[I]t would be puerile to expect the human heart to be other than it has pleased nature to make it.--Bastait
Very nice time last night at Senti with one of Mom's associates.
Drove all over today trying to get the new ID driver's license. Hundreds of supplicants, mostly looking like terrorists.
The classic definition of "person" is that given by Boethius in "De persona et duabus naturis", c. ii: Naturæ rationalis individua substantia (an individual substance of a rational nature.) I am not sure this definition works now. But....the Yurok Tribe in northwestern California has declared, that the Klamath River now has the “rights of personhood.” The tribal elders decided the river’s rights were violated by unnamed assailants that must be brought to eco-justice. In 2017, the New Zealand government negotiated with Maori tribes to give legal standing in court to the Whanganui River. In 2018, Minnesota’s White Earth Band of Ojibwe declared the human rights of wild rice (manoomin) and the freshwater places where it grows. Manoomin is the first plant species to claim human rights, although no one has tested the decision in tribal court.
I have no idea where this is going but it's probably bad. Definitions are really important and the lack of good definitions usually implies a lack of insight.
Expansion of wind and solarpower and the Green New Deal are justified constantly on the grounds of a climate crisis. Temperatures are rising but, as the Little Ice Age ended around 1850, it is not easy to separate natural from anthropogenic effects. The latest research in the peer-reviewed literature suggests that mankind is responsible for about half a degree Celsius of the global temperature increase of about 1.5 degrees since 1850.
In 1781 on this day, hopelessly trapped at Yorktown, Virginia, British General Lord Cornwallis surrendered 8,000 British soldiers and seamen to a larger Franco-American force, effectively bringing an end to the American Revolution.
Charts and Such
And, especially for Sandra:
Very nice time last night at Senti with one of Mom's associates.
Drove all over today trying to get the new ID driver's license. Hundreds of supplicants, mostly looking like terrorists.
The classic definition of "person" is that given by Boethius in "De persona et duabus naturis", c. ii: Naturæ rationalis individua substantia (an individual substance of a rational nature.) I am not sure this definition works now. But....the Yurok Tribe in northwestern California has declared, that the Klamath River now has the “rights of personhood.” The tribal elders decided the river’s rights were violated by unnamed assailants that must be brought to eco-justice. In 2017, the New Zealand government negotiated with Maori tribes to give legal standing in court to the Whanganui River. In 2018, Minnesota’s White Earth Band of Ojibwe declared the human rights of wild rice (manoomin) and the freshwater places where it grows. Manoomin is the first plant species to claim human rights, although no one has tested the decision in tribal court.
I have no idea where this is going but it's probably bad. Definitions are really important and the lack of good definitions usually implies a lack of insight.
Expansion of wind and solar
In 1781 on this day, hopelessly trapped at Yorktown, Virginia, British General Lord Cornwallis surrendered 8,000 British soldiers and seamen to a larger Franco-American force, effectively bringing an end to the American Revolution.
Charts and Such
And, especially for Sandra:
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