The lack of water will end life as we know it. No place has a greater loss of water than Perú other than small nations in Arabia (such as Yemen). The lack of water is the result of the greed of governments, agribusinesses, retailers, and industries such as the Koch Industries of Kansas (USA).
Climate change is global warming, and today it spells the death of South America and other areas if remedies are not found. Religion will be the biggest enemy of stopping this natural end of the planet as we know it.
Racism has been a part of recorded history since its beginning of more than 15000 years. Much of it has come out of a myth that is popular among Jews and Christians: Genesis 9:20-27 which is plagiarized from a far older Egyptian text based on the theology centered around the God Osiris, coupled with ancient Greek tales.
Ignorance and arrogance push hatred to new levels in the USA, surpassing any of the crimes against humanity festered on the skin of the USA by Joe McCarthy and Richard M. Nixon–by two people far worse: Michelle Bachman (MN) and Steven King (IA) who would excuse murder in Iraq as equal to “hazing” while condoning hate crimes as “crimes of the mind.” This is written to expose two of the most dangerous criminals in the USA Congress whose sole love is not for the history of the USA nor for its people, but for their grab for power and adulation.
Charles and David Koch have become gods to many, and have bought nine governorships in their drive to disempower workers, and to end basic freedom in the USA. Among the top ten worse polluters in the world, Koch Industries funds various fascist groups and continues to destroy the planet and its people.
Ignorance in the USA is not “creeping along” but running backwards surpassing all scientific truths and realities in quest of the alma mater narcotic nipple of complacency and wishful thinking—and it is not just in the USA, it is a worldwide contagion. Ignorance breeds hatred and violence as seen in the twin evils of the …
A good teacher is a subject matter expert. The good teacher enables and assists students to learn and encourages the student to always question everything. Many students, however, believe that a good teacher gives them high marks, requires little reading, does not worry about poorly composed papers, and wants the student to love them, not become a true seeker after truth.
The Third World of impoverished nations is struggling to learn English in an effort to raise themselves out of squalid conditions and join the First World; to attend better schools, find better jobs, and enjoy a better life. Unfortunately, the IB Programme out of Cambridge UK is destroying that hope for it not only encourages plagiarism and theft, but uses vulgar (street) English. Vulgar English cannot lead to quality work, but it does keep a growing workforce for those who can afford a better education.
Labor unions have been attacked as un-American in Republican-led states. Labor is accustomed to being belittled, degraded, defamed, but it is because of collective bargaining that workers in the USA enjoy an eight hour work day, a five day work week, unemployment benefits, and more.
Biblical literalists argue that women are the “weaker sex” and must be controlled and dominated by men. While there is little evidence for such a claim in the Christian bible, it is used to subordinate women and make them second class citizens.