From his Wikipedia page: Jason Edward Hickel is an anthropologist and professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Hickel’s research and writing focuses on economic anthropology and development, and is particularly opposed to capitalism, neocolonialism, as well as economic growth as a measure of human development.
What Hickel says at left is undoubtedly true. What makes this interesting is that human civilization is now threatened with extinction, specifically because of his claim, i.e., that our society is willing to ignore science when capital is at stake.
How far is humankind willing to go before it puts science in charge of policymaking when it comes to staving off catastrophe? Nobody knows.
In an average month, I meet probably five people who traveled here from another country. Unless there is a good reason to avoid the topic, I like to ask how Trump is regarded at home.
Universally, the answer that Trump is a despicable joke. I use the word “universally” in the literal sense; I’ve yet to speak with someone who has anything good to say about the current U.S. president.
Don’t you just love the mom’s eyes in this political cartoon?
Pope Leo is continuing–and expanding–the trend in the Catholic Church towards compassion for all of humankind.
This, of course, runs afoul of Trump and the MAGA base that, for instance, regards immigrants as “vermin.”
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