Gov. Kristi Noem Wants to be Trump's VP, so She Bragged about Shooting Her Dog & The Problem with Dating Apps
Gov. Kristi Noem Wants to be Trump's VP, so She Bragged about Shooting Her Dog & The Problem with Dating Apps
Junk Science Used to Pass Abortion Laws, Jerry Seinfeld Blames PC for Bad Comedy, Rachel Carson Quote Urges Us to Maturity, The Moody Blues Sing "Go Now"
What I’m Discussing Today:
Kareem’s Daily Quote: Rachel Carson reminds us of our connection to responsibility for the environment.
Trump VP contender Kristi Noem writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book: Noem brags about her ruthlessness in a sad attempt to win Trump’s favor.
Junk science is cited in abortion ban cases. Researchers are fighting the ‘fatally flawed’ work: Our laws are being passed based on bad science. Why are lawmakers using it anyway?
‘The science isn’t there’: do dating apps really help us find our soulmate?: Dating apps are here to stay, but they don’t always do what they promise. What can be done?
Jerry Seinfeld Says TV Comedy Is Being Killed By the ‘Extreme Left and P.C. Crap and People Worrying So Much About Offending Other People’: Seinfeld’s comedy is impeccable, but his logic just doesn’t hold up.
Kareem’s Video Break: Oh, to be young and agile again. Watching this is the next best thing.
The Moody Blues Sing “Go Now”: Pure, soulful rock at the beginning of the British Invasion.
Kareem’s Daily Quote
Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself? [We are] challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves.
Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring
In 1962, marine biologist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring about the damage to the environment caused by pesticides. Naturally, the chemical industry threatened to sue the publisher but didn’t because the science was solid.
Agriculturist Ezra Taft Benson responded to the book with personal attacks, wondering “Why a spinster with no children was so concerned about genetics?” Finally, he dismissed her as “probably a Communist,” which was, and still is, the go-to accusation of the right against those who disagree for any reason. For them, seeking truth is subversive.
Carson is credited with bringing attention to the dangers of uncontrolled destruction to the environment, thereby launching the environmental movement that is so powerful—and necessary—today.
What strikes me about this quote is that 60 years later the companies that profit most from destroying the environment spread the same lies—and that people accept it because it’s easier than doing anything. Still, this week the news came out that Tyson Foods dumped 371 million pounds of toxic pollutants—including nitrogen, phosphorus, chloride, oil, and cyanide—directly into American rivers and lakes over the last five years, “threatening critical ecosystems, endangering wildlife and human health.”
“[M]ankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves” rings in my ears as I listen to the hollow arguments of those who would poison the land, air, and water so they can have a bigger house in the Hamptons. Worse, though, are their irrational supporters who allow it to happen to their own families while smirking at the “tree huggers.” Fortunately, there are some changes. The NBA has just pledged to reduce its carbon footprint by 50% by 2030. More importantly, the Biden Administration has been more active in protecting the environment than any other administration in history.
Mastery of ourselves is the ability to put aside what we wish would happen to focus on what is actually happening. That’s the only way we can fix it. The only way for our children to survive.