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Wordless Wednesday – what are we doing to our planet? | Jan 22/20
Image credit: ARCADIO ESQUIVEL / Cagle Cartoons
Posted in climate change, Wordless Wednesday
Tagged climate change, Climate crisis, rising seas
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Kindness, compassion, and post-truth
My philosophy discussion group is “studying” Post-Truth this term. More often than not we’re exploring a philosophical topic where the ideas are so challenging (along with the writing) that we spend ages trying to make heads or tails of what … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, History and Politics
Tagged advertising, alternative facts, climate change, compassion, facts, immigrants, immigration, kindness, philosophy, post-truth, psychology, science
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How can climate change not be the main goal of all countries in 2020? Canada?!
Australia is burning. California’s been burning. British Columbia’s been burning. Portugal’s been burning. This summer, the Arctic broke records for wildfires in Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and Siberia. In the Arctic! We’ve seen storms more volatile and ferocious than ever before, … Continue reading
What the Bushmen of the Kalahari can teach us
Who would have thought that the longest “serving” hunter-gatherers on our planet, the San people of southern Africa, more commonly referred to as Bushmen, would have some important reminders for the rest of us. But a Christmas book I just … Continue reading
Posted in Farming, History and Politics, Just wondering
Tagged Affluence without Abundance, botswana, Bushmen, climate change, egalitarian, hunter-gatherers, hunting, inequality, James Suzman, Kalahari, Namibia, patriarchy, people, resilience, San, social conventions, southern Africa, stress, wants versus needs, work versus leisure
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Fire and Ice
When American poet Robert Frost first published his famous poem, Fire and Ice, in 1920, he was thinking of mankind’s capacity for destruction, but certainly not through man-made climate change. He wrote this poem 100 years ago; he could not … Continue reading
Posted in climate change
Tagged Australian bushfires, climate change, eve of destruction, Fire and Ice, polar bears, Robert Frost
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What are we doing to our planet? Merry Christmas | Dec 25/19
A drawing by singer Annie Lennox, chosen by Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon for her Christmas card image, reminding us of the perils and seriousness of climate change. What a wonderful choice. Merry Christmas and happy holidays, everyone! May you … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, Wordless Wednesday
Tagged Annie Lennox, Christmas greeting, climate change, inspiring, Nicola Sturgeon, polar bear
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