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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Electric Vehicles
Here’s a blurb on the interview I conducted with Johanna Wald from the Natural Resources Defense Council for my first book, Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies.   Her job was (she’s since retired) to use the court system to force public and private entities to conform to laws that are in place to protect the people and the planet we call home; sounds like a great career to me.
Here we are, 12 years later, and the NRDC is still hard at work on our behalf.  They write:
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor climate catastrophe will stop the Trump-appointed leader of the U.S. Postal Service from trying to buy dirty, polluting delivery trucks.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Here’s an excellent point about the “sanctity of life,” not that it’s news.

We live in a country that uses the death penalty, and, as the woman here notes, we have no problem with our own citizens dying of treatable diseases, including our war veterans, simply because they can’t afford health insurance.

Around the world, nine million children under the age of five die each year of malnutrition, a problem that could be solved with a few billion dollars, far less than 1% of the defense budget, or about 2% of Elon Musk’s net worth.

When it comes to saving lives, we really couldn’t care less.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I understand this guy is vigorously promoting his new book, and that he’s looking for soft, palatable suggestions to fix what’s wrong with U.S. politics.  But give me a break.  His solution is to “pass the baton” to younger people?

Shouldn’t we be more concerned with these people’s morals than their age?  Speaking for myself, I’ll take a Bernie Sanders over some young white supremacist insurrectionist Trump supporter who wants to ban abortion and destroy the environment for profit.

We have real problems, like an entire political party that is trying to overthrow the United States government.  These people need to be charged, convicted, and incarcerated, thus ensuring this country doesn’t become the next banana republic.

This is a mealy-mouthed solution akin to handing out lollipops.

I’m not sure I was ever a Gergen fan, but this seems like a bad joke.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Those not familiar with the One America News Network (OAN) should think of it as Fox News on steroids.  Take someone with the most outrageous, easily debunked far-right-wing claims about Trump, the “stolen election,” critical race theory, wokeism, Biden’s “senility,” you name it, put a camera in front of him, and you have OAN.

What makes this even more pathetic, not to mention cowardly, is that as soon as legal action is taken against them, e.g., a defamation law suit by two election workers, they back down and admit the truth.

OAN helped push that groundless claim of voter fraud for months, but on a May 9, 2022 broadcast, they stated that that there had been no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

What type of person watches garbage like this?  Aren’t they ashamed of themselves?

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

This from Pastor John Pavlovitz: If there’s a hell, it will be for professed Christians who pretended to care about “life” while making this place a living hell for so much of it.

I disagree, and I have to say that I’m surprised to hear this from him.  I think there is something profoundly wrong, morally, with those who believe in everlasting punishment, inflicted for behavior, regardless of how heinous, in one lifetime. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Electric Vehicles

EVWorld‘s Bill Moore writes: There are now more electric mowers (13) on display at our local Papillion (Nebraska) Home Depot than gas models (9).

In terms of the electrification of everything, lawn mowers seem like an excellent piece of equipment to replace gasoline engines with batteries and electric motors.  Everyone knows the exact size of his lawn, so there is no reason to buy something whose energy storage capacity is too big (or too small).

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Occasionally, when I come across something like this quote from Carl Sagan, I ask myself how open I am to admitting to myself that I’ve been bamboozled.

Suppose it turns out that Fox News is right about Donald Trump, that he is an honest and effective servant of the American people who selflessly defended U.S. interests around the globe, who was hounded by the liberal elite, and ultimately removed when the Deep State rigged the 2020 election. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

IMO, this is the definitive argument for keeping government out of the business of limiting abortion in any way (let alone banning it).

The mere presence of Pete Buttigieg on the political scene is a huge comfort to all decent Americans.  Knowing that there are still people of compassion and intelligence in Washington is an enormous salve, at a time in which hate and stupidity rule the day.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

This from Brian Stelter, American TV anchor and chief media correspondent for CNN, re: a quote from Jeffrey Toobin, legal analyst for CNN.

I’m not an expert on the Supreme Court, but I would say that recovering from this leak will be a piece of cake as compared to rebuilding after a) blatant corruption, e.g., Clarence Thomas’ not recusing himself from a case in which he has a personal interest (which happens to be overthrowing the United States government), and b) perjury, e.g., Cavanaugh’s, Comey’s, and Gorsuch’s swearing under oath that they recognized Roe as the law of the land.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

“For another decade or so, climate change will get worse and farms like mine will die,” says a desperate farmer in West Virginia, imploring Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) to do something about it.

For one, climate change will get worse for a hell of a lot longer than another “decade or so,” but that’s not the point.

What matters is that Joe Manchin couldn’t possibly care less about the plight of the people he “serves.”  He knows goddamn well that the planet is rapidly losing its capacity to support life, but he’s married to moneyed interests, and he has no more sense of ethics and mercy than a Maco shark.

You have precisely one way to defend yourself, and that’s to remove Manchin from office at the next available opportunity.

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