The Modern Regressive America
Here’s a good reminder that the U.S. Supreme Court has brought progress in America to a screeching halt.
Our Purloined Flag
As an old friend said sadly, “They’ve stolen our flag.”
So true. Just one more tragic element of the Trumper/MAGA syndrome.
Someone else remarked, “Looks like the Taliban.” Indeed, and with the same blend of stupidity and evil.
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What Happens When Energy Is “Too Cheap to Meter?”
A reader asked me what I would do if I suddenly became quite rich:Craig: I’d make investments in companies with unique concepts in environmental stewardship. The problem, however, is that there aren’t too many of them. I see ideas from fraudsters and crackpots constantly.
In most of these disciplines, e.g., renewables, the winners have won and the losers have lost. What had a chance 10 years ago, e.g., ocean wave, has now receded into history, as the price of wind and solar have plummeted.
Peter: Me too, but the sustainable companies would have to be webbed to other necessary companies like system and data analytics and socio-economic flow tracking and commonwealth monitoring and there would have to be guidance from philosophical and theological principles. It’s a massive effort that can’t be piecemealed.
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Graphic on Potable Water
The huge sphere (over Denver, CO?) represents the total amount of water on Earth, mostly in our oceans. The medium-sized ball (over St. Louis, MO?) is the amount of potable water, though most of that is locked up in glacial ice. The tiny one (over Knoxville, TN?) is what’s available to our planet’s living forms.
It’s not huge.
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New Approach for Medium-Speed Wind
Here’s a business plan from a team of engineers in the wind energy space.
I have my reservations, but I’ll keep them to myself, and simply ask for comments.
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UK Should Invest More in Renewables
These folks are trying to petition the UK government to invest in renewable energy.
Seems like a great idea; they’re getting my signature.
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Women’s Rights in Today’s GOP
What would have befallen a political party that systemically eliminated women’s rights had it done so anytime between the late 1960s and the last year or so? It would have been immediately annihilated.
Today’s women don’t seem to have the same ferocity as they did a decade or so ago. Their right to an abortion was snuffed out by an ultra-right-wing Supreme Court, but the Republican Party seems to be motoring right along unimpeded.
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Lots Happening in California, Texas, and Florida–But …..
There is a point to be made in the meme here, but the goings-on in California normally involve environmental stewardship, human rights, healthcare, or something else that makes the planet a better place to live.
The precise opposite is true in Texas and Florida, where a newsworthy event is more likely to be about an execution, gun rights, abortion bans, the rejection of science, the mistreatment of immigrants, support for Trump, or some other abomination.
America, “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet”
If we’ve learned anything about Trump, it’s that he never quits. That means that the future holds the promise of incalculable levels of violence as the justice system rolls over the former president, and the traitor-in-chief rallies his supporters to defend him.
As reported here, Trump’s post itself is tantamount to witness tampering.
How Democracies Die
As the United States flirts with the destruction of its democracy, we’re given the opportunity to study a bit about world history and learn what happened in certain ancient empires.
We see, to our horror, that there is nothing at all different between the corruption that America is experiencing today, and what those failed governments went through.
It’s actually worse today, because a) social media makes it possible to promote disinformation at close to the speed of light, and b) the collapse of our educational system and the subsequent growth of ignorance makes this garbage spread like cancer.
