First extinction event?

A claim frequently made by climate change skeptics is that humans cannot create a sufficient imbalance in nature to cause climate change. They deny that the current mass extinction is related in any way to human activity. Is it not curious that an early, perhaps first, extinction event was precipitated by the anaerobic metabolism of microscopic life which released sufficient free oxygen into the atmosphere to allow aerobic life, like mammals, to evolve (see here and here)? It would appear that living creatures can unwittingly change their environment. The question for humans is can/will we do so wittingly.

Time in an infinite universe

Does time exist in an infinite universe (greater universe than the one we occupy)? If all possibilities are always present, can past be differentiated from present?

Trickle down is working too well…

The problem isn’t that trickle down economics isn’t working. The problem is it is working all too well…

Capital, therefore wealth, is produced by the labor of workers. Instead of a more equitable distribution of this wealth where workers retain a sizable proportion of the capital they create…

…The capital made by workers/managers flows down through legal and illegal corporate practices backed by government policy to concentrate with the 0.1%.

American Democracy

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