When Should We Mitigate Climate Change?
The cartoon here reminds me of my interview with the spokesperson for libertarian think tank The Cato Institute. As anyone could have guessed, Cato has arguments against climate change mitigation that could stretch from here to Halifax.
One of them, perhaps the most asinine of them all, goes like this: Almost all of the damage created by climate change will come several decades hence, therefore most of the work we do to mitigate it should also be done at that point.
I said, “This sounds analogous to an oncologist who says, ‘You have a tumor on your lung, but some of these grow slowly. In a few years, you should start to think about quitting smoking your two packs a day.'”
Here’s a guy who doesn’t mince words, and he’s nailed this one.
As we all know, Donald Trump operates an array of different fraudulent operations, like raising money from morons for the ostensible purpose of funding legal campaigns that will “re-instate” him into office.
No one can say precisely where our civilization began to experience the surge in technology that we’re now enjoying. A case could be made for the electrification of essentially everything in our lives, which happened when people like Tesla, Edison, and Westinghouse implemented the discovery that Michael Faraday had made in the 1830s re: the relationship between electricity and magnetism.
This is funny, but part of me doesn’t look at anti-vaxxers as enemies, but rather the rightful object of our pity. Living with all that hate and ignorance must be terrible.
Here’s the personable and astute pastor John Pavlovitz, explaining the 
Nobody can deny that Lucid is receiving an enormous cascade of extremely positive press, most notably for its 500-mile range. Here’s an article from the 
I had a phone call just now with a reader, a Fox News acolyte, who is under the impression that Trump took very few vacations, whereas, to her horror, Biden just took four days off over Thanksgiving.
A learned economist said recently, “We know that COVID-19 is temporary, but we also know that it will cause permanent effects.”
I have to admit that Libertarianism held an allure for me when I was younger. I was hooked on the concept that nothing in government happens as efficiently as it does in the private sector, which I still suppose is true.
