Robert's interests:
- Likes:
- With a non-smoking woman, cuddling etc.
- With a non-smoking woman, listening to music
- Watching/sharing TV programs that I have on VHS
- Playing my favorite board game, watching/kibitzing live games on IGS,
teaching the game to anyone who doesn't know to play and would like to
learn
- Fascinating over several phyla of life, teaching others about them
- Concerns:
- Runaway methane release heading toward extreme global warming and thus repeat of end-Permian mass-extinction (caused by self-sustained positive feedback loop not currently countered by human intervention)
- Terrorism (caused by hatred, poverty, unemployment)
- Lack of food (caused by poverty, lack of distribution)
- Lack of water (caused by poverty, lack of infrastructure)
- Poverty (caused by unemployment)
- Unemployment (caused by super-rich hogging most of the money)
- Sealevel rise (caused by icecaps melting, insufficient desalination
of seawater feeding into irrigation of deserts)
- Icecaps melting (caused by global warming)
- Energy shortage (caused by failure to develop enough geothermal energy)
- Human trafficking (caused by failure to enforce laws against it)
- Extinctions (caused by environmental destruction, poaching,
over-fishing, lack of humans "adopting" the various species)
- Corruption of our economic system to serve the super-rich
- Corruption of our political system to serve the super-rich
- Medicare not providing dental nor disability-diagnosis services