Beth Prior

An image of mountains. Text overlay states, “72% of people in Nevada and 69% of people in Utah think that global warming is happening. According to the Associated Press, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” has a provision allowing sales of “hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands” in these states."

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” was passed by the House of Representatives on May 22. According to the Associated Press, it includes public land sale authorizations and the lease of public lands for “drilling, mining, and logging”.

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08.06.2025 15:00 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

04.05.2025 06:21 — 👍 18524    🔁 6299    💬 251    📌 281

I had a lovely time at Yale’s #ISTF conference! Lots of learning about managing & sustaining tropic forests 🌴

05.02.2025 16:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hello world! I’m thankful for an alternative to Twitter. Here’s me feeling like this pedestrian walking sign in today’s world: functional but severely disoriented.

01.02.2025 15:36 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0