So Herr Trump wants a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue now. Why? Probably because he got to go to a parade in France and he cannot be upstaged by the French.
Can we just allow this doofus to get a few parades, drive a few tanks, make a few speeches, and let him believe he is the President of the United States while some adults actually do the governing? I do not think that I can take three more years of this clown.
On to the links…
The Dark Reason so Many Millennials are Miserable and Broke—This is a lot more important than I think even the authors believe. People are literally living in a way that is trying to compete with complete strangers on social media platforms and it’s killing them. Not literally, which has to be the millennials favorite word, but spiritually. Just stop.
Why Trump Wants to Repeal an Obama-Era Clean Water Rule—The reason why he wants to repeal this rule has to do with him hating anything to do with Obama and Scott Pruitt being a toady for industry. The real question will be what these stooges come up with to replace the current rules.
Every Climate Denier in Trump’s Cabinet—It is always good to see what kind of no talent ass clowns Trumps has surrounded himself with these days. Now, it is likely that by the end of the month several of these people will have angered the head cheese puff so take it with a grain of salt.
A Beginner’s Guide to the Debate over 100% Renewable Energy—No one knows what is possible or probable because the assumptions we make today will not be in valid in three to five years anyway. The one thing I think we all can agree on is that clean energy is better than fossil fuel energy. Anything after that is just a discussion about degrees of development.
Regulatory Relief Didn’t Help Coal Industry in 2017 and Can’t Save it in 2018—Trump can hold a hundred rallies and talk about “beautiful clean coal” all he wants because the market does not want it anymore. It’s called a death spiral for a reason.
Coal’s Foes and Friends get Fired up in Hearing Over Future of Xcel Plants in Colorado—This is like trench warfare. Each coal plant that gets retired is not going to be replaced with other coal fired power, so it is gone forever. However, you have to fight every battle anew and each fight is entered with renewed vigor by all sides.
5 Graphs Explain Coal in Trump’s First Year—It’s not a pretty picture if you like “beautiful clean coal.”
Squaw Valley to Be First Ski Resort in U.S. to Run Just on Renewables—If you ski then you understand how at risk our pastime is to the impacts of climate change. The powers that be running these ski resorts are woke to the reality.
Australian Solar Installs Are Going Through The Roof—Australia can feel like the future and a vision of the past all at the same time.
Tesla To Construct Virtual Solar Power Plant Using 50,000 Homes In South Australia—Let’s consider Australia to be the laboratory for what large scale solar power integrating into a larger grid looks like for the future of every sunny place in the world. If they get it figured out we just scale it worldwide.
Nebraska Republican Seeks to Hobble Wind Power by Redefining it as Not ‘Renewable’—This is why Nebraska should not be allowed to have nice things.
What Bison in South Dakota can Teach us About Fighting Climate Change—Land use and agriculture are two areas where we can make dramatic gains in the fight against catastrophic climate change without having to confront the same demons of the fossil fuel industrial complex.
Being A Homebody Has A Surprising Environmental Upside—Anyone who spends a bunch of time at home—like me—understands this almost implicitly. Once you get away from the temptation of online shopping—buying stuff is not good no matter how green the product—it becomes almost like a passion project.
Climate Strange—Maybe we should all just embrace a little bit of our weird side. I got looked at a little bit strange when I put solar panels on my roof, but now at least a half dozen homes have panels on the roof in my neighborhood. Who’s strange now? Hopefully my bike commuting catches on in a similar way.
H&M is Closing Stores as Sales Shrink—Could we finally be reaching a point when we are past peak fast fashion crap?
