It’s with sadness that one of my readers got really incensed on my post about Big Money and the Republican Party and unsubscribed. He notes: If you don’t like Trump then that’s fine; why don’t you keep it to yourself?
Category: Renewables – Politics
A Casualty of Big Money in Politics: The Ruination of the Republican Party
In response to my post to the effect that Reykjavík, Iceland has the cleanest energy mix of any city in the world, a Republican who can’t stand Trump and who happens to be very close to me wrote: That was …
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Where Do Free Speech Rights End?
I recently took a position that public universities should not accept donations from groups who admit that they are trying to influence the political philosophy taught at those schools, and that environmental groups shouldn’t accept donations from polluters. A reader responds: …
Florida Lags in Renewable Energy, And Here’s Why
Frank from Florida writes: Hi Craig, Yes, the Department of Energy is doing wonderful things. Here I am sitting in a state, where it has been said time and time again how productive Florida would be with solar, and yet …
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Should the Sierra Club Accept Donations from Polluters?
Referring to the fact that the Sierra Club accepted a $26 million donation from Chesapeake Energy, a natural gas company, check this out: “Runners shouldn’t smoke, priests shouldn’t touch the kids, and environmentalists should never take money from polluters,” John …
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Environmentalism In World News
Weekday mornings I get up at 6 AM and watch at least part of “Newsroom Tokyo,” a wonderful program distributed through PBS that presents the highlights of goings on, not only in Japan, but around the world. The first thing …
Achieving a Better Civilization Means Confronting an Important Fact: Free Market Capitalism Has Limits
Those who read the comments on this blog recognize frequent commenter MarcoPolo is a man whose position is that free market economics should be the only force guiding our civilization. Using his words, “Attempting to create a “moral” or “ideological” …
Antonin Scalia Dead at 79
As I like to think of myself as a kind and civil person, I generally do not celebrate the loss of anyone’s life. Yet it’s hard to mourn the passing of those who were bitter enemies of fairness, justice and …
We All Make a Far Greater Difference Than We Can Possibly Know
It’s heartening to look through the comments to my recent post: “The Environmental Movement: Too Conciliatory?” — insofar as many point out the role of the individual in determining the course of history. We have FAR greater capacity to change …
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The Environmental Movement: Too Conciliatory?
One of the more radical civil rights leaders of the 1960s was not at all happy with the progress that African Americans were making at the time, with their sit-ins to force “white people only” diners to allow blacks to …
