For the last couple of months, Mr. Card has been producing a well-written course of essays beginning with global warming and ending with a vision of how we might better structure the way we choose to live in the future. As usual, there are passages we agree with (the global warming analysis) and passages we don’t (the idea that people don’t like to drive their cars).
For those who don’t know, Mr. Card is a well-known science fiction writer. He is a democrat and a bleeding-heart leftist. For once, I use those words without revulsion because Mr. Card operates high above the arena of empty political invective. He isn’t hate-filled. He’s logical and honest, and though I often disagree with him, he is eminently respectable. The fact is that we need more people like Mr. Card on both sides. We would do well to listen to him, and perhaps better still to emulate him in the matters of political and civil discourse.
Without further ado, I link you to his series of essays.
- All in a Good Cause
- Life Without Cars
- Walking Neighborhoods
- Don’t You Dare Ask for Proof!
- Oil — Past the Peak
As a bonus, I offer you Global Warming: Fighting Off the Ice Age.
Finally, all of Mr. Card’s “World Watch” excellent essays may be found together at http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/index.html.
