tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post3821631098155333292..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: An Impassioned Plea to Tear Down the Walls of Inequality from Stephen Hawking.The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-63169650846559118262016-12-02T11:43:32.686-08:002016-12-02T11:43:32.686-08:00And we ignore their blindness, Owen, when we elect...And we ignore their blindness, Owen, when we elect them to high office.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-34184270219074655052016-12-02T11:11:03.696-08:002016-12-02T11:11:03.696-08:00Despite his affliction, he is clear eyed, Mound. A...Despite his affliction, he is clear eyed, Mound. And the so called unafflicted are profoundly blind.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-33258361931632113222016-12-02T09:01:00.162-08:002016-12-02T09:01:00.162-08:00I steer clear of Guy McPherson as much as possible...I steer clear of Guy McPherson as much as possible. The first page of his website has a link to some suicide prevention site. It really is that depressing.<br /><br />Jared Diamond discusses the mental game that occurs in crises in his book, "Collapse: how societies choose to succeed or fail." In most cases, he argues, failed societies have chosen their fate aware of what awaits. They either learn to live with their affliction or resort to psychological sleight of hand to put it out of their consciousness. I suspect our approach to carbon energy may fall into this pattern. We are choosing our fate.<br /><br />All sorts of climate scientists have declared an "emergency" in the Arctic due to two consecutive years of dark winter heatwaves and yet that sort of thing never surfaces in our government's deliberations and planning.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-19505712423077755022016-12-02T07:51:21.625-08:002016-12-02T07:51:21.625-08:00Chat on the phone with loving son last eve, talked...Chat on the phone with loving son last eve, talked about Guy McPherson, sort of an extension of the Paul Beckwith material posted on this blog, but intimating consequences even more immediate and dire. Perhaps Guy and Paul and others are reading the tea leaves a little harshly, but the whole idea that we can just bluff our way through these crises is the modus of mental midgets, blinded by selfishness and protection of privilege. Oddly, just read a blurb about Michael Lewis' latest book about how people trust their own intuition in the face of all manner of aligned factual data, generally with poor outcomes. It would appear that we've got a bunch of people enacting the same folly in the corridors of power all over the world.Danneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16129916194006552602noreply@blogger.com