The rich will make temples for Shiva What should I, a poor man, do My legs are pillars The body the shrine The head the cupola of gold Listen O Lord of the Meeting Rivers Things standing shall fall But the moving ever shall stay Basavanna, 12th century AD Indian philosopher and poet premises of […]
Archives for February 2019
The Nuclear Option Is the Real Green Deal.
Alan Emery has spoken to the CACOR lunnch meetings in Ottawa recently; this appeared in the Wall Street Journal on Feb 25. The Nuclear Option Is the Real Green Deal. A coal plant produces about as much toxic waste in an hour as a nuclear plant produces in a year. John Rie and Alan Emery […]
Life After Warming: Trump’s Climate Denial Isn’t Just a War on Our Coastlines. It’s a War on Our Brains.
By David Wallace-Wells The list of crimes Donald Trump has committed against the planet, in just two years, is already so impeachably long that his slippery-fish climate denial registers as hardly more than a footnote. “I have a natural instinct for science,” the president bragged to the Associated Press Tuesday, a week after the U.N.’s […]
Erik Homburger Erikson
Know yourself – keep knowing yourself – and the rest will come. . Erik Homburger Erikson, German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst
Nuking the Future?
Is Nuclear a Good Solution? The arguments compiled below address both sides of the argument. France is the poster child for successful use. Other nations struggle with the decision of whether to keep older plants, invest in new ones, rehabilitate plants reaching their design age or creating satisfactory means of securing and disposing of waste. […]