It's so often the questions we ask that are our biggest 'problems'. That and what contexts we choose to include and exclude. In this case, the chosen context is a mythical world of endless growth. …

Excellent list of things that are not going to happen. About the only point I'd add here is regarding the phraseology "save the planet." It's not about "the planet" - it was never about "the planet." It's about our species, big picture, and about our privileged lives staying pretty much as they are, small picture. "Save the white colonial patriarchal industrial hyper-individualist lifestyle" would be something close to honest. And that's not gonna happen.

Consider the possibility that you and a statistically irrelevant random sample of a few other people not liking the movie doesn't mean it's a "bad movie." A lot of people in our culture won't understand, let alone appreciate, less so like, a movie that breaks so many conventions, tropes, trite…

It's true - whining is not particularly effective, as a personal response to increased anxiety. And, there's other contexts to factor in - what we've done and are doing to ourselves that contributes to increased anxiety (and more serious mental pathologies) quite beyond what an individual can conquer with a…

Who decides what 'gifted' is and who has it? It would be useful to provide context for what is meant by "gifted" here, including who created the definition, and who applies it, where, how, and why. And kids this is done to - meaning, kids who are singled out for…

The magical thinking of the early internet was just that. Projections of hope for change in society onto the new medium. But social patterns didn't change, so neither did how we used the internet. It's the same progression as most all new-at-the-time technology in the history of our industrial world…

Another way to frame our dilemma is that there's no adults in the room. Not in any of the rooms of power anyhow. This assumes a different definition of 'adults' - which has only trivially to do with biological age. Adults take responsibility rather than dodge it. Adults act, guide…

One thing so-called "feasible" climate models have in common is that they assume people in power, and even people in general, will suddenly behave very differently than they have been behaving for centuries, millennia even. They assume this implicitly, by not taking socio-cultural factors into account. These factors may be difficult, if not impossible, to model in any useful way. That's not an excuse to pretend they are not dominant factors.

Election day is nearly upon us — my ballot is already in. In the mail, that is — I live in a state with mail-in voting for all. Before my ballot went in the mail, before it even arrived, the Voters’ Pamphlet arrived. I didn’t crack it open for at…