Whenever I come across things like this video, I wonder: a) Do this guy and I actually live in the same country? and b) Has the person making this assertion ever run so much as a lemonade stand? Reagan claims that a “little intellectual elite” in Washington D.C. thinks it “can plan our lives better than we can ourselves,” and that government “has the power of life and death” over our enterprises. (more…)
In response to the meme here a reader noted, “This decision is welcome news to everyone who believes that the perpetrators of war crimes should not enjoy impunity, no matter how powerful they are. (The decision) vindicates the rule of law and gives hope to the thousands of victims seeking accountability when domestic courts and authorities have failed them.”
As reported by GreenTech Media, Spain and Portugal are on a tear to build wind farms, in a concerted effort to meet their 2050 objective of carbon-neutrality. Spanish oil giant Repsol is using the metric of carbon intensity to gauge its progress. Interim targets, on a 2016 baseline, are 10 percent by 2025, 20 percent by 2030 and 40 percent by 2040. (more…)
Constant lying about little, meaningless things, like the size of the 2017 presidential inauguration, is despicable, but it’s not dangerous except insofar as it’s an indication of mental illness.
Lying about a lethal and highly contagious disease endangers the lives of every single one of us.
Europe’s largest bank, UBS, is pulling out of all deals that involve coal and oil extraction in the arctic. (more…)
When this international nightmare is over, we’ll have a lot of time to discuss the many types of punishment Trump inflicted on our civilization, and argue which ones caused the deepest and longest-lasting damage.
As an environmentalist, I tend to see the world through that lens, though I’m wondering if the single greatest tragedy isn’t what he’s done to the moral fabric of American society, especially our children.
In the history of the nuclear energy space, most of the world’s attention has been focused on fission, the breaking apart of large atoms, like uranium, into smaller ones, and the capture of the huge amounts of energy that happens as a result. Though traditional processes carry significant dangers, e.g., operational failures (e.g., Fukushima) and the disposal of waste, cutting-edge technology invokes the decay of thorium, a process which, when brought fully to fruition, eliminates these issues almost entirely. (more…)
I thought this was great.
Fortunately, we are turning out a large and growing number of environmental science majors, though one wonders what they’re going to be actually doing in the workplace, given that science is increasingly ignored in our society.
The author of this piece deserves kudos for wrapping up the situation so accurately, yet so poetically.
So many things are at stake here. Presuming Biden’s momentum propels him to victory in the primary and again in the general, regardless of how much there is to dislike about the man and his platform, we need to think of relief of pain and suffering and stress this will provide for so many people on this planet, both now and far into the future.
For a moment, look at this purely from an environmental perspective. At first glance, it seems that the letter grade of the guy setting U.S. environment policy will go from an F to perhaps a C-. But then consider that F is the grade one gets for doing nothing. 0% is an F. What Trump’s doing isn’t nothing; it’s attacking the remaining environmental protections so as to create the most precipitous decline possible.
So many things start to get so much better the very moment Trump leaves.
The Rocky Mountain Institute was featured on last Sunday’s edition of CBS’s “60 Minutes,” which featured a discussion of how RMI will work with the government of The Bahamas to implement microgrids to improve resilience in this and other island economies as they recover from hurricanes. (more…)
