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Wash Post article The drought will change the water temp, and cities will need alternative power and water. So we will need to plant trees, stop the logging of forests upstream, and conserve water. Also, we need to switch to local water...
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link Oil and Gas Fracking Company Fined $16 million for Polluting the Drinking Water in Dimock, PA. Fracking companies also inject PFAS into the ground, where they could contaminate the drinking water.
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link Mitigation, adaptation, and discussing funding for climate threatened 3rd world countries. But no yet banning fossil fuels.
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interview I relish his books: The Abstract Wild, Teewinot, Travels in the Greater Yellowstone Books
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Good book by Doug Peacock and his getting close to wild places and wildlife. He was a friend of Ed Abbey and spends lots of time out exploring wildness.
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link tv special
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While some delve deep in musty books in search of learning rare, ye wise folk walk by trees and brooks and gain of wisdom there. Anonymous Dave Rearick told me this quote, which he had seen in a print mounted...
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link NPR 1A podcast on need for new amendments and changes to the judicial system: stop the shadow docket, push the ERA amendment, make ethics apply to judges and the Supreme Court, mandatory retirement, term limits, make ratification depend on population,(not on...
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Americans Who Tell the Truth
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great list of articles about corruption partly by FL Power and light from jason garcia's substack "Seeking Rents". He uncovers misdeeds and corruption by FPL, Gov DeSantis, and other politicians. It has links to newspaper articles about these things. more good stuff...
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dolphins Sort of like political parties: local, state, national
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Alexandra Heal in the Financial Times 9-10-22. "The Ancient subarctic forests at risk from climate change and war". she says these forests are going fast due to global warming and fires. They store lots of carbon-more than humans have released...
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"cost savings" - it will save you money- is way better PR message for renewables- than "preventing global warming" or "economy/ jobs" messages
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article It seems that they market the baby powder to appear baby- and family- friendly and to gain life-long customers for its other products. They resisted attempts to ban it. Finally, in 2020 they stopped selling it in the US. Until 2022...
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link They save money and reduce global warming.
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NYT -'“greenhouse gas emissions from logging in U.S. forests are now comparable to the annual” carbon dioxide “emissions from U.S. coal burning.” Protecting federal forest lands from logging, on the other hand, would remove 84 million tons of carbon dioxide from...
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NYT burning them up for wood pellets for energy- AND GETTING SUBSIDIES FROM GOVERNMENTS- PRETENDING THEY ARE A GREEN SOURCE OF ENERGY.
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NPR article And the natural gas plants also use the same amount of water as coal plants. And the amount of water in the west is sharply falling. Thee is a 1000 year drought in some parts of the west. ...