Politics in the Anthropocene: Yes Virginia, All Politics Will Still Be Local in the Future, but the Definition of “Local” is Going to Change

Michael Sales

Apr 1
24 min

Politics in the Anthropocene: Yes Virginia, All Politics Will Still Be Local in the Future, but the Definition of “Local” is Going to Change

2024 is shaping up to be a year of destiny for Planet Earth. Elections will be held in 64 countries plus the European Union. 49% of the...

Michael Sales

Apr 1
2 min

Appendix II: Politics in the Anthropocene

Pima Precinct Pathway Guide This appendix presents a way to get to a detailed map of specific precincts in Pima County AZ. This could be...

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THE ANTHROPOCEAN

MICHAEL SALES ON

BEING AN ANTHROPOCEAN

It is said that you don’t know what you’re feeling until it has a name. Anthropocene is a word that defines our time. This is the Age of Humanity. Ours is an ever-increasingly anxious era. Plagues and calamities abound. Technologies of all sorts are advancing at an exponential rate. > read more

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Michael Sales

Apr 1
24 min

Politics in the Anthropocene: Yes Virginia, All Politics Will Still Be Local in the Future, but the Definition of “Local” is Going to Change

2024 is shaping up to be a year of destiny for Planet Earth. Elections will be held in 64 countries plus the European Union. 49% of the...

Michael Sales

Mar 24
2 min

Vintage Books: Anthropocean de Jour!

I’m a lover of books that literally bend to my will. The sooner I can fold the pages of a book back so that I’m holding the whole book in...

Michael Sales

Nov 8, 2023
2 min

Ray Elman: Anthropocene de Jour!

Anthropoceans are inquisitive. While rigid religiosity is doing everything it can to oversimplify our ever-unfolding multidimensionality...

Michael Sales

Nov 8, 2023
1 min

Music 'Cene

Nature's Way by Spirit Brian Dobson’s comment on YouTube remains relevant: "I saw a Spirit concert right after this song came out. When...

Anomalies, Threat, Nonconformity, and Change: Is a New Science Emerging?

Michael Sales

Nov 8, 2023
8 min

Anomalies, Threat, Nonconformity, and Change: Is a New Science Emerging?

The Anthropocene is a shaky ride. Many belongings will shift during this wobbly flight. Are we on automatic pilot toward an, as yet...

Michael Sales

Sep 9, 2023
2 min

Ian Bremmer: Anthropocean de Jour!

Ian Arthur Bremmer (born November 12, 1969) is an American internationalist trained in political science. He is the founder and president...

Michael Sales

Sep 9, 2023
10 min

Who Is An Anthropocean?

We Anthropoceans are pilgrims setting out on a non-linear, Escheresque highway. Anthropocene is the term used to describe the Age of...

Learning, Localism and Love in the Anthropocene

Michael Sales

Jun 3, 2023
17 min

Learning, Localism and Love in the Anthropocene

Localism versus Globalism in the Anthropocene I spend time in Collier County, Florida. Collier County is Deep Red. Collier is home to the...

Capitalism, Communitarianism, Contradictions and Cosmic Consciousness

Michael Sales

Mar 23, 2023
10 min

Capitalism, Communitarianism, Contradictions and Cosmic Consciousness

Capitalism: A system that incentivizes productivity, transactional relationships, competition, efficiency, and consumption...

Michael Sales

Jan 27, 2023
7 min

Teach Your Parents Well

Most, maybe all, local school boards or committees hold regular open meetings in which the public can speak near the opening of the...

The Anthropocene: zestful people vs automatons?!

Michael Sales

Jan 3, 2023
1 min

The Anthropocene: zestful people vs automatons?!

Will the Anthropocene be an era of ever greater conformity or ever greater individual expressiveness? I am rooting for Lloyd Price's...

The Security and Sustainability Guide: A Compass for the Anthropocene

Michael Sales

Dec 29, 2022
1 min

The Security and Sustainability Guide: A Compass for the Anthropocene

This video discusses the Anthropocene, the Age of Humanity, a new geological era that began about 200 years ago. Most geological eras...

Michael Sales

Dec 29, 2022
8 min

Interoperability Creates Hope

The past is beating the dickens out of future Dr. Michael E. Mann made a fundamental contribution to the "Observed Climate Variability...

Michael Sales

Nov 2, 2022
6 min

Octaves, Plagues and Progress

I started smoking in 1955 when I was 11. By the time I was 26, I had about a two-pack-a-day habit. My dad was my hero. He went through...

Michael Sales

Oct 10, 2022
6 min

A New Paradigm

Last year, I sustained a back injury. It immobilized me for about a week. I saw my chiropractor, who’s helped me with issues before. He...

Replace the Aristocracy with the Anthrocracy

Michael Sales

Sep 22, 2022
10 min

Replace the Aristocracy with the Anthrocracy

The death of Elizabeth has gotten me to think about the validity of aristocracy continuing to exist as we move deeper into the era where...

An Environmental Dictatorship Is Closer Than You Think

Michael Sales

Sep 4, 2022
6 min

An Environmental Dictatorship Is Closer Than You Think

War and Civil Liberties Don't Mix Writing in the December 20, 2021 edition of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, security analyst Arnaud...

American Fascism Poses a Threat to the Anthropocene

Michael Sales

Aug 28, 2022
3 min

American Fascism Poses a Threat to the Anthropocene

Given the calamitous outcome of fascism in the countries where it’s been fully implemented (e.g., Italy and Germany in WW II), Americans...

Michael Sales

Aug 28, 2022
6 min

I Missed the Vroom!

Starting in 1995, I’ve wanted to purchase an all-electric vehicle. That’s when I first became aware of the work of Stan Ovshinsky....

Michael Sales

Aug 18, 2022
4 min

“Look, The Reality Is…It’s Inevitable”

My mind tends to cringe when people say this to me. It is a statement that is usually/almost always delivered in conjunction with the...

Michael Sales

Aug 11, 2022
6 min

Respect Public School Educators

I Don't Get No Respect" - Rodney Dangerfield I like my dentist and my chiropractor. Sometimes their treatments can be quite painful. I...

Michael Sales

Aug 3, 2022
7 min

The Lonely Liar

In his defense of the British soldiers who fired on and killed eight colonists during “The Boston Massacre,” John Adams said: Facts are...

Michael Sales

Jul 29, 2022
5 min

Used to Be Hunted as Prey

“It wasn’t that long ago that we used to hunt them as prey.” An urbane and well-educated 70-year-old white man I know said this to me...

Michael Sales

Jul 21, 2022
4 min

What is Saving the World Worth to You?

A couple of days before England reported the highest temperatures in its recorded history (7/19/22), a New York Times/Siena poll...

Michael Sales

Jun 26, 2022
1 min

Welcome to the Anthropocene...

Here we are, citizens of the Anthropocene, trying to figure this all out. The big question, of course, is "will there be time"? Watch me...

Anthropocene: A Word That Defines Our Time

Michael Sales

Jun 25, 2022
2 min

Anthropocene: A Word That Defines Our Time

We are all Anthropoceans now. It is said that you don't know what you’re feeling until it has a name. Ours is an ever-increasingly...

Michael Sales

Jun 24, 2022
3 min

Tech in the 'Cene: Robotics

I was recently served by a robot at Brooks’ Burgers in Naples, Florida. It wasn’t quite as spiffy as this one, but it was moving toward a...

Michael Sales

Jun 19, 2022
2 min

Buckminster Fuller Archive

I have been reading and studying Bucky Fuller’s work since 1968. The breadth and depth of his genius and the integrity of his character...

Michael Sales

Jun 19, 2022
1 min

The Zombie Named Dixie

White supremacy is the Confederacy's blazingly debilitating hangover. Let's find a cure! Racial and ethnic discrimination and hatred are,...

Michael Sales

Jun 19, 2022
6 min

A Simple Twist of Fate

A multiplicity of alternative futures is wrapped up in every moment of the present. Strong trends create a sense of inevitability...

Leading Organizations in the Field of Alternative Energy

Michael Sales

Jun 18, 2022
23 min

Leading Organizations in the Field of Alternative Energy

This report also publishes soon in the Security and Sustainability Guide. I believe that the Guide is one of the indispensable tools...

Michael Sales

Jun 17, 2022
1 min

Why Your Vote Matters

Recently, I posted this message for "Elders for Sound Democracy". This is the message of the moment, the urgent news that all of us...

Michael Sales

Jun 16, 2022
5 min

Elvis, Orgasm and Social Change

The Security and Sustainability Guide, at present, describes the activities of over 3,000 organizations that are dedicated in one way or...

ADVENTURES IN THE ANTHROPOCENE

ADVENTURES IN THE ANTHROPOCENE

THE ANTHROPOCEAN

THE ANTHROPOCEAN

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