Given that states with strict abortion stances, like Texas, recognize the personhood of a fetus, we seem to have a dilemma of quantum proportions. The situation reeks of Schrödinger’s cat.
Tag: Politics
Life on a Backwater Planet
Like many people on our backwater planet, I have the occasional conversation with God. In my experience, She is always reasonably helpful.
Righting Climate Change
Based on Florida’s recent response to the masking controversy, we can assume the “left-wing stuff” probably includes listening to the advice of scientists and proactively cutting greenhouse emissions.
1963 and 2021: Then and Now
The date was April 16th of 1963, and Martin Luther King, Jr. sent out his now-famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”
The Time for Half-Truths Passed on January 6th
American Sedition goes Mainstream The events of January 6, 2021 laid bare a wound in our democracy as 147 members of Congress openly expressed their tacit support for a movement bent on attacking the constitutional foundations of our country. A mob of thousands descended on the United States Capitol Building with the intent of preventing Read More…
Combating the climate crisis: The Democratic Party Platform
If climate change is important to you, read the party platforms and vote.
The politics of climate change and climate policy
The current debate on climate change is hampered when ideology triumphs over facts.
Science and Environmental Policy
The individual’s power to vote is one of the most potent weapons in the arsenal for creating change.
Greenhouse gas emissions fall: Good news and bad news
Greenhouse gas emission reductions are moving us in the right direction, but they fall short of what is needed
Ignore climate change in decision making; what does this mean?
Recent Trump administration overhauls of guidelines for federal agencies may instruct them to ignore climate change. The context is that these agencies would not have to take climate change into account when defining the impact of major infrastructure projects. The goal is to speed up the approval process for these large projects. Efficiency is a Read More…