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If one takes the meme here out of context, we’re doing pretty well.  The problem is that the rate at which species are going extinct is going through the roof, due to the intrusion of humankind into animal habitats, coupled with climate change.

The current rate of extinction is hundreds or thousands of times higher than the natural baseline rate. The natural baseline rate is about one species per million species per year. However, estimates of the current extinction rate vary widely: 

  • Millennium Ecosystem AssessmentUp to 8,700 species per year, or 24 species per day
  • U.N. Convention on Biological DiversityUp to 150 species lost each day, which could be as much as 10% per decade

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Where Tax Money Should Go

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At left is a question typical of a Republican moron.  Might someone say, “No, taxes don’t need to be spent on things that serve our interests?”

The question, of course, is what actually does serve our interests.

Believe it or not, there are people in countries on this planet who think that tax money serves their interest if it goes to creating a healthier, happier, better educated, more humane society.

These are the same countries that tax rich people heavily, where attaining a net worth of hundreds of billions of dollars is extremely difficult–probably impossible. But those nations don’t have homeless veterans living in the street and presidents who are rapists and convicted felons.

Where Tax Money Should Go

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Do We Need More Fallacious Hate Speech?

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Unfortunately, there are tens of millions of morons who believe hateful garage like this.

The average 10-year-old can understand that we can BOTH protect our citizens while obeying the U.S. Constitution and international law when it comes to treating the undocumented legally and humanely.

Again, this is what is called the logical fallacy of the “false dichotomy.”  Only idiots believe we have to choose one over the other.

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A Reader Asks: Should Energy Companies be Held Liable for Climate Change?

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I would say that the regulations on energy (and transportation) companies should be sufficient to put pressure on them to phase out fossil fuels and decarbonize in favor of renewables and nuclear.

A Reader Asks: Should Energy Companies be Held Liable for Climate Change?

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