Humor

This cartoon from this week's New Yorker looks like it's riffing on our time's situation. I get the humor it's presenting, but for it to be funny and for me to laugh, we have to accept that things just are the way they are. To me, to laugh at it would be like to laugh if during Apartheid they said: "Heads Mandela goes to prison, tails the government cracks down harder on protests" or if before the Montgomery bus boycott they said "Heads Rosa Parks gets sent to the back of the bus, tails poll taxes deprive citizens of the right to vote" Instead of accepting things, watching them deteriorate, I've developed strategies to restore health, security, safety, freedom, and liberty and they work. They…

I'm continually trying to understand different people's views on population. I see people agreeing on its importance regarding sustainability and even existence, but disagreeing on how to view it or respond to it. The other day I posted Our environment is getting biblical about how we're causing fire and brimstone to rain down from the skies and other situations like in the Bible. I thought about another biblical passage. When Genesis says (similar quotes show up throughout the bible) I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. I'm pretty sure it didn't mean to have that many offspring living at once. If you made one person for every grain of…

I pick up a lot of litter these days. The stuff I pick up, I usually carry to a trash can and put it in. Some of the main producers I see are McDonald's, Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, pizza shops, other cafes, and other doof stores. Starbucks garbage: it's what they make When we know the source of the garbage, what do you think about putting the waste back into the place it came from? For example, if I see a Dunkin Donuts plastic cup on the ground by a Dunkin Donuts, what do you think about opening the door to the place and putting the cup on the floor inside the door, or maybe on a table? They profited from selling something they knew would…

Digital communications where we're all connected all the time mean: There are a million ways to connect---and they all break.When meeting in person, everyone arrives a few minutes late because they can text a few minutes before to say so.Ironically, for meeting online or for phone calls, everyone arrives on time. Communications aren't like the old days

Have you heard the retort that the solution to climate change is more babies? Search and you'll find many people, generally US conservatives, repeating it. Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, said: Climate change is an engineering problem — not social engineering, but the real kind. It's a challenge of creativity, ingenuity, and technological invention. And problems of human imagination are not solved by more laws, but by more humans! He apparently learned this solution from a columnist Tyler Cohen, who wrote: To put those worries out of mind, ask yourself a simple question: Is the remedy for climate change, to the extent we find one, more likely to come from North America or New Zealand? Obviously, the wealthier and more populous America is a…