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Tag Archives: WWII
Looking at the Future Through Coronavirus-Infected Eyes
The iconic MAGA hat exemplifies the Trump administration’s unilateralist “America First” philosophy, to the detriment of global welfare I am starting to write this blog on Thursday, August 6th. The coronavirus situation is currently: Globally: around 19 million cases, more … Continue reading
Posted in administration, coronavirus
Tagged Adaptation, administration, America First, arms control, atom bomb, atomic bomb, atomic weapon, blackboard, Brooklyn College, cases, Climate Change, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, CUNY, death, distanced learning, Donald Trump, Future, google meet, Health, Hiroshima, immigration, Japan, John Bolton, lockdown, MAGA, Mitigation, Nagasaki, New York, nuclear war, NYC, pandemic, Paris Agreement, president trump, social distancing, treaty, Trump, unilateral, unilateralist, WHO, WWII, zoom, zosia samosia
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We Stand Together (Separately)
January 27th, the first day of classes at Brooklyn College, also happened to be International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It was also near the start of the COVID-19 epidemic in the United States—a few days after the first positive diagnosis outside … Continue reading
Posted in Holocaust
Tagged 30th division, Brooklyn College, China, coronavirus, COVID 19, CUNY, epidemic, Farsleben, Gal Gadot, Germany, History, Holocaust, imagine, Jew, Jewish, John Lennon, liberation, Magdeburg, pandemic, Poland, Scranton, teen symposium, US, WHO, WWII
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Around the World in 5 Weeks: Three Weddings, Climate Change, and the Holocaust
Travel My wife joined me on a whirlwind trip from New York City to Brisbane and Melbourne, Australia to Dubai, UAE to Paris, France to The Hague, Netherlands to Farsleben and Berlin, Germany to Krakow, Poland. We returned a few … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Holocaust, Sustainability
Tagged airplane, Anthropogenic, Australia, Berlin, Brisbane, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, contribution, D Day, Dubai, Emissions, Farsleben, flight, fossil fuel, France, fuel economy, fuel efficiency, Germany, Greta Thunberg, human contribution, invasion, Krakow, Melbourne, Mitigation, Netherlands, New York City, NYC, Paris, plane, Poland, Science, Sustainability, The Hague, travel, UAE, Vacation, Warsaw, WWII
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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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Two Anthropocenes
The alarming tone of the new IPCC report caught the immediate attention of the world’s media and triggered a quick dismissal from the president of the United States. The report, which spans about 1,300 pages, covers all the indicators that … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC
Tagged 1945, Anthropocene, Anthropocene Working Group, Anthropogenic, AWG, boundary concept, Carbon, carbon dioxide, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, decarbonize, Earth, energy industry, energy supply, energy transition, Environment, environmental, epoch, extinction, Future, geological age, geology, Global Warming, green energy, greenhouse gas, holocene, human contribution, indicator, Industrial Revolution, inhabitable, IPCC, NOAA, Nuclear, nuclear waste, nuclear weapon, Paris, Paris accord, Paris Agreement, Physical Environment, pliocene, radionuclide, Report, Science, Temperature, time scale, UN, UNFCCC, uninhabitable, US, 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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“Natural” or “Anthropogenic”? – Climate Change
Last week’s blog looked at various methods of distinguishing “natural” vs. “artificial” vanilla. I used this as a jumping off point to facilitate answering the much more important question of how we distinguish anthropogenic climate change from “natural” climate change … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability
Tagged antarctic ice, Antarctica, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, artificial, Atmosphere, biomass, Bomb, C13, C14, carbon dioxide, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Sensitivity, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, denier, Edward Teller, emission, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Equilibrium, fake news, Fossil Fuels, Future, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, hydrogen bomb, IPCC, man made, Mauna Loa, natural, Oil, outgassing, Physical Environment, Power, Power Plants, radiation, Science, Skeptical Science, spectroscopy, Sustainability, Technology, Temperature, Tom Curtis, tree, tree rings, vanilla, Volcano, WWII
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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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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 … 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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Immigration: My Migration History
This is what remained of my family’s house in Warsaw after WWII. There is no longer any trace of it. I gave a brief summation of my early life when I wrote my first blog (April 22, 2012). I was … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, immigration
Tagged Adaptation, Afghanistan, Bergen-Belsen, Brooklyn College, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Change Fork, Climate Skeptics, concentration camp, conflict, CUNY, displace, displaced, displacement, Education, emigrant, emigrate, emigration, Environment, Genocide, German, Germany, ghetto, Global Warming, Hebrew, Hebrew University, Hillersleben, History, Holocaust, immigrant, immigration, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jew, Jewish, Jewish Agency, Jordan, Lebanon, Magdeburg, Mercy Corps, migrant, migration, Mitigation, Nazi, Of Bombs and Mice, Palestine, Physics, Poland, prisoner, professor, refugee, Sofia Ahsanuddin, Sustainability, Syria, Theresienstadt, Turkey, US, Warsaw, WWII, Yemen
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