Can we preserve our beautiful paradise, flying through space, or will we let it die as we kill ourselves? — Welcome to Terra’s Hell by me, Todd Daniel. This is the latest version of my blog, which I originally started in 2004. I am but a tiny spec in the sea of humanity and in this universe, but something keeps telling me to write. I feel like a screaming ant…

What the Green Movement can learn from the Evangelical Christian Movement. — The whole idea of being alive is a little terrifying. Here we are, trapped in these organic bodies. We are at the mercy of the fleshly shell that we live inside, as well as the environment that surrounds us. …

We all have a responsibility to seek the real truth and reality, free from bias. — Imagine living at a time in history when your entire world falls apart in just three years. That’s what happened when the Spaniards invaded the Aztec Empire in 1519. …

In this post-election turmoil, it’s time to start focusing on goals that really matter. — Life reminds me of the elevator on the starship Enterprise. As the elevator sped up you could see the lights of each floor out a window zooming by faster and faster. As I get older the days speed by and so do the months and years. My deep-thinking, pondering brain…

I stopped blogging for a while in June because at the time I really wondered if humanity was going to make it. I still don’t know the answer, but somehow we humans continue to slog forward. …

Before we can take care of the world we need to take care of ourselves first. — In my 53rd year of life on Planet Earth, I acknowledge that I am just one of 7 billion humans, cooperatively destroying an organic world, which is flying through space. But, oh hark, our plant is one of hundreds of millions of stars in hundreds of millions of galaxies. Yep…

Get to know your so-called “enemies” and it might help you to better know your self. — As I look around at many people, one thing I’m thankful for is that I am not a prisoner of hate. Hate is the absence of love. …

I dedicate this post to my role model and intellectual hero, Michael Brooks, 1983–2020. — I have learned to take EVERYTHING I hear with a grain of salt. When someone tells you something or you read a report in the media, question it, research it, and give it some thought. Don’t ever just “drink the Kool-Aid” unless you’re sure that your drink doesn’t contain poison. …

Sometimes a deeper dive is necessary to figure out our current bad predicament — When things get real big or real small they get weird. Let’s take a dive to the quantum level. I always believed that everything had to be made out of something, but this is only partly true. As early at 400 B.C. Greek physicists had figured out the atom, but…