Ir Rational
Strange behaviors.
Climate Change Has Come for Los Angeles - "…behaving as though, we had — with our street grids, our highways, our superabundant supermarkets and all-everywhere, all-enveloping internet — built our way out of nature. We have not."
Riding Begets Riding - "Few inventions are as seductive as the motor vehicle, but they also turn everything they touch to shit. The story of the car is one of suburban sprawl and urban blight. It's convenience run amok. It's pollution, crumbling infrastructure, and over 30,000 road deaths a year. It's kids no longer riding or walking to school because thanks to car-dependence the drop-off has devolved into something that resembles troop deployment."
Where Else Does the U.S. Have an Infrastructure Problem? Antarctica - "It is not liberal hyperbole to assert that “science” does not have the cachet that it once had in America. Donald Trump’s often rambling and barely coherent attacks upon scientific knowledge are a symptom and not a cause of this shift in popular belief. Perhaps three decades of Republican attacks upon factual knowledge and the people who create such knowledge have finally succeeded but when the majority of a self-defined group (i.e., “Republicans”) openly express their contempt towards the very process of university education, then it is clear that we have entered some kind of neo Dark Age. Those who fear education and knowledge are believers in a static world of magical thinking and received wisdom in which nothing – especially social and economic mobility – ever changes, and where the question “Why?” must never be asked because those in power will tell you everything you need to know. The problem is not money, and arguments about funding levels are distractions from the real issue which involves an obstinate and deliberate ideology of ignorance that shows no sign of dissipating." — Jason Shapiro, commenting on the New York Times
Strange behaviors.
Climate Change Has Come for Los Angeles - "…behaving as though, we had — with our street grids, our highways, our superabundant supermarkets and all-everywhere, all-enveloping internet — built our way out of nature. We have not."
Riding Begets Riding - "Few inventions are as seductive as the motor vehicle, but they also turn everything they touch to shit. The story of the car is one of suburban sprawl and urban blight. It's convenience run amok. It's pollution, crumbling infrastructure, and over 30,000 road deaths a year. It's kids no longer riding or walking to school because thanks to car-dependence the drop-off has devolved into something that resembles troop deployment."
Where Else Does the U.S. Have an Infrastructure Problem? Antarctica - "It is not liberal hyperbole to assert that “science” does not have the cachet that it once had in America. Donald Trump’s often rambling and barely coherent attacks upon scientific knowledge are a symptom and not a cause of this shift in popular belief. Perhaps three decades of Republican attacks upon factual knowledge and the people who create such knowledge have finally succeeded but when the majority of a self-defined group (i.e., “Republicans”) openly express their contempt towards the very process of university education, then it is clear that we have entered some kind of neo Dark Age. Those who fear education and knowledge are believers in a static world of magical thinking and received wisdom in which nothing – especially social and economic mobility – ever changes, and where the question “Why?” must never be asked because those in power will tell you everything you need to know. The problem is not money, and arguments about funding levels are distractions from the real issue which involves an obstinate and deliberate ideology of ignorance that shows no sign of dissipating." — Jason Shapiro, commenting on the New York Times