by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 27, 2019 | Economics, Environment, Health, Opinion, Politics
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pulled a fun little prank on the Democrats yesterday, by scheduling a vote on their Green New Deal. Take a moment and read or skim the text. It’s not that long. I’ll call attention to three bits. First, the opening...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 16, 2019 | Environment, Opinion, Politics
Despite an increasing number of past climate doomsday predictions falling flat, proving exaggerated, or simply not materializing at all, the drumbeat for action to remediate the global warming caused by human carbon emissions continues. And, in the fashion of Chicken...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 4, 2019 | Economics, Environment, Opinion, Politics
The Democratic Party’s leftward lurch, led by Bernie Sanders’ heir-apparent, “it-girl” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has hit a few internecine bumps in the road of late, with AOC threatening to primary the “moderates” who aren’t...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 15, 2019 | Culture, Environment, Immigration, Opinion, Politics
An article over at Forbes attempts to answer the question “why don’t greens and progressives embrace nuclear power as a solution to global warming?” Some who actually think about things do, but they are few, and they are typically ignored. The...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 9, 2019 | Economics, Environment, Politics
By now, everyone who pays attention to politics has heard of the Green New Deal being proposed by the left-end of the Democratic Party. Being flogged as not only an environmental necessity, but as a means of achieving social justice and support for the poor by it-girl...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 16, 2018 | Environment, Opinion
Over in Poland, a passel of the world’s elite have gathered for the 24th annual Conference of Parties (COP24), to discuss climate change and hammer out an agreement on carbon emission tracking and mitigation. The word coming out of Poland is that the situation...
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