Mound of Sound has a post at Disaffected Lib about the likelihood of doubling GHG by 2100. If we don’t do something very quickly and very intentionally, then, based on temperature projections from the 1970s on, we won’t be able to live in this part of the world sixty years
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A Puff of Absurdity: On Chomsky
I think everyone should read Chomsky. He’s brilliant, yet far less dense and inaccessible as some people think. He’s a different person than you or me – well, than me for sure. He has a wealth of knowledge and an astute analysis of events pretty much from the beginning of
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Smoking
I took the kids to the beach on Sunday, and there’s new signage everywhere about the problems with using the sand as an ashtray. In hopes for a “butt-free beach,” they included information on wildlife concerns, toxins, costs to taxpayers, and the level of pollution: cigarette butts are the most
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Can Animals Provoke Action?
Whenever I talk about atrocities around the world in class – slavery, oil spills, and the like, and I get the class to talk about what bothers them most or what most influences them to change, or get them to do a project on it, a good 70% of the
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Faith that the End is Near
In today’s G&M, Jared Bland writes from a perspective I’ve been taking lately as well. “Despite seeming reasonable in other areas of my life, I believe that we are quite likely living in or near the fabled end times….[I]t’s becoming easier and easier to feel that the shadow hanging over
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Worry
There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.” ― Montaigne At first I was worried about normal things. Plane crashes. Theft. Okay, maybe kidnapping and prostitution rings entered my mind a little, but I get carried away sometimes. It’s not that I don’t trust
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Educating the Differently-Abled
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – widely attributed to Albert Einstein but likely in error I love writing essays. Sometimes organizing my thoughts on paper is the only
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Blogger Rights and Responsibilities
I think of myself as a C-list blogger. Sometimes I wander into B-list territory, but I’m largely unseen by the masses. If I make it into the double digits on a post, it’s pretty exciting. I have two posts that made it into triple digits here – largely, I think,
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Monbiot’s Manifesto
A just world is one in which the labour forces of all nations recognize that they can no longer evade their own problems by demanding the explitation of other people. (Manifesto, p. 245) To be truly free…we must be prepared to contemplate revolution. (Manifesto, p. 253) Via The Guardian It’s
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