Public Education in America Under Attack
I may have mentioned that I tutor at the local high school in Santa Barbara County, home of 2GreenEnergy “headquarters,” which gives me ample opportunity to speak with teachers.
Unlike the city of Santa Barbara, our little town (Santa Ynez) is actually very “God and Country,” very “red,” so to speak: lots of guns, flags, and pick-up trucks. I recently asked the teacher of one of the kids I work with, “Given the conservative nature of the locals, I’m curious to know how the faculty here feels about Trump. (more…)
The horrific rate of deforestation on this planet is based largely on two industries: beef production and building materials. We’ve had ample conversation of the former here, so let’s hear a bit on the latter.
There are plenty of places on Earth where fans could (and would) be “held accountable” for booing the president, but America most certainly isn’t one of them. Here, with 
Readers understand that I desperately want to see Trump gone, but if they want to see real passion here, they need to meet my wife. Becky’s having such a tough time with the day-to-day news about the climate denial, the cruelty, the lawlessness, the lies, the ignorance, the hatred, and so many other things, she’s talking about leaving the country if Trump is re-elected.
Try as we might, there is no getting around the fact that the United States is a pariah in the world, having become the only one of 188 sovereign countries on the planet that is refusing to work in concert with the people of the world to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change. The Trump administration’s submitting to the United Nations a formal notification of its withdrawal from the Paris agreement is an indelible black mark in American history, one that history will never forget. 
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