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Burning wood

dimanche 4 mars 2018 à 01:00

Burning wood at home is not green energy.

Uber and Lyft wages

dimanche 4 mars 2018 à 01:00

Uber and Lyft Drivers' Median Hourly Wage Is Just $3.37. In other words, half make even less.

Since these businesses are based on identifying customers and tracking them, they are an injustice. Even if they paid more, they would still be an injustice. But they would not continue to exist if they didn't cheat their drivers too.

So let's just get rid of them!

Gun violence research

dimanche 4 mars 2018 à 01:00

Since Republicans blocked the US government from funding research into gun violence, we have no good data about how effective various gun control measures have been — only the guesses of various camps.

Kemper 'clean coal' plant

dimanche 4 mars 2018 à 01:00

The experimental Kemper "clean coal" power plant, which was supposed to burn coal and capture the CO2, was doomed before it was started. Executives knew their plans were likely to fail, and covered it up.

More about it.

I suspect that "clean coal" was hyped intentionally by planet roasters with the specific purpose of discouraging society from doing what really needed doing: putting an end to fossil fuel use with all due speed — while there was still time to avoid disaster.

Global heating in Alaska

dimanche 4 mars 2018 à 01:00

In Shishmaref, Alaska, no one can miss the effects of global heating. They affect hunting and even survival of the prey animals. They are also destroying the town's land and houses.