Superstitious peasants

The willfully ignorant will always be here. They’re noisier than most, but usually a minority. Keep going anyway. It’s just another cost of doing business.

The methane burped out by the world’s one-and-a-half billion cows is a mere by-product of the chemistry by which cows process hard-to-digest grass in their specialized stomachs, but it accounts for about 30 per cent of global methane emissions. Luckily, we can make it go away fast, writes Gwynne Dyer.Image courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

December 12, 2024

LONDON, U.K.–More than half the world’s people—4.3 billion—own smart phones, and practically everybody has access to one. All the information in the world is available to everybody. Yet willful ignorance and superstition still flourish.

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