Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Greta Thunberg on the climate delusion: ‘We’ve been greenwashed out of our senses. It’s time to stand our ground’

 

heartbreaking

How California’s Bullet Train Went Off the Rails

Now, as the nation embarks on a historic, $1 trillion infrastructure building spree, the tortured effort to build the country’s first high-speed rail system is a case study in how ambitious public works projects can become perilously encumbered by political compromise, unrealistic cost estimates, flawed engineering and a determination to persist on projects that have become, like the crippled financial institutions of 2008, too big to fail.

 

same same all same

 

California unsustainable?

 

“According to the United Nations’ emissions gap report, the world’s planned fossil fuel production by the year 2030 will be more than twice the amount that would be consistent with keeping to the 1.5c target. This is science’s way of telling us that we can no longer reach our targets without a system change, because meeting our targets would literally require tearing up contracts, valid deals and agreements on an unimaginable scale. This should, of course, be dominating every hour of our everyday news feed, every political discussion, every business meeting and every inch of our daily lives.

The media and our political leaders have the opportunity to take drastic and immediate action, and still they choose not to. Perhaps it is because they are still in denial. Maybe it is because they do not care. Maybe it is because they are unaware. Maybe it is because they are more scared of the solutions than of the problem itself. Maybe it is because they are afraid of causing social unrest. Maybe they are afraid of losing their popularity. Maybe they simply did not go into politics or journalism to uproot a system they believe in – a system they have spent their lives defending. Or maybe the reason for their inaction is a mixture of all these things.

A totalitarian secular religion. And they’re using a 19 year old kid to front it. The media has spent its life defending? Rantings of a dictator. (Which, she isn’t. But she’s used a vessel.)

 

There’s a lot of interesting stuff in there.

The idea that, in the near future, we’ll have to move agriculture out of places like California and Arizona would be a huge change and a political nightmare.

But it’s not “religion” to point out how dwindling fresh water supplies will affect our country in 50, 25, or even 10 years. It’s trying to get political leaders and a society that can’t look more than a week ahead to plan for a worsening problem.

 

“Every inch of our daily lives” is religion.

 

“The World, As Defined By Alma” — Ross Douthat would love it.

 

“Absolutely.” - Jason Whitlock

 

Air and water would seem to be an "every inch" proposition to human biology, likewise.