working in 1968 and stopped in 2008; over that time I witnessed the decline in living standards that one could have a...
Thanks to inflation, yes. But inflation erodes purchasing power, and inflation, stagnant wages, a rising cost of living, and new products becoming "es...
On social media, claiming sexual arousal when faces get blown off is a very low cost move. What do you actually know about the people making these sta...
Trump IS something of an outlier; he is decidedly worse than Nixon. I didn't like Nixon at all, but in some ways he deserves to be in the plus column ...
How: Through the overthrow of the existing economic structure by revolution, not necessarily violent, but certainly uncomfortable for those who own th...
More recently in 1815, 13,000 ft volcanic Mount Tambora in Indonesia exploded, blasting away 12 cubic miles of rock, dust, and gas into the atmosphere...
"The People" (you, me, and most others) are not in a position to effect the critical changes such as: very rapid cessation of fossil fuel use, crash p...
A very interesting piece of climatological/theological prestidigitation. There are, indeed, more atheists than every before -- maybe as many as 1 in 7...
Silly we, thinking that drought might be caused by something other than a lack of rain! Somewhere in the United States there is almost always a drough...
How often do you hear any scientist announce at a press conference that his theory is falsifiable? Isn't falsifiability an entry level condition for a...
As it happens, the evidence for global warming is not based just on a few decades of temperature trends. Geologists, 'ice'ologists, oceanographers, an...
We participate in The Philosophy Forum because we like to collaborate at least to some extent. This site is, by its nature, collaborative. Solitary pe...
And it would really be wonderful if it works even moderately well. I would be ecstatic if ITER works really well. Pollution free energy would be a hug...
Well, TMF, relativity has been worked on for a century, and it doesn't have to be proved against the behavior of the oceans, atmosphere, plants, anima...
there are two routes to carbon sequestration: The first is pumping it deep into the ground and filling the tap pipe with concrete. The second is combi...
All good. Please continue. Unfortunately (and it really is a misfortune) the problem can not be solved by virtuous individual efforts. That doesn't me...
As I recollect, it wasn't so politically unpopular as technically unsuccessful. It isn't dangerous, but it is extraordinarily difficult to achieve sus...
A sensible plan. How long do you think that will last? (I'm counting on the same thing -- heating and AC for at least the next 10 years. Beyond that.....
The problem here is that the role of evolution and genes in determining complex behaviors is by no means clearly or well understood. My view is that h...
Qmeri, human behavior has ALWAYS bounced back and forth between laudable and lamentable. The Internet is, indeed, a tremendously useful amalgam of tec...
it is an "east is east and west is west" kind of difference. Bob Hope and Jane Russell sang it in a movie, Paleface, back in 1947. Never saw it, but t...
I doubt very much that you are either ignorant or uninformed. Where did the global warming narrative really begin to unravel for you? A friend who rea...
Here is an article from INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS that provide a survey of what has been published in the last 10 years about climate change. Believe it or ...
Probably not. The intention of developing fire retardants was not corrupt. It may have been ill-advised, it may have been saintly; I don't know, I was...
I'm cranky, sure. But there is nothing wrong with "capital", "capitalism", and "capitalist". The Wall Street Journal uses these terms proudly. Capital...
No, we don't need another word. Capitalism is a good accurate term. So, every capitalist is not guilty of Sackler-grade crimes. The universe is full o...
It really is that easy if you are prepared to foreswear fealty to capitalism and face how ruthlessly exploitative capitalists tend to be. The Sacklers...
Something ain't right, for sure. The UK has also experienced a decline in life expectancy, but we are talking about a small change for both the US and...
I'm pretty sure there WILL BE "wildfires in the west, drought, agriculture failure and mass migration". I'm pretty sure that the boreal forests in Can...
Nuclear facilities are vulnerable, true enough. While a plant can be shut down (the nuclear reaction halted), there is fuel stored in water pools (som...
You are right that a big cataclysm is a-coming, but the two critical factors are timing and location (always, location, location, location). The ocean...
A warmer climate has a relationship to insect populations, but what is much more significant for insect population crashes is the burden of pesticides...
Not precisely, no; but we can make guesses. For instance, there are a lot of lakes and Arctic Ocean floors from which methane is bubbling up, the prod...
Make up your mind, Frank: either you want to live in a compassionate society, and one where people are NOT seen as standardized production units that ...
Were all the Civilized Nations (sic) to apply the French law to their various corporate and/or state employers and then resort to the guillotine, a ne...
Eloquent bullshit*** can degrade discourse, but believing one's own bullshit is THE cardinal sin. *** "If you can't dazzle them with facts, then baffl...
Comments