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A Titanic Mindset for a Doomed Planet

The New Jersey office where I work will likely be under water in less than twenty years. When I mentioned this to a coworker, she just smiled and walked away. "Long-term disaster is now the best case scenario" wrote Nathaniel Rich in "Losing Earth: The D…

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Vegans Confusing Consumerism With Activism

Necessity and activism as defined by PETA An activist lamented the lack of participation at his fur protests: "I'm going to start organizing protests with the heading 'Vegan Food Event.' The numbers would quadruple," he said sarcastically. Another…

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The Problem Vegans and Nonvegans Don't Want to Acknowledge

Surrealist painting of industrialized human, artist unknown Here are some frightening statistics from Population Matters : There are now more than 7.5 billion humans on Earth.  It took until the early 1800s for the human population to reach one billion. Now we add a bi…

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