A recent study from the Pew Research Center found that Christianity in America as a percentage of the total population is falling precipitously and could eventually vanish.
I would submit the following:
“Vanish” is a big word. The graph definitely shows a steady reduction of the percentage value but projects a decelerating rate. (more…)
As we’ve all noticed, one of the terrible consequences of the erosion of American society is the loss of awareness of other people. We go to the grocery store, for example, and see people pushing their carts around with absolutely no consideration for others.
An active concern for the well-being of other people is the very definition of manners. Unfortunately, it’s also the definition of “wokeness,” the term that tens of millions of hateful pigs use to ridicule courteous, considerate people.
This is one of the key ingredients in today’s divisive world. In cooking, you can substitute onions for chives or shallots, but if you want a truly repulsive society, there is no replacement for a lack of self-awareness.
Here’s an EV concept I came across the other day that prompted me to call the local dealer, a fabulous guy, and pose a few questions. In summary:
Offered by publicly-traded Electrica Meccanica based in British Columbia. (more…)
My daughter, pictured here with her brother and me, just asked her dad what’s new in the “world of 2GreenEnergy.”
I replied that my current focus is less on renewable energy per se, and more on removing the criminal insanity that pervades our nation, and is blocking all progress toward anything that helps the common person in terms of environmentalism, universal healthcare, quality education, etc.
I went on to qualify: I know my role is limited, but I want to do what I can to remove even a little piece of said insanity, and that means advocating for holding Donald Trump accountable for his crimes.
When we come across memes like the one shown here, our immediate instincts tell us that this is satire, that it’s meant to entertain with its sheer absurdity.
Unfortunately, that’s not the case here. Here’s the Amazon page for Donald Trump, The Son of Man, The Christ.
This is indicative of the lack of reasoning skills of millions of Americans.
Atheists point to this and say, further, it’s indicative of the corrosive power of religion on the human intellect.
Advocates of sustainability note that poor thinking is a key driver of our societal and environmental woes.
Here’s a woman who realized to her horror that her “pro-life” position on abortion was likely going to kill her. It didn’t take her too long to figure out that the Republicans’ ban, regardless of rape, incest, or the woman’s medical condition was about to send her to an early grave, and that this might not be such a great idea.
It’s just pathetic that our civilization has devolved into this.
The fellow sitting next to me on a plane-ride this morning was a magnet for information on renewable energy and environmental sustainability more generally.
He wanted to know things that most people struggle with, e.g., if CO2 is a gas, how can it have weight? It floats about in our atmosphere, and if I put a bottle of it on a scale, the only reading I would get from the scale would be the weight of the bottle itself.
All understandable. I did the best I could at explaining high school chemistry, and he seemed genuinely grateful.
Finally, he asked me why concrete plants are point sources of CO2 emissions. I understand that the issue here is not concrete per se, but cement, the ingredient that binds concrete together. Beyond that, however, I was lost.
I gave him my card, told him that I would research this upon my arrival, write a blog post on it, and invited him to check out the blog later in the day, or tomorrow at the latest.
From this:
When evaluating the carbon footprint of concrete pavements, it is important to recognize the difference between cement and concrete. While cement is an energy-intensive product, concrete is actually one of the world’s most CO2-
efficient and sustainable construction materials.
CO2 emissions from a cement plant are divided into two source categories:
• Combustion (40 percent of emissions)
• Calcination (60 percent of emissions) – the thermal treatment of a solid chemical compound whereby the compound is raised to a high temperature without melting under a restricted supply of ambient oxygen, generally for the purpose of removing impurities or volatile substances and/or to incur thermal decomposition
The combustion-generated CO2 emissions are related to fuel use. The CO2 emissions due to calcination are formed when the raw materials (mostly limestone and clay) are heated to more than 2500°F and CO2 is liberated
from the decomposed minerals.
Now we both know.
In less than two months, we’ll see.
It strikes me as bizarre in the extreme that any significant number of women are going to vote for the party that grossly restricted their rights over their own bodies.
Again, we’ll see,
It’s said that there are two different groups of people that constitute human civilization:
Those who care about all the issues that affect other people, simply because of their basic human compassion and empathy, and
Those who begin to care about those issues only because their lives have been so stricken.
Here’s a case-in-point.
Here’s a meme that takes the migration to electric vehicles about as far out of context as one could imagine.
People in developed countries need transportation, and, since the extent of mass transit is limited, automobiles will be a necessary part of our lives for the foreseeable future. Making these vehicles as environmentally friendly as possible is imperative if we want to have an organized civilization in place here 50 – 75 years hence.
There are elements of damage associated with our cars that we can’t control, among which are materials mining, road building, tire dust, and lethal accidents.
There is one we can control, and any honest and reasonably intelligent person understands that it’s by far the most important.
