Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
As the natural resources that the modern world depends on become more and more scarce, countries will more and more resort to openly violent methods to secure access to those resources.
What “necessity” is really driving the autonomous vehicle push?
East Texas farmers and ranchers are finding out to their dismay that water has become a commodity like so many of our daily needs.
It’s not news that many in our culture are violently allergic to the notion of limits (and then we all die of limitations). Maybe fear of death is another key driver for space fantasy, but let’s not get into that just now.
Can China face the challenges awaiting humankind in the near future?
Even with the seeming resolution of the China-US trade war, China is still capable of denying key resources to the world’s electronics manufacturers at any time.
There’s an old saying that I won’t spell out completely, but which most readers will certainly have heard at least once in their lives, to wit: “Don’t sh– where you eat.”
Frustrated environmental advocates sometimes in frustration think that only a dictator can solve our environmental problems. They should think again.
There’s a lot to be determined about the fate of wild places in Georgia… We’re going to continue to stay on [the Okefenokee story] and see what happens next, because I don’t think this is the end of potential mining proposals near the swamp.
Two presidents in a row now have stories swirling about regarding dementia. Not a good prospect for the US dealing with climate issues.
The real question is whether all future modes of human living are fundamentally incompatible with ecological sustainability, and I very much doubt we can make such a strongly definitive statement.
For some time we Americans have been living through the country’s second Gilded Age, one that will not likely end the way the first one did.
