A growing fear that the environment is on the brink of collapse is making many greens less willing to compromise, even with each other. And George Bush’s departure from the White House has removed a common adversary.
Politicians like Mr Schwarzenegger tend to believe that energy projects should be judged on whether they improve on current [...]
Posts Tagged ‘social darwinism’
Human ecocide will replace humans with new species
IQ and the Wealth of Nations
This terrifying book by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen, shows us the elephant in the room of politics: the difference between have and have-not nations is intelligence.
The more intelligent nations not only invent more things, but they’re aware of a longer-term time-scale to their goals, so they value things like civic morality, collective awareness, intelligence [...]
Intelligent outer space life may be common
To estimate a distribution of values instead, he created a computer model of the Milky Way’s stars, generated planets around them, and assigned life to some planets in the habitable zones of their stars. Then he used equations that take into account the random nature of evolution to determine if that life went on to [...]
Social Darwinism in college admissions
White, well-off middle class families still exert a stranglehold over places at the top universities, despite the millions of pounds spent encouraging the poor and moderately well-off to apply, new research reveals.
Children from the richest 2% of all households, are more than four and a half times more likely to study at high-ranking universities such [...]
That which rises is the eternal minority
I read the local newspaper today, where they had a list of people they’d interviewed and their stories and pictures.
All the people voting McCain, save one, were white suburbanites.
All the people voting Obama, save one, were of a minority group or recent naturalized immigrants.
It leads me to think of humanity in these simple terms: some [...]