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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

It may appear that the myth of a stolen election will linger forever, but here’s evidence to the contrary, a 27-page post-election “autopsy” that points to the real reason Trump lost.  An exhaustive poll of voters revealed that a blend of untrustworthiness/dishonesty and incompetence in handling the pandemic cost Trump the election.

Doesn’t that ring true?  Trump’s disapproval rating at the time of the election was 58%, and I would wage that every single person in that group harbored those opinions.

The idea that Trump won an election with an approval rating in the 30s is laughable.  His core base of supporters may not be the sharpest tools in the shed, but over time, as more evidence surfaces corroborating the results of the election, most of them will admit, if only privately, that they were bamboozled.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

It’s a little more complicated than this, as it starts with $1.3 billion and moves on from there, but this is illustrative of what’s happening in the Biden administration.

Trump felt “dissed” by the Puerto Rican authorities, in particular the mayor of San Juan, in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017, and, with his characteristically childlike vengeance, punished all 3.2 million starving and desperate people.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

The most recent “Take a Cool Guess” called for readers to take a stab at the number of scientists who left the EPA during the Trump administration.  Below is a breakdown of their fields of specialization.

Will these folks be returning now that Trump has left the building?  One can only hope. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

An old friend sent me the meme here, to which I responded:

Thanks. I’ve seen this. The fallacy in it is that most of the cost factors in milk production are not employee salaries, but rather things like procuring, feeding, housing, and providing veterinary care for cows, milking, pasteurization, energy, bottling, distribution, sales, marketing, debt service on the capital equipment, and G&A (general and administrative). (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I wonder what’s the point of demarcation between Trump’s 31K run-of-the-mill lies and these so-called “looney lies.” Where does one draw the line?

Seriously, this lunatic’s presence in Congress may be serving a purpose, as people are dropping out of the Republican party in droves.  If the GOP is going to have any relevance going forward it will need to refashion itself, to whatever degree possible, around principles of honesty and sanity.

On top of that, it needs to figure out how to add real value to voters’ lives.  People want healthcare, quality education, a clean environment, a single-tiered justice system, living wages, and the rest.  What precisely does the GOP offer along these lines?

On a good day, this is going to take an enormous amount of work.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

At left and below is 20th Century American artist/illustrator Maxfield Parrish’s iconic work “Daybreak.” No one knows the story behind it, and perhaps that’s a good thing.  To call it “suggestive” is to put it mildly.

We can hope that a new day is dawning for the people of the United States, as our country takes its first tentative steps to rejoin the rest of the world in terms of decency and justice for all, for which it was formerly known.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

This is one of the most disgusting examples of greenwashing I’ve ever come across.

You call your water in plastic bottles that will be polluting our lands and oceans “sustainable” because it comes from a huge aquafer?

I’m a man of peace, but I have to admit that a part of me desperately wants to slap whoever wrote and approved this bulls***.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

Question: The years 2016 – 2020 saw a huge exodus of scientific experts at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, due to firings, re-assignments, and simply leaving out of frustration, seeing that science itself had been demoted to a lower role, if it had one at all.  How many are gone?

Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.

Relevance:  Several of the executive orders signed by Joe Biden at the onset of his presidency dealt with the re-instatement of science in policy making.  It couldn’t have happened soon enough.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Here’s one of the core problems facing the U.S., and it doesn’t seem positioned to simply go away.

Perhaps 60% of the country has the feelings expressed at the left.  We don’t want to unify around criminal psychosis; we want to rid ourselves of it, by applying reason, as well as the laws of the land.  (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

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.

 

 

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