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  1. Merle

    The best future "sustainable" energy source

    Let's look at our alternatives for a future "sustainable" energy supply. First, note that I put "sustainable" in quotes. Nothing is fully sustainable. Everything in some way increases the entropy of the universe. For this exercise we will count a process as sustainable if it leaves the planet...
  2. Merle

    We are overloading the planet: Now What?

    We are overloading the planet. In response, 250 scientists have signed a paper saying, "researchers in many areas consider societal collapse a credible scenario this century." (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/06/a-warning-on-climate-and-the-risk-of-societal-collapse ) Wait...
  3. Merle

    Too many people?

    In the latest issue of Free Inquiry, Milton H. Saier, Jr, wrote an article, Save the Earth; Don’t Give Birth. Saier warns that the planet is overpopulated with 8 billion people, potentially leading to famine, social unrest, and war. He suggests the current population rise and consumption habits...
  4. Merle

    If only souls had a brain

    Recently I received a comment from Ian Wardell arguing against my page on the Secular Web, https://infidels.org/library/modern/is-there-life-after-death/. Wardell argued that there is a soul separate from the brain, and that all conditions that we observe when the brain is affected are issues...
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