The George Floyd story will come to hurt Trump far more than it has so far, after we’ve gotten over the raw shock and revulsion and had time to piece together what all this means to our country’s well-being. That’s because, where Trump has succeeded thus far by dividing America, the anger that nearly every American is feeling right now is having precisely the opposite effect. (more…)
The Story of Stuff Project points out: Corporations that flouted environmental regulations and dumped pollutants into air and water won’t be required to pay the fines they’ve already agreed to during the pandemic.
We Americans are getting precisely what we deserve for enabling large corporations to make minions of our law-makers. Until we get money out of politics, there is no reason to expect any improvement along the lines of the travesty shown here.
It’s becoming clear that Big Oil is in the process of losing its death-grip on the world energy industry. Though this will be an uneven process, it clearly is moving in this direction. Sure, it will be helped along by progressive world governments whose people demand action in the form of plans like the Green New Deal; it will also face a headwind in the form of cheap gasoline that encourage consumers to take road-trips in their SUVs, but it is happening nonetheless. (more…)
This is illustrative of why the transition to renewable energy is such a slog: Oil companies speak with forked tongue. They lead people of conscience to believe they’re on board with renewable energy, while they’re re-assuring their investors that they’re on track to suck the last molecule of crude out of the ground.
From Greenpeace: (more…)
Minnesota defines third-degree murder as “depraved-heart murder,” i.e., without intent to effect the death of any person, caus[ing] the death of another by perpetrating an act eminently dangerous to others and evincing a depraved mind, without regard for human life”). This seems exactly correct. He should get the maximum, 25 years. (more…)
The developments in renewable energy over the last decade can be summed up as follows: the winners have won and the losers have lost. The plummeting costs of energy from solar and wind have put extreme pressure on things like hydrokinetics and the others. (more…)
Of the 100+ rollbacks in environmental regulations under the Trump administration, its official replacement of Obama-era fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks is probably the most egregious. (more…)
I was so happy to come across this just now.
As I was cleaning up after my dog (pictured here) when he and I were out on a walk the other day, someone pointed out, “Not everyone does that.”
“So I note,” I smiled in reply.
To live as we think human beings should live is a marvelous victory.
Wow.
It’s also a sine qua non for a sustainable future.
Sure, New Zealand did very well in combating the coronavirus, while the United States, with 4.2% of the world’s population, has 28.5% of the fatalities. Putting this into focus, however, the Kiwis have three huge advantages.
1) Their prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has an honest concern for the well-being of her nation’s people, and does not make decisions based on protecting her own image and her prospects for re-election. Instead of delays out of fear of looking bad, shifting the blame to half a dozen others, and lying about the numbers, she jumped right on the problem while there was still time to prevent the disease from spreading like wildfire. (more…)
A group called “Republicans for the Rule of Law” has made a 49-second TV ad (see below), posing a question for the American people: Did you ever imagine the president could act like this? (more…)
