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March 13th, 2010
12:56 am - Darwin and morality
'Darwin's system should be viewed as morally liberating, not cosmically depressing. The answers to moral questions cannot be found in nature's factuality in any case, so why not take the "cold bath" of recognizing nature as nonmoral, and not constructed to match our hopes? After all, life existed on earth for 3.5 billion years before we arrived; why should life's causal ways match our prescriptions for human meaning or decency?'
- Steven Jay Gould (1997)
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January 6th, 2010
07:04 pm - www.givingwhatwecan.org
"When I was on a scholarship earning £14,000 per year," says Ord, "I looked at data on the World Income Distribution List and found I was in the richest 5% of the world's population. And if I were to give 10% of that, I'd still be in the richest 5%."
www.givingwhatwecan.org
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December 11th, 2009
01:19 am - The climate denial industry is out to dupe the public. And it's working
;The denial industry, which has no interest in establishing the truth about global warming, insists that these emails, which concern three or four scientists and just one or two lines of evidence, destroy the entire canon of climate science.
Even if you were to exclude every line of evidence that could possibly be disputed – the proxy records, the computer models, the complex science of clouds and ocean currents – the evidence for man-made global warming would still be unequivocal. You can see it in the measured temperature record, which goes back to 1850; in the shrinkage of glaciers and the thinning of sea ice; in the responses of wild animals and plants and the rapidly changing crop zones...'
George Monbiot
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