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Land use laws, AU

vendredi 27 janvier 2023 à 13:02

Australia has a system intended to prevent habitat-destroying changes in land use, but empirically it has done little good. Ministers were too quick to decide that plans were "non-significant" and bypass careful environmental review for them.

Renewable energy V. big tech

vendredi 27 janvier 2023 à 12:47

Collecting the evidence that new energy technologies such as nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, and carbon capture and storage, are a distraction and a big waste of money (or worse). We should rather deploy the mature renewable energy generation technologies as fast as we can. The only difficult new technologies needed are to make airplanes and ships use electricity. (Perhaps with green hydrogen as an intermediate form of energy.)

Another Gaza: Palestine

vendredi 27 janvier 2023 à 12:47

Israel has put special restrictions on foreign citizens' entry into occupied Palestinian territory. According to Human Rights Watch, these rules unjustly cut off contact between the Palestinians who live there and everyone else.

Christian nationalism, US

vendredi 27 janvier 2023 à 12:47

The US Constitution mandates separation of church and state to protect against movements to impose a specific religion on everyone. In other words, to protect against today's Christian nationalism.

New pun: Homeopathy

vendredi 27 janvier 2023 à 12:32

Homeopathy pun:

Homeopathy is quackery with dilutions of grandeur.