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| 2:49p |
Cropland for jet fuel
Alternative jet fuel is not feasible in the
time
frame necessary to avert climate disaster.
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| 2:49p |
Corporate treaties fueling global crises
Governments are noticing the terrible danger that
business-supremacy
treaties pose to prospects of reducing fossil fuel use.
Given the millions of people that those companies' use of business-supremacy treaties
is likely to kill, in my view war is justified to defeat them. However, it is not
obvious to me what strategy could be successful.
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| 2:49p |
US Mail system as degradable
Laying out
DeJoy's
plans to make US mail less reliable and frequently but unpredictably slower.
The anticipated slowdowns will interfere with postal voting. Many ballots will
arrive late due to USPS delays and then will not be counted.
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| 2:49p |
Demographics around abortion bans
Various restrictions imposed on abortion by some US states correlated
with higher
rates
of domestic homicide.
It is too early to determine how the recent bans on abortion have affected this
correlation, but one must suspect that bans correlate with even higher increases.
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| 2:49p |
Global power sector emissions peaked
Renewable generation provided 30% of the
world's
electricity in 2023. This is expected to continue growing rapidly.
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| 2:49p |
Tropical heating, glaciers in Venezuela
*[It seems that] Venezuela is the first country to have
lost
all its glaciers in modern times.*
Venezuela bears a fraction of the responsibility for this event through its export of
oil. But it is just a small fraction.
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| 2:49p |
Water infrastructure bills and dues, US
The US needs to spend a trillion dollars over the next 20 years in order to
upgrade
and repair water infrastructure.
That is presuming we do what is needed to curb global heating. If we don't do that,
we are on the path to a world of disasters — so what difference does one disaster more or less make?
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| 2:49p |
GDP growth as a phase
Looking for a
model
of progress that does not depend on unending economic growth.
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| 8:50p |
Court fines politician
A right-wing-extremist German candidate has been convicted of using a
slogan used by Nazi
paramilitaries in the 1930s.
I don't think that was a accident. Right-wing extremists are very
clever about their dog whistles. Apparently that candidate chose
to invoke the Nazi for per own success.
Which is worse: Nazis successfully recruiting with hate, or censorship
of Nazi views? For me, either one is likely to destroy democracy.
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| 8:50p |
US campus protests
Several Jewish students, at least fairly sympathetic to the
Palestinian cause, state praise and criticism for views
they
encountered in recent encampments.
The Jewish population of Israel did not come from Europe, so cannot
even
theoretically go "back" there.
I support an independent state of Palestine, but abolishing Israel would be
worse (because it's bigger) than abolishing Gaza.
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| 8:50p |
Tenant laws and corporations
Now that corporations have bought many single-family homes, they feel
free to maintain them badly, because if tenants withhold rent to
demand their rights,
the corporation evicts them.
These corporations lobby hard against laws
to protect tenants from being cheated. I think Republican-controlled states
may not have codified rent strikes.
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