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Fuckin’ Marco Polo.

 

The BLM already supervises something like 245 million acres of surface resources, and 700 million acres of sub-surface resources - and is happy to lease a lot of that public property to energy companies without my explicit approval.

 

Little Marco. What did he do? He went to Chiiiina. Okay? Look, I went to North Korea. Much bigger country than China. And what did Little Marco do? He brought back pasta. I call it spaghettios but they call it pasta. Remember in the old days when the only Italians in this country were pizza guys? Now they are Speaker of the House. What a disgrace, I tell you. And the reason why we didn’t put tariffs on the pasta. For decades, they’ve ripped off the United States, like no one has ever done before. Hundreds of billions of dollars a year were lost dealing with China, especially over the years during the prior administration. China raided our factories, off shored our jobs, gutted our industries, stole our intellectual property and violated their commitments under the World Trade Organization. They were able to get away with a theft, like no one was able to get away with before because of past politicians and frankly, past presidents.

 

Li’l Marco. Like li’l Elian.

 

I love nuclear, it's highly efficient it's cheap and I've been around it for 22 years, but, the disposal of the spent rods is not an aside. There is nowhere to put them. They're largely being kept on site and it is an ever-present danger because all nuclear power plants are built near water supplies.

 

he made that water game but then he went too far

 

And, it takes 40 to 50 years to decommission and redevelop the site of a nuclear plant.

 

If we were OK with this:


I'm not sure we wouldn't be OK with this:



MGM Resorts Unveils Mega Solar Array Project to Power Vegas Casinos

 

That’s great question. Have less stuff I guess. Travel less. Live far more provincially and frugally. All of us.

Understand that I’m skeptical that most leaders or activists want to sincerely address the climate change they insist will destroy the world within a few decades. I think some people like the idea of sticking it to big oil and gas - and maybe even big ag - because, you know, fuck those guys. But real change will take drastic consumption changes on the more monastic end of things. Start telling these people who go to Disney World 15 times they can only go once or twice, see how that goes.

 

Well, now you're arguing against our present version of capitalism - which requires 'growth' in order to sustain itself - and 'consumerism,' the specific form of growth and capitalism upon which America has depended for the last 100 years.

Another interesting sidebar might be that living 'provincially' consumes more resources than living 'collectively' in places like cities with better resource-sharing.

Frugality, though, is good.

But a tough sell.

 

The human race is short-sighted and selfish. Add that corporations who used to think in the long term are now mostly focused on their next profit and loss report and what it does to the executive's stock options.

I wish I thought we would collectively get our act together and seriously try to do something about it before there were outright cascading climate disasters, but we'll procrastinate until they're massive, then try to make a crash effort to fix something that took over a hundred years to cause. The only good thing I see about our climate change response is that I'll be dead in twenty years and won't have to deal with the worst of it.

 

I actually agree with you. But if it's spent rods vs. the full destruction of planet earth (as it is claimed) as we know it, nuclear is part of any serious plan.