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Category Archives: Health What to do
Mental Health. Coping with the future: notes from Jackson & Jensen’s “An Inconvenient Apocalypse”
Preface. Because I’d been reading non-fiction since college across every section in bookstores for decades before I stumbled on Peak oil in 2000 (full story in about), I understood the horror and tragedy of energy decline and was depressed for … Continue reading
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Tagged denial, ecology, hope, jackson, jensen, optimism, population, rees
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Look Before you Eat
Preface. This post is a book review of Be Wilson’s Swindled. From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee – The Dark History of the Food Cheats. Wilson explains why cheating has always gone on and always will, especially in societies with … Continue reading
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Medicare for All?
Preface. This is a 3-page review of a 34-page overview Congressional Budget Office report requested by congress on establishing a single-payer health care system. IMHO, I don’t see how this can possibly happen. How can a dysfunctional congress deal with … Continue reading
We evolved to exercise and need high levels of physical activity to be healthy
Preface. This is a summary of Herman Pontzer’s 2019 “Humans evolved to exercise. Unlike our ape cousins, humans require high levels of physical activity to be healthy” in Scientific American. As fossils decline, it’s almost guaranteed you’ll use more muscle … Continue reading
USA: 47th in life expectancy despite most money spent & thousands die from lack of health care
Preface. In the USA, vote for democrats, Republicans are openly saying they want to end SSN and Medicare. Health care and insurance will decline and vanish as collapse accelerates from financial depressions caused by energy decline, so if you’ve been … Continue reading
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