by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 19, 2019 | Culture, Environment, Health
Tell me if you’ve heard any of these before: “Automation is destroying jobs, and before long we’ll have massive unemployment.” “Runaway population growth will soon exceed our ability to feed everyone.” “We are facing a bee...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 12, 2019 | Environment, Health, Opinion, Politics
Greta Thunberg, the sixteen year old darling-du-jour of environmental activism, just got named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, presumably for having the audacity to blare “How dare you!” at the adults who aren’t destroying their...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 11, 2019 | Environment
There are 86 coal power plants currently in operation in the US. Collectively, they have a capacity of 107 GW of electricity, and provided 27% of the nation’s total power in 2018. They emit 1.97 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide each year. It is fairly well...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 9, 2019 | Economics, Environment, Health, Opinion
A joke/lesson that’s been around since pre-Internet days posits two cows within different nations and/or economic systems. It’s both funny and instructive (as my calling it a joke/lesson implies, clearly), and one version can be found here. Among all sorts...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 6, 2019 | Environment, Opinion, Politics
Those who pay attention to the climate wars know that the green movement has little use for nuclear power, despite its zero carbon emissions, its physically tiny footprint compared to wind and solar, its much lower environmental impact (the massive mining of rare...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 8, 2019 | Culture, Environment, Guns, Opinion, Politics
A current, virally popular Internet meme template is “Woman Yelling At A Cat,” which depicts Real Housewife of Beverly Hills Taylor Armstrong crying and pointing at a smug-looking (aren’t they all?) white cat, with a caption that mocks the woman for...
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