Thanks, a nice succinct review. Another problem that prevents action is that ordinary individuals can not individually do anything that will make a di...
Your expectations might be too high. Have you used an ordinary home printer recently? You got it for free, sort of, but the frequent ink refills you h...
Our problem is that the complexity of global warming, and everything connected to it, is overwhelming. It's not too difficult to grasp -- lots of peop...
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life after Warming by David Wallace-Wells (published Feb. 2019) takes the view that there is very little hope for the future,...
Some people are obsessed with racism, sexism, various ------phobias, isms, diets, and what not without it improving their ethical framework, as far as...
Digital products are perfect for automated reproduction. To some degree many actual, material products are heavily automated too. Printing, for instan...
You should disambiguate Capitalism, on the one hand, and "An Ideology of Mass Consumption" on the other. Consuming goods does not make one rich. Indee...
For the most part, I don't expect animal to have the kind of thoughts we do. That is NOT to say they have no resources to operate in a difficult world...
Well, Mr. or Ms Negativity, our passing may or may not be tragic, but what about all the other species? Looked at in the right way, the passing of mon...
I suppose Jews and others, contemplating the unfolding Holocaust of which they were the designated victims; or Aboriginal peoples watching their homel...
I thought that large numbers of buffalo were wantonly shot -- and not slaughtered, maybe just skinned for their hides -- as a way of depriving the pla...
I have a bad cold and feel terrible, so Yellowstone can go ahead and blow up. I'm ready to get it over with. Will it be too much? Dunno. The last time...
My apologies for seizing on 1 word and running with it. Bad practice on my part. I'll slap myself around as punishment. It's just that I don't think t...
Let's get in the time machine; repost without the word 'insanity'. We'll see. The fear of getting nuked at that time was real enough (I remember it). ...
Are you trying to tell us that before America there were no celebrities? There have been celebrity singers, the heart throb actors, popular whores, th...
Which insanity? The insanity of nuclear weapons or the insanity of building backyard fallout shelters? Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) was, indeed,...
Good animal husbandry will help prevent the transmission of TB from cows to humans, but unless we apply animal husbandry to the humans who have TB and...
They might be digging with their dextrous six (or horrors, eight) legs. Smart spiders discovering cans of RAID™ designed to kill their forebears. Arac...
Two points: First, our fragility. Take the "wet bulb" relationship between heat and humidity. Humans can not do work and survive outside (literally, d...
Nature will be indifferent to our problems and will not tell us anything. She has seen it all before. One of the adaptations that we might well make i...
I read over the document, looking at the summary and conclusion in particular. I didn't see anything that was very compelling. I have thought we were ...
This is true. A full-out exchange of bombs among the existing nuclear powers would result in massive fire storms which would greatly extend the initia...
The fact is, there are numerous threats to the environment coming from all sorts of sources. Fortunately they aren't all dire. But just to site one ex...
The fact is, there are numerous threats to the environment coming from all sorts of sources. Fortunately they aren't all dire. But just to site one ex...
Thanks to old age and Better Living Through Chemistry, I am not worried about nuclear weapons or global warming. BUT, as you have pointed out, nuclear...
That's why we plan to blow up the bridges over the Mississippi, tear up the freeways in Wisconsin, and start installing minefields and electrified bar...
Society could unravel in the next 10 years leading to mass starvation, true enough. One of the factors that keeps food on the table is a minimum level...
Well, Jesus... the thing is, we probably can't rely on Jesus or Socrates or Buddha to answer all of our contemporary questions. Our relationship to an...
Jesus was a good guy, but he wasn't a defender of everything claimed in his name. You have heard of burnt offerings? When Jesus was alive, animals wer...
STOP THE HYSTERIA! This woman's uterus has managed to find its way into her hair -- you can see what disastrous consequences a wondering uterus can ha...
I know you were not suggesting that. I was taught in school that the ancient European people (never mind everybody else) were pretty much ignorant and...
The kind of thinking you are concerned about in science infested the humanities tower first, then the social sciences building. Now they have begun at...
Take for example two food crops on which much of the world depends: corn (maize) and potatoes. The indigenous hunter-gatherer populations of North Ame...
We will all agree that the education system sucks in ever so many ways. But I don't know how we conduct education to foster intuitional thinking in sc...
Until relatively recently, a lot of innovations in technology were brought about by amateurs and people who were not scientists by training and title....
Are there, in fact, big new ideas? As a non-scientist but interested science observer what I see is a lot of incremental progress where the increments...
The gods can be our creation along with the absurd rituals, and still be useful to us. Most people engage in rituals, even atheists. Shared rituals, s...
Perhaps "philosophy" is no more instructive or therapeutic than collecting and classifying beetles as a hobby (or a job). I mean, any concerted effort...
One way of simplifying one's thinking about causation is to stop thinking about it. WHEN we can only trace a series of causal events back a few steps,...
Yes. The existence of God (or gods) will be beyond proof until such time as God (or gods) decide to manifest himself (or themselves) in an unambiguous...
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