The Real Root of Environmental Evils

…what is the real source of the problem? It is the unsustainable and immoderate (…) consumption and production patterns engendered by contemporary industrial capitalism….

Why Earth Hour is Bad for the Earth

Unless we actually change our buying and using behavior, any other “solution” is, in fact, worse than useless, because it diverts our energies while achieving nothing of any objective value.

Quotable Chesterton #1, on getting rich

“To be clever enough to get all that money, one must…

In criticism of Earth Hour

…For it diverts attention from the real cause of environmental problems: capitalist consumption…

Capitalism is not the answer

The love of money is not the solution, but lies at the root of the evil…

Rethinking Pinochet (and Franco)

If Franco, Pinochet, and Salazar acted like cads, they were at least not total cads with total power, and that is what spells their difference from Stalin, Hitler, and Mao.

A note on genetic discrimination

Reuters reported early this month that the US Federal Congress had overwhelmingly approved a bill that prohibits insurers from discriminating against people with genetic predispositions to illness. According to the report

Big is beautiful, or, Why divorce is bad for the environment

Science now shows that, in our relentless quest for individual “independence” and “happiness”, we help destroy not only society but also the world itself.