Irresponsibility and global warming

In a Harris Interactive poll for a French TV station, released  on January 5th, 54% of the French and 40% of Britons, Germans and Italians rank global warming among the top two challenges facing the planet that personally affect them.  Only 30% of Americans agree.  When all is said and done, climate change affects everyone …

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I don’t know

The more science is distorted by dishonest governments and by religious medievalists, the more the following needs repeating: .…………….the essence of wisdom is the willingness to say "I don’t know." Why is there something rather than nothing? "I don’t know." Why are the laws of nature what they are? "I don’t know." Why does Bach’s …

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You are a different person than you were when you were young. Literally.

Steve Grand, in his book, Creation: Life and How to Make It, invites his readers to “think of an experience you clearly remember, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you are really there.  After all, you really were there at the time, weren’t you?  How else would you remember it? But …

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Left to the “market”, global warming is likely to cook us all

Only hermits living in caves still deny the reality of climate change and our role in making it worse than it need be. Some smart companies are becoming serious about it, but the short-sighted, short-term money people and the oil companies, the much-admired “market&rdquo, have managed to thwart nearly every attempt at an answer. Turkeys …

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