Teacher (HS & MS, English, mostly). Have lived in Morocco, Switzerland, Austria, The Netherlands, China, and the U.S. In Canada, North Vancouver, Halifax, and Victoria.
"Readin' the news, and it sure looks bad." βJoni Mitchell
It's the environment, stupid!
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Doing nothing about climate change is not enough, apparently.
So instead, humans are working extra hard to make it worse with three major wars in Sudan, Gaza, and Ukraine using oceans of petroleum and putting tons of particulate matter into the atmosphereβon the theory that worldwide wildfires are insufficient.
But hey, corporate profits are up.
"[In 17th-century Europe] children were thought to be small animals, who certainly exhibited little control over their bodily functions and instinctual desires, always seeking instant satisfaction at the expense of everything else. They weren't really human until they reached the age of reason, which Pascal placed at twenty."
βRichard Watson, "Cogito Ergo Sum: The Life of RenΓ© Descartes"
"As part of our ongoing commitment to transparency and accountability, we are pleased to be working with the [ @BCGreens@mstdn.ca ] BC Green Party to enhance performance monitoring and evaluation of the primary care system during this governmentβs mandate as part of the Cooperation and Responsible Government Accord (CARGA)."
Report on Primary Care in BC:
https://news.gov.bc.ca/files/CARGAPrimaryCareReport1.pdf
Very level-headed, articulate young athlete.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6863375
Richard Watson, in "Cogito Ergo Sum: The Life of RenΓ© Descartes," tells this story about living in the countryside, in the Netherlands, where Descartes lived for many years:
Once I held up two packages of dark German rye bread and asked the grocery-van driver (he came by our cottage once a week) if they were the same. He was scandalized.
"Very different," he said, but without enough English to be precise.
I bought them both. Indistinguishable.
Ricochet Media joins the international community in condemnation of Israelβs August 10 targeted assassination of six journalists in Gaza.
https://us8.campaign-archive.com/?e=2e8e61a44a&u=edd4f5a3bf559c394305c336e&id=d35ff05ce9
"banal | ΛbΔnl, bΙΛnal, bΙΛnΓ€l | adjective: so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring"
Hannah Arendt's 1963 book, "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil," made the phrase "the banality of evil" famous.
Today we need it more than ever. Putin, Kim, Xi, Orban, Trump, etc., and their minions are hopelessly banal, and relentlessly evil.
"Burn bans"? How about we have a nationwide, permanent burn ban, with exceptions for older homes with no other means of heating, and then a massive subsidized programme to provide non-fossil-fuel heating systems to those homes?