“it seems that the Trump Administration is still committing taxpayer dollars to killing off coal. ”
I decided that I will only post non-depressing politics on here that usually get enough coverage, and this is one of them.
Tag: climate change
How to plant a tree in the desert
“tackling climate change has to be commercialized if it is to succeed.”
Makes me hopeful.
One thing that wasn’t clear to me though is why don’t they open source their entire tech, like Tesla did.
They don’t have capacity to fill all their orders, and they have nothing to worry with competition, with the head start they have on any startup that might use the same methods. And if anyone improves on it and makes it better cheaper or more scalable, more power to them. Plenty of companies make nice profit from open source products like Linux.
on the same topic, do I buy sunscreen from evil Amazon (that will subsume everything) for $9.72 plus free 2-day delivery, or from REI for $12.95 plus good karma plus extra ½ hour to stop by there on the way home ?
Do I get the much more energy-efficient but less-attractive curtains over R’s objections, or do I do nothing and keep wasting a lot of (electrical) energy and heating up the planet while keeping the peace at home?
board meeting last night, and I failed to convince these nice “progressive” people to participate in the composting program that the city finally started to do in our low-priority area.
Basically, they are concerned that people who live in our building are too stupid or uncaring and would leave their food scraps out improperly, which would bring rats and roaches.
This concerns them more than the methane that we would keep generating in the landfill.
I feel like we just pulled out of Paris Agreement, and I’ve done nothing to prevent it. All politics is really local.
Q&A: Kim Stanley Robinson Explains How He Flooded Manhattan – Scientific American
He is not my favorite writer, but his books are exhaustively researched, and influential, and the topic is endlessly fascinating, in that special anxiety-inducing way. Especially since every day I walk by the building that apparently is the main location of his new book.
It is probably worth reading simply because I will learn something about a future worth hoping for. Got a hold put on it at the library.
Q&A: Kim Stanley Robinson Explains How He Flooded Manhattan – Scientific American
Robinson Meyer offers a new way of understanding Trump in his essay Donald Trump Is the First Demagogue of the Anthropocene:
He not only represents a white racial backlash, and he has not only opened the way for an American extension of the European far right. Insofar as his supporters are drawn to him by a sense of global calamity, and insofar as his rhetoric singles out the refugee as yet another black and brown intruder trying to violate the nation’s cherished borders, Trump is the first demagogue of the Anthropocene.
(illustration: Scott Olson / Getty / Iakov Filimonov / Mavrick / Shutterstock / Katie Martin / The Atlantic)
“Trump is showing us how ill-prepared the United States is for post-climate demagoguery, and he gives us an opportunity to improve our societal immune response.”
This is important.
“Climate mitigation is a worthy goal in itself. It is all the more important when understood as one more type of long-term anti-fascism.”
“Here are some places to start (besides voting for pro-science candidates – in every election). Volunteer. Run for local or state office. Give to charity (whether due to religion or effective altruism). Organize at work. Join a church or a community choir or the local library staff. Make your hometown a better place for refugees to settle. Raise a child well.”
Questions for the debate
Apparently for the debate on October 9th you can submit, and vote on, questions to be asked of Hillary and Trump.
For now, it is dominated by questions very unfriendly to Clinton.
We should share this far and wide and change this.
I would love to see questions on preserving freedom of the press, reducing inequality, adapting to climate change, preserving the U.S. credit rating (with Trump saying earlier how he would be ok defaulting on U.S. debt), and teaching critical thinking
Real estate is booming in south Florida, even as sea level rise becomes a reality
That’s someone’s back yard. I’m curious if taxpayers will be paying to raise that wall.
Just keep on electing Republicans for your state and federal government…
I wonder if there already are REIT ETFs that short South Florida real estate.
Real estate is booming in south Florida, even as sea level rise becomes a reality
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