Here’s the January 2021 publication of Frontiers in Conservation Science. The product of 17 different extremely senior contributors, it’s a good and comprehensive look at where our civilization is perched vis-a-vis the often-discussed “sixth extinction.”
Not exactly uplifting, but perhaps inspirational.
Former governor of New Jersey and former Trump speechwriter Chris Christie notes:
Apparently, Sen. Joe Manchin (D- W.Va.) accepted thousands of dollars in donations from a political action committee founded by a fellow Senate Democrat, progressive Jeff Merkley (D-OR), who wants to put “every coal electricity generating plant in a museum,” a Federal Election Commission report revealed.
Manchin has been vocal about saving the coal industry and the need for coal miners, but this is viewed by some as a betrayal. (more…)
The guy who posted the meme at left suggests: “Accountability is coming for Cruz and Hawley.”
We’d all like to believe that, but we also need to realize we’re living in an era in which:
– The POTUS incites a lethal insurrection–and walks
– The GOP’s QAnoner Representative Marjorie Taylor Green calls for the execution of top Democrats and asserts that the Parkland school shooting was a false flag operation, resulting in–crickets.
Cruz and Hawley look like Madison and Monroe in comparison.
Question: Donald Pols and Channa Samkalden are top bananas in the Dutch environmental organization Milieudefensie. Why are they so happy?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Relevance: Allowing Big Oil to ravage our planet and its people with impunity only emboldens them to be more aggressive. Punishing bad behavior with hefty fines is certain to have some bearing on its activities.
(Photo: Remko de Waal / ANP / AFP via Getty Images)
In response to my recent post Honest and Insightful Discussions of Gun Control Do Not Exist, Gary Tulie writes:
Could never understand the US attitude to guns, and the level of opposition to basic regulation let alone prohibition of even military grade guns!
Controlling and regulating civilian access to guns is not even controversial anywhere else I can think of. (more…)
When public education wrecking ball Betsy DeVos left office, did it dawn on anyone that we’d soon be speaking about someone associated with American education who is arguably even worse? From this:
The Democratic chair of the House Education and Labor Committee on Thursday blasted the Republican leadership’s decision to appoint Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to the key congressional panel, pointing to the freshman GOP lawmaker’s history of peddling vile lies and conspiracy theories about recent school shootings which left dozens of students and teachers dead. (more…)
Ted Cruz is one of the most destructive forces in the United States right now, a true malignancy, but that doesn’t mean he’s wrong here.
In fact, I don’t think anybody at any point in the political spectrum disputes what he said. China’s been on a slow march to dominate the world for thousands of years, and that tenacity, along with a wanton disregard for the value of human life, has gotten them to the point where they will have achieved that goal in the next few decades. (more…)
A reader sent me the story at left, so as to suggest that Biden’s plans to safeguard the environment will be overall job-killers, which is 100% false.
Obviously, coal miners won’t be mining coal; that’s pretty clear. The transition to a clean energy economy will bring a huge net gain of jobs, but, yes, jobs in the dinosaur economy are going away.
This should not scare anyone. There were people who made buggy whips and slide rules, but I would bet that most of them found gainful employment elsewhere.
That’s a trick question. We don’t have one.
And it’s not because we don’t have policies. Hell, we have policies on how we create our policies.
What’s the matter with saying, “We’re phasing our fossil fuels in favorable of clean and low-carbon energy sources at the maximum feasible rate.”
While I’m not privy to any internal discussions within the Biden administration, it seems likely that something along these lines may be in the offing. It’s very clear to all that Biden’s vision of America is that it looks like the EU in as many ways as possible, and certainly with respect to environmental stewardship.
