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Published in Age of Awareness

·Nov 29, 2020

A Cosmic Tragedy

Totalitarian agriculture and our limited understanding of the economy — NOTE: This essay is taken verbatim from a graduate school application and contains the original academic citations. Abstract Modern humans and our institutions are not equipped to fully comprehend the broad impact our economy imposes on the natural world. That’s because we conceive of “the economy” as the body of…

Food Production

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A Cosmic Tragedy
A Cosmic Tragedy
Food Production

12 min read


Published in Climate Conscious

·Jul 9, 2020

Biden’s New Climate Platform Lets Us Harvest More Oil

The VP’s progressive task force gesture doesn’t touch the most essential part of addressing climate change — When he became the presumptive Democratic nominee for this fall’s presidential election, former Vice President Joe Biden commissioned a task force to develop a policy platform bridging the gap between centrist and progressive lawmakers in the Democratic Party. The group released recommendations in a 110-page report Wednesday. The climate section…

Politics

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Biden’s New Climate Platform Lets Us Harvest More Oil
Biden’s New Climate Platform Lets Us Harvest More Oil
Politics

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Published in Climate Conscious

·Jul 6, 2020

DAPL Hiatus Shows Why NEPA Is Crucial

Despite this victory for water protectors, Trump is still dismantling environmental protections — A federal judge on the D.C. Circuit stopped the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) from operating Monday and ordered the oil removed from it, citing a 1970s federal law requiring U.S. government agencies to conduct rigorous environmental assessments before rubber-stamping building projects. An intense, years-long protest has swept the region containing…

Daplprotest

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DAPL Hiatus Shows Why NEPA Is Crucial
DAPL Hiatus Shows Why NEPA Is Crucial
Daplprotest

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Published in Age of Awareness

·Jun 29, 2020

No, Vegans Don’t Kill More Animals than Meat Eaters

So why do gaslighting pundits say otherwise? — Globally, the meat industry slaughters between 70 billion and 150 billion animals each year. But crop production also carries a heavy toll. The best estimate for how many wild animals die annually in crop monocultures is about 7.3 billion. …

Veganism

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No, Vegans Don’t Kill More Animals than Human Omnivores
No, Vegans Don’t Kill More Animals than Human Omnivores
Veganism

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Published in Age of Awareness

·Jun 12, 2020

Zooming Out on America’s Policing Protests

An article with M copy — DALLAS, Texas — In recent weeks American security forces staged a militant nationwide crackdown on peaceful protesters assembling in public squares across the United States to demand cities reallocate policing money to social programs. The violent police actions failed to stamp out the protest movement, but they fomented riots and…

Police Brutality

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Zooming Out on America’s Policing Protests
Zooming Out on America’s Policing Protests
Police Brutality

20 min read


Jun 7, 2020

Jesus Doesn’t Save Black Lives

Some Christians think repentance is the solution to police brutality — On a street corner in downtown Dallas, a white guy, maybe in his 40s, with a protruding brow, thick biceps, a trim physique, and a mic and speaker, was preaching. At least four people supported him, a white man in his late teens or early 20s, a black man about…

BlackLivesMatter

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Jesus Doesn’t Save Black Lives
Jesus Doesn’t Save Black Lives
BlackLivesMatter

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Published in Age of Awareness

·Jun 6, 2020

Counting Eels Is Hard

A writer remembers killing A. anguilla — Like Hansel and Gretel, Danish biologist Johannes Schmidt followed the crumbs. But they weren’t crumbs; they were eel larvae, strung in a meandering but generally westward trail across the Atlantic Ocean. And he hadn’t laid them. And he wasn’t feeling his way out of the forest. …

Eels

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Counting Eels Is Hard
Counting Eels Is Hard
Eels

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Published in Age of Awareness

·Jun 2, 2020

Impunity on a Drug Run

This is the freedom of whiteness — Joy and I were on our way to commit a crime or two. I was driving. It was in Dalhart, a cow town with a huge famous grain elevator in the westernmost part of Texas before you cross into the northeast of New Mexico. I was pulled over for speeding…

Protest

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Impunity on a Drug Run
Impunity on a Drug Run
Protest

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May 30, 2020

Why I’m Voting for Biden

It’s the environment — I’m sometimes asked by people who say they can’t see a difference between Joe Biden and Donald Trump why I would support the former in the election, which I plan to. …

Election 2020

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Why I’m Voting for Biden
Why I’m Voting for Biden
Election 2020

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Published in Age of Awareness

·May 28, 2020

Not Counting Rattlesnakes

We don’t know how many animals there are — Early every spring, dozens of bounty hunters canvass the hilly brush country of West Texas for western diamondback rattlesnakes. The hunters know where they’re going. They’ve done this before, seen preceding generations do the same. Some talk about the dens they search as “my dens.” They have relationships with ranchers…

Ecology And Environment

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Not Counting Rattlesnakes
Not Counting Rattlesnakes
Ecology And Environment

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