Prizes for Environmental Photography
From “Treehugger,” a couple of powerful images in the “climate change” and “water scarcity” categories: (more…)
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Allowing Russian Bounty on American Troops Isn’t Treason. Then What Is?
What does it take for a crime to rise to the level of treason? The president of the United States learns that an enemy nation has put a bounty on the heads of U.S. soldiers and does nothing to stop it. That doesn’t get the job done? Does he need to kill the soldiers by his own hand before he’s stopped?
Getting Emotional About the Pandemic
We know we need to keep a cheery demeanor during this pandemic. There is enough cynicism and hopeless without manufacturing more of it.
Given, however, that there’s nothing to be cheery about, maybe anger is a better response. (more…)
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Volkswagen Phasing Out of Fossil Fuel-Powered Automobiles
German automaker Volkswagen will no longer build internal-combustion engine vehicles at its Zwickau plant in Mosel, in its transition to the production of electric cars. The plant will henceforth produce only EVs for Volkswagen, Audi, and Seat.
Some say that this rapid change in strategy resulted from the horrific public relations backlash from the emissions scandal a few years ago. (more…)
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Caveats on Hydrogen as Fuel
El hidrógeno puede satisfacer hasta la mitad de la demanda final de energía del Reino Unido para 2050 y desempeñar un papel importante en el cumplimiento de los objetivos de emisiones netas cero del país, según una investigación de Aurora Energy Research…. or… (more…)
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Restoring America’s Sanity
This guy asks a good question. Sure, the intensity of all this hatred will start to attenuate when Trump leaves office, and certainly the visibility of these racist slobs will die down as well when there are no longer rallies whose purpose is to bring them together and whip them into a frenzy.
But regardless of the landslide by which Trump loses in November, there will be many millions of people, like those pictured above, who will believe Trump when he screams that the election was rigged and that he was removed by the deep state, or some other mysterious force for which there is no evidence.
This is why a very long period of time will be required to restore any level of sanity to this country–if it can be done at all.
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American Hypocrisy, Indifference to Human Suffering
What this gentleman said at the left here is exactly correct. We have far more concern for the welfare of dogs than we do for that of nearly 70,000 Hispanic children, living in filth at U.S. detention centers along our southern border.
It’s time to face the fact that the United States has descended into the darkness of one of the most cruel and vile nations on Earth.
ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, American Petroleum Institute Named in Climate Change Litigation
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has filed suit against fossil fuel organizations ExxonMobil, Koch Industries and the American Petroleum Institute. Minnesota joins at least 15 other plaintiffs, including attorneys general in Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island, who have brought similar lawsuits on the basis that the defendants allegedly defrauded consumers by covering up the effects of climate change. (more…)
COVID-19 Can Be Criminally Mismanaged by Both the Federal and State Levels
Trump’s criminal neglect of Americans’ health and safety vis-a-vis COVID-19 has gotten most of the news over the last few months, but what happens at the state level of government should not be ignored.
At left is the result of Republican governor of Florida Ron Desantis’s decision to re-open beaches and non-essential businesses at the horror of the public health community. (more…)
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Damage Inflicted by Trump Is Enormous
The damage the Trump administration has done to this country is going to take decades to repair, if it can be done at all.
What will happen before our president leaves office? Well, the current plan is to kick 20 million people off healthcare by asking the Supreme Court to overturn Obamacare. If your goal is inflicting suffering, this is a particularly strong idea, as we’re in the middle of a pandemic (that could have been largely mitigated). Who needs healthcare when a record-setting 40,000 new cases of COVID-19 were reported yesterday alone?
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