Tag: environmental

  • The Crisis That Few of Us Know About

    The Crisis That Few of Us Know About

    We are running out of the second most consumed resource on the planet.

  • The Sun Will Still Rise When the World Ends

    It baffles me that wanting to save the planet is even the slightest bit controversial. What are the down sides to it? It may take time and money, yes, but those are things we won’t have anyway, if we continue to destroy the environment. It seems that the most primal motivator for humanity is, unfortunately,…

  • The New Dark Ages?

    Back in 2013 I wrote a post entitled, “When Did ‘Intellectual’ Become a Dirty Word?” Little did I know at the time that that was just the tip of a very ignorant iceberg. I am beginning to look at 2013 as the halcyon days. Imagine that. Ironically, I started that post by saying, “I really…

  • What’s Your Water Mark?

    I came across some disturbing statistics on the National Geographic website just now. It takes 37 gallons of water to produce the average cup of coffee. Think of that next time, and every time, you drink one. If we each drank a cup of coffee each morning, it would use up 32 trillion gallons of…