A Vote for Trump Is a Vote for Environmental Devastation
It’s not uncommon for our political pundits here in the US to be completely wrong with their predictions—sometimes embarrassingly so. But we need to give them credit when they forecasted that this presidential election campaign was going to degenerate into some of the nastiest mudslinging the country has ever seen.
Of course, we at 2GreenEnergy tend to look at the world through the lens of energy and the environment, and, coincidentally, this, as described in this op-ed from yesterday’s New York Times, may be the precise issue in which the divide between the two candidates is the most pronounced. (more…)
Those of you living outside the U.S. needn’t be told that this country has gone somewhat crazy. The way I like to explain this to you “foreigners” is as follows: we have all known for a very long while that there are some ignorant, hateful people living here. But what we didn’t know, or at least I didn’t, is that there is a humongous number of these people, and that they vote with great regularity, electing leaders with extremely warped views on things like humanitarianism and science. 
Occasionally, I like to suggest cool websites that offer fun and informative content that I believe will be of interest to readers who share my fondness for the English language. I know I’ve mentioned 
Have you ever opened up a file that you needed read, just knowing that you were going to find it asinine, and then learn to your shock that it’s actually pretty cool? That’s what just happened to me.
Here’s a fun little challenge you may want to take. Tune into some of the non-stop coverage of Hurricane Matthew, and count how many times climate change is mentioned. I’ll give you a warning: don’t hold your breath. That’s because it’s almost never discussed. There’s very little willingness among the mainstream media to recognize that climate change is in the process of causing extreme weather events. 
Here are a couple of stories that illustrate one simple truth about the migration to renewables: it’s happening. In the UK, 
If you get the opportunity to watch historian/documentarian Ken Burns deliver a lecture on the National Parks, or anything else for that matter, I urge you to seize it. I had the pleasure of being one of a couple of thousand attendees at his talk yesterday in Santa Barbara, CA, and I wasn’t the only one who had tears in his eyes listening to Burns’ magnificent insight into what it means to be an American, and, more to the point what it means to be fully human. 
As my colleague Jon LeSage points out in his Green Auto Digest, stricter emissions standards and falling battery prices have conspired to transform the automobile industry’s signature event, the Paris Auto Show, into a display case for electric vehicles.
