Spurred on by the myriad inventions from the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the related consumer demand for the conveniences, th...

I went to Yale to study for four years (and then to Wisconsin for four years for post-doc study under a Harvard scholar), after having compl...

It is likely due to natural selection having formed our present-day species overwhelmingly in the hunter-gatherer very, very long period of ...

When I took calculus in my first college-degree program, the graduate-student instructor didn’t bother to tell the class that a derivative s...

It would be incorrect to claim that the planet’s atmosphere and oceans are both getting warmer in a linear, across-the-board way. The existe...

A report by the E.U. Copernicus Climate-Change Service in 2024 contains the finding that “Europe is the continent with the fastest-rising te...

Whereas people become instantly upset upon hearing that someone has self-aggrandized oneself by exploiting a conflict of interest, by, for e...

In the midst of the intensification of the very polarized and thus divisive U.S. presidential campaign “season” (i.e., year) during its last...

On a trip to Indonesia in early September, 2024, Pope Francis signed a declaration on religious harmony and environmental protection at ...

While it may be tempting to go after companies for hypocrisy on corporate social responsibility, even deeper criticism may be closer to the ...

The probable impacts of climate change are anything but straightforward, and thus predictable. From the standpoint of mid-2024, huge changes...

Agriculture is a major source of carbon and methane emissions, which in turn are responsible for the general trend of the warming of the pla...

There is a temptation, especially since the global average temperature reached the 1.5C increase threshold in 2023 much faster than anticipa...

William Paley claimed that the “university exists to form the minds and the moral sensibilities of the next generation of clergymen, magistr...

I submit that not enough attention is brought to bear on the root of the warming of the planet: the huge increase in human population in the...

A company’s values and norms can resonate to some extent with their societal counterparts by the company providing goods and services of v...

The dire predictions concerning the probable impact of climate change on ecosystems, ocean-levels, and food-production, as well as on our...

In his treatise on  Understanding , David Hume posits that we don’t know as much about causation as we think we do. Often times, positive c...

In April 2013, debt levels in Asia were reaching record levels as international lenders were extending short-term loans to a growing midd...

Words  matter in politics. The side that can frame a question by definitively naming it in the public mind enjoys a subtle though often dec...