I guess it falls under poultry. Huh. Can't say I knew that. As I'm fond of saying, you learn something new every day (and often forget them, haha).

To answer your question, consuming turkey seems, relatively speaking, innocuous compared to red meat and dairy.

4. Most of the deaths from climate change, sadly, occur in countries that have contributed the least to the problem. It is the consumptive habits of people in rich countries that disproportionately harm the people in poor countries.

Here's to those provocative Thanksgiving convos! :)

3. Wildfire smoke, air pollution, and the burning of fossil fuels are currently contributing to more people dying. When the Trump administration rolls back environmental regulations, more people will die. Full stop.

1. Reducing one's consumption of red meat and dairy will have a far greater positive impact on the environment that any decision involving transportation.

2. The U.S. is the single greatest historical emitter of greenhouse gases of any country.

the meat industry even before I went away to college, leading me to give up red meat in 2001. I hope my niece one day has this experience!

Here are the facts:

Growing up in northern California, I met those professors, along with lots of vegetarians and vegans. Dr. Dave Danielson at CSM, someone I affectionately called "Philosopher Dave" and thanked in the acknowledgments of my book, turned me on to critiques of capitalism and...

It maintains a shadow docket and constantly overturns other federal judges. It does the bidding of conservative Christians and oil magnates. Court expansion should be toward the top of the list for the next Dem prez-Senate combo.

wait, what??!! I did not see that coming.

it seems to me that Larry Kramer argued for a similar thing--we've surrendered our ability to interpret the Constitution to courts and lawyers.

Apparently McCulloch v. Maryland wasn't often cited as precedent until the Warren Court of mid-20th c.

Very interesting. Seems consistent with what I've read in Gienapp; that one of the consequences of the J. Marshall Court was judicial supremacy in the sense of having the Supreme Court settle all constitutional questions whereas others (Jefferson, FDR, etc) have said the people have a voice, too.

Yeah. It's crushing to see two highly qualified woman presidential candidates lose to the worst monster ever, who delights in inflicting pain on others. The electorate's sense of what makes for effective leadership is immature and retrograde.

I'm not super close to the coast but yeah, looks like we're going to get hit hard down here in SoCal.

BTW, I liked how you and the three other scholars responded to Bill Gates's ill conceived message on climate.

I'm going to go further next semester and make students show me how they put all the chunks together, along with a reflection on how they edited and revised their work. The grading load may be immense, but maybe it's worth it? We'll see.

Horrible. And completely at odds with what some of the most respected leaders in our field have stated. Whoever put this together did a good job.

it's a sad state of affairs in my view. And sloppy. Like I said, we all make mistakes. But in a way it erodes quality.

It also doesn't take that much effort. They can publish it and read it aloud. We tell our students to proofread and these are professional adults.

I was thinking about the "a an" thing though the governor's thing is an interesting point.

Hmmm...I'm reminded of the old question of whether it's better to have loved and lost rather than not loved at all?

The pandemic compounded what was already an epidemic of loneliness. We're an atomized society in the U.S.

I like that you're so open and honest about the human condition.