The Amazon Under Attack
The innocent tranquility of this beautiful young indigenous boy in Northern Brazil belies the violence being inflicted on this region and its occupants.
As noted here: Attacks against indigenous people in the Amazon have spiked since Bolsonaro came to office. His administration has worked to open the Amazon even further to logging, mining and agribusiness companies while violating the land rights of indigenous peoples. Earlier this year, eight former environment ministers warned Bolsonaro’s administration was systematically destroying Brazil’s environmental policies, with one former minister saying Brazil is becoming an “exterminator of the future.”
The destruction of the Amazon may be the single greatest blow against any hope we may have for a sustainable future.
Occasionally it’s nice to acknowledge people who create beautiful things, which the reasoning behind this atta-boy for Pedro Reyes. What you see here is, according to Reyes, a matter of shifting perspective. 
My colleague Jon LeSage serves as editor and publisher of Green Auto Market, which tracks the business of green cars, fuels, and technologies. He also serves as Automotive Editor, Green Initiatives at Automotive Digest and writes for Autoblog Green. He describes himself as follows: I’m passionate about – obsessed! – with this burgeoning global industry that has huge geopolitical, environmental, energy, and economic issues hovering around it. 
A reader sent me this “open letter to Greta Thunberg”:
The chart here says a lot.
What did New Zealand do following two mosque shootings? It banned military-style semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity magazines. It didn’t ask permission of the NRA. It simply took immediate action to protect its people. 
I’m told that it’s gauche to make comparisons between Trump and Hitler.
Inductive EV charging certainly has its place. Suppose you have a fleet of buses that do nothing but take people from your hotel to the airport and vice versa, with dedicated short-term parking spaces at both ends. Having stationary charging pads at these locations makes all the sense in the world. 
We’ve been discussing where Trump is going, and I’m the first to admit that it’s anyone’s guess.
I’d love to believe what former GOP strategist Steve Schmidt says here about the future, but I actually don’t. About 40% of American voters think that the present-day Republican platform is just fine. Where is the mechanism by which this changes?
