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Man is certainly part of nature, and our activities are "natural" for us. But using the term "natural" here confuses factors outside of human activity...
March 05, 2017 at 19:37
The bears will do fine once they switch from seal to primate meat. There are so many of us, there may be a glut of white bear fur on the market. Too b...
March 05, 2017 at 06:09
It won't shrink much at all in the next couple of decades, unless there is a plague, or something. All the works of Monsanto, Syngenta, Land 'O Lakes,...
March 05, 2017 at 06:03
In my quintessential middle age, I was also reading science and hearing about global warming. Warming was something of a relief because 20 years earli...
March 05, 2017 at 03:14
Boys and girls playing games as children is not a problem. Their respective musculature and strength is quite similar. As Chany points out (as it shou...
March 04, 2017 at 23:09
You could take the slogan, "Today is the first day of the rest of your life" and turn it on it's head: "Today is the last day of your life, so far..."...
March 04, 2017 at 20:21
Plastic, what are your long term plans? What do you want to be doing 5 years from now? 10 years?
March 04, 2017 at 15:39
One of the eternal truths which philosophy teaches is "work sucks". There are at least 100 reasons why work sucks, so it is important to develop the r...
March 04, 2017 at 15:36
Just as an odor can trigger very strong memories that have been silent for decades (or memories can trigger the experience of the odor), so it is with...
March 04, 2017 at 06:19
Absolutely not! It's one of my favorite activities--BUT... I engage in two kinds of political arguing: One kind is when I argue politics with people w...
March 04, 2017 at 06:07
You probably won't make the slightest change in all of that even if you do run for office and if you become a lawyer. Ordinary hubris is a more common...
March 03, 2017 at 23:13
The initial or default answer is "yes, because initially the individual has little choice in the standards received from society." Later, though, as t...
March 03, 2017 at 04:02
§§§ Kunstler's fiction depicts the worst possible case for resource depletion. It's great post-apocalyptic stuff. But... The Long Emergency's main poi...
March 02, 2017 at 23:23
Who, exactly, has to reach consensus? About 97% of climate scientists have reached a consensus. Everyone doesn't have to join the consensus. There are...
March 02, 2017 at 23:12
If the future of the earth's habitability isn't THE political issue par excellence, I don't know what would be.
March 02, 2017 at 22:54
I am not a climate scientist, but the reports that lay out the scientific case as readily available and some are accessibly written for lay audiences....
March 02, 2017 at 17:52
I was just trying to fill in background on "the Protestant work ethic". "All work is holy" is better than "work or die", but Luther (b. 1483) preceded...
March 02, 2017 at 16:29
Black pans matter.
March 02, 2017 at 05:02
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. "Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics." is very good. But the most pungent proverb...
March 02, 2017 at 05:02
My dentist is a University college of dentistry. I like going there because most of the young male dentists are so extremely attractive. They do good ...
March 02, 2017 at 04:48
Sorry, I wasn't thinking of you at that moment.
March 02, 2017 at 04:17
You may not care, but the Protestant Work Ethic (as conceived by Luther) is that all work is holy and in the service of God and one another. Capitalis...
March 02, 2017 at 04:12
Never heard of this before.
March 02, 2017 at 01:41
Yes, for instance... Leftists in America having so little real assets to fight over, go for each others throats on the very finest points of theory, a...
March 02, 2017 at 01:12
Ideology: • a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy: the ideology of republicanis...
March 02, 2017 at 01:05
In some ways, 'ideology' gets a bad rap. But generally, ideology is just an organized set of ideas. How they are presented might be an expression of t...
March 01, 2017 at 19:37
It's a funny old world where ideas like that are still given credence. The truth is closer to "on many levels people don't know jack shit".
March 01, 2017 at 19:26
as a "simple utmost truth" it's not doing much for me.
March 01, 2017 at 05:21
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March 01, 2017 at 05:03
I don't have a huge amount of trust in the class that owns and operates nuclear power plants. Would they cut corners to save money and increase the ri...
March 01, 2017 at 04:59
What are you referencing?
March 01, 2017 at 03:03
Driving a hybrid is better than driving a gas guzzling highway behemoth, for sure. But... the model of halo you get for driving a hybrid vehicle is ma...
March 01, 2017 at 02:43
Boil the greens until tender.
March 01, 2017 at 02:40
True. So do hills, mountains, tall buildings, and big trees. "A turbine's 116-ft blades atop a 212-ft tower for a total height of 328 feet sweep a ver...
March 01, 2017 at 02:34
The list is too inclusive to differentiate fascism from other kinds of political arrangements. Most of these have existed in most western countries fa...
February 28, 2017 at 23:24
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February 28, 2017 at 19:29
If a simulation is complete, and completely convincing, how could one possibly know that it was a simulation? Likewise with divine creation: How could...
February 28, 2017 at 19:23
There are various technologies that can provide energy and/or liquid fuel: coal made into gasoline; biomass made into gas or liquid; nuclear; solar; w...
February 28, 2017 at 18:29
The BDO is speculative, for sure. But at some point, insufficient agricultural production will result in population reduction. It can't help but reduc...
February 28, 2017 at 14:23
Just as oil is not all equal, coal isn't all equal either. Some coal deposits are better quality than others. Some coal deposits are easier to get at ...
February 28, 2017 at 14:13
I hope we have some sort of future, but... No, not sure.
February 28, 2017 at 14:06
Coal/steam equipment could be made again, but it hasn't been made in around 60-70 years. We'd have to research, retool and rediscover techniques for i...
February 28, 2017 at 14:00
And just how did you get all that plutonium, and what is Australia planning to do with it? Or maybe you have abundant uranium?
February 28, 2017 at 13:56
Huge amounts of stuff to be hauled--for one. Concrete and steel are made with fossil fuel--huge amounts of heat needed to make portland cement and ste...
February 28, 2017 at 13:54
There is little evidence that most of society thinks there is nothing after death. A solid majority in quite a few societies thinks there is something...
February 28, 2017 at 05:35
Right. I don't see the pentagon running big windmills and biomass plants to keep the aircraft carriers going. Kunstler (among others) is very pessimis...
February 27, 2017 at 14:37
Your fable is quite precisely Kunstler's point in The Long Emergency. Our efforts to adapt to the depletion of our oil puddle will be frustrated by th...
February 27, 2017 at 02:26
All fossil fuel has to be extractible at an energy cost substantially less than the energy produced, or it is not worth doing by any measurement. Afte...
February 26, 2017 at 19:20
I agree -- global warming is in progress and it won't be put into reverse any time soon. Global warming is thawing the permafrosted organic matter in ...
February 26, 2017 at 19:08
You may not want to be the first person on Mars, but somebody has to go there to investigate geothermal energy on the Red Planet. You have an interest...
February 26, 2017 at 15:08