A Short Primer on Secular Ethics
Increasingly, world civilization is becoming secular; that is, it emphasizes worldly rather than religious values. This is especially true of Europe, which is widely considered post-religious and...
View ArticlePersonal Morality
Little did I imagine two decades ago, when I first proposed plans for new Centers for Inquiry, that developing them would be such an arduous, even treacherous task. In my book Eupraxsophy: Living...
View ArticleAweism
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no...
View ArticleApartheid’s Anniversary
May 26, 2009, will be a day to reflect on the role played by organized religion in the making of public policy. It was on this date sixty-one years ago that the National Party swept to power in South...
View ArticleExposing the Myth of Alcoholics Anonymous
If you have had a serious drinking problem in the United States of America, you might also have had serious troubles connected with that problem. You might have a drunken driving conviction or landed...
View ArticleOverpopulation? No Way!
“Human numbers are still rising in many countries. California’s population is growing faster than India’s; Americans born today will retire in a nation with more than half a billion inhabitants. This...
View ArticleThe Real Perils of Human Population Growth
About forty years ago, the world population was only 3.5 billion, or about half of the present population of 6.7 billion people. Most of us seem to ignore or be unaware of the magnitude of this rapid...
View ArticlePopulation Growth and Climate Change: Universal access to family planning...
The world’s population now exceeds 6.7 billion, and humankind’s consumption of fossil fuels, freshwater, crops, fish, and forests exceeds supply. These facts are connected. The annual increase in...
View ArticleIs the Population Bomb Finally Exploding?
The quick answer to that question is “Yes.” But the finally requires qualification. The population bomb—the power of population size and its rapid growth to greatly darken the human future—has actually...
View ArticleIntroduction: Is This Zero Hour?
Yet we’ve had too much fecundity; it’s now no virtue; it’s eating us out of house and home. —Edward Hoagland The decision to develop this feature was taken before the economic meltdown, when prices...
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