Will the low-speed EV market soon triple in size? Oh sure. People love the pulse-quickening exhilaration of going slowing and taking long periods of time getting places. They adore listening to angry drivers’ horns and getting flipped off by the people they’re holding up on roads that don’t allow passing.
Neoliberalism (free-market capitalism) took over in the U.S. in 1980, the year Ronald Reagan was elected, and has reached the point that many people hate government.
Now, when people say they “hate government,” what they’re really saying is that they hate the bloat, corruption and incompetence of the U.S. federal government. I wish there were a way I could get these people to watch this video, in which Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, lays out what she and her team have accomplished in the past two years.
From E&ENews: Global CO2 has risen for a century. That appears to be over.
The pandemic has made a huge dent in fossil fuel consumption, but have we hit the peak of CO2 emissions? Is there any reason that, post-COVID, the world will consume less oil, natural gas, and coal? That’s what the author here is asserting. (more…)
Este análisis sobre la “pandemia”, viene de un hombre lúcido y con criterio,” or, “This analysis on the ‘pandemic’ comes from a lucid man with credentials.” The following discussion ensued: (more…)
Until the coronavirus, few Americans thought too much about pandemic management. In the last few months, however, we’ve come to understand at least a few basic concepts, perhaps the most central of which is this: You will never know if you’ve overkilled the virus, but you will be acutely aware that you’ve “underkilled” it, and wish in vain that you had done more. (more…)
We often hear otherwise intelligent people say, “Trump is the only thing standing between us and socialism.” What a strange remark that is.
What would a Biden presidency be like? He’s a centrist Democrat like Obama, and there will be very little difference from what we experienced from 2008 – 2016. Keep in mind that the Supreme Court is even more conservative now than it was then, which will work to impede against progressive’s agendas. (more…)
Today’s Americans find themselves in a strange moral position.
Obviously, it’s not right to hope that 50,000 Trump supporters in Oklahoma who don’t believe in epidemiology will infect each other and wind up thinning the herd considerably. Having said that, it sure is tempting. (more…)
I found this just now, and I thought I’d publish it in an effort to describe how ridiculous the U.S. appears on the world stage.
It’s possible that the garden-variety Trump supporters from the so-called “fly-over states” don’t travel abroad as much as people from the blue states along the coasts, and so perhaps they don’t know (or care) how America is perceived, but, in the main, people simply feel sorry for us.
We appear ignorant, confused, hateful, at each other’s throats, hyper-violent, and, perhaps most of all credulous: we’ll believe anything–and that “anything” keeps getting more absurd by the day.
We elected a clown, got the circus that comes along with it, and, to the world’s utter astonishment, seem unwilling to do a goddamn thing to change that.
We’ve often discussed Americans’ peculiar rejection of science, whether it takes the form of climate change denial, fear of vaccinations and GMOs, dismissal of the COVID-19 response, or the welcoming of environmental deregulation. In many cases, this is the result of corporate disinformation campaigns, launched to confuse the citizenry, calling into question what they’re being told by the scientific community.
Who loses? Everyone but the corporate stakeholders themselves. The entire population winds up with a hotter, more toxic, less life-supporting environment. (more…)
What Pope Francis points out here is almost definitely true; he’s spot-on as usual. Like so many other challenges our civilization faces, overcoming the pandemic will not be possible if we continue to ignore the needs of the least fortunate members of our population. (more…)
