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Code red for humanity. That's how UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has described the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Working Group 1 Report issued earlier this week. "This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet," he asserted.
The Blind Men and the Elephant Look for the deeper meaning to this poem. The author is anonymous. Enjoy! It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined (Though all of them were blind). That each by observation And happening to fall At once began to bawl: "God bless me! but the Elephant Is very like a wall!" The Second, feeling of the tusk, Cried, "Ho! what have we here so very round and smooth and sharp? To me 'tis mighty clear This wonder of an Elephant Is very like a spear!" The Third approached the animal And happening to take
What comes after post-truth? Weaponized fantasy By January 31, 2021 I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned. – Richard P. Feynman It's funny, isn't it? The ones who, only moments ago, were screeching, "There is no such thing as truth!" are now enforcing "truth." Postmodernism was always an absurdity; a punchline. The proposition refutes itself: "Nothing is true" cannot be a true statement, by its own definition. And yet we had some very educated people believing this nonsense for a long time. That time appears to be over. The disbelie...
. (These proposals subsequently failed.) The net difference between those two views is well over $150 billion dollars in a single year. In an ideal world, the defense budget debate would be fact-based and informed. Of course, no one should be under any illusion that final defense budgets spring fully formed from dispassionate strategic analyses. The last word on defense spending always results from the clash of strategic thought and the reigning political environment. In the United States, such quarrels go back to the birth of the nation. George Washington did not just fight the British. He ...