Question: Which country, the smallest of the G20, is the world leader in decarbonizing its energy and transportation sectors? Hint: They feel a moral duty to lead the way, insofar as they had been an industrial giant in the past …
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Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Decarbonization
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Walmart, Price Gouging, and Inflation
There is no doubt that corporate price gouging is a problem insofar that it’s driving inflation. In this case I would point out that Walmart has competitors, e.g., Costco. a company that has a policy of basing prices on costs. …
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Growth in Renewable Energy
As the meme here suggests, renewable energy and electric transportation are making headway. Unfortunately: • Our overall demands for energy are also increasing, especially as Asians want to live more like westerners. • The developing world does not have the …
Top-Ranking Military Leaders Want Trump Gone
This from Major General Paul Eaton, United States Army, retired. I’m going to ask you to chip in to VoteVets. Let me tell you why: Donald Trump is attacking Gold Star Families. When I lost my father in the Vietnam …
American Pessimism
Here’s a thought on David Brooks’ recent essay in The Atlantic: “Chicken Littles Are Ruining America,” aka “The Zeitgeist of Doom.” He writes: Since about 2004, the share of American 12th graders who say it is “hard to have hope …
The Midwest Values PAC
In an effort to establish something he calls the Midwest Values PAC, former U.S. senator Al Franken presents this interesting and heart-warming story: My dad was a lifelong Republican — until Barry Goldwater voted against the Civil Rights Act. My …
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Our Political Opponents Are Now Our “Enemies”
Here’s Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, asserting that the President of the United States is “trying to destroy” (the country). Apparently, this type of rhetoric plays well in the American south, where the people, mostly poorly educated, eagerly accept the …
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Issues in American Education
I love Moyers. Let’s put so much hope and trust into our teachers, pay them as if they were the trash we are barely willing to collect. Let’s make sure they have no capacity to discipline their pupils. Then, as …
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Replacing the Corrupt Postmaster General
In addition to what former Labor Secretary Robert Reich writes here, as I understand it, the real scandal is that DeJoy has a direct incentive to degrade the level of quality provided by the U.S. Post Office: his eight-figure investment …
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Pope Francis on Economic Theory
What’s remarkable about these words from Pope Francis isn’t that they accurately express an important truth; anyone with any sense and integrity recognized the fallacy of trickle-down economics decades ago. What’s worth noting is they came from the leader of …
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