Friday, January 10, 2025

On track for extinction: Can humanity survive?

Unless we include addressing this dysfunctional individual and collective psychological state in our strategy to avert human extinction, we will ultimately fail and extinction will indeed be our fate.

The real left, phony left and what’s left

Ok, now as to the title of this column, what's left on the Amerikan plate?

Norvergence: Psychosocial and mental health impacts of climate change

“In the tech-saturated world, climate change is the biggest global threat (both physically and mentally).” Most articles or blog...

2 or 3 things I know about Capitalism (with apologies to Jean-Luc Godard)

We either struggle and strive, by and any and all means, to end the system -- or it will end us.

Whatcha Gonna Do About Me?

“What’s it going to take for folks to get off their duffs and onto the street corners? What I am suggesting is not revolution, rather evolution.”

Two other pandemics: The lemming and apathy viruses

Viruses like this Corona Virus can kill. Yet, in the world of politics there have been, for a long time now, those two other ones: The Lemming Virus and the Apathy virus. They only kill what is left of our Republican Democracy... which is not much at all!

Why vegans should focus on farmworkers’ rights

The harsh reality is that, in the realm of factory farming, workers are mistreated nearly as often as their animal counterparts.

The military cost of protecting oil with a case study of Iraq invasion

The primary motive of the war is to control Iraqi’s oil production to sustain the global oil flows and to keep a check on prices.

Exposing the giants: The global power elite

If we cannot persuade the global power elite to respond sensibly to that predicament, or nonviolently compel it to do so, humanity’s time on Earth is indeed limited.

Economics 101 and robotics

Regardless of how our society develops, the important thing is for all of us to care for those who are living.