by Geoffrey Chia, a cardiologist in Brisbane, Australia My favourite author, the much loved and much missed American Humanist, dear old departed Kurt Vonnegut, was a masterful practitioner of the poignant and ironic turn of phrase. His essay "Cold Turkey"…
by Emily Stewart For most of us, it's hard to imagine a world and a life without toilet paper. But actually, less than a third of the global population uses toilet paper daily. And as it turns out, foregoing the…
I was interviewed by Rob Daven at Conspiracy HQ a few days ago. The video failed, but the audio worked and is embedded at this link. The interview with me begins at 17:15. The topic: climate chaos. The approach: address…
by Aleigha, college student by day and radical dreamer by night The Dream is dead now. Buried there, somewhere within the parameter of that white picket fence. They came the other day, wielding the news that our dream had grown…
I'm in the nation's heartland deep freeze with my wife and ancient dog. We drove from the mud hut to eastern Nebraska for a brief familial visit. I'm reminded of a previous trip to America's breadbasket. Thoreau's classic words came…
Five years ago I predicted this omnicidal set of living arrangements would be done by the end of this year. In the intervening period, the following individuals have made predictions consistent with complete collapse of the world's industrial economy: James…
Guy McPherson, facilitator Please see original workshop description for details before posting here. This workshop details the process by which motivated reasoning leads to errors in logic. For example, McPherson’s assumption that a finite planet cannot support infinite growth does…