Evolution favors winners. During our evolution people who successfully contended for food, shelter, mates, and other advantages produced more descendants than others. Competitiveness was thus strengthened and became an intrinsic trait of our species. We reinforce this quality today by further rewarding those who successfully compete with money, respect, and fame. Highly skilled athletes, business tycoons, war... Continue Reading →
our world will be very different than it is today…
Imagination There are two ways we learn about the world beyond ourselves. Sensation, which tells us what is happening to or right around ourselves, is far stronger than intellectual perception, which tells us what is happening beyond ourselves. What we see and feel is stronger than what we learn secondhand from outside sources. The more... Continue Reading →
in-stream hydro…
Energy | IN-STREAM HYDRO RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #48 4 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2 $202.5 BILLION NET COST $568.4 BILLION NET SAVINGS Kinetic energy is energy in motion. The world’s waterways brim with it, as gravity draws water across watersheds, through rivulets and creeks, down larger tributaries, and into rivers flowing seaward. For millennia we... Continue Reading →
We have just 12 years to make massive and unprecedented changes to global energy infrastructure to limit global warming to moderate levels, the United Nation’s climate science body said in a monumental new report released Sunday. “There is no documented historic precedent” for the action needed at this moment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) wrote in its... Continue Reading →
Report: we have just 12 years to limit devastating global warming
Time’s up: 3 reasons why gradualism won’t save us Reason 1: The idea of a “safe upper limit” to warming is a myth For years, policymakers considered 2° C of warming over pre-industrial levels the point at which “dangerous” climate change would begin. TLDR: what this really meant was, ‘this is when we think it’ll get... Continue Reading →
3 reasons why gradualism won’t save us
climate victory gardens from green america…
Climate change is the most pressing issue of our time. Carbon dioxide levels have risen above 400ppm and there is an urgent call to sequester carbon and bring that number down to the pre-industrial level of 350ppm. Yet, it often seems like there isn’t much that can be done on an individual level to stop it. Sure,... Continue Reading →