Transitioning from Oil
From Bloomberg:
Increasing pressure on major oil companies has forced many to make promises to reduce the extraction of their main fossil fuel. They also warn that the result may not be a reduction in global emissions. (more…)
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Maine’s Senator From the “Radical Left”
Who in hell is this socialist pansy from Maine, (correctly) pointing out that there is essentially no voter fraud in the United States?
Worse, he thinks encouraging Americans to vote makes our democracy stronger?
He appears not to understand that political parties that offer people things we actually value (healthcare, education, environmental stewardship, whatever) sew the seeds of the next Bolshevic Revolution.
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Living Like Brothers and Sisters
Unfortunately, what MLK says here is 100% correct, and turning this around will be a monumental task. A few data points:
• There are more than 200 sovereign countries on Earth. Each either has its own military, or maintains an alliance whereby one or more armed countries has committed to protect it from aggression. The build-up of weapons, both conventional and nuclear, shows no sign of slowing down, largely because it’s among the most lucrative and powerful industries on the planet. (more…)
Republicans Need To Offer Americans Real Value, and That’s Simply Not Happening
Pardon the profanity here, but this woman makes an excellent point.
It’s possible that American voters are starting to see how far to the right the Republican party has squirted over the past few years; perhaps we’ll find out in the 2022 election.
Abortion, though it’s only one of dozens, is an excellent example. (more…)
Inaction and Regret
Abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe left us with this: “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
Of course this applies to our private lives, where we may regret not saying something or taking a certain action with respect to a loved one. Yet it seems that it pertains to our role as a member of society as well, especially as that society is melting down before our very eyes.
What should we be saying and doing to prevent the spread of cruelty, racism, indifference to human suffering, the rejection of science, and environmental decay? None of us wants to be shedding “the bitterest of tears” when we realize that the world has collapsed around us, and we could have done something about it.
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Germany’s Climate Election–The United States Is Unique In Climate Denial
From Bloomberg:
After 16 years under the leadership of Angela Merkel, Germany votes for a new chancellor at the end of September. The post-Covid economic recovery and immigration are all on the ballot. But there’s no mistaking this election as a climate vote.
Case in point is the dramatic rise of the Green Party, up from 8% in the polls three years ago, to contend for the chancellorship under the leadership of 40-year-old, London School of Economics-trained Annalena Baerbock. The Greens have been in government before, but never standing the chancellor. For climate watchers, such a win would send significant signals well beyond German borders. (more…)
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Neil de Grasse Tyson and U.S. Representative Louie Gohmert On the Solar Eclipse, Geoengineering
Republican Representative Louie Gohmert
Speaking on a televised interview show featuring Neil de Grasse Tyson, Texas Republican U.S. representative Louie Gohmert commented on the recent solar eclipse, asserting that it is the changes in the moon’s orbit around the Earth, and the Earth’s orbit around the sun that are resulting in higher tempertures. He went on to suggest that perhaps we could do something to restore these elliptical paths. (more…)
Animal Rights
Animal rights activist Ingrid Newkirk notes: When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
She is right in the main, though, biologically, it’s a cortex and not a central nervous system that is a requirement to feel pain, which is why, believe it or not, fish do not feel pain. Like humans, they do avoid noxious stimuli and therefore, we anthropomorphize our own experiences on them.
I’m still happier eating invertebrates like shrimp, scallops and clams. Or better yet, plant-based meat.
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We All Support Our Troops
“Support our troops” truly is one of the best examples of mindless propaganda in the U.S. The slogan has been around since, probably, the Vietnam War, which featured, for the first time in our history, widespread opposition from the common American. Every one of us supports our troops, but some of us suggest that’s best accomplished by not leading them into slaughter to protect access to oil, or whatever the political/economic purpose of the day may be.
It’s not dissimilar to “My country, love it or leave it,” popularized at the same time. Dissidents don’t hate America; we hate lies, injustice, racism, the rape of the world’s environment, military aggresion and imperialism, cruelty, and stupidity.
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It’s Not Theoretically Impossible, But That’s Not Enough
The photo here illustratrates something I see all the time in cleantech business plans. When I’m asked what I think, I respond with things like: Sure you can do it. Yes, it will generate some electricity. No, it’s not physically impossible. But why?
It appears that, now it’s possible to bring your chicken to the beach. But to what end?
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