“Green energy” and Amazon rain forests

People need to to read things like this before they ignorantly ramble about how great biofuels are.
At the bottom of page one it talks about the possibility of the Amazon rain forest turning into something like a savannah or even a desert. It wouldn’t be the first time human deforestation has caused a vital and [...]

IDEM hearing on “fine particle matter”

You know, the kind that gets in your lungs and doesn’t come back out, that contributes heavily to cancer, emphysema, and other fun things. They want to make it easier for industrial pollution in the area to increase so we can breathe more of it - in an area that already compares with Los Angeles [...]

Lent this year

It has now been six days since my Lent/Ash Wednesday reflection post, in which I promised I would post what I am doing for this Lenten season in a day or two. It should surprise no one at this point to hear that, on the Myers-Briggs personality type indicator, I am a P (this is [...]

Derrick Jensen quote

If monetary value is attached to something it will be exploited until it’s gone. That’s what happens when you convert living beings to cash. That conversion from living trees to lumber, schools of cod to fish sticks, and onward to numbers on a ledger, is the central process of our economic system. — Derrick Jensen

Green consumerism? A short video

a summary of Christian anarchy

I posted this on an anarchist discussion group a short while ago, and thought it was worth sharing here.
I may be a bit of an oddball, because I actually came to my anarchist views through my religious studies.
I have written somewhat more about my views on my blog, http://propheticheretic.wordpress.com (though I’ve neglected it as of [...]

Ansell article

By the way, the article by Nik Ansell I referenced in the previous post can be found online in PDF format.

The Liberating Image: Imago Dei in Genesis 1 by J. Richard Middleton

J. Richard Middleton’s The Liberating Image: Imago Dei in Genesis 1 is an excellent exegetical look at Genesis 1 and particularly the “Image of God” section in vv. 26-28. The book was written, I believe, for the completion of his Ph.D at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. It is divided into three parts, [...]

battle of the sexes and creation

From the first creation story, in Genesis 1:
26 Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the ground.”
27 [...]

Nieztsche, the fall, anarcho-primitivism, and human domination

[Anything which] is a living and not a dying body… will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant — not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power… ‘Exploitation’… belongs to the essence of what [...]

boldly entering the new world we have created…

Scientists warn of new Anthropocene age
Or, more properly, epoch.
Scientists around the world are coming to the conclusion that the human industrial influence on the planet is so great that now we need to seriously consider defining a new epoch on that influence.
None of this is really news to me, though I hadn’t heard the formal [...]

Peak oil, alternative energy sources, infrastructure, and the future of America

First, I’m going to assume that people will at least recognize that using sources of energy that create less pollution is generally a good thing, and even if you’re reading this and don’t believe in global warming (you poor, poor corporate dupe) it can’t possibly hurt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. So it would [...]

ABC news story on global warming

Methane Burps and Heat Waves: Global Warming Made Visible
(Supercomputer predicts rising temperatures as escaping gas bubbles rise up through the sea)
Corporate, industrial, and political power is more important than taking care of the earth. And it’s going to kill us.
I resist now in every way I can, and I’m actively trying to modify my [...]

The Future of Food

I have to say… this perhaps one of the most frightening films I have ever seen.
official website
The point is not necessarily that the science is bad, per se, though I do have some issues with potential consequences. It seems like, even though there is potential to do good in society with genetic modification, particularly in [...]