The Final Parallel, Please.
Tobacco and fossil-fueled energy have curious parallels. Both have provided users with benefits, both got entrenched in behavior and society, both have grievous unintended consequences. But the story...
View ArticleThe Ups and Downs of Globalization
“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.” – James Branch Cabell Though I fall in neither group, that favorite quote comes to mind...
View ArticleCritical Question: Are we Heading to a World Without Us?
Michael Murphy is a regular columnist on BoomerWarrior. In this article, he raises fundamental and essential questions about the role of humanity on Planet Earth (Editor ~ RMontpellier). You don’t hear...
View ArticleOur Techno-Fetish. Will it Destroy Us?
Michael Murphy is a regular columnist on BoomerWarrior. In this article, he raises fundamental and essential questions about the role of humanity on Planet Earth (Editor ~ RMontpellier). Reviving...
View ArticleExtreme Oil, Extreme Consequences for Humanity
Michael Murphy is a regular columnist on BoomerWarrior.Org. A few years ago, environmental activists like me hoped that increasing oil prices would lead to greater conservation and extreme efforts to...
View ArticleThe World of Irrationality ~ Michael Murphy
There is a certain logic to events that pushes you along a certain path. You go along the path that feels the most true, and most according to the principles that are guiding you, and that’s the way...
View ArticleColorado is Burning – War Footing Needed
The imagery is powerful and symbolic. High-tech war weapons, including Blackhawk helicopters, fight Colorado’s Black Forest fire, now acknowledged as the greatest natural disaster in the state’s...
View ArticleWill the Next IPCC Report Cure Denialists?
If you follow climate change news carefully, and I hope you do, you know that an important event looms. That would be the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The...
View ArticleThe Utility of Futility ~ Michael Murphy
Call it a war among friends. This is an argument about climate change that is getting louder in recent days. It’s not the dreary battle between those who respect climate science and those who deny,...
View ArticleA New Myth is Born
One theory claims that myths are distorted accounts of real historical events. In his recent article, Michael Murphy explores how deniers are always poised to jump on any new data that can be distorted...
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