Environmentally Responsible People Are Happy People
Here’s a bar chart of the grid-mix in the OECD countries.
Note the correspondence between the nations at the top of the graph and those at the top of the world happiness rankings. The seven happiest countries, in order, are Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.
Various theories could be posited here as to the reason. Perhaps these nations simply do everything right. They also have very little crime, and have the pandemic more or less under control.
Another idea derives from a modern American philosopher who said, “Clean hands make a happy life,” meaning, of course, that people who do rotten things to one another are generally miserable human beings.
Greed, criminality, and environmental degradation are not the things of which happiness is made. Conversely, doing right by all the world’s people puts a smile on one’s face.
Sometimes things have a way of working out for the best.
It could be argued that the United States had done a reasonably good job at the task that Jimmy Carter mentions here, up until perhaps 1980. At that point, the top tax rate went from 70% to 28%, the educational system began to falter, union membership fell by two-thirds, the incarceration rate started to skyrocket, and social programs designed to keep kids in school, off drugs, and out of jail dropped off.
The meme makes an important point, and it’s certainly not limited to child care.
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In this video, Republican Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt (pictured), who is in charge of vote-counting, 
There are dozens of different concepts out there for removing the trillions of pieces of plastic from our oceans. The video below presents an idea that involves two ships that drag a huge net through the water, scooping up everything larger than perhaps a lima bean that’s floating in the top three feet, while allowing fish to escape. 
It would be interesting to know the LCA (life-cycle analysis) of this product. True, it doesn’t cause trees to be harvested, and let’s suppose the loss of the bamboo has zero ecological impact. But how much energy is required to harvest, process, package, and ship the bamboo?
When this device called Lomi is plugged in and run for 10 hours, it turns about 0.1 cubic feet (about 3/4 of a gallon) of food waste into compost for the garden, using a total of about 2.5 kWhrs. Could anyone thinks this is a good idea for the environment?
