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Tag Archives: Government
Back to Psychology: Self-Serving Bias
Alan Greenspan has been reflecting on the meaning behind Trump’s win and the Brexit vote: The rise of “economic populism” around the world has come from years of low growth that have “seriously impaired” the global economy, former Fed Chairman … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Election
Tagged #MakeAmericaGreatAgain, Adaptation, America, Anthropogenic, bias, BREXIT, Capitalism, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, communism, cry of pain, Donald Trump, economic populism, Economics, Economy, Education, esteem, fact, failure, Global Warming, governance, Government, Greenspan, Mitigation, pain, political psychology, politician, politics, populism, psychology, Science, self, self-esteem, self-serving, socialism, success, Sustainability, Trump, US
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Stabilization of Additional Indicators
We have spent the last two weeks examining how to stabilize our main socioeconomic indicators in order to achieve a long-term sustainable existence. Since climate change is one of the main early signs of the emerging human-dominated geological era (Anthropocene), … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education, immigration, IPCC, Sustainability, UN, UNFCCC
Tagged Adaptation, Affluence, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Bangladesh, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Democratization, Desalination, economic, Economic Growth, Economics, Education, Election, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy source, energy transition, energy use, Environment, equality, Fossil Fuels, GDP, GDP per capita, Global Population, Global Warming, governance, Government, gravity, greenhouse gas, hunger, immigrant, immigration, India, indicator, influence, Infrastructure, IPAT, IPCC, Japan, migrant, migration, Mitigation, Physical Environment, Physics, politics, Population, Poverty, Power, refugee, rural, Science, sea level, security, socioeconomic, Solar Energy, Stabilization, Stabilizing, Sustainability, Sustainable, sustainable development, Technology, Temperature, UN, urban, US, Water, Water Scarcity, Water Stress, watercycle, Wealth, wealth distribution, World Bank, World Population
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The Sun as an Example of Stability Through Balance of Forces
I am posting this on Election Day; I have no idea as to how the vote will pan out but I think all of us can agree that the results will be highly consequential. With this much at stake, any … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged angular momentum, Balance, big bang, black hole, candidate, chemistry, dead star, Election, election day, Equilibrium, force, Government, gravity, helium, hydrogen, hydrogen bomb, hydrostatic, hydrostatic equilibrium, linear momentum, momentum, nuclear fusion, Physics, pressure, protostar, red giant, rotation, satellite, Science, solar system, stability, stable, star, star birth, star stuff, sun, vote, white dwarf
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Election: Clustering
By the time this blog goes up, we will be exactly one week from the election. Most of us will be greatly relieved (almost independent of the results) when this presidential campaign is over. This was probably the most disturbing … Continue reading
Posted in Election
Tagged baby boomer, Bill Bishop, California, campaign, census, Class, climate, Clinton, cluster, conservative, constitution, democracy, Democrat, Donald Trump, Education, Election, elector, electoral college, Florida, founding fathers, GDP, geography, gerrymandering, governance, governing, Government, Hamilton, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, hipster, house, housing, Iowa, liberal, Massachussetts, migration, millenial, move, New York, North Dakota, Obama, political, politics, poll, Population, president, Putin, Republican, Russia, Science, segregate, segregation, senate, Sustainability, Tax, Texas, Trump, US, vote, voter, Voting, Wikileaks, World Population
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Fear
“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny” -Thomas Jefferson This election, as characterized by the media, is dominated by fear: The vast majority of Americans say they are afraid … Continue reading
Posted in Election
Tagged Adolf Hitler, afraid, alcohol, Angus Deaton, Anne Case, candidate, change, choice, Clinton, Collective Suicide, demagogue, democracy, despair, desperate, desperation, Donald, Donald Trump, drugs, educated, Education, Election, emigrant, emigrants, fear, France, Genocide, Germany, Government, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Hitler, Holland, Holocaust, Hungary, immigrant, immigrants, Jew, Jewish, Jews, Kentucky, lack of education, liberty, massacre, mortality, mortality rate, Nazi, Nuclear, nuclear weapons, panic, Philippines, political, politician, politics, poor education, poorly educated, president, presidential campaign, presidential election, qualification, qualified, qualify, refugee, refugees, scare, scared, slaughter, stereotype, suicide, terror, Thomas Jefferson, Trump, US, vote, voter, white house, WWI, WWII
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How to Influence Polls and Win Elections
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato Clinton is well ahead at the polls. Common opinion two weeks ago (August 9, 2016), was that convention bounces were … Continue reading
Posted in Election
Tagged active, America, Arizona, Bernie, Bernie Sanders, candidacy, candidate, Candidates, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Clinton, constituent, credential, DC, Democrat, disorder, Donald Trump, early election, early voting, elect, Election, election day, eligible, Environment, experience, favorable, FiveThirtyEight, foreign policy, Fremont, Gary Johnson, Gender, Global Warming, govern, Government, governor, groundwork, Hillary Clinton, honesty, house, independent, Iowa, Iraq, Jill Stein, lie, likeable, Marist, McClatchey, methodology, metric, metrics, Minnesota, negative, neutral, Nuclear, nuclear weapons, Obama, Ohio, Olympics, outreach, party, party line, passive, Plato, Policy, political, political party, politics, poll, polls, pollster, positive, president, President Obama, presidential campaign, presidential election, psychology, qualification, quantify, quantity, register, registered, registered voter, relatability, Republican, rig, rigged, Science, senate, South Dakota, split-ticket, Sustainability, swing state, Technology, third party, Trump, trust, truth, unfavorable, US, vote, voter, Washington DC, World Population
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Immigration: IPAT
Noah Smith wrote an article in Bloomberg about how to convince the Japanese to have more kids: Japan would like to stabilize its rapidly aging population, and there are really only two ways to do that. It can let in … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability
Tagged Abortion, Adaptation, adult, Affluence, Anthropocene, carbon dioxide, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, child, China, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Contraception, developed countries, Developing Countries, Economics, Economy, Education, elderly, emigrant, Emissions, Energy, Environment, Fertility, Fertility Rate, Fertility Replacement Rate, Fossil Fuels, GDP, Global Population, Global Warming, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, identity, immigrant, immigration, impact, India, indicator, individual, IPAT, IPCC, Japan, labor force, migration, Mitigation, one child, One-Child Policy, Population, Romania, Romney, social security, Sustainability, Technology, US, World Population
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Educating for the Anthropocene: The Global Picture
Just as the Anthropocene is global, so its governance must be as well. Of course, this is easier said than done; countries are the only sovereign entities we have, meaning that any such global governance can only be attained through … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, assessment, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, common core, country, Democratization, Economics, Education, education index, EI, Emissions, Energy, England, Environment, EYS, France, Global Population, Global Warming, governance, Government, Hong Kong, immigration, index, India, Indonesia, international ranking, Israel, Japan, Macao, Malta, migration, Mitigation, MYS, Nigeria, OECD, Pakistan, PISA, Poland, Policy, poll, Population, rank, refugee, Russia, School, schooling, Science, security, Shanghai, Singapore, survey, Sustainability, Syria, Taipei, teacher, Teaching, Technology, TERCE, test, TIMSS, US, World Population
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Educating for the Anthropocene: the Local View
The Anthropocene (April 26, 2016 blog) is a proposed epoch beginning when human activities started to have a significant global impact on Earth’s geology and ecosystems. Regardless of what we call our time period, if we want to successfully manage … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Bilingual, bilingualism, Brooklyn College, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, college, common core, CUNY, decision, Democratization, ecology, Economics, ecosystem, Education, educational, employment, Environment, environmental studies, Fossil Fuels, gen ed, general education, geology, Global, Global Population, Global Warming, globalization, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, initiative, institution, Interdisciplinary, job, K-12, literacy, major, Military, Mitigation, pew, pew research, Physical Environment, Policy, poll, Population, prerequisite, quantitative, quantitative reasoning, Science, scientist, skill, skillset, Social Science, standards, statistic, Sustainability, Technology, training, Transition, UN, university, US, vote, Voting, World Population
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The Politics of the Anthropocene Part 1: The Triggers.
Last week I listed three articles that prompted me to shift my focus from the ongoing 2016 presidential campaigns to the more abstract aspects of politicizing the Anthropocene, but I did not have time to speak about the articles in … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, anti-science, Bernie Sanders, bias, binary, campaign, candidate, center, Chernobyl, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, conservative, Donald Trump, Economics, Election, Emissions, Energy, Environment, environmental, Fossil Fuels, Fukushima, G.O.P, GDP, Gender, Global Population, Global Warming, GOP, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, law, liberal, Mitigation, Nuclear, Nuclear Energy, nuclear power, pew, Physics, political, politician, politics, poll, Power Plants, president, progressive, regulation, Science, single story, Sustainability, Technology, TED, US, World Population
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