President Obama said we’re going to restore science to its rightful place and transform our schools and universities to meet the demands of a new age. Scientists have been hard at work on that for 40 years. It doesn’t mean longer school days and more homework; it means a whole new approach to science and education. Find out how to get that education yourself with high school level books that are available at mainstream bookstores. This is an introduction to every other book on this site. Available in booklet and audio CD.


Evolutionary psychology is a biological approach to psychology that starts with human evolution. It’s the study of universal traits of humanity and of the origins of differences among groups. This is the most direct route to Peace on Earth. By discouraging people from learning about evolution, Christian fundamentalists are preventing Peace on Earth from happening. Available in book and two audio CD set.


The anti-globalization revolution is a struggle against the globalization of Capitalism. No matter what name it goes by, the concentration of resources among a small group of people results in a concentration of decision-making power. People are inherently self-interested, which means centralized decision making power can never be trusted. These and all the other main points of the anti-Capitalist revolution have been proven scientifically, while the idea that Capitalism can ever lead to a just or sustainable society is founded on lies and superstitions. Available in book and free audio download, and in condensed form in booklet and audio CD.


In the evolution versus intelligent design debate, the Christian fundamentalists had an advantage in that the Bible is a story of the world and a reference book to life, while the scientists don’t have anything similar. So this three-volume set is a scientific story of the world and reference book to life. Volume 1 is a philosophical approach to evolution and human psychology, which brings together major discoveries scientists have made into the origins of religion, the history of world civilization, the origins of emotions, social organization, learning, child development, and male/female relations. That scientific foundation creates a solid foundation for a humanistic philosophy of life, death, metaphysics, and choices we have for the future. Available in book and free audio book.


The philosophical foundation of Volume 1 is so solid that by changing a few words I switch to a scientific approach in Volume 2. That’s an easier foundation to use to build up to complicated forms of human behavior, like political, economic, and environmental systems. Available in book and free audio download.


Now that I’ve shown how the psychology of individual people turns into political, economic, and environmental systems, in Volume 3 I use that as a common ground to fit together the goals of progressive movements and ideologies. That includes the anti-Capitalist, anti-corporate, anti-border, anti-nuclear, peace, environmental, animal rights, and feminist movements, Atheism, progressive religion, Indigenous Decolonization, Socialism, Communism, and Anarchism. Available in book and free audio download.


The content of Planetary Biology and the Anti-Capitalist Revolution has been established so thoroughly that you can learn how the global environment and evolutionary psychology work with cycles you can see happening in a garden. That means all the third-world farmers who are being driven off their land by globalization can learn planetary biology as easily as anyone else. And that means they can prove that college educated politicians have no excuse for not knowing that Capitalism isn’t environmentally sustainable and will lead to people fighting over resources. The global educational feudal system ends here. Available in book and free audio download, and the text is posted in its entirety on this site.


This is a rigorous academic version of the connections between evolutionary psychology and the theatrical directing style developed by Constatin Stanislavski, and how I have used them to draw connections among the observations about life different groups of people have made. That is followed by a working class activist perspective on science and the education system in America. Beware, because this is college level evolutionary psychology, followed by my first hand account of what it’s like to have been condemned by the education system to live in a neighborhood where racial hate crimes are a fact of life. Available in book only.


This is an expanded version of Planetary Biology and the Anti-Capitalist Revolution, with 10 additional chapters on topics specific to the Anarchist movement. That includes classist attitudes by the middle class majority, and the misguided rejection of science. This is written for Anarchists specifically, so if you don’t have any experience in the Anarchist movement, you won’t be able to keep up with the terminology and obscure references. If you are an Anarchist, beware, because I grew up in Down East Maine, and I wrote this in my native dialect. If you middle class radicals can’t wrap your brains around the fact that the speaking habits of sailors and lumberjacks aren’t part of the system of oppression like you accuse them of being, you don’t have a global working class revolution. Available in book only until I can find time to finish the audio recording.

The Ozone Depletion– Adaptation to an Environmental Limitation

Chlorofluorocarbons and the ozone depletion was an example of people anticipating that they were reaching an environmental limitation and taking action to correct it before they overshot the limitation.

Chlorofluorocarbons were first invented in 1928.  They were used as coolants for refrigerators and air conditioners, as aerosol propellants, in packing material, in insulation, and in electronics components.

It wasn’t until 1974 that scientists discovered that one CFC molecule would start a chemical reaction that would destroy millions of ozone molecules.  Then they started testing the ozone layer, and discovered that the ozone layer was being destroyed everywhere, and especially over the poles where CFCs were building up due to the air currents.

There were a lot more delays built into this problem.  First, there was the time it took for CFCs to be created and put into refrigerators or wherever, and then for them to leak out and escape into the atmosphere.  Then there was the time it took for the CFCs to drift all the way up to the ozone layer.  Then there was the time it took to notice the problem, study it, and discover that it was affecting the atmosphere. The ozone depletion the scientists discovered in the 1970s was caused by the CFC industry of the 1950s, or something like that.  In the intervening time, people had been manufacturing more and more CFCs every year and installing them into more and more things they were going to leak out of eventually and escape into the atmosphere.

Then there was another delay caused by the time it took scientists to discover enough evidence for people to act upon.  Then there were more delays caused by the time it took the wheels of bureaucracy to start turning, then more delays caused by business leaders dragging their feet as usual at recognizing there was enough evidence to prove there was a problem, then more delays caused by some political leaders, like President Reagan, dragging their feet and saying it wasn’t a problem.

In 1987, 13 years after the problem was first noticed, the first international meeting was held at the United Nations for politicians to try to figure out what to do about the problem.  Then more delays were caused by politicians disagreeing about what they should do about it because of the effects that banning CFCs would have on their different economies.   But they did at least sign an agreement to get the process started.

Over the next 10 years, more evidence came in that indicated that the original agreement wasn’t enough to solve the problem, because the problem was worse than anyone had realized at the time.  So four more meetings were held and more agreements were made, until by 1997 an agreement was finally made that could contain the problem (at least, as far as we know), with the phasing out of CFCs and other ozone-destroying chemicals in 2000.

This is an example of a problem that was solved before it got out of control, and with all those delays it still took 26 years to solve the problem.

The ozone layer is still being destroyed, and will continue being destroyed for maybe 20 more years.  Ozone molecules are produced by chemical reactions in the atmosphere, so once all the CFCs break down, the ozone layer will recover, but once again it will take hundreds of years.

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