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 …
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Lithium Mining
Here’s a solid article on the horrors of the mining of lithium that are used to make our batteries that power everything from our drones to our EVs to our cell phones. Two questions: 1) Are these horrors any worse …
Chevron’s New Branding Campaign
Rebranding a company is an enterprise I’ve undertaken dozens, probably hundreds of times. The game here, of course, is to align the client’s organization with something that already exists in customers’ minds. Here we see Chevron calling itself the “human …
Koch Industries Lobbying Up 20% This Year, Aiming To Kill Clean Car Policies
Lobbying by Koch Industries is up by almost 20 percent compared to this time last year, according to the mandatory disclosure forms linked above. Makes sense, given that Democrats took control of the House, as the Green New Deal entered …
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Was Obama Terrified of Coal?
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes: How much difference a mere nine months can make! One of President Obama’s few real accomplishments was his irrational hatred of the US coal industry. In a mere eight years, President Obama contributed to massive job …
The True Gating Factor Limiting the Adoption of Renewable Energy
Our public relations ace Annemarie Osbourne just sent me this brilliant article from the New York Times: How Producing Clean Power Turned Out to Be a Messy Business. This is a terrific piece that offers a great deal of truth of …
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Tagged with: How Producing Clean Power Turned Out to Be a Messy Business, IPPs (independent power producers), long-term environmental damage, lung disease, migration toward renewable energy, New York Times, operators of coal-fired power plants, oxides of nitrogen and sulfur, pricing in the externalities associated with the production and consumption of energy
George Will: A Man I Don’t Claim To Understand
My mom suggested that I check out George Will’s scathing remarks in his editorial: Pope Francis’ Fact Free Flamboyance. She notes: Read it and weep. George Will doesn’t make me weep, though he does cause me to scratch my head. Why …
Chinese People Calling for an End to the Extreme Levels of Air Pollution that Are Cutting Their Lives Short
China’s people are learning the truth about the air pollution that’s causing a huge number of them, estimated to be over one million, every year to drop dead from lung disease. They’ve been unhappy about this for many years, but …
Will Clean Energy Come Through Policy or Technology?
One of the great questions concerning the migration to renewable energy is as follows: Will it come from policy, i.e., government’s creating a level playing field, perhaps with a carbon tax—or will it come from technology, i.e., waiting for the …
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Tagged with: carbon tax, Clean Energy Policy or Technology, Climate Change, government’s creating a level playing field, loss of biodiversity, lung disease, migration to renewable energy, ocean acidification, urbanization of huge populations in China and other Asian nations is the real driver of energy consumption
Ayn Rand’s Philosophy and Sustainability
While U.S. football fans spent last Sunday eating and drinking their way through the Super Bowl, few noticed that it was also the birthday of Ayn Rand, author of philosophic novels. Her concept, as we all know, is that individual creativity, …
Tagged with: author of philosophic novels Ayn Rand, Ayn Rand’s Philosophy, Climate Change, let us ignore the needs of others, loss of bio-diversity, lung disease, ocean acidification, shrink government to a size they can drown in a bathtub, top 85 people on Earth now have the same wealth as the bottom 3.5 billion, water shortages
