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Carbon Taxes (Including Oregon’s HB 4001) are Another Good Way to Not Lower CO2 Emissions

Both the left and the right get it wrong on this issue. No surprise there. The left thinks that a tax can fix this whole global warming thing. No problem. However, ninety-five percent of the people in the world are housed, fed, transported, etc., by a market system. If we want to successfully slurp up […]
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Cloning a Mammoth (or CRISPR and GMOs for Nature Part IV)

Hell yes! is the two-word answer. But the important thing is the question, which is what I will deal with most in this post. There have been many think pieces in the past few years about whether we should take tissue from extinct animals and use genetic technology to clone a living, breathing animals out […]
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Beef Tax My Ass

For some reason, Richard Coniff's March 17 opinion in the New York Times made me think of a story my wife tells. She once put two goats in the back of her Subaru wagon to bring them to a friend in San Francisco who didn’t want to mow her lawn. Amazingly, my wife made it […]
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CRISPR and GMOs for Nature Part III

The things that make technology great are the things that make human consciousness great. At the same time, the shortcomings of our consciousness are magnified by technology. Human consciousness and technology have long been one interacting system; you could call it techno-consciousness. If we are going to use technology effectively we need to understand how […]
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CRISPR and GMOs for Nature Part II

The dogs in the picture above have been genetically altered (using Instagram's algorithm) for maximum cuteness/social media impact. I am amazed at the amount of attention we give to GMOs. The left would have you believe that were it not for GMOs our agriculture would be ‘sustainable.’ The right would have you believe that GMOs […]
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CRISPR and GMOs for Nature Part I

The Bentgrass Blog articulates a worldview that threads the needle between the techno-fantasies of the futurists and the head-in-the-sand tactics of the luddites. So, I would be negligent if I didn’t take the opportunity to comment on CRISPR in real time. And make a pitch for CRISPR and GMOs for nature. My thoughts were on […]
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