Social Science

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[2] viXra:2310.0138 [pdf] submitted on 2023-10-29 22:08:33

The Climate Emergency, the Biodiversity Crisis and the "Doomsday Argument"

Authors: Richard Michael Blaber
Comments: 28 Pages. Creative Commons License BY-NC-ND 4.0.

This paper will argue that the global capitalist economy was founded, and depends, on the consumption of fossil fuels, and the increase in supply of renewable energy in the next three decades will not alter that fact significantly, given both economic and demographic growth and Jevons’ Paradox. The resulting increase in fossil fuel consumption in that time, along with that increased economic activity and human population, which is already unsustainable, will lead to increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, further anthropogenic climate change, and loss of biodiversity. The so-called ‘Doomsday Argument’ predicts that the deleterious impacts of these effects will be so severe as to result in the extinction of our entire species.
Category: Social Science

[1] viXra:2310.0114 [pdf] submitted on 2023-10-24 19:37:00

The Equality Act Without Equality and America’s Conscience Crisis

Authors: Gennady Shkliarevsky
Comments: 75 Pages.

The promulgation of the Equality Act has created a conscience crisis in America. It has revealed a failure a failure to fulfill the promise of ensuring equal protection of rights and freedoms of all Americans. This study discusses the failure to provide equal protection to LGBTQ rights and religious freedom. Equal protection is the fundamental principle of American civilization. A failure to realize this principle poses an existential threat to the survival of American civilization. This is what constitutes the conscience crisis that we face today. The study explores the reasons for the failure. Following a brief overview of the history of the Equality Act the study provides a critical examination of the Equality Act. The angle that the examination takes focuses on the conflation of human rights and civil rights. The examination shows that the inadequate differentiation of human rights and civil rights has created confusion that led to tensions and conflicts. The study uses two documents to substantiate its analysis: the American Declaration of Independence and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted in 1948 by the United Nations. The conflation of human rights and civil rights is the main source of the current conscience crisis. The study also outlines a possible path toward the resolution of the conscience crisis.
Category: Social Science