In an alternative universe, the doctors in the United States have transformed themselves from health practitioners to foot-soldiers for the political left.
This is another good example of how anything is possible once you’ve taken an immovable stand on something, corroborate it with YouTube videos, and force everything you observe around you to cohere to that data point.
Here’s an excerpt from a piece that I hope readers will find to be an informative summary of our rights to free speech as guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:
On Friday night, Carlson was back on Fox News to welcome COVID-19-”truther” Alex Barenson to his program. Together, the two said that “masks are useless” and nothing more than a symbol that someone is obedient to the government, and claimed that mask mandates have no intention other than to make people scared, and are doing “psychological damage.” They then moved on to say that the vaccines are “declining in effectiveness very quickly,” and that the truth about vaccines was being blocked by “tremendous financial pressure.” (more…)
The president of a large university in Texas told me recently that the only person in the country who makes (Texas governor) Greg Abbott look good is (Florida governor) Ron DeSantis.
The meme speaks volumes to the right-wing extremism that lives in the State of Florida.
This shopping mall in Sweden has a unique characteristic: everything in it is second hand.
Yes, this sounds like a huge thrift store, but that’s only part of the story. Most of the items are upcycled by the employees, e.g., a lamp made of used leather jackets, shown in the video linked above.
The people who work there claim that their jobs require more creativity that any other profession on Earth, and it’s hard to argue against that.
How well this concept would do in the United States is uncertain. I’m afraid that we take ourselves too seriously; at a certain level, this is an exercise in whimsy.
More importantly. our interest in sustainability lags behind most of the rest of the developed world. Sad.
Question: We all have a sense that climate disasters with devastating effects are on the rise. Between 1980 and 2019, the United States experienced an average of 6.5 disasters per year that cost at least $1 billion. What has been the average since 2015?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Relevance: Climate change mitigation and adaptation sound expensive, and they are. But the price is going up exponentially with each passing year.
It’s heartening to see that the new presidential administration is taking this matter seriously, but success can only derive from a concerted effort on the part of all public and private sector actors.
Calling Tucker Carlson a “coward” is not incorrect, but it’s kind of missing the point.
He’s knowingly sending thousands of people to agonizing deaths while prolonging a pandemic that is ravaging human civilization in every conceivable way: medically, of course, but also educationally, economically, developmentally, and emotionally.
That’s more criminal than cowardly, IMO.
As discussed in this article, China is in the process of carrying out an “eco-migration” in which millions of people are being removed from rural parts of the country where avalanches have ruined rice paddies, the soil has become degraded from over-farming, the cost of providing infrastructure has become too high, or the land is needed for pipelines and dams. But in addition, each year the most pressing issue is that the people in these villages are experiencing the brunt of global warming in the form of drought and desertification. (more…)
The popular Christian/humanist pastor John Pavlovitz writes:
From Bloomberg:Naalakkersuisut, as the island’s government is called, “has decided that the environmental consequences of oil exploration and production are too great.”
Here’s a piece from Reuters that suggests that U.S. banks may be required to undergo climate-related “stress tests,” to ensure that they have sufficient resilence in the case of disasters caused by climate change: floods, droughts, wildfires, etc. Fed Chair Jerome Powell (pictured) says he’s “open to the idea.”
Such practices are universal among European banks.
Here’s another good illustration of an important fact. Your Uncle Bob may be a climate denier. That’s his right. Recognize, however, that in the circle of people who are responsible for managing trillions of dollars, there is no such thing as climate denial. These people didn’t get where they are by imbibing right-wing political crap from Fox News and the like.
