Paul Waggoner

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...

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.

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Mapped: Where People Trust Each Other Most, by Country Which nations trust each other the most? Explore 2022 survey data ranking the world’s most and least trusting countries.

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Since ChatGPT launched, job openings are down 30% while the stock market is up 70%. One economist says the true culprit isn’t AI, but monetary policy | Fortune The relationship between job openings and stock market performance has been called “the scariest chart in the world.”

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Not to mention the crime of killing hundreds of thousands of peace-wanting neighbors.

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

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:

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Coffee-driven deforestation is making it harder to grow coffee, watchdog group says In Brazil's coffee-producing areas, more than 42,000 square miles of forest have disappeared over about two decades, says Coffee Watch. Deforestation leads to drought, which harms crop yields.

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Without products of plastic and forever chemicals, driving, flying, walking, eating, having shelter, cooking, cleaning, fishing, farming, surfing, hiking, climbing, surviving, and profiteering, become far less accessible to humans. It’s what our planet needs now that it’s inundated with plastic.

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It’s not right to release persistent and disruptive pollutants into our global ecosystems just so we can do whatever we want — shedding it off of us wherever we go like Pigpen.

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

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.

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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...

This is very interesting populationmatters.org/news/2024/09...

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.

Study Reveals The Shocking Amount of Plastic We Breathe in Every Day

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Scientists make disturbing discovery in analysis of human bodily fluids: 'Further research is required' The findings could suggest health impacts.

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?

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little model of progressions of human self awareness

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Earth’s Freshwater Is Suffocating: According to Scientists, It’s a Global Emergency A new study reveals significant changes in the global freshwater oxygen cycle. Rivers, streams, lakes, and reservoirs aren’t just beautiful features of the landscape, they’re vital to life on Earth. L...

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Trump admin declares emergency in California's federal forests Angeles, Los Padres and Cleveland national forests are all targets for increased logging.

And this too. It’s this same tension that plagues us at every level of our governing conventions. The reasons given for logging are misled and based on falsehoods Trump admin declares emergency in California's federal forests search.app/uEnM2YgHcFED...

'National forests are not national parks': Logging debate in Whites divides forestry experts, environmentalists A recently approved logging project in the Sandwich Range of the White Mountain National Forest is close to popular hiking trails, upsetting some local hikers. But Forest Service officials say logging...

a local autonomy that attracts more and more residents; limiting infrastructure but building safety infrastructures

It exposes the sides; those sensitive to endless encroachment, those that don’t know (kept from) knowing about it, and those that willingly do it www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2024...

This is interesting because all of those numbered statements are true of urban planning, but stated this way shows some statements to be at odds with others. Some have to do with growth, and others include limiting sprawl.

I love this game

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.

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

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‘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...

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.

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‘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

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

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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, ...

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

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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...

Terrestrial 'life oasis' from end-Permian mass extinction period discovered in China

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Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors A realistic understanding of their costs and risks is critical.

Except this. blog.ucsusa.org/edwin-lyman/... how often are high tech solutions too good to be true monkey’s paw wishes? Probably most of the time. Unintended consequences, autoamputation, etc. maybe energy autonomy needs to rely only on what can safely be harvested from free flowing water or wind

Looking in the right direction

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.

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...

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...

Good intermediary solutions until SMRs go fusion with full deployment. Let’s work toward clean, locally generated and autonomously controlled energy.

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the answer is in our own history | Notion there’s lots of talk around it but none directly seeming to go there.

the natural world defines 'sustainable' for us, exposing our attempts to bend the meaning to our fears

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