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A Comprehensive Approach to Understanding Our Biosphere

By kpluseiswise | September 7, 2023December 20, 2023 by kpluseiswise

Would our ancestors be proud of us? When I think of the problems humans face today: suffering, anxiety, inequality, social justice issues, war, pollution . . . I try to put things in an evolutionary context. On the one hand, we have come so far. We have created many wonderful ‘science’, ‘technology’, and ‘engineering’ elements that benefit individuals and society. Clean water. Sanitation. Medicine. On the other hand, it hasn’t all been rainbows and unicorns. We can’t seem…

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Degrowth vs Growth (KEW Episode 126)

By kpluseiswise | May 25, 2023May 24, 2023 by kpluseiswise

While I don’t want to perpetuate the ‘capitalism sucks’ argument, I want to spend some time on degrowth. Pretty funny that the spell checkers keep correcting ‘degrowth’ to ‘regrowth’. See? This idea is manifested in everything. Because of capitalism, humans have become obsessed with growth. Mostly in the financial sense. The way our global economy is set up, growth is an essential requirement. Maybe THE MOST essential requirement. When we create money we create debt.…

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“The One Thing You Can Bet on is that Things Will Change” Preview KEW Episode 100: The Evolution Paradox

By kpluseiswise | June 1, 2022May 29, 2022 by kpluseiswise

Do you believe in Evolution? What if I told you that all Evolution says is that ‘things change’? Can you argue with that? Kind of hard to argue. Because things change. Not much is true or guaranteed in life. See my first Episode on Facts for a thorough analysis of that tenet. But one thing you can bet on is that things change. And I’ve always wondered why people resist the Theory of Evolution when…

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“How Much Time Do You Think You Have?” FLASHBACK! KEW Episode: Time

By kpluseiswise | May 30, 2022May 29, 2022 by kpluseiswise

You ever look up at the stars at night and feel really small? Somehow gazing up a the vast emptiness of space, and realizing that these teeny little blips are actually ginormous stars is humbling. I hope you enjoy that feeling as much as I do. Most humans, however, don’t really ‘get’ the vastness of space. The range of size from tiny atoms up to the entire universe is immense. So immense, I argue, that…