Why I Am Pessimistic About Global Warming Progress
Maybe it’s the jumping forward due to Daylight Saving Time still kicking in, but the problem in combating global warming is that the ‘zipless fuck’ solutions aren’t enough. Weatherizing your house and...
View ArticleThe Hard Part Of The Green New Deal Isn’t Paying For It
That’s the easy part. Much of the criticism of the Green New Deal (GND) has involved bleating about how will pay for it, often using ridiculous estimates. Well, we’ll pay for it the same way we pay for...
View ArticleThe Light Bulb Defenders Ride Again!
Many moons ago, during the era of Republican Representative and bugshitcrazytarian Michele Bachmann, conservatives believed that the Obama administration’s effort to increase energy efficiency of light...
View ArticleCars and Suburbia: Why I Am Pessimistic About a Green New Deal
Let me preface this with noting that, as an organizing principle, the Green New Deal (GND) is pretty good. But I’ve had doubts about the GND doing much to significantly curb U.S. CO2 emissions, and...
View ArticleMass Transit Is Not Pity Charity
It’s the only way cities can work. Last week, Montgomery County officials (Maryland) spent a week using mass transit instead of driving. That’s a good start, but, if they were to use for months, they...
View ArticleWhen ‘Moderate’ Democrats Aren’t
Part of the lefty side of the discourse, such as it is, is too quick to lob the epithet neo-liberal at people who genuinely don’t agree with or think it’s practical to enact left-wing policies. I think...
View ArticleThere Is No Zipless F-ck for the Environment
I’ve noted before that too many people believe there will be a zipless fuck solution for global warming: some sort of technology or relatively painless intervention will be sufficient. It won’t be...
View ArticleWhy I’m Not Optimistic About Global Warming
Ultimately, if we want to seriously combat global warming–not just slow it slightly, but seriously get at the problem–then we need to alter how we live in very fundamental ways, as this piece about...
View ArticleThe Green New Deal Is Not the Radical Position, It Is the Compromise Position
With several Democratic presidential candidates, along with numerous other Democratic politicians, calling for a Green New Deal, it goes without saying that the Green New Deal has been called radical....
View ArticleJust Bribe Manchin Already
While I have little idea what to do about Manic Pixie Dream Senator Sinema (and a bunch of us have been telling you for years that she is horrible), this seems like it might work (boldface mine): The...
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