Political philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor Hannah Arendt gave us the words here. In the context of the Holocaust, this makes perfect sense. We can say that the people who committed those atrocities failed to think of the consequences, and …
Category: Climate Change
Ted Nordhaus in the Economist: Green Activists Mislead and Hold Back Progress
Ted Nordhaus is best known for his position that the environmentalism movement is doomed to failure, and that it should be extinguished, so as to allow pure market forces to come along and win the day. Let’s begin by noting …
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The Limits To Growth
This year is the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Limits to Growth (LTG), a report on the exponential economic and population growth with a finite supply of resources, by Donella H. Meadows et. al. People long before them understood …
Let’s Decarbonize
What Harrison Ford says here is on point, but keep in mind that our “leaders” are simply reflecting what voters want. They understand that most people will make precious few sacrifices for the good of the people who will inhabit …
We Need To Believe One Side or the Other: Choose Wisely
OK, it’s whom to believe, but this guy makes an excellent point. It’s like so many things in our world today. We’re surround by real estate salespeople opining on the validity of climate science and landscape architects telling us the …
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Brilliant Climate Change Article
Here’s a fabulously passionate article on climate change journalism. It’s written by veteran reporter Sammy Roth, the Los Angeles Times energy correspondent, who also writes the weekly Boiling Point newsletter and previously reported on energy for the Desert Sun and USA Today. IMO, it’s …
Tagged with: climate change journalism
Changing the Minds of Trump Supporters
Great point here, and I think pretty much every one of us understands this, at least at some level. It’s still tempting to “get into it” with the Big Lie people, the anti-vaxxers, the climate deniers, and so forth, but …
Life in Texas Is a Real Mind-Bender
I had perhaps 8 – 10 clients in Texas through the many years I operated my marketing services business, mainly in Dallas and Austin, one in Houston. I never resented going there, perhaps due to the fact that I was …
Tagged with: Abbott's theater at the border, anti-science executive orders to the effect that "no entity in Texas" can mandate COVID vaccines, clearly unconstitutional ban on abortion, Electric Reliability Council of Texas, ERCOT, ERCOT operated so as to maximize profitability, Greg Abbott, Quixotic attempt to ban critical race theory, vehement opposition to even the mildest forms of gun control
We Don’t Seem To Be Too Alarmed About the Climate Crisis
This is excellent. Obviously, it could apply to a great number of phenomena in our current world, but the imperative to mitigate climate change comes immediately to mind.
John Kerry, U.S. Climate Envoy, Tells Top Polluters ‘We Must All Move Faster’
Nothing wrong with asking people to “move faster,” but let’s get real. We either create the business conditions that provide incentive to decarbonize our energy and transportation sectors, or the planet bakes. That mean some sort of revenue-neutral tax on …
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