Category Archives: What to do

Book review of “The Power Worshippers. Inside the dangerous rise of religious nationalism”

Posted on September 24, 2024 by

Preface.  One of the many items I found of interest in this book “The Power Worshippers” was that it wasn’t until 1979, six years after Roe v Wade, that conservative activists seized on abortion not for moral reasons, but as … Continue reading →

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Book review of “Deer Hunting with Jesus” Best book on why people vote for Trump

Posted on September 18, 2024 by

Preface. This is a book review of Joe Bageant’s 2008 Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War. Joe Bageant grew up in poor, conservative Winchester Virginia, which is like tens of thousands of other small towns in America. … Continue reading →

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Climate Change crisis caused by Population growth – duh

Posted on September 15, 2024 by

Preface.  Duh! Alice Friedemann  www.energyskeptic.com  Author of Life After Fossil Fuels: A Reality Check on Alternative Energy; When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation”, Barriers to Making Algal Biofuels, & “Crunch! Whole Grain Artisan Chips and Crackers”.  … Continue reading →

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How Christians were manipulated by Pat Robertson into becoming right-wing Republicans

Posted on August 20, 2024 by

This is a book review is of “The Gospel of self: How Jesus Joined the GOP.” It was written by an evangelical Christian for evangelical Christians to show them how he, as the senior producer of Pat Robertson’s “The 700 … Continue reading →

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Menhaden: the fish at the bottom of the ocean food web

Posted on August 2, 2024 by

Preface. Oil has allowed us to extract 90% of the fish in the ocean by being able to go to the ends of the earth using sonar and spotting planes to find the last schools. Menhaden have been overfished for … Continue reading →

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Colonization of Mars & The Moon: a book review of “A City On Mars”

Posted on July 19, 2024 by

Preface. There are so many difficulties to overcome to colonize Mars. If the astronauts can even survive the bombardment of radiation on the way there. Where would the energy come from? There is no flowing water for hydropower. Wind and … Continue reading →

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Shrink the military budget

Posted on June 7, 2024 by

Preface. Much of this post is based on Miriam Pemberton’s 2023 book “Six Stops on the National Security Tour”.  Large sections of the book are about why past attempts to cash in on the ending of the cold War since … Continue reading →

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What percent of Americans are rational?

Posted on February 15, 2024 by

Preface. Why does rationality matter — what’s the harm in believing there’s a fat “Santa Claus” God in the sky noting down every time any intelligent creature in the entire universe is naughty or nice on the trillions of inhabited … Continue reading →

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Book review of “Prime Movers of Globalization: the History & Impact of Diesel Engines & Gas Turbines”

Posted on January 25, 2024 by

Preface. This is my book review of Vaclav Smil’s “Prime Movers of Globalization”. A topic near and dear to my heart after working for the 5th largest shipping company, American President Lines (now Neptune Orient Lines), for 22 years and … Continue reading →

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Mental Health. Coping with the future: notes from Jackson & Jensen’s “An Inconvenient Apocalypse”

Posted on January 18, 2024 by

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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