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John Dexter
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“It may sound old-fashioned, but letters and phone calls to your elected officials can have a real impact.”
― How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
― How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“Those who believe that the End of Days is just around the corner have no reason to be concerned about matters like climate change, groundwater depletion, or loss of biodiversity.3 If there is no future, conservation of any kind is, paradoxically, wasteful.”
― Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
― Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
“For change to become transformational, our change in mindset must manifest in our actions.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“I also want people to wake up to the true nature of the world. But the conspiracy theory rabbit hole is not the way to do it, it’s full of seductive nonsensical theories, a bizarre wonderland of time-wasting and harmful falsehoods that are taking people further away from the real world, not closer. It’s not a blue pill or a red pill, it’s a poison pill.”
― Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect
― Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect
“If the scientific attitude were just a matter of how one feels about whether one cares about evidence, it would not be possible to differentiate between the genuinely earnest person who is searching for a way to test their beliefs against experience versus the ideologues who are deluded into thinking that they care about evidence merely because they cherry pick facts that confirm their prior beliefs.”
― The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience
― The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience
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The Atheist Book Club
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In these gilded halls we shall discuss the presence of the atheistic viewpoint in the written form. Are you a fan of Douglas Adams' scientific view of ...more
The Life of Science
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