signs of the times on NPR

[phantom power]

Anybody else catch science friday today? First, they have a segment on climate modeling, where the guest is pointing out fast things are changing, and how much more, and faster, they are going to change even assuming we halted GHG emissions tomorrow. In other words, a typical day of news here in E/E.

Then, one or two segments later, they've got this guy doing quantum dot research, waxing poetic about how awesome quantum dots are going to be for solar energy... 50 years from now.

From this holy font, all cognitive dissonance flows.

[stuntcat]

1. I listened

With my headphones, while luckily I was working on my pond outside.. I've just discovered it helps to be pissed off when I'm digging a 60 gallon hole in clay x( :grr:

[Mika]

2. I can't listen to NPR any more.

My local Miami public station has some good local shows, especially on the weekends, but I avoid most of their national NPR programs.

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[bhikkhu]

3. A couple of weeks ago they raked China over "One Child" policy

Human rights, women's rights, modernization and joining the world community, etc. Essentially without a mention of the issue of population, they concluded that the "One Child" policy was rightly finished - just a matter of time.

I don't recall if they talked about it that day, but during that week and since they had talked about global strains of energy shortages and declining resources, of the growing problems of food production in the face of fuel and fertilizer costs and diversion of food to fuel, of the massive human-caused impact on global climate we may be seeing, of the growing problem of fresh water availability in developing countries....A long list of problems which may have various solutions, but have overpopulation as a root cause. And then the irony that the only country on the planet that has taken this seriously and tried to effectively manage population is criticized for it, and then praised by NPR (conditionally) for the likelihood of their joining the rest of the world in having no plan.