Maybe the state income tax should include a surcharge for water. https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/19/california-water-bills-affordability-debt-crisis
Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category:
2021-01-19 Court Stops Trump EPA Emissions Rollback
We should be relieved that another of Trump’s assault on the laws was stopped by the courts. Trump tried to politicize the science and laws that were meant to protect the health of people and the Earth. https://www.powermag.com/court-kills-trump-rule-on-power-plant-emissions/
2021-01-17 Earth’s Future Outlook Is Worse Than…
The chart from Bloomberg NEF predicts that by 2050 the world will still have 24% of global electricity produced by fossil fuels. We must switch to more renewables sooner or there will be no future. https://theconversation.com/worried-about-earths-future-well-the-outlook-is-worse-than-even-scientists-can-grasp-153091
2021-01-17 Denial Of Overpopulation Article
Read what Sir David Attenborough has to say about this in his book A Life On Our Planet. As resources get stretched out between more and more people, the people will suffer and die. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sex-murder-and-the-meaning-life/202009/the-psychology-denying-overpopulation
2021-01-16 Covid Relief
Some comic relief 😂😆😆😂 •Half of us are going to come out of this quarantine as amazing cooks. The other half will come out with a drinking problem. •l used to spin that toilet paper like I was on Wheel of Fortune. Now I turn it like I’m cracking a safe. I need to practice
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2021-01-03 Myth: Wind Turbines Cause Climate Change
The anti-wind turbine NIMBYs will try to grasp at any excuse to get rid of wind turbines. One myth is that they cause heating and climate change. Not true. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/myth-debunked-wind-farms-dont-alter-climate-180949701/ More anti-wind turbine rebuttals: 2021-04-19 << DISCUSSIONS Michael Goggin on Sep 9, 2011 Hi Willem, It is unfortunate to see people continuing to propagate the
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2021-01-02 Climate Change And CoVID19 Linked
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01012021/covid-climate-parallels-denial/ Quote: << According to the World Health Organization, climate change is currently estimated to cause more than 150,000 deaths annually. In 2014, the organization estimated that climate change could cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year from 2030 to 2050. A study published in 2019 in the New England Journal of Medicine called this
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2021-01-01 Biden’s Ambitious Climate Plans – $2 Trillion
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/08/932160547/biden-will-face-major-limits-to-his-ambitious-climate-plans Quote: << “Investing in renewables and energy efficiency generates more than twice as many jobs as investing in fossil fuels,” says Andrew Steer, president and CEO of the World Resources Institute. >>
2020-12-11 Chernobyl Cat Is Very Radioactive
Wow, listen to the meter go crazy when it’s near that cat! H-O-T-!!! https://youtube.com/shorts/8D9BYHVxjRg
2020-12-08 Fed Court Rejects Trump’s Approval of Antarctic Offshore Drilling Project
It’s time the world stops expansion of fossil fuels and expand clean renewables. The Orange Orangutan has done enough damage to the US and the world. Waiting for Jan 20 to get rid of Don the Con. And I don’t feel one bit of guilt calling Trump names because he calls HRC ‘crooked Hillary’ and
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