
…more recycling or fewer vacations. Individual actions are just a drop in a (rapidly warming) ocean. The only rational path is a virtuous cycle of better politicians enacting better policies and promoting better public understanding of climate change. But as of today, there is no sign the world is moving in that direction.
It’s because we treat school the way we treat church. But I am not a priest. My textbook is not divinely inspired. And you should not blindly believe everything I say (not that I think you should do that in church, either).
…he great smoothening of the last decade. So what about the generation entering adulthood right now? Has life with less friction left them feeling happier and more fulfilled than generations before? In her book, iGen, San Diego State University Professor of Psychology Jean M. Twenge shows us the answer is no. A growing percentage of eighth, tenth, and twelfth-graders feel their lives have less purpose than…