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From H-Bombs to Animal Cruelty: Cognitive Dissonance and the Future of Civilization

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The cognitive dissonance of the smartest men on Earth dedicating themselves to the craft of building precise, beautiful machines dedicated to the wholesale slaughter of millions of people put me in mind of all the animal lovers I know, including one of my own children, who continue to eat meat, despite their recognition of the […]

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And if there isn’t a democratic solution…?

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On my bicycle commute today I stopped along a trail for a moment – okay, it was to step behind some trees to pee – and I’d been listening to the haunting Radiolab podcast Dark Side of the Earth. I had just heard David Wolf’s account of spacewalking outside the Mir spacecraft with fellow astronaut

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Crazy Environmental Effort #3: Sustainable Power

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  My family voluntarily pays more than we have to for our electricity and natural gas. This may seem a crazy notion – indeed, some of my neighbours have said as much, but less indelicately (“it’s interesting and cool”) – but it’s the right thing to do. Traditional energy is underpriced, because the price does

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