Joel M. Curzon

Don’t pretend to be an environmentalist if you refuse to acknowledge the problem of human #overpopulation and ongoing #population growth. #EarthDay #environment

I need to get off this platform for several days. Summer’s a wasting. (No, this is not from this year. The monsoon this year hasn’t done very well so far . . . )

The default assumption should be that any quote of a famous individual on social media is fake unless you have solid evidence for thinking otherwise. The more famous the person, the more likely it is that the quote is bogus. — Socrates

Kanab, Utah, used to be an out of the way, podunk town best known as a center of the Sagebrush Rebellion. Now it’s getting overrun by high-end luxury resorts and gated communities — despite the lack of water. @Land_Desk landdesk.org/p/as-the-color…

Do you remember when everyone criticized the U.S. during World War II because its blockades and other practices were leading to widespread malnutrition and even starvation among Japanese civilians? Neither do I.

27 million tons of nanoplastics now haunt the North Atlantic. It rains plastic. We drink it, bleed it, and breathe it. The question is no longer how bad it is, but how long we can endure it. gizmodo.com/you-dont-want-…

Probably should wear an N95 mask when sawing your Covid-infected neighbors’ skulls open. Be safe out there.

The EPA just proposed re-approving dicamba—again. It’s meant for 5M acres of crops (New Jersey-sized), but the drift harms plants, insects, birds, & bats miles beyond. Spray 5M acres, poison tens of millions—and wonder why there’s an insect apocalypse. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Dicamba is a highly volatile herbicide—known to drift miles from where it's applied, damaging crops, trees, and natural areas @PrairieRivers has a decade of research showing widespread injury across Illinois Last month, a soybean lobbyist joined EPA's Office of Chemical Safety

“But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. . . And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain . . .” — 1 Corinthians 15:12-17 There was no resurrection.

If there is any organization in the history of humanity that has told more lies than the Catholic Church, I’d like to know what it is.

An organization interested in truth wouldn’t need to burn people at the stake for believing differently.

What will those who come after us think of us? Will they envy us that we saw butterflies and mockingbirds, penguins and little brown bats? Will they envy us that we lived on a planet as beautiful as it still is? Or will they hate us for what we did and did not do? >>

Christianity is not, at base, a philosophical religion. It is a historical religion, based on historical claims and texts. Christian philosophy is just post hoc rationalization.

“Christianity is a very philosophical religion.” No it isn’t. Christian philosophy is post hoc rationalization of a profoundly unphilosophical social phenomenon.

The notion that fundamental reality is a person (God) strikes me as being about as probable as a claim that fundamental reality is a roast-beef sandwich.

What war looks like: Dresden, Germany, 1945. Photo credit: Richard Peter (Creative Commons license)

This tweet packs a truly extraordinary amount of stupidity into 21 words.