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Paul Waggoner
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· Jan 18
Evolutionary Eschatology: An Ontology
Make peace with nature. This is a blog-journal working out an ontological framework for the nature of the human species and our relationship to the natural world.
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Perspective taking is the key to so many things. It can be used as a superpower of incredible good, and/or terrible abuse.
When combined with love, kindness, and true honesty it’s a foolproof way to live — the only one we can know has positive outcomes.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/b...
When combined with love, kindness, and true honesty it’s a foolproof way to live — the only one we can know has positive outcomes.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/b...
Quote of the day by Henry Ford: “If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the…” - The Times of India
Henry Ford, the automotive pioneer, believed true success stems from understanding others' perspectives. His famous quote emphasizes empathy and cooperation, not just innovation. Ford's legacy highlig...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Perspective taking is the key to so many things. It can be used as a superpower of incredible good, and/or terrible abuse.
When combined with love, kindness, and true honesty it’s a foolproof way to live — the only one we can know has positive outcomes.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/b...
When combined with love, kindness, and true honesty it’s a foolproof way to live — the only one we can know has positive outcomes.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/b...
Can someone be charged for war crimes against their own people? Another leader starts a war his people don’t care about or want, then sends hundreds of thousands of his own people (and borrowed troops) to die.
Crimes are domestic too:
abcnews.go.com/amp/Internat...
Crimes are domestic too:
abcnews.go.com/amp/Internat...
Russia faces a shrinking and aging population and tries restrictive laws to combat it
Russia has grappled with a shrinking and aging population for decades, with President Vladimir Putin viewing it as a threat to national security
abcnews.go.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Can someone be charged for war crimes against their own people? Another leader starts a war his people don’t care about or want, then sends hundreds of thousands of his own people (and borrowed troops) to die.
Crimes are domestic too:
abcnews.go.com/amp/Internat...
Crimes are domestic too:
abcnews.go.com/amp/Internat...
Since our clothes and gear wear out we can know their plastic fibers are breaking down and shedding off into the shared ambient environment. Glad to see research proving it.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
noc.ac.uk/news/70-ocea...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
noc.ac.uk/news/70-ocea...
Microplastics are brought into the wilderness on hiking shoes and gear, study shows
Research comparing Adirondack mountain lakes in New York suggests foot traffic is significant source of pollution
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Since our clothes and gear wear out we can know their plastic fibers are breaking down and shedding off into the shared ambient environment. Glad to see research proving it.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
noc.ac.uk/news/70-ocea...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
noc.ac.uk/news/70-ocea...
This is very interesting populationmatters.org/news/2024/09...
Buen Vivir: The ‘Good Life’ for People and Planet
Buen Vivir is an alternative development model gaining popularity in South America. Originating from indigenous cultures, it emphasises harmony with nature as key to the wellbeing of the community. Ca...
populationmatters.org
October 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
This is very interesting populationmatters.org/news/2024/09...
Study Reveals The Shocking Amount of Plastic We Breathe in Every Day
www.sciencealert.com/study-reveal...
www.sciencealert.com/study-reveal...
Study Reveals The Shocking Amount of Plastic We Breathe in Every Day
According to a new study, humans can inhale more than 70,000 microplastic particles each day in an indoor environment – far more than previously thought.
www.sciencealert.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Study Reveals The Shocking Amount of Plastic We Breathe in Every Day
www.sciencealert.com/study-reveal...
www.sciencealert.com/study-reveal...
If humanity abandoned plastic and any other persistent or otherwise ecologically impactful alternative, it just might restore my faith in us.
What else do we need to see but this?
www.yahoo.com/news/scienti...
What else do we need to see but this?
www.yahoo.com/news/scienti...
Scientists make disturbing discovery in analysis of human bodily fluids: 'Further research is required'
The findings could suggest health impacts.
www.yahoo.com
June 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
If humanity abandoned plastic and any other persistent or otherwise ecologically impactful alternative, it just might restore my faith in us.
What else do we need to see but this?
www.yahoo.com/news/scienti...
What else do we need to see but this?
www.yahoo.com/news/scienti...
May 15, 2025 at 6:10 AM
This is a sick and insane action. Yet we should remember that if we’re not logging our forests for timber, we’re buying the timber logged elsewhere. Local or remote, it’s still deforestation
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
More details surface in Trump administration plan to cut national forests
Memos from the Trump administration are increasing pressure to cut more national forests for timber and forest health.
www.seattletimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 6:21 AM
This is a sick and insane action. Yet we should remember that if we’re not logging our forests for timber, we’re buying the timber logged elsewhere. Local or remote, it’s still deforestation
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Money always wins. The only way to stop it is to stop buying it (palm oil), and it’s in so many things. If not palm oil then soy, wheat, rice, coffee, almond, coconut, banana, and more. Industrial monocrops on used-to-be ecosystems.
news.mongabay.com/2025/03/sust...
news.mongabay.com/2025/03/sust...
‘Sustainable’ palm oil firms continue illegal peatland clearing despite permit revocation
JAKARTA — Palm oil companies in Indonesia continue to operate on protected peatlands and clear forests, despite having their forestry permits revoked and being certified as sustainable, a new report a...
news.mongabay.com
March 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Money always wins. The only way to stop it is to stop buying it (palm oil), and it’s in so many things. If not palm oil then soy, wheat, rice, coffee, almond, coconut, banana, and more. Industrial monocrops on used-to-be ecosystems.
news.mongabay.com/2025/03/sust...
news.mongabay.com/2025/03/sust...
I get asked often why animals can’t just be relocated when conflicts with human development occur. There are lots of reasons but this article covers a heart breaking one. Ecology is relationships, so for individual entities, it is always place-based
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Like kidnapping your grandpa’: why relocating orangutans threatens their survival
The endangered great apes of Malaysia and Indonesia struggle when translocated despite efforts to protect them, finds research
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I get asked often why animals can’t just be relocated when conflicts with human development occur. There are lots of reasons but this article covers a heart breaking one. Ecology is relationships, so for individual entities, it is always place-based
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Entropy, the cosmic law responsible for everything moving towards disorder, is also responsible for whipping up even more complex (temporary) systems of order. Awe inspiring.
search.app/b2T91KEsSePC... Why does nature love spirals? The link to entropy
Source: Phys.org
search.app/b2T91KEsSePC... Why does nature love spirals? The link to entropy
Source: Phys.org
Why does nature love spirals? The link to entropy
There are moments in the history of human thought when a simple realization transforms our understanding of reality. A moment when chaos reveals itself as structure, when disorder folds into meaning, ...
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March 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Entropy, the cosmic law responsible for everything moving towards disorder, is also responsible for whipping up even more complex (temporary) systems of order. Awe inspiring.
search.app/b2T91KEsSePC... Why does nature love spirals? The link to entropy
Source: Phys.org
search.app/b2T91KEsSePC... Why does nature love spirals? The link to entropy
Source: Phys.org
Terrestrial 'life oasis' from end-Permian mass extinction period discovered in China
phys.org/news/2025-03...
phys.org/news/2025-03...
Terrestrial 'life oasis' from end-Permian mass extinction period discovered in China
A new study reveals that a region in China's Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological crisis s...
phys.org
March 15, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Terrestrial 'life oasis' from end-Permian mass extinction period discovered in China
phys.org/news/2025-03...
phys.org/news/2025-03...
Looking in the right direction
Government of Canada website, posted Jan 29, 2025:
Will degrowth become necessary by itself?
www.canada.ca/en/economic-...
Will degrowth become necessary by itself?
www.canada.ca/en/economic-...
Will degrowth become necessary by itself? - Canada.ca
Degrowth is a form of economy in which the economic wealth produced does not increase.
www.canada.ca
February 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Looking in the right direction
Reposted by Paul Waggoner
For the US to side with Russia and North Korea to oppose a UN resolution condemning the illegal invasion of Ukraine defies all common sense and adds insult to the countless injuries suffered by the brave Ukrainian people. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...
US joins Russia to vote against UN resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine | CNN Politics
The United States joined Russia to vote against a UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine Monday in a stunning shift from years of US policy.
edition.cnn.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
For the US to side with Russia and North Korea to oppose a UN resolution condemning the illegal invasion of Ukraine defies all common sense and adds insult to the countless injuries suffered by the brave Ukrainian people. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...
Good intermediary solutions until SMRs go fusion with full deployment. Let’s work toward clean, locally generated and autonomously controlled energy.
www.weforum.org/stories/2024...
www.technologynetworks.com/applied-scie...
www.weforum.org/stories/2024...
www.technologynetworks.com/applied-scie...
Nuclear Battery Converts Radiation To Electricity
Researchers have developed a prototype nuclear battery that converts ambient gamma radiation into electricity using scintillator crystals and solar cells. Tested with cesium-137 and cobalt-60, the sys...
www.technologynetworks.com
February 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Good intermediary solutions until SMRs go fusion with full deployment. Let’s work toward clean, locally generated and autonomously controlled energy.
www.weforum.org/stories/2024...
www.technologynetworks.com/applied-scie...
www.weforum.org/stories/2024...
www.technologynetworks.com/applied-scie...
the natural world defines 'sustainable' for us, exposing our attempts to bend the meaning to our fears
www.notion.so/evolutionary...
www.notion.so/evolutionary...
the answer is in our own history | Notion
there’s lots of talk around it but none directly seeming to go there.
www.notion.so
February 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM
the natural world defines 'sustainable' for us, exposing our attempts to bend the meaning to our fears
www.notion.so/evolutionary...
www.notion.so/evolutionary...
