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Climate Change, Social Media & Politics
I teach different levels of climate change courses and do my own research on the subject. My semester started at the end of January and I had four senior students who needed to select their own research topics regarding the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, US
Tagged anti-semitic, campaign, censor, censorship, Climate Change, communication, coronavirus, covid, Election, Facebook, internet, Jew, Jewish, Nazi, pandemic, Physics, Policy, political, politics, Social Media, teacher, Teaching
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Peaceful Presidential Transition vs. the Rise of Nazis
I started writing this one day after President Biden and Vice President Harris were inaugurated. Many of us were thoroughly relieved that the event turned out to be a dignified, uneventful transition of power. I wouldn’t quite call it peaceful, … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Biden, Holocaust, Trump, US
Tagged baton, Biden, Climate Change, coronavirus, covid, Genocide, Germany, Global Warming, Great Depression, hate, Hitler, Holocaust, Inauguration, Jew, Jewish, mob, Nazi, pandemic, Power, relay, Russian revolution, self-inflicted, spanish flu, Transition, Treaty of Versailles, Trump, US, Weimar Republic, WWI
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Godwin’s Law and Us
This is a follow up to my “Shame” blog about the president-triggered mob attack on the American government in Washington, DC on January 6th. The attack was one part of a series of efforts to void the November 3rd election … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Holocaust, politics
Tagged antisemitic, antisemitism, attack, Auschwitz, charlottesville, communism, concentration camp, constitution, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, demonstration, Economy, fascism, Georgia, Illinois, January 6, Jew, Jewish, liberty, lockdown, MAGA, mask, mob, Nazi, Nazi Trump Pence flag, pandemic, Pritzger, protest, QAnon, riot, rioter, social distance, swastika, Trump, tyranny, US, Washington DC, white supremacy
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Shame!
My dear friends who now live in Poland sent me the image above. Both are now infected with and trying to recuperate from COVID-19 but they didn’t want my sympathy. They contacted me to say that they felt sorry for … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Election, Holocaust, law, politics, US
Tagged Arizona, Biden, capitol, Congress, coronavirus, coup, COVID 19, Democrat, Election, electoral college, fascism, Government, house of representatives, Mitt Romney, mob, Nazi, Pennsylvania, Poland, Polish, president, protest, Republican, riot, Romney, senate, shame, statue of liberty, Trump, US, vote, voter, Washington DC, WWII
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The Holocaust and Climate Change – Past Meets Future in Hillersleben
I have often reflected here upon my past experiences as a Holocaust survivor and have likened climate change to a self-inflicted genocide. One of my main objectives in this summer’s globetrotting trip was to look at the intersection between my … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Holocaust, Sustainability, Water
Tagged Adaptation, Berlin, Berlin wall, biogas, cemetery, East Germany, Fresh Water, Genocide, Germany, Greta Thunberg, Hillersleben, Holocaust, Jew, Jewish, Magdeburg, Mitigation, Nazi, renewables, Self Inflicted Genocide, Solar, Solar Cells, Solar Energy, solar power, Sustainability, Sustainable, topography of terror, Wastewater, Water, windmill
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D-Day Anniversary: 75 Years Later and What I Mean by Self-Inflicted Genocide
A photo from a meeting of WWII liberators and survivors (I am in the middle of the back row) The 75th anniversary of D-Day was on Thursday. The celebration was not about me. It was about the soldiers that took … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Climate Change, Holocaust, Sustainability, Trump, US
Tagged Adaptation, America, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Bergen-Belsen, Britain, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, D Day, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Farsleben, FDR, free rider, Future, game theory, Genocide, German, Germany, ghetto, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, History, Holocaust, institution, International, Jew, Jewish, liberation, liberator, Magdeburg, Mitigation, Nazi, Normandy, Paris 2015, Paris accord, Paris Agreement, Peace, Poland, Potsdam, Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth, Renewable, renewable energy, Roosevelt, Science, Self Inflicted Genocide, self-inflicted, Solar, survivor, Sustainability, UK, US, Warsaw, Wind, WWII
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Insanity at the Helm: Are We Steering the Wrong Way to the Future?
The last two weeks have seen a great deal of heavy breathing and crying. I summarized much of it in last week’s blog. The climax in this week’s news was probably Thursday’s testimonies of Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine … Continue reading
Posted in administration, politics, Trump, UN
Tagged alliance, ally, America First, Australia, Brett Kavanaugh, Brunei, Canada, carbon dioxide, Charles Lindbergh, Chile, China, Christine Blasey Ford, climate refugee, CO2, denuclearization, Donald Trump, due process, Economics, Energy, energy use, England, environmental refugee, federalist society, France, Future, G-7, GDP, Germany, Global Population, globalization, Human Rights, ICC, immigration, international criminal court, Iran, Japan, John Bolton, justice, Kavanaugh, life expectancy, Lindbergh, MAGA, Malaysia, Mexico, migration, NAFTA, nationalist, Nazi, New Zealand, Nuclear, pandemic, Paris, Paris 2015, Paris accord, Paris Agreement, partnership, patriot, patriotism, Pearl Harbor, Peru, Policy, Population, refugee, Russia, Singapore, sovereign, sovereignty, Supreme Court, TPP, trade, treaty, Trump, UN, UN commission on human rights, unilateral, unilateralist, urbanization, US, Vietnam, War, World Population, WTO, WWII
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Never Again?? Charlottesville, Nazis, the Holocaust, and Climate Change
My original plan was to dedicate this blog, and several following ones, to pornography. Not the kind that you have in mind – this is not that kind of a blog – but the kind that the sociologist Daniel Aldana … Continue reading
Posted in Holocaust, politics
Tagged 30th division, 82nd airborne, alex jones, alt-right, America, American, aryan, Bergen-Belsen, black, Black Lives Matter, charlottesville, confederacy, confederate, daniel aldana cohen, david duke, David Wallace-Wells, demonstration, Donald Trump, doomsday, Genocide, Germany, Heather Heyer, Jew, Jewish, KKK, Magdeburg, march, Nazi, Palestine, Poland, protest, racism, racist, Self Inflicted Genocide, self-inflicted, Social Media, survive, survivor, terror, Terrorism, Theresienstadt, Trump, US, Virginia, vote, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto, white, white lives, white supremacist, white supremacy
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Remedies for Abdication of Duties?
Figure 1 – Trends in global urbanization I am starting to write this blog on Tuesday, June 6th. I am doing this a bit earlier than usual in preparation for a trip that I will be taking in July to … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, law, Sustainability, Trump, UN, UNFCCC
Tagged Adaptation, administration, America, america's pledge, Anthropogenic, Antonio Guterres, auto industry, Bloomberg, bottom-up, British, CA, California, Canada, carbon dioxide, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, ceo, Chicago, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, company, Congress, D Day, D=Day, declare war, Democrat, democratic, Democratization, DNNer, Donald Trump, Economics, electric, electric car, Electricity, emission, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, FDR, federal, Fossil Fuels, GDP, Germany, Global, Global Population, global threat, Global Warming, governance, governing, Government, governor, greenhouse gas, imperial japan, initiative, invade, Japan, Jerry Brown, jobs, judiciary, London, Mexico, Mexico City, Mitigation, moyor, Nazi, New York, nissan, Normandy, North Korea, Nuclear, nuclear weapon, NY, Obama, Paris, Paris Agreement, Patricia Espinosa, Pearl Harbor, politics, Population, Power, Power Plants, president, renault, Republican, rural, Sadiq Kahn, safety, Science, Seoul, Solar Energy, South Korea, sovereign, Sovereign State, Sustainability, Technology, top-down, Trump, UK, UN, UNFCCC, urban, urbanization, US, Virginia, volkswagen, vw, War, we are still in, World Population, WWII
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Me vs. Them vs. We – Nationalism/Populism vs. Globalism
The world is a shaky place right now. The best windows into this instability are countries where citizens can express their feelings in the voting booths. I am not alone in having mentioned repeatedly that the world is now entering … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged America, America First, American, americanism, Anthropocene, city, Climate Change, conservative, country, Donald Trump, era, fascism, fascist, free trade, Global, globalism, globalization, Godwin's Law, governance, governing, Government, Hitler, Homo Deus, immigration, me vs them, me vs them vs we, mtw, nationalism, Nazi, NIMBY, party, Passover, political, politics, populism, Republican, sovereign, State, TED talk, Timeline, Trump, UN, US, Yuval Noach Harari
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