At left and below is 20th Century American artist/illustrator Maxfield Parrish’s iconic work “Daybreak.” No one knows the story behind it, and perhaps that’s a good thing. To call it “suggestive” is to put it mildly. We can hope that …
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Greenwashing Par Excellence
This is one of the most disgusting examples of greenwashing I’ve ever come across. You call your water in plastic bottles that will be polluting our lands and oceans “sustainable” because it comes from a huge aquafer? I’m a man …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: EPA Lost Hundreds of Scientists
Question: The years 2016 – 2020 saw a huge exodus of scientific experts at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, due to firings, re-assignments, and simply leaving out of frustration, seeing that science itself had been demoted to a lower role, …
Trump Gave Us the “Gift” That Keeps On Giving: Perpetual Rancor
Here’s one of the core problems facing the U.S., and it doesn’t seem positioned to simply go away. Perhaps 60% of the country has the feelings expressed at the left. We don’t want to unify around criminal psychosis; we want …
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Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future
Here’s the January 2021 publication of Frontiers in Conservation Science. The product of 17 different extremely senior contributors, it’s a good and comprehensive look at where our civilization is perched vis-a-vis the often-discussed “sixth extinction.” Not exactly uplifting, but perhaps …
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“Stolen Election” Claim Makes Strange Bedfellows
Former governor of New Jersey and former Trump speechwriter Chris Christie notes: “This election was not stolen. There were no type of irregularities that would have changed the result in any one state. Folks in my party who are doing …
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Coal and Politics in West Virginia
Apparently, Sen. Joe Manchin (D- W.Va.) accepted thousands of dollars in donations from a political action committee founded by a fellow Senate Democrat, progressive Jeff Merkley (D-OR), who wants to put “every coal electricity generating plant in a museum,” a …
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Accountability for Traitors? Good Luck with That
The guy who posted the meme at left suggests: “Accountability is coming for Cruz and Hawley.” We’d all like to believe that, but we also need to realize we’re living in an era in which: – The POTUS incites a …
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Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: A Bit of Oil-Related Justice
Question: Donald Pols and Channa Samkalden are top bananas in the Dutch environmental organization Milieudefensie. Why are they so happy? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: Allowing Big Oil to ravage our planet and its people with …
Gun Control in America
In response to my recent post Honest and Insightful Discussions of Gun Control Do Not Exist, Gary Tulie writes: Could never understand the US attitude to guns, and the level of opposition to basic regulation let alone prohibition of even …
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