Sugar Consumption Sugar is a harmful, addictive, and sometimes deadly drug that Americans consume in excessive amounts as part of the Standard American Diet. Through our evolutionary history, the human race has consumed sugar in moderate amounts as a source of fast-acting fuel. Whole …
Sleep Our lives depend on sleep in order to remain healthy and productive in our waking reality. Getting the recommended number of hours of sleep boosts our memory, mood, feelings, emotional stability, and cognitive function; repairs our body; reduces stress and inflammation, which improves …
Dear Earth, Climate change is the greatest hubris in the history of the human race. For an advanced and conscious species- capable of so much knowledge, hope and understanding- to allow short-sighted greed, environmental ignorance and self-imposed destruction, for the sake of profit, to …
U.S. Laws and Regulations Laws, regulations and standards have been slow to deter the harmful emission of coal power plants. Oftentimes governments are bogged down in bureaucracy, inefficiency and corruption, making it extremely difficult to pass any meaningful legislation to the planet and its …
Economic Impact When determining the economic impact of greenhouse gas emissions and the subsequent increase in average global temperatures, it is important to discuss the social cost of carbon, regarded as the monetized damages associated with an incremental increase in CO2 emissions each year. …
Common Climate Change Denial Arguments Wherever there is climate change denial, you will find the same conflicting and deceitful arguments regurgitated by the same industries with a vested interest in the deception of climate science and the reality of climate change, and by the …
Tribe Mentality The current political and social climate within the United States threatens the fabric of democracy that lies at the foundation of our collective identity as a sovereign nation. Our two political parties, and abundance of social classes, challenge opposition and create chaos …
Productivity, Wage Growth and the American Economy During times of wealth, prosperity and upward mobility within the United States, racial tension, resentment and conscious awareness of the social caste system are limited. Once American citizens basic needs are met, they are less willing to …
American Gun Violence The darkest parts of ourselves are often the ones that we are unaware of until we step out from behind the shadow of our own unconscious thoughts and into a new light of moral reasoning, understanding and compassion. In the most …