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Monday, November 8, 2010

The current status of the world is alarming: between inundation of digital data and environmental crises in the so-called first world, disease and catastrophe unrelenting in the second and third. As the unemployment rate in the U.S. intractably high, one could infer there are too many people for America to employ; the same Americans, especially [...]

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Great Article by Times Opinionator

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

I thoroughly enjoyed the Times article “Should This Be the Last Generation?” by Peter Singer.  I have, on several occasions, considered the questions the author raises about human population, and making the choice to have kids.  Laughingly I read the line about partying our way into extinction.  Singer points to various philosophical approaches that might [...]

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Society too large?

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Contemplating the ways in which our society has outgrown itself, I have begun questioning my responsibility to contemporary society. A personal anecdote will suffice to begin this dialog.  My brother, two years my senior, has taken his responsibility to reform society quite seriously.  Having studied sustainability, majoring in anthropology in college, he uprooted his family [...]

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