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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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Perspectives
I had lunch the other day with a classics professor friend. He made a comment that in one of his classes, a student drew a parallel between the geographic pattern of the recent voting in the US and the differences … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Election, IPCC, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, Agriculture, America, America First, American Physical Society, art, Athens, backup, budget, budget cut, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, code, code for science and society, commerce, Congress, dark data, Data, data backup, defense, discretionary fund, DNNer, Donald Trump, eco, eco-friendly, Economics, Education, Election, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, EPA, fact, Fossil Fuels, GDP, geography, Global Warming, Greece, greenhouse gas, Health, History, Holocaust, homeland security, humanities, Israel, justice, Kim Jong Un, Labor, Mick Mulvaney, Military, Mitigation, national endowment, Nazi, NOAA, North Korea, Nuclear, Obama, Physics, politics, Power, priority, public broadcasting, renewable energy, Rex Tillerson, save data, Science, security, software, Sparta, Sustainability, Technology, testosterone, transportation, Trump, trump tower, truth, US, veteran, vote, voter, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto
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Impact Assessment: Self-Inflicted Genocide and the Toronto Principle
In the beginning of November I got an email from a student at the University of Pennsylvania that said the following: My name is Richard Ling, a student at the University of Pennsylvania and member of the Fossil Free Penn … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, assessment, Climate Change, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropogenic, assessment, Benjamin Franta, boycott, Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax, Christmas, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, Democratization, divest, divestment, DNNer, Economics, Education, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Exxon, ExxonMobil, fossil free, fossil fuel, Fossil Fuels, Genocide, Global Warming, Godwin's Law, greenhouse gas, Gypsies, Hanukkah, Harvard, Heartland, holiday, Holocaust, Investment, Jew, Jewish, Lemkin, Metro, Mitigation, moral, moral evil, Nazi, New Year, Nuremberg, Oil, Oil Companies, Paris, Paris Agreement, Pennsylvania, Philippe Sands, Physics, Poles, Polish, Population, Power, Power Plants, Race, Raphael Lemkin, religion, Rex Tillerson, Rockefeller, Roma, Science, Self Inflicted Genocide, shareholder, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Technology, Toronto, US
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The Dangers of Apathy
1938 Interior of Berlin synagogue after Kristallnacht I am starting to write this blog on Thursday, November 10th. Today is a commemoration of Kristallnacht (November 9 – 10, 1938), the infamous night of violence that preceded the Nazi atrocities during … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Election
Tagged Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, anti-immigrant, apathy, Berlin, business as usual, campaign, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Clinton, Congress, Democrat, democratic, Democratization, DGAD, Donald Trump, Economics, Education, Election, electoral college, electoral system, electoral vote, Environment, Florida, Fossil Fuels, Genocide, Gore, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Hitler, Holocaust, individual vote, Kennedy, Kristallnacht, Mitigation, nationalist, Nazi, Netanyahu, Nixon, non-voter, nonvoter, Nuremburg, Pennsylvania, political, politics, poll, popular vote, Raphael Lemkin, Republican, Science, suicide, Supreme Court, Trump, US, Violence, vote, voter, Voting, xenophobe, xenophobia, xenophobic
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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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My Global Family Vacation Part 4: Malta
Figure 1 (from August 2 blog) Figure 2 – Map of Malta Figure 1 from my August 2nd blog shows my summer vacation route. Malta is a tiny dot on that map but I felt it necessary to show … Continue reading
Posted in immigration
Tagged aditus, Adrian Brody, Africa, Algeria, app, archaeology, asylum, Australia, Austria, Austrian, Christian, Democratization, detention, discrimination, doctors without borders, Economics, EFUS, emigrant, emigration, Environment, EU, Eurodac, Family, family story, Frontex, Game of Thrones, ghetto, Global Population, Gozo, History, Hitler, Holocaust, Human Rights, immigrant, immigration, Israel, Italy, Jewish, Joseph Muscat, Libya, Malta, Maltese, Mediterranean, migration, Nazi, Nazis, Palestine, Pianist, Poland, Polish, Population, refugee, refugee camp, refugee center, refugees, Roman Polanski, safety, Safi, Sustainability, Szpilman, tapestry, Tourism, tourist, UN, UNESCO, UNHCR, Vacation, Warsaw, Wladislaw Szpilman, World Population, xenophobia, xenophobic
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My Global Family Vacation Part 2: England and Brexit
Family grave in Golders Green Jewish Cemetery I’m going to try to connect my personal history (August 2) and the pieces of my family history that I gleaned from my recent travels with the global refugee issues. Above is my … Continue reading
Posted in Election, immigration
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, anti-immigrant, Asia, Baltic, Boris Johnson, BREXIT, Britain, bureaucracy, Canada, Civil War, communication, Cyprus, David Cameron, David Davis, deadline, demagogue, democracy, Denmark, direct democracy, discrimination, Donald Trump, Economics, Economy, Election, emigrant, emigration, England, EU, Europe, exit, Family, fear, foreign, foreign-born, France, geographical distribution, geography, Global Population, Great Britain, Greece, Holocaust, immigrant, immigrate, immigration, India, Israel, issue, Jeremy Corbyn, Jew, Jewish, Latin America, leave, liar, lie, lies, London, Malta, Mexico, migrant, migration, nationalism, nationalist, Nazi, Nigel Farage, Norway, Philip Hammond, Poland, Polish, political, politics, Population, Real Estate, refugee, representation, representative democracy, revote, Russia, Spain, stay, stock market, Sustainability, Switzerland, symptom, terms, Theresa May, Timeline, trade, trend, Trump, Turkey, UK, US, vote, voter, War, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto, World Population, world trade organization, WTO
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My Global Family Vacation
Map of my global family vacation I have returned from my month-long vacation with my wife. One of the perks of being an academic is that my summers are my own. I show the route of my trip above. Clearly, … Continue reading
Posted in immigration
Tagged age, app, application, Australia, BREXIT, communication, demagogue, democracy, Election, emigrant, emigration, England, EU, Europe, Family, flee, France, free market, generation, Global Population, heritage, History, Holocaust, immigrant, immigration, Israel, lie, lies, Malta, migrant, migration, Nazi, North Africa, oligarchy, Palestine, Palestinian, Poland, Population, presidential campaign, presidential election, ramification, refugee, screening, security, Story, tapestry, terror, Terrorism, terrorist, trade, UK, UN, US, World Population
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