I have to admit that I’ve endured a spate of total bull*** from submissions from my reader base lately. The meme here is a good example. Answers: a) The two have nothing to do with one another. Here’s Ronald Reagan …
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Government By Ignorant, Hateful People Never Turns Out Well
From this piece on Brexit: See that pic (at left)? That’s a portrait of life in modern-day Britain. There’s shortages of everything, from gas, to food, to milk, to beer. Here’s a modern society running out of something completely fundamental …
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Who Cleans Up the Mess Left By the Fossil Fuel Industry?
What Noam Chomsky says here is, of course, true. It’s a broader, more generalized statement than what we say when we talk about the externalities of the fossil fuel world. They keep the profits, we all pay the price of …
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Greenwashing
Someone sent me this with the note: “Designed to make people feel like they are doing their part…” I see the point. Greenwashing does exist. But I would urge you not to be too cynical. Most of what’s happening in …
Trusting Science
Here’s a funny little meme on Americans’ pathological distrust of science. Most of the people who reject science are selective in the type of science they reject. Most of these nut-jobs accept that we shoot rockets into space and that …
Identify Oneself As Insane Not a Good Idea, Especially in the Workplace
If I’m not mistaken, “being vocal” in today’s climate means speaking out about the stolen election and the rest of the far-right idiocy. For me, this brings back to mind the days in the 1990’s, when I was running a …
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Renewable Energy “Miracle?”
Nobel Laureate economist Paul Krugman seems to believe that renewable energy has won the day, or is at least well on its way. Yes, the price of electricity per kilowatt-hour has become quite attractive in certain locations, but, from here, …
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Critical of the Green New Deal? What’s Your Suggestion?
Here’s an academic paper on the Green New Deal as a mechanism to mitigate climate change and other forms of environmental disaster. It’s highly critical of the GND, based, as it is, largely around renewable energy and the electrification of …
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Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Renewable Energy Production in the United States
Question: As you look at the bar chart below, presenting the renewable energy generation in each of the 50 states, what’s the first thing you notice? (If you wish, see if your observation coincides with mine.) Answer: Can be found …
Some Ironies Are Funnier Than Others
This reminds me of the environmental conferences I’ve attended at which bottled water is offered, and the symposium on alternative fuels whose keynote addresses was given by a spokesperson for the American Petroleum Institute.
