This is Germany’s Alice Weidel, a politician from Germany’s right-wing extremist party, Alternative for Germany. She studied economics and finance in college. Who could possibly care what she thinks about climate change?
Tag: Climate Change
“No War Required”
The shot at left was taken in 2006, during another war in the Middle East. We often talk about the “externalities” of fossil fuels, normally referring to things like lung disease, climate change, ocean acidification, and so forth. But we …
Cancelling Renewable Energy
This will result in lung disease, climate change, loss of biodiversity, and higher electricity prices. It will also further alienate the rest of the world from our country, as every other nation on the planet is making gains in the …
Elon Musk on Population Growth
The world population growth is 0.85%. In the developed world (OECD countries), it’s about 0.5%. It’s not credible to me that our civilization is threatened by this. But if I were concerned, I’d ask a scientist whose life’s work is …
Trump Trying to Prevent Other Countries from Lowering Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Even those of us who detest Trump didn’t see this coming. Withdrawing the United States from the global effort to prevent environmental collapse wasn’t bad enough.
The Future of Humankind
If I were asked to make the prediction posed below, I would say none of the above, and suggest that some combination of environmental collapse, certainly including climate change, will wipe out many, but not all human beings. There is …
Ignoring Reality
What Aldous Huxley said here is absolutely true, and it applies so broadly across human society. Most obviously, we have environmental collapse in general and climate change in particular. The longer we delay our efforts to decarbonize our energy and …
Dealing with Climate Change
While what Bill Nye said here is true, here are a couple of points: Obviously, there are parts of the globe that will be inhabitable far into the future, even as most of the globe is subject to extreme levels …
Patriotism / Nationalism
I recommend “A Word a Day” for those wishing to expand their vocabularies. But in fact there are other features on this site to look forward to, including “A Thought for Today,” quotes from notable people in history born on …
The Ideas of Our Times
What Voltaire wrote here seems completely true. Moreover, “our times” are marked by existential threats: environmental collapse in general and climate change in particular, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and the trend towards world fascism, as the United States teeters …
