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Posted on December 14, 2018January 15, 2019

Is Environmentalism Only for Rich People?

"The question arises: Is environmentalism a boutique issue, a cause only the well-off can afford to worry about?” The New York Times raises this question in an opinion piece by Neil Gross on Dec 14, 2018. Mr Gross is a sociologist.  His main point in the article above is that "Without addressing inequality, the problem …

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Posted on December 14, 2018January 15, 2019

Yellow Vest Protests in France

Are only the wealthy able to afford environmentalism? If this is true, we will possibly never get global warming or environmental devastation fixed.  And the world will continue to get hotter and hotter and the climate more and more destructive to human  beings. This is true because inequality is now a huge part of life …

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Posted on December 8, 2018January 15, 2019

Inequality is making it hard to fight global warming.

One of the major problems in the world right now is inequality.  The .1% and the 1% and the top 10% now control most of the worlds wealth. Unbelievable as it may seem, the world's eight richest people now have the same wealth as the poorest 50%. In a January 15, 2017 edition The Guardian …

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Posted on December 8, 2018January 15, 2019

The great split may doom us all.

This is a summary of an article by David Roberts called Donald Trump and the Rise of Tribal Epistemology.  The article is on Vox.   The original article is very long.  I hate to say it but it is seven million words long.  It took me a couple of days to read  it.  But still,  I …

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Posted on November 25, 2018January 15, 2019

Why is it so hard to quit coal

Coal is used extensively for electric generation all over the world.  And electricity is one of the main reasons that people's lives are getting better and better all over the developing world, particularly in Asia.  Electricity makes people's lives not just a little better, but much, much better.  And obviously, and for the best of …

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