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Category Archives: Climate Change
Shovels are the New Gold for the Survivalist
People who worry about the collapse of society are usually preoccupied with that they can do now to prepare for that—they imagine—inevitable eventuality. That preparation invariably involves hoarding of goods, for many of them are interested in shopping and come … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Gardening, Post-Apocalyptic, Self-reliance
Tagged currency, prepper, shovels, survivalist
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Found Sentences: The Environmental Movement and Going Back to Green
When Cousin Nick wanted to make a documentary about me he wasn’t that impressed when he interviewed my friend Mento Wong. Mento was a biker friend of mine who’d spent his life railing against conformity and worked as an operator … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Climate Change, Culture, Environmentalism, Teaching, Writing
Tagged environmentalism, grammar, great depression, green, overpopulation, Searching for Bear Documentary
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The High Today is Minus 8
The weather in Winnipeg is normally quite stable. We typically have four days of sun followed by four days of cloud. Of course, locally, Winnipeggers respond to their climatic conditions like any others. They complain that the day is hot, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Media, Winnipeg
Tagged weather, Winnipeg
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Beware of the Fog in Winnipeg
I have heard the warnings associated with fog in Winnipeg nearly every year that I have lived in the city. Over that more than twenty year period, the normal weather is usually reported fairly accurately. The weather here in the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Education, News, Winnipeg
Tagged climate change denial, forecasting, weather, Winnipeg
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Sentences from Student Papers
Although student papers are not the gold mine that some websites suggest, with anti-pedantic-teacher rhetoric and unlikely yet comical meanings, they sometimes offer thoughtful analysis and clever observations. These are a delight for the instructor, but unfortunately—and perhaps this says … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Editing, Education, Environmentalism, Teaching, Writing
Tagged Climate Change, Editing, environmentalism, grammar, student writing
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Ignorance, Knowledge, and the Environment
We often presume that someone who doesn’t care about their environment is merely ignorant. They just don’t know, we say to ourselves when pondering the person throwing recyclables in the trash, or making arguments about buying a larger vehicle. If … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Culture, Environmentalism
Tagged environmentalism, great depression, recycling
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Partridge in the Fall
When I was in my teens and traveling on the school bus in the mornings, I would often sit across from my friend Bruce. We were both farm children and thus had lots of chores to finish every night, but … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Environmentalism, Superstition
Tagged anti-vaccine, anti-vaxxer, global climate change denier, pacific garbage patch, partridge, ruffed grouse, sixth extinction
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Checking Your Delusions
The method for checking our many delusions—that the Harry Potter letter is going to arrive for us any moment, that god is carefully listening to my prayers about the cancer He gave my mother, that the earth is flat, the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Culture, Internet, News of the World, Supernatural, Superstition
Tagged climate change denial, Council of Nicaea, delusions, Eratosthenes, existence of god, flat earth, flouride in the water, Harry Potter, moon landing hoax, scientific discovery, Watchmaker's Analogy, William Paley
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Cultural Inertia: the QWERTY Keyboard and the Standard Railway Gauge
Two human traits stifle technological innovation. One of them is our innate suspicion of change, and we can see how that would have worked to our advantage historically, and the other is the slightly more complicated cultural and by times … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Culture, Development, Solar Power
Tagged B. F. Skinner, Dvorak, PLOVER, QWERTY, stenotype, Susan B. Anthony, voyageur dollar, Walden Two
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Political Action and Inaction
When the phrase political action is bandied around it sends most people running for the television news rather than the dictionary. Most believe they know what political action entails, and they occasionally engage in it themselves, by standing outside buildings … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Climate Change, Politics
Tagged activism, Declaration of Independence, direct action, Doris Lessing The Good Terrorist, John Steinback In Dubious Battle, political action, protesting, Ralph Ellison Invisible Man, Thomas Jefferson and slaves
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