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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

When I was promoting my books on renewable energy on radio and television interviews 10 – 15 years ago, I never forgot to mention what was, in my mind, the #1 reason that the United States needed to phase out fossil fuels in favor of clean energy: this transition is clearly becoming the defining industry on our planet. We should not hand China the role of industry domination in this space.

Little did I know at the time that Donald Trump would come along and aggressively hamstring wind and solar, so as to enrich his billionaire buddies in Big Oil.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I just came across the meme here, and I thought I’d respond to it.

Let’s call these groups, from top to bottom, A, B, C, and D.

First, instead of joking around about C, let’s be clear: these are people who are dominated by hate, especially the tenets of white nationalism.

Then let’s add in group E, selfish pigs who are getting ever richer because of Trump’s corrupt policies.

Here’s my guess as to the percentage of each group, across the people eligible to vote in the United States:

A: 50

B: 5 (some of these people actually do exist)

C: 33 (Trump’s MAGA support base)

D: 10

E: 2

Now, a question that is often asked is: How is it possible that group E rules the country with only 2% of the votes? Answer: They have almost all the money, and they couldn’t give a s*** about the wellbeing of others.

That this planet will slowly bake matters to most of us, but it doesn’t mean squat to a few.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

This is Germany’s Alice Weidel, a politician from Germany’s right-wing extremist party, Alternative for Germany. She studied economics and finance in college.

Who could possibly care what she thinks about climate change?

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

Here’s “A thought for today,” from A-Word-A Day:

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.  – Abraham Maslow

Maslow is best known for his “hierarchical needs,” which I always thought was excellent. The statement here is a part of that theory; it’s what “self-actualization” means.

Incredibly powerful, IMO.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

If you want to watch a video to learn what the ultra-right-wing Hillsdale “College” says about the decline of the American citizen, you’ll have to Google it, because I’m not going to link it.

This “professor” points to:
Disappearing national borders, an entrenched and unelected bureaucracy, growing pressure from globalist forces that seek to override the will of the people, how porous borders undermine national identity, the impact of identity politics and tribalism, the rise of the “deep state” and the administrative class, and how globalism threatens national sovereignty.
Maybe it’s a bit simpler.  What about lousy education? Billionaires’ gouging the common American? Trump’s reduction of the United States into an authoritarian state? The end of rule of law?

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

We often discuss the World Happiness Rankings, and how the Scandinavian countries are consistently at the top.

It’s interesting, as I learned when I visited a customer’s home in Denmark, that kids don’t start school until they’re seven years old.  Does this contribute to happiness?

As my friend told me, “The rat-race starts soon enough.  Yes, the French and the Germans are ahead of us academically for a while, but by the time our kids are in high school, we’ve completely caught up.  Why not let them be kids?”

Yet there must be some who admonish that children’s minds are like sponges, soaking up whatever’s in the vicinity.  Would you rather it be cartoons or arithmetic/reading?

Also, there is the subject of socialization, which is why common wisdom would suggest that there is value in having four- and five-year-olds growing up surrounded by the peers.

I honestly don’t know.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

What changed the world forever in 2016 and set Trump’s sociopathic criminality loose on this planet was Hillary Clinton’s flippant remark to the effect that Trump supporters were “deplorable” human beings (see below).

Guess what? Nobody wants to be told that they are wrong, stupid, or despicable.  Most of us learned this somewhere along the line, and one would have hoped that her Wellesley College / Yale University education would have clued her into this important fact.

Human civilization would be in a completely different place today had she simply said, “I will be a president for all Americans, regardless of their wealth, physical and mental health, ideology, or level of education.”

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

In today’s United States, the only solution we allow is making rich people richer.

Things like climate change mitigation, affordable healthcare, dealing with hunger and poverty, and quality education are ignored, based on the false presumption that government can do nothing good.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I thought the meme was funny, and, like all forms of humor, it works because it’s at least partially based on truth.

Progressives actually do care about the wellbeing of others, and when it’s being denied, we’re not happy.

Does this impact our personal happiness?  Maybe.  But it’s far better than being a cold, cruel, selfish ass****.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

. . . that appeals to hateful idiots.

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