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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Let me take a stab at the question posed at left.

Ignorance, tribalism, and fear are cousins of one another, and this country has plenty of all three. If you believe that:

• Immigrants are coming for your jobs

• The radical left is coming for your guns

• Government is coming for your freedoms

• LGBTQs and Critical Race Theory are coming for your children

• Woke environmentalists are coming for your fossil fuels

• Democrats are committing massive amounts of election fraud and Trump is the rightful president (all of these are the core messages of Fox News), then

You’re likely to feel a strong kinship with heavily armed white nationalists (those with the skin color of your tribe).

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Wind Energy

Here’s another appeal to potential investors in this wind energy concept.

The problem: The economics of small wind and small solar are completely different.  Depending on where you live, putting solar on your roof makes sense.  Putting this on your roof makes you look like a moron.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

This from investigative journalist Amy Goodman:

Protesting is an act of love. It is born of a deeply held conviction that the world can be a better, kinder place. Saying “no” to injustice is the ultimate declaration of hope. 

Today there are more than 200,000 groups whose goal is environmental and/or social justice, and protest is an important modality by which they go about accomplishing their missions.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

To whom does the idea of cutting Social Security appeal?

Elderly people tend to be conservative; we all understand that.  But do seniors, even those who live on a steady diet of Fox News, want to have the benefits for which they’ve worked all their lives to be torn to shreds, forcing them to live on Ramon and cat food?

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

In addition to Trump’s being recognized, at last, as a career criminal, part of what has taken him down is his adoration of two of the most ruthless mass murderers we’ve seen over the past half-century: Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, both of whom he regards as “very smart.”

That they arrest and torture to death dissidents as a means to retain their power stands them both high in his esteem.

Who are we as a people?

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

What does it mean when the President of the United States meets and congratulates Kyle Rittenhouse, a deranged young killer of sympathizers of the BLM movement?

At the very least, it takes a society that previously regarded itself as sane and decent, and stands it on its head.

We’re a shadow of our former selves.  If we’ll ever regain our former status as a land of honesty is anyone’s guess.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

As shown in this video, there is a radical faction of Christians who are desperate to refashion the government of the United States according to scripture.

This gentleman’s assertion that America is doomed to destruction if it does not start to obey the words of the Lord flies directly into the teeth of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but that doesn’t seem to matter.

OK, so how much danger does this represent?  Had you asked me 10 years ago, I would have said “very little.”  But that was before the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the spread of prosperity Christianity, the war to preserve the “God-given right” enabling civilians to own weapons of war, the advent of Donald Trump as the only man capable of making America great again, and the gutting of the U.S. educational system.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

It’s hard to know if Trump’s unflagging attacks on his enemies are a) part of a deliberate, personal policy, b) a neurotic compulsion, or c) a combination of the two.

In any case, the good news is that this asinine behavior is not always shared by those in his orbit.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

What Anne Hathaway says here is spot-on.

How sad that the Republicans have found yet another community of people to hate.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics
From a reader:
I’m from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
I am a former Republican.
Basically, I was a Republican my whole life until about 2018 where I couldn’t accept being a Republican anymore.
The Republican party now is nothing like it used to be.
Now, to be a good Republican, you have to basically I agree with whatever Donald Trump says.
Not any specific philosophy or anything like that It’s just if you want to be a good Republican you have to agree with Donald Trump.
And that’s just not the way it should be.
Right now It’s just like a cult of personality.
And that’s just totally against the Republican party that I grew up with.
I agree, but I would add that it’s worse.
Trump will be gone soon, but the extremist right-wing views won’t.
Until there is a mass revolt within the GOP, it will remain stuck as the party that rejects science, bans books, terminates women’s rights, hates the LGBTQ community, promotes fossil fuel consumption, treats immigrants with wanton cruelty, continues to ravage public education, lowers taxes on billionaires, moves to end Social Security and Medicare, supports the Russian invasion of Ukraine, forces Christianity into our lives, and centers itself around white supremacy.
In sum, anything that helps the common American or promotes decency around the world must be destroyed.
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