In response to a piece on climate change and lung disease, Mark Kelly writes sarcastically, “People that (sic) don’t think like me are EVIL!”
I wouldn’t say that, but I would say that people who are indifferent to human suffering are evil. When you think about it, this is almost true by definition. Please see: Good and evil.
If your New Year’s resolutions have anything to do with environmental responsibility, here’s something you can do that’s even more important than biking to work: eat less red meat. (more…)
Each Christmas I make a pitch to 2GreenEnergy readers who may find themselves in a philanthropic spirit to consider the Turimiquire Foundation in their holiday giving, as I have personally since the 1990s, when I first met Willie Bloomstein, the manager of the organization’s U.S. “office.” (more…)
Trump’s approval rating is falling in all demographics, and that includes active-duty military, where now, almost exactly half say that the country is imperiled by Trump’s incompetence and/or poor behavior. To that I would add: (more…)
Question: What country in Latin America has the largest fleet of electric buses?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. (more…)
Americans aren’t a happy people right now. 38% support Trump, and they’re furious that he’s under fire from 17 different directions, a number that seems to grow by the day. (more…)
As you review this video, realize that the United States is withdrawing from the Paris Accord, and that it’s led by a climate change denier; this is shameful. (more…)
Here’s a short video in which ExxonMobil purports to want hydrogen-based transportation. Ask yourself: Do you think this is in any way sincere? (more…)
Educated people tend to be tolerant, and loath to drive their cars into protesters at white supremacist rallies.
Educated women have smaller, healthier and more stable families.
Education is the key to productivity and affluence.
Educated populations understand the creeping threat of fascism and ensure it doesn’t happen.
Educated people are harder to fool with “alternative facts.”
Question: Can you name some of the main drivers by which climate change is damaging human health? (Hint: See pic at left.)
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Relevance: It’s common to see estimates concerning the probable cost of climate change over n years, but there are several reasons why this is impossible to nail down with any accuracy at all:
There are entire vectors that are functions of climate change that are still completely undiscovered.
There is no way to put a price on human health (beyond healthcare), i.e., the misery it causes.
There are vicious cycles that are not fully understood.
More obviously, there is no way to put a price on a human life.
