These people may be evil, but they’re anything but incompetent. For those keeping score of how effectively the Environmental Protection Agency is destroying our planet by rolling back regulations that formerly protected it, here’s a handy chart that provides the …
Author: craigshields
21st Century Living Is “Extreme”
American culture has always had its extreme fads, like flagpole-sitting or goldfish-eating; the pic here featuring “extreme tree trimming” from the 1880s is an example. That’s hilarious, IMO. But these are curiosities. On a far broader scale, we’re starting to see the …
Meeting Basic Human Rights Is the Deal of the Century
Exactly what are “basic human rights?” Where do they begin, and where do they end? It’s a matter open to debate, to be sure. What’s more a matter of fact than opinion, however, is that this society shoots itself in …
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Young People Demand Climate Action
From this video in which Arnold Swarzenegger speaks on our children’s participation on climate change mitigation: “It is the dreamers, the doers, not the doubters, who have shaped history. All progress starts with a dream.” So beautiful. Good on you. …
Talkin’ ‘Bout Science
I hope readers get the same broad smile from this as I did. Both of my kids, Jake and Valerie, could retire early if I had to pay them each a dollar every time I talked about the autumnal equinox, …
Tagged with: science
Make Orwell Fiction Again
I ran into some people visiting from Sweden, wine tasting the other day. Chatting it up, as I am wont to do, I asked about the Swedes’ perception of Trump. One replied, “He may have 5 or 10 percent support. The …
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The Impact of One’s Career on Humankind
Now that my kids have entered the workforce, I get to reflect on what they’re doing with their lives and the impact they will ultimately have on human civilization. I’m very glad that neither of them works for Nestle (or …
Green Manufacturing Plan
Occasionally one hears that the two major parties in U.S. politics are essentially indistinguishable from one another, and in some areas that actually is true. For example, regardless of who’s elected president in 2020, the country will still have a …
Tagged with: Green Manufacturing Plan
Saying Goodbye To Range Anxiety: Tesla Model S Range Is 370 miles
The EPA confirmed that the range of the new Tesla Model S is indeed 370 miles. Sounds like the end of range anxiety; I don’t know anyone who wants to drive farther than that in a single day.
UK: No Coal for Two Weeks Straight, Longest Period Since 1880s
Hip outfit! Good things are happening all over the world, firmly rooted in humankind’s commitment to survival. Though Britain has a long way to go before it will have eliminated coal from its grid-mix entirely (target: 2025), they have made enormous …
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