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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

When my wife read my post from the other day on Ron DeSantis’s pledge to destroy leftism, she commented that the presidential candidate was referring to passing laws that would make certain acts illegal, not to changing human thinking and behavior.

She has a point, but this is still not going to happen, because we live in a representative democracy, where we the people elect our lawmakers.

If hateful morons happen to be a majority in Florida, that’s one thing; they deserve what they get.  But try to pass federal laws that ban abortion, destroy the environment, and teach creationism as science in our schools, see how far you get.

“Leftism” (aka wokeness, kindness, decency) is a set of values shared by the majority of Americans.  The promise to  destroy these ideals carries with it a great level of appeal to mean-spirited idiots, but fortunately, that’s a distinct minority.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

From 2GreenEnergy supporter Rafael Quezada who notes: The sadness is, at times, overwhelming for me.

I hear you, my friend.

I’m reminded of an old pal who sold his house in Ojai (central California) many years ago, when he saw the writing on the wall re: climate, especially droughts and wildfires.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

The answer is largely that the health insurance industry has an extremely powerful lobby that makes the idea of nationalized healthcare an impossibility.

Of course, it doesn’t help that Americans are singular in their indifference to the well-being of their countrymen.  This has always been a feature of life here in the U.S., but Trumpism has taken it to a new level of selfishness and cruelty.

If you ask Europeans if they think it’s acceptable to let people die of treatable diseases, they’d laugh in your face.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

What Pete Seeger says here is, of course, 100% true.  But just look around and see for yourself how far we are from any concept even remotely approaching his idea.

We live with the fundamental rule that we, if we’re rich enough, can do essentially anything we like, regardless of its consequences to the planet.

To take one of hundreds of examples, we’re belching out the toxins from the consumption of fossil fuels into our atmosphere a full 45 years after it was revealed to Big Oil that this practice was in the process of rendering the Earth uninhabitable.

Activists care.  Proponents of deregulated capitalism don’t.   That’s where we stand.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

“The insult is likely a misspelling of the word ‘milquetoast,’ which is an adjective used to describe a feeble or meek person.”

Is there some chance that this walking embarrassment to the United States will be forced out of the political spotlight anytime soon?

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics
The gentleman shown here parading the Confederate flag through the U.S. Capitol has been ordered to report to prison to commence his three-year sentence.
He has no worries if Trump or DeSantis is elected because he (and many hundreds of others) will receive presidential pardons. Republicans have no problem with violent attempts to overthrow the U.S. government–if it means keeping one of theirs in power.
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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

It probably hasn’t dawned on his followers, but “leftism” is a set of values shared by the majority of Americans.  Abortion rights, environmental responsibility, the application of the rule of law to all, equal opportunity, quality education, separation of church and state, even universal healthcare–these are all supported by most of us.

Even if that were not the case, neither DeSantis nor anyone else can “destroy” these values.  Ask yourself is there is anything an American president could do to make you change your viewpoints on any of this stuff.

An anyone could have predicted, this is rhetoric aimed at the truly stupid.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

Namibia is one of the poorest countries on Earth, with 20% of its population living on less than $2.15 per day.

That’s why the sub-Sahara nation raised some eyebrows recently when it announced that it had signed an agreement to invest $10 billion into a plant that would create green hydrogen (generated by electrolyzing water with renewable energy) and export it to wealthier countries.

There is little doubt that Namibia has close-to-ideal resources in terms of solar irradiation and high-velocity wind, as well as plenty of inexpensive real estate.  There is even less doubt that the 15,000 jobs that the project would create would be a considerable boon to their economy.

Having said that, there is a considerable gap between a letter of intent and the execution of a 10-figure Cap-Ex project.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

If you had to reduce the U.S. Republican party platform down to a single idea, you might simply take the words in the meme here, and choke the very life out of them. GOP politics revolves around ridiculing anyone who is, even in the least, concerned about other people’s pain.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Here’s another 2GreenEnergy post in which: it comes down to this….

Americans are at liberty to believe either a) that Donald Trump is a criminal conman who should be accountable for his crimes, or b) the entirety of federal law enforcement is corrupt, and dedicated to make sure that conservative values are destroyed in this country.

The right wing wasn’t too keen on defunding the police, but they love the idea of defunding the U.S. Justice Department.

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