What Should We Be Doing as Temperatures Rise and Earth Becomes Less Inhabitable?
We know that the Earth is experiencing record high temperatures, and that these data points are not isolated, but are part of long-term warming trends that derive from the buildup of greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere, largely due to our civilization’s consumption of fossil fuels.
We also know that the overarching economic power structures on this planet couldn’t care less about abating the unprecedented levels of suffering that are making their way around the globe: the mass displacement of populations due to the disappearance of land masses, the storms, the wildfires, the loss of biodiversity, the acidification of our oceans, and so on.
I met a young fellow today who was interested in this subject, but believed that our response is based on lies foisted upon us by the woke socialists. “Isn’t it true that wind turbines require a great deal of oil to manufacture the blades and maintain themselves in operation?” he challenged me.
I explained that, although there is no environmental “free lunch,” there are a great number of actual facts that matter. When it comes to renewable energy, the most important metric is “EROI,” or “energy return on investment.” Wind turbines return somewhere between 18:1 and 30:1 in terms of EROI, meaning that, on average, if we spend one kilowatt-hour producing and maintaining a wind turbine, we’ll get, say, 25 kilowatt-hours back over the time of its operation. Meanwhile, most of that energy displaces what would have come from coal, with its greenhouse gas emissions in terms of CO2 and methane, its heavy metals in the form of mercury, arsenic, cadmium, and selenium, as well as its incredible array of extremely toxic, carcinogenic radioactive isotopes.
Did I make an impact here? Frankly, I’m not sure. But if I failed, it wasn’t because I didn’t try. That’s all that can be expected of us, IMO.
Believe it or not, there are people all around this country who are reveling in the mass shootings that took place over the holiday weekend in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Fort Worth. That may sound like an outrageous statement, but incidents like these bring huge spikes in gun sales, as idiots everywhere become even more convinced that they need guns, especially the weapons of war, to protect themselves, and the gun industry is all too happy to oblige them.
Times are not good here in the United States. In particular, we seem to be on a train that is speeding towards the destruction of everything that made us great: fairness, honesty, and the upholding of our citizens’ rights.
Here’s another entrant into the 
We hear people ask, “Why can’t progressives play as dirty as today’s GOP?”
American culture has long been a breeding ground of anti-intellectualism.
To conservative Americans, I pose this question: What’s the matter with Liz Cheney as your candidate for U.S. president in 2024?
The small town in Central California in which 2GreenEnergy makes its “headquarters” seems to be having a problem with dog owners who are not cleaning up after their pets. This, understandably, has drawn the ire of some of the locals who must navigate around the piles as they go out for walks around the neighborhood, and many of them have taken to expressing their feelings on social media.
Frequent commenter Scott McKie remarks on my recent post 
