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Dave Pollard's environmental philosophy, creative works, business papers and essays.
In search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works.
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How to Save the World
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BLOG Do We Really Want to Know the Truth?There's an interesting article by Elizabeth Kolbert in this week's New Yorker on vegetarianism, and specifically on the disconnect between our adoration of pets and our tolerance for the horrific, lifelong suffering of the animals we eat. It's really about human nature, Kolbert argues, and specifically that we just don't want to know about atrocities and su...
11-04
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How to Save the World
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BLOG Words to the Wise The grid above is not connected to the clues below. If you want to try one of my complete puzzles, you'll find this grid, and the clues to it, and a link to the answers, here.For many years I've been a fan of crossword puzzles, and occasionally I'll stumble across a clue that is devilishly clever. I keep scribbling them down, and today, for a change of pace, I'm going to inf...
11-03
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How to Save the World
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BLOG The Use and Uselessness of AngerAll my life, I've had a temper, and three years ago, when the stress of anger precipitated a debilitating attack of ulcerative colitis that left me wishing I was dead, I learned the high cost of not knowing how to cope with it. Now I know, and it's easier, but it's not easy.Anger is a natural reaction, and it's been selected for in our evolution because it's us...
11-02
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How to Save the World
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BLOG Links and Tweets of the Week: October 31, 2009 (Scary Hallowe'en Edition)PREPARING FOR CIVILIZATION'S COLLAPSEHere Comes the End of Debt: Stoneleigh from Automatic Earth, in an interview with The Oil Drum Europe, argues that we're in for an unprecedented and prolonged deflationary period, and that while wages will plunge, so will prices of everything, even oil and gold as demand falls faster ...
11-01
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How to Save the World
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BLOG Maybe That's What It Takes As my retirement looms closer, I've been giving some more thought about exactly what I'll be doing with my days when I retire. In my previous post Intention to Practice I summarized the nine steps that I am following (and urging others to follow, in their own way) to make the world a better place, illustrated in the graphic above. To implement these practically into...
10-29
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