Reader “Tom” sent me this and comments, “And the corpse stinks worse with each passing day. We’re not going to let up on this until ethics are fully in, (and the truth of a stolen election prevails).”
Is it just me, or is justice starting to make a comeback?
Who knows what will be the consequences to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for his role in the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Yet it appears quite clear that the United States is on its way to take down criminals from the low end (see the disgusting pig shown in meme) to the very top. Can’t happen soon enough.
Justice and sustainability are cousins. If the last half century has taught us anything, it’s that without accountability, many people act purely out of greed at the expense of what is right for human civilization.
Almost half of Americans look at this quote from British actress Audrey Hepburn with disdain. A left-over hippy? Someone grossly out of touch with the grim realities of living in a competitive world?
This wasn’t the case until fairly recently. The last few years have brought on a titanic shift in the direction of mean-spiritedness, ignorance, and racism. (more…)
There is no doubt that our world would be a much better place to live if we used our resources to educate young people across a wider sphere of disciplines.
Until the 17th or 18th Century, there was very little specialization in Western civilization, perhaps the best example of which was da Vinci: artist, mathematician, and scientist. Today, the idea that a particle physicist or a quantum chemist would be a top landscape artist or concert pianist is laughable. (more…)
The good news is that the United States has a new president who is working hard to undo as much of the damage that Trump caused as possible.
The bad news is that 47% of America still favor Trump, who continues to speak for his party, at whose behest the Capitol was stormed on January 6th. (more…)
With the help of every mainstream media outlet imaginable, Bill Gates is heavily promoting his new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. I won’t be reading it, because based on what I can discern, it contains very little that 2GreenEnergy contributors and I haven’t discussed hundreds of times. Not that that’s a bad thing; I feel honored to be thinking on the same wavelength as Gates. (more…)
Question: From the Wall Street Journal: Texas’s deregulated electricity market, which was supposed to provide reliable power at a lower price, left millions in the dark last week. For two decades, its customers have paid more for electricity than state residents who are served by traditional utilities, a Wall Street Journal analysis has found.
How much more did those deregulated Texas residential consumers pay for their power since 2004 than they would have paid at the rates charged to the customers of the state’s traditional utilities?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Relevance: Beware of dogma.
Those for whom this is a new idea will benefit from this article on hydrogen, and how it’s part of Big Oil’s masterplan to forestall “the electrification of everything.” The generation of electricity from low carbon sources like solar, wind, and hydro is getting less expensive with each passing year, and advanced nuclear holds a great deal of potential as well. Meanwhile, the storage of whatever electrical energy that cannot be consumed in real time, in batteries, pumped hydro and the like, is making fantastic advancements as well. (more…)
The chart below suggests that Republicans/conservatives perceive the world as a more threatening, less beautiful place than their counterparts.
This was also the finding of a related study, one performed in a university that measured unconscious or pre-conscious thought. The activity of each participant’s amygdala (the “reptilian” or “fight or flight” portion of their brains) was charted as they were shown various visual images. Some stimuli were benign, perhaps a river or a kitten, others potentially dangerous, like a snake or a spider. When self-described conservatives encountered a threatening stimulus, their brain activity was much higher than that of self-described liberals. (more…)
When optimistic people say, “The younger generation is extremely progressive and will not stand for things like the destruction of our environment and our society’s indifference to human suffering,” they’re probably not talking about kids as young as the little angel in the video linked above.
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