Bitcoin, Easter Island-ism, and the Cowardice of Green New Dealers
A pox on hypocritical environmentalists who are nowhere to be found in demanding a stop to pointless, energy profligate Bitcoin.
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Will Clean Energy Kickstart A New Resource War?
Why the transition to green energy is likely to be geopolitically destabilizing .
Read more...Why Would Anyone Buy Crypto Art – Let Alone Spend Millions on What’s Essentially a Link to a JPEG File?
Trying to make sense of crypto art.
Read more...Meet the “New Koch Brothers” – the Hedge Fund Activists Wrecking America’s Green New Deal
Wealthy predators are playing stock market games with companies needed to develop and produce clean technology.
Read more...$1 Million Nurdle Spill Settlement Shines Light on Plastic Pollution During Shipping
Nurdles are manufactured pieces of plastic resin, which pose hazards to wildlife and contaminate the environment as they breakdown into microplastics.
Read more...Woodlands and Wetlands Could be Worth More When Left to Nature Than When Farmed
Study suggests that the assumption that greater economic benefits follow from developing resources, rather than conservation, is false.
Read more...Consider This Pineapple: Some Thoughts on Food Waste
Food waste is a major contributor to global warming, not only the rotten stuff per se, but the carbon expended by moving it hither and yon.
Read more...California Wildfire Smoke Harms Respiratory Health More than Fine Particulates from Any Other Source, Including Vehicle Emissions
Wildfire smoke is more toxic than other sources of fine particles – a worry for COVID survivors.
Read more...New Report: U.S. Dams, Levees Get D Grades, Need $115 Billion in Upgrades
Heavier precipitation caused by climate change is straining aging flood-control systems throughout the U.S.
Read more...Waste Watch: Europeans Get Right to Repair for Some Consumer Electrical Goods, While John Deere Reneges on Promise to U.S. Farmers to Make Diagnostic Software Freely Available
On March 1, the EU implemented a right to repair for some consumer electrical goods; which U.S. state will wake up and do the same?
Read more...Analysis: How Exxon Is Being Forced To Accept The Reality Of Bad Fossil Fuel Investments
With the pile of debt facing Exxon — debt that increased by over $20 billion in 2020 and is expected to increase by as much as another $8 billion this year — the truth about whether the oil company really is “stronger” should become obvious soon enough.
Read more...Preparing to Celebrate the Only Season Named for the Soil: Mud Season
What is mud?
Read more...The Oil Industry Is Ready To Fight President Biden In Court
The oil industry is ready to brawl to keep the Biden Administration from halting new Federal energy and mineral leases.
Read more...America Needs New Infrastructure to Survive, But Will Biden Deliver?
What will come of Biden’s grand infrastructure plans? And will they be as green as he promised?
Read more...The Climate Crisis, Rationing and Conscription
Has the time come for the brute force approach to combatting climate change of rationing.
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