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Marco Rubio Is Not Outraged “Over A Dead Lion”
Marco Rubio signals that he’s anti-environmentalist and anti-feminist in the same (poorly worded and incorrectly punctuated) tweet: “Look at all this outrage over a dead lion, but where is all the outrage over the planned parenthood dead babies.” Rubio Tweet … Continue reading
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Tagged ecology, environmentalism, feminism, lions, Marco Rubio, Politics
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God is Dead, the Earth is Not Our Mother, and We are Alone?
Dr. Peter Ward, a paleontologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, is an atheist and prolific author (he’s written about a dozen books over his career). He’s also a skeptic concerning two things that a lot of secular people (including … Continue reading
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Tagged ecology, environmentalism, evolution, Gaia hypothesis, peter ward, SETI
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Bill Nye on Climate Change
Clear as a bell. Deserves to go viral.
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Tagged climate change, ecology, environment, environmentalism, global warming
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What’s the Difference Between an Environmentalist and a Free Market Conservative?
Actually, not that much. Both are children of the Romantic tradition, but whereas one is enamored of nature, the other is enamored of capitalism. One posits leaving nature (with its natural selections) alone; the other posits leaving the market (with … Continue reading
Global Warming: Peter Ward on Hydrogen Sulfide’s Role in Mass Extinctions
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Tagged biology, environment, environmentalism, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gas, mass extinctions, peter ward, science
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Thoreau 2.1: Jay Shafer’s 100 Sq. Ft. Home
I find Jay Shafer’s Thoreau-like experiment elegant and inspiring. Who needs a mortgage if you have creativity?
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Tagged architecture, creativity, design, ecology, environmentalism, Henry David Thoreau, homes, hope, jay shafer, life, simplicity
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Birds and Wind Turbines
Last year, a friend of mine who bird watches noticed that I had promoted wind farms on my blog. He subsequently informed me that wind farms are not an environmentally uncomplicated form of energy. Each year approximately 40,000 birds die … Continue reading
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Tagged bird watching, birds, ecology, endangered species, energy, environmentalism, Greenpeace, life, oil, solar, wind farms, windmills
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Gap gods and pot holes: are Richard Dawkins’s materialist atheism and Rush Limbaugh’s anti-environmentalism akin to one another?
Why are so many people resistant to Richard Dawkins’s totally materialist explanation of the universe (that is, atoms and void are all that really exist, and they are eternal or came into existence out of nothing)? And it occurred to me this morning that … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, atheist, environmentalism, evolution, God, John Gray, joseph campbell, Richard Dawkins, rush limbaugh
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Avatar is about knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing
I finally got around to seeing Avatar this weekend, and while I thought the movie started rather slow, it grew on me. I liked it philosophically: it’s about knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing. And I liked the political subtext: … Continue reading
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Tagged avatar, colonialism, empire, environmentalism, film, imperialism, native american, war
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Stone the Whales? A Reflection on Fairness in Critical Thinking
Atheist biologist Jerry Coyne, at his blog, gave the following title to one of his recent posts: Christians want orca stoned to death In the post, Jerry Coyne breathlessly announced: The Rightly Concerned website, an arm of the religious, right-wing … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, atheist, capital punishment, death by stoning, environmentalism, God, jerry coyne, Jesus, religion, science, whales
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A Metaphor for Global Warming Hysteria—or the Real World Failure of Copenhagen?
My kids think this iCarly mini-disaster movie trailer is funny, but with Copenhagen’s global climate talks failing this weekend, it seems to have an unpleasant saliency. Silly climate scientists! Prophets of doom and gloom! They sure are funny, aren’t they? Aren’t they?
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Tagged apocalypse, climate science, disaster films, ecology, environmentalism, global warming, iCarly, prophecies, science, weather
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T. Boone Pickens Scraps Plans for the World’s Largest Wind Farm
The wind farm would have been in Texas, but transmission problems (getting the energy from the plains to where people live) seem to have been an insurmountable barrier to bringing Pickens’s ambitions to fruition. Apparently financing wasn’t going well either. Sad. … Continue reading
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Tagged electricity, energy, energy independence, environment, environmentalism, oil, oil dependency, solar, T. Boone Pickens, wind, wind farms
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The White Roof Movement
My wife and I are seriously thinking about getting the roof of our house painted white (for energy efficiency and environmental reasons). And today the New York Times has an article on the “White Roof Movement.” Money quote: Studies show that white … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, cooling, ecology, electricity, energy, energy saving, environment, environmentalism, greenhouse effect, white roof, white roof movement
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Most Professional Contributors to TheOilDrum.com Think the World Reached PEAK OIL in 2008
The very smart collection of professional energy watchers at TheOilDrum.com have arrived at something pretty close to a consensus: Oil “peaked” in 2008. Here’s the chart they present: And here’s what they say: As everyone knows, there is never a post on … Continue reading
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Tagged America, ecology, economy, environment, environmentalism, gasoline, gasoline prices, global warming, oil, Peak Oil, science
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Timber Butte Homestead: An Evangelical Pastor Experiments with Ecological Living in Idaho
Tri Robinson is the pastor of a charismatic, evangelical Christian church in Idaho, and he’s also a SERIOUS environmentalist, and has even written a book on the subject of whether a conservative Christian can also be an eco-activist. (His answer: … Continue reading
Prometheus Unbound 