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Tag Archives: Supreme Court
The Sky as an Inspiration
A week ago, I got a new email from a young friend, reacting to the recent verdict by the Supreme Court that negates Roe vs. Wade, which has defined the abortion landscape for the last 50 years: I was reading … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Climate Change, politics
Tagged Abortion, bottom-up, carbon emissions, change, China, choice, Climate Change, constitution, covid, COVID 19, democracy, economic, Economy, EPA, executive, Fertility, Future, GHG, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, guns, judiciary, law, legislation, minority, NYC, rights, Roe v. Wade, Russia, Second Amendment, separation of power, Supreme Court, surveillance, Technology, top-down, Ukraine, vote
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US: Cruel Laws Must Still be Enforced??
Two weeks ago (April 12th), I wrote about how busy we all are this April, both with personal and global events: “COVID-19 is still with us and continues to have an impact on most of us. The Russian invasion of … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Bergen-Belsen, Bucha, concentration camp, democracy, dictatorship, governance, Government, Holocaust, laws, mass grave, Military, Nazi, Nuremburg, obedience, oligarchy, Puerto Rico, Putin, Russia, Supreme Court, Ukraine, US, War
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Weaponizing Climate Change Ranking
Since I started this blog, I have habitually ranked countries with regards to their climate change indicators. These include changes in carbon emissions, energy use, forms of sustainable energy, and various ratios such as energy intensity (energy divided by GDP) … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, law, Sustainability, UN, UNFCCC
Tagged Boris Johnson, BREXIT, carbon emissions, carbon intensity, Energy, energy intensity, energy use, Environment, environmental, EU, Future, GDP, greenhouse gas, Heathrow, Karl Popper, London, measurement, methodology, NDC, Netherlands, objective, Paris, Paris Agreement, Popperian, rank, Ranking, Science, scientific method, subjective, Supreme Court, Sustainability, Sustainable, sustainable development, theory, UK
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Midterm Elections 2018: A Victory for the Constitution
I posted early last week so I could emphasize the importance of voting to my students before Tuesday’s election. As of today, some states are still counting votes and some are proceeding to recounts because of the narrow margins. The … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Climate Change, law, politics
Tagged Balance, blue, Brett Kavanaugh, Brooklyn College, census, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Congress, congressperson, constitution, democracy, Democrat, Donald Trump, Election, electoral college, electoral vote, Florida, founding fathers, ginsburg, Government, governor, house, house of representatives, I voted, Indiana, judiciary, Kavanaugh, land, midterm, midterm election, Missouri, nonvoter, North Dakota, NYC, participation, people, politics, popular vote, Population, Race, red, representation, representative, republic, Republican, ruth bader ginsburg, Science, senate, senator, stability, State, Supreme Court, system, Trump, US, US population, vote, voter, voter registration, voter turnout
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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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Blurred Lines: Balance, Bias, Kavanaugh, and Fox News on Climate Change
My original plan for this week was to focus on President Trump’s complaints that Google’s search engines are biased against him, and his demand that the Justice Department investigate. I found a fitting cartoon by Walt Handelsman. The Justice Department … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, politics, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged Abortion, antarctic ice, Antarctica, assault, Balance, bias, Brett Kavanaugh, Christian, Christine Blasey Ford, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, climate denier, current events, Damon Centola, Democrat, Donald Trump, Douglas Guilbeault, England, evangelical, Facebook, first amendment, Flood, Flooding, Florence, Ford, fox news, Global Warming, Google, Greenland, ice melt, investigation, IPCC, Joshua Becker, judge, justice, justice department, Kavanaugh, land ice, Murdoch, national geographic, Ocean, partisan, PNAS, polarization, political, politics, rational, rationality, Republican, Roe v. Wade, Rupert Murdoch, sea level, Sea-Level Rise, senate, sexual assault, Social Media, sociologist, sociology, Supreme Court, teach, Teaching, Trump, trust, truth, UK, US, virtue, Water
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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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Election: Battle of the Sexes
Last week, I posited that: “Donald Trump attempted to downplay or disregard any fallout from his actions, concentrating instead on throwing red meat to keep at least his most dedicated supporters happy.” In this blog I had initially planned to … Continue reading
Posted in Election
Tagged 19th amendment, amazon, America, campaign, Christopher Andersen, Clinton, college, constitution, country, Donald, Donald Trump, early voting, Education, Election, Evita, female, FiveThirtyEight, Gender, grope, high school, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Howard Stern, macho, male, men, Nate Silver, nonvoter, nonwhite, North Carolina, party, Pat McRory, Policy, politician, politics, poll, polls, Power, president, presidential campaign, presidential election, projection, registration, result, rights, sex, sexes, sexual assault, study, support, supporter, Supreme Court, Trump, university, US, vote, voter, voter registration, voter turnout, Voting, white, Women
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Democracy vs. Oligarchy Part 5: Can Psychology Help with a U-Turn?
A week from the posting of this blog, primaries will take place in NY State. It is the first time I can remember when the presidential primary will have such a large impact on both the Democratic and the Republican … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, ads, allegiance, altruism, American, Anthropogenic, Balance, battle, behavioral science, benefit, Bernie Sanders, campaign, candidate, caucus, census, Christian, Citizen, Citizens United, Citizenship, civic duty, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, compulsory voting, constitution, Cost, country, democracy, Democracy Index, Democrat, Democratization, Distribution, Donald Trump, Draft, duty, Economics, Economy, Education, effort, Election, election day, electoral college, electoral system, electorate, eligible, elite, email, Enos, expressive voting, Facebook, flawed democracy, formula, founding fathers, full democracy, game theory, Global Warming, gratification, green card, Hillary Clinton, holiday, household, immigrant, immigration, Income, income distribution, Income Inequality, Inequality, influence, Iowa, Jew, Jewish, John Kasich, justice, justification, justify, Koch brothers, Marco Rubio, Mitigation, money, motivation, motivator, muslim, nation, non-voter, nonvoter, NYC, Obama, oligarch, oligarchy, Palestine, participation, partisan, personal sacrifice, political, political party, political psychology, politician, politics, polls, presidential election, probability, psychology, register, registered voter, Republican, retiree, Science, settlement, shame, shaming, skirmish, Social Media, social obligation, sovereign, Sovereign State, soviet union, spy, strategy, Supreme Court, Sustainability, Ted Cruz, Time, turnout, TV, Twitter, US, value, vote, voter, voter registration, Voting, voting age, Wealth, World Population, worth, worth it
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