https://bsky.app/profile/giantwhispers.bsky.social/post/3lfokhmg2xs2v “There are more continuities between Obama, Trump and Biden that most people realize. Even on #climate where all three administrations fought to prevent young people from arguing in court that they have a right to a livable planet. #C https://www.commondreams.org/news/juliana-v-united-states
Source: Meet the Mayor of GreenSky – Mother Jones
Source: Trump Won’t Confront the Climate Crisis. He’ll Feast Off It. – Mother Jones
Source: Trump Won’t Confront the Climate Crisis. He’ll Feast Off It. – Mother Jones
There’s something actually disturbing about “messages of comfort and support” (see https://www.oikoumene.org/news/amid-california-fires-we-have-the-certainty-of-the-accompaniment-of-the-love-of-god) for victims of disasters when there is NO TALK of working on addressing the causes of the conditions that create more and more of these disasters. Of course, there is ABSOLUTELY nothing wrong with this message, such as the one I shared, but when we hear all of Continue Reading
I have many problems with the Democrats arguing this: Trump’s claim that “we had the best economy ever” under him is a lie because the “economy is actually the best ever RIGHT NOW, under Biden, and that it’s ‘proven” by lower unemployment, falling inflation rates, and record Stock Market levels. Those are TYPICAL measures, but also VERY deceptive in that Continue Reading
This is a bad argument: “Strongest economy in history” is nonsense, of course. But Dems citing of certain statistics to say Biden economy is best is also bunk. I’m also not setting up any ridiculous “both sides” argument. I’m complaining about the claim by many Dems that this economy we have right now is the “best ever”. That’s not how Continue Reading
They kinda “get us” . Seems to “get us” far better than the “He Gets Us” commercials that invoke a default eye roll where I live and breathe. Source: The History of Planet Earth in Ten Seconds – Thoughts for Growth
It is not easy to speak out against and resist the power of fossil fuel companies as they are hurling us all towards climate chaos, but climate justice and a livable climate for all life depend on it. Source: Speaking Up When It Isn’t Easy – One World House – Mark Davies
A real emergency declaration might be something like this: For example, once a climate emergency is declared, Biden could divert billions of dollars from the military toward constructing renewable energy projects. Under the Defense Production Act, a law invoked by the Trump administration to boost the supply of Covid-19 medical supplies, Biden could order businesses to manufacture more clean energy Continue Reading
Environmental advocates say that although the president acknowledges the climate crisis in his rhetoric, his administration continues to expand fossil fuel production. Source: What it might look like if President Biden really declared a climate emergency | Grist Yes, “Acknowledging” the crisis doesn’t actually DO anything to address it. Obviously, it’s better to IGNORE it in practice (aka “expanding fossil Continue Reading
The Biden administration’s costly and coercive crusade to replace internal combustion vehicles (ICVs) with electric vehicles (EVs) is disproportionate to its minuscule climate impact. Source: Opinion | Biden’s all-EV dream lives on, despite a lack of sales or feasibility – The Washington Post Compared to the cost of continued fossil fuel emissions? ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS, people. Ecological costs are REAL and Continue Reading
I see that the last time I used the Jetpack tool to import posts from Facebook was September of 2022. I don’t remember how far BACK I had gone when I last did that importing a year a half ago. Update: just checked it, and I had gone all the way back to the beginning, which is good. Now I Continue Reading
It’s a huge FAIL on the part of Social Media companies that our content is not ALL instantly available to us, forever. Facebook in particular. They (Facebook) were once very open in their API, and made it simple to save posts and comments to blogs, and vice versa. And , by many of the same mechanisms, interoperable, so that posts Continue Reading
Very formative and influential book for me. It also caused me to more keenly feel the way my places of employment missed the real power of the Web.
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