Category Archives: current world history

To Build A Green Future: Implementing the Manifesto

Posted on March 3, 2023 by philosophical Ron

Readers in America are unlikely to have heard about it, a very broad coalition calling itself the “Peoples of the Global South” has recently published a “Manifesto for an Ecosocial Energy Transiton from the Peoples of the South” that does … Continue reading →

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We Weren’t Dealing Well with Climate Emergency, Now Ukraine Emergency Makes It Worse

Posted on November 9, 2021 by philosophical Ron

(Original post, dealing with climate emergency, was greatly revised to cover Ukraine invasion and re-published Feb. 28, 2022.) The climate emergency has the potential to destroy all our comforts and conveniences, and possibly our lives – and we aren’t dealing … Continue reading →

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Any Bravery Left, in our Sick New World? Updated June 2021

Posted on April 12, 2020 by philosophical Ron

Let’s start with some context. The Great Depression of the 1930’s was a worldwide event, the economic effects reached at least 90% of the world’s population in significant ways. World War II, that followed (with the two events developing over … Continue reading →

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Trump: The Suicide of Civilization?

Posted on January 19, 2017 by philosophical Ron

The election of Donald J. Trump to the American Presidency in 2016 represents a stunning victory of ignorance over intelligence, a triumph of fraudulent salesmanship over honest customer service. To the extent that Trump succeeds in boosting irreversible climate change … Continue reading →

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The Party of Selfishness and Destruction

Posted on February 18, 2015 by philosophical Ron

The Party of Selfishness and Destruction This time, February of the 2015 Christian calendar, is a very, very dangerous time in the long, on-going story of human beings on earth. A political party which is devoted to the promotion and … Continue reading →

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