SEF News-Views Digest No. 136 (6-22-16)
Clifton Ware, Editor-Publisher
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The Hulk vs. Spock (Credit: ETSPIC.COM)
This commentary relates strongly to last week’s about the so-called “cult of ignorance” in the U,S. An article by Albert Bates—“Hot Brain, Cool Brain” (first in Views section)—provides additional supportive information about the psycho-emotional processes of both hotheaded and coolheaded people. Bates, a civil sector representative at the Copenhagen climate conference, is primarily focused on pointing the world back towards a stable atmosphere, by using soils and trees. His books include Climate in Crisis and The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook.
In this post I’m relying principally on material borrowed from the first article in the Views section: “Anti-Intellectualism and the Dumbing Down of America” (by Ray Williams). I’ve written on this topic previously, but because it relates so systemically to creating sustainability, I think it’s worth pondering and discussing further, even though the article was written in 2014.
Ever since the coal boom, we moderns have been endowed with plentiful cheap energy that provides a wealth of positive opportunities, many of which have resulted in negative repercussions.