Just a week after Texas voters approved billions of dollars to build new gas-fired power plants, the state’s education board will decide if it wants schools using science textbooks that acknowledge that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. The Texas Board of Education could vote as early as next Tuesday on whether it will recommend […]
Y’know, Conservatism as Great Filter makes a disturbing amount of sense.
The true horror is that life is constantly on a knife’s edge. Life requires enough energy for chemistry, but not so much energy that complex molecules wiggle apart or get blasted apart. Any drastic change results in death.
Good thing we’re not making any drastic changes to our environment, eh?