Bill Cosby and Jimmy Kimmel Foreshadow the End of Civilization Through the Culture of Humiliation
I should be used to it by now, but I remain irritated by news media attention given to celebrity antics which takes attention away from the vital issues of our time. Their abusive behavior (real or alleged) makes for popular copy. For example, comedian Jimmy Kimmel...
John Muir Skewered at Institute of Environment and Sustainability as Neoliberalism Chalks Up Another Victory
Los Angeles Times reporter Louis Sahagun posted at article dated November 13, 2014, “John Muir’s legacy questioned as centennial of his death nears.” Mr. Sahagun quoted several scholars. Historian Jon Christensen concluded that the Muir legacy is not useful....
Global Warming Claims Another Victim: Mt. Everest
If the elevation of a mountain is determined by measuring from sea level, and then sea level rises, has the mountain become shorter? Example of things going wrong: Peruvian Glaciers melting due to global heating. Example of things going right: U.S. Finds One Place Not...
Mid-term Election Scoreboard: Republicans Won, Environment Nothing
{Abandoned vehicle, representative of the Environmental Movement at bottom of cliff, late afternoon, New Mexico, dlw photo}
Climate Change Report’s Dire Warning. No Southern Senator’s Quoted As Saying…
“We’re all going to die.” But one of them might want to do so after reading the Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). The summary of the full report takes up a 40 page PDF document, issued Nov. 1st, 2014. Data analysis is punctuated...
We Are Nature…
…in an often beautiful but sometimes insidious form. Although our behavior is studied through sociology and anthropology, our behavior is part of natural history (even when abhorrent). Greed, in its incarnation of corruption, is a kind of aberrant nature phenomenon....
ISIS Terrorists Crawling Out of the Woodwork. Southern Senator claims: “We’re all going to die!”
Waving its ominous black flag of conquest, the international Isia isabella network is on the move. Seeking, if not world domination, then at least a sheltered place to hold up for the winter, expect these sleeper cells to re-emerge in great numbers next spring....
Bolivia Pokes it Finger into the Eye of Multinationals
U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (served on the Court 1939-1975) had the audacity to suggest that wild nature could have legal rights. A lifelong outdoorsman, this made sense to him; in the age of corporate-friendly U.S. Presidents (Republican and...
That bastion of the American Left, the Department of Defense…
…has reaffirmed its concerns about climate change as a threat to national security. First put forward as part of its 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, this year, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (the first former enlisted man to head this department) listed several...
All reactionaries are unhappy…
…but each is unhappy in his own way. The source of their unhappiness is a wedding of psyche to stasis, desperation to stick to the old ways: racial purity, domination of women, fundamentalist religious fantasy, sexual bigotry, authoritarian lust. I am not...