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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

I listened to a podcast featuring the former CEO of Pepsico, Indra Nooyi, hoping to hear her thoughts on some of her brands that are particularly potent in destroying our lives.

Of course, the interviewer didn’t frame his questions so aggressively, so this was more about business that anything else.

She did mention that her team has three groupings of brands: fun, good, and better, where “fun” includes things like soda that have no positive value whatsoever.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

The term “geoengineering” means applying some sort of technology aimed at helping the planet to better support life as global conditions change, especially as temperatures rise. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

I’m sure there are many Americans who agree that, if we had our decisions re: lawn maintenance to make over again, we’d rather have built habitat for bees and rabbits than fashion our yards after the way suburban houses looked in the 1950s.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

There is an argument being made, particularly in the Deep South, that our schools’ curricula should not include what academics sometimes call “critical race theory,” i.e., the set of facts surrounding black history in the United States.  That means the telling of how the economy of the South was largely built on the backs of centuries of black slavery, but it also encompasses Jim Crow laws and the more subtle forms of exclusion of blacks from white society to persist to this day.

The author of the meme here seems to be suggesting that those opposing teaching these truths intend to prevent any progress for black people in American society, and, perhaps, would like to see various forms of regression into our terrible past.

I can’t offer any other interpretation.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

As suggested in the meme here, the “kindness movement” has been a big deal in our culture.  Mr. Roberts is well-remembered for what he taught our children about how to get along with one another.

Sadly, the concept of kindness hit upon hard times with the anti-wokeism MAGA crowd, but we hope that’s just a passing fad, and that human decency will once again form the bedrock of our society.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Here’s a three-minute excerpt from an address given by a commencement speaker on this subject of idiots, who they are, and how to spot them.

Was this a real address, or something mocked up as a scene in some sort of movie or TV show?  It doesn’t matter.  Highly recommended.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

The meme here doesn’t accurately reflect what most Republicans believe about how Trump is being handled by the U.S. justice system. If you tune in Fox News or Newsmax (not that I recommend this), you will be told, without any proof of course, that Biden has weaponized the DoJ against his political opponent.

You will “learn,” in other words, that not a single of the 91 charges against Trump in four indictments would have been brought against anyone else.

Now, you have to be frighteningly gullible to believe that. You have to want to believe that with every fiber of your being and be completely unable to examine the truth.

Start with the idea that the FBI could have caught you or me with boxes of classified documents in our homes, and that we would not have been immediately arrested. That’s the level of thinking going on here.

Yet this is the reality of where we’ve come, and how far we’ve descended in terms of evidence-based thinking.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Here’s a cool video on a water wheel-style boat that cruises around picking up trash, mostly plastic waste, from our harbors.

If this generates awareness of the problem, that’s great.  But I’ve become convinced that the only real place to fight plastic pollution is upstream, i.e., reducing the amount of waste in the first place.  To me, this means a blend of consumers’ refusing to purchase single-use plastics, and pressuring manufactures to quit this practice as well.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I disagree.  There are idiots all over the world who think they’re geniuses, and none of them is causing the least bit of harm to human civilization.

The problem here is that, for some reason, tens of millions of Americans can’t see that this man is a criminal sociopath, with no interest whatsoever in anything other than his own enrichment.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

What are America’s priorities, and where does the banning of “woke” terms like “pregnant people” fit among them?

I guess that’s a function of where, geographically, you live in the U.S. The sensibilities of the people of the South don’t mesh too well with those in the more progressive, better-educated parts of the rest of the nation.

If you hail from places like New England, the mid-Atlantic states, or the west, it’s hard to imagine getting worked up about banning the use of gender pronouns when the planet is on fire, teachers are leaving the profession, and countries like Russia and Iran are threatening to transform half of the world into one big autocracy in a permanent state of war, conventional and perhaps nuclear.

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