This article is about creeping ignorance – the widespread refusal to accept facts and the growing tendency to create one’s own. For example, a 2010 Gallup poll asked people if they believed in naturalistic evolution. Only 16% of the whole sample did. 25% of those with post-graduate degrees. 9% of those with high school or less. 2% of those who attend church weekly. 31% of those who seldom or never attend church. Twice as many Democrats as Republicans believe in evolution. You can find similarly scary statistics about the percentage of people who believe that global warming is caused by man and about the people who think government should stay out of relations between workers and bosses (this after the hundreth anniversary of the Triangle Fire last week!). Paste the link to your browser to read the article.
March 28, 2011
Help Stamp Out Creeping Ignorance!
March 15, 2011
Be Very Afraid
Did you know that Westinghouse, that good old American company picked to build nuclear power plants on the Texas gulf coast, is now Westinghouse-Toshiba, the very people who are bringing us the Japanese meltdown? There are Japanese cities that could end up like Chernobyl, and someday it could happen in Texas. This is an article worth reading. Paste the link to your browser.
March 14, 2011
Badger Spirit Comes To Harrisburg
Late last week 250 protesters sat in at Tom Ridge’s Marcellus Shale lobbying company in Harrisburg to demand a tax on gas extraction. Watch the 2-minute video. Daylin Leach is in it. There will be more visits to Harrisburg. Get ready to march.
March 13, 2011
March 12, 2011
House of Representatives Repeals Science
Rep. Ed Markey(D-MA) had a few things to say about the Republicans’ repeal of Newton, Einstein, and most university science departments.
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2011/03/10/markey-flat-earthers/
March 11, 2011
The Fox Is Now In The Hen House
Governor Corbett has given control over energy regulation to former energy exec C. Allen Walker.
http://www.propublica.org/article/corbett-pa-energy-exec-authority-environment
March 2, 2011
Bill McKibben The Communist
Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, has been branded communist by Glenn Beck. Here he ponders that label and its connection to his Boston Red Sox devotion. If you haven’t read his book “Eaarth,” you owe it to yourself to do so.
February 27, 2011
Corbett vs. The Environment
These are the first natural gas policies the Corbett Administration has trotted out, and they are clearly bad for the environment.
February 16, 2011
Gov. Corbett and Marcellus Shale
Even if the governor sticks to his inflexibility on “no new taxes,” there are several things he could do to make the Pennsylvania gas industry more civilized. This well-balanced article spells them out.
http://www.pennlive.com/editorials/index.ssf/2011/02/what_now_for_the_marcellus_sha.html
