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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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..."...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The initial or default answer is "yes, because initially the individual has little choice in the standards received from society." Later, though, as t...
§§§ Kunstler's fiction depicts the worst possible case for resource depletion. It's great post-apocalyptic stuff. But... The Long Emergency's main poi...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Ideology: • a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy: the ideology of republicanis...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The list is too inclusive to differentiate fascism from other kinds of political arrangements. Most of these have existed in most western countries fa...
If a simulation is complete, and completely convincing, how could one possibly know that it was a simulation? Likewise with divine creation: How could...
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...
The BDO is speculative, for sure. But at some point, insufficient agricultural production will result in population reduction. It can't help but reduc...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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