Consumption counts for nothing?

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Today my current RSS reader of choice alerted me to an article at one of my favorite publications, the Christian Science Monitor. The title of the article says it all:
“Top five greenest nations on the planet.”
Naturally, whenever you read something like that, your bullshit detector should be beeping and flashing, because apart from the [...]

Too Many People

Friday, January 6th, 2006

This BBC article gives some sense of reassurance to someone like me who is constantly frustrated by people’s desire to see what they want instead of what is right in front of them.
Paraphrasing Aldous Huxley: “facts do not cease to exist because we ignore them”.
The environment is obviously a tremendously important topic for human beings, [...]