Thursday Throughput: Billionaires In Space Edition
For some reason, this billionaire space race has set off a wave of hand-wringing articles about how awful billionaires in space is
Tagged: environment
Mini-Throughput: The Hope of Humping Humpback Whales
When I was a kid, it was accepted that humpback whales were on their way to extinction. Humpbacks are now listed as “least concern”.
Fertility Rates, The Environment, Misogyny and the Fate of the Human Race
Declining fertility rate is something to be concerned about. But our power to do anything about it is extremely limited.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer Vs Canada over Enbridge’s Line 5
A 4.5 mile stretch of Line 5 under the Great Lakes is at the center of a legal fight with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
Green New Deal vs Nuclear New Deal
Over at The Bellows, Emmet Penney and Adrián Calderón propose a Nuclear New Deal for solving both power grid issues and environmental concerns like climate change.
A Climate Hawk Laments: I Was Wrong About the Environmental Left
By proving people like myself – who have defended their motives as noble – wrong, the Left does irreparable damage to the cause of fighting climate change
Thursday Throughput: Io Edition
The Era of Classical Astronomy — from Galileo through Newton — was full of these kind of elegant experiments to measure the shape and size of the solar system, the distance to the nearest stars and the speed of light
Thursday Throughput: I Just Didn’t Want It To Be True Edition
I was peripherally involved in this research, which detected some of the highest energy photons every seen from a gamma-ray burst.
Pollution: Remediation and Rebirth, But At What Cost?
What will rise up from the ashes of what was once the largest employee owned business in the country? Clean air is a start…
On Greta Thunberg and Public Discourse around ASD
There are many assumptions that are being made about how people with Aspergers may feel or think about these issues, as well as how to interact with people on the Autism spectrum.
CNN Climate Emergency Town Hall: Never Let A Crisis Go to Waste
In a seven-hour long candidate-by-candidate marathon on CNN, the Democratic candidates for President shared their policy proposals.
Greta Thurnberg’s Semi-slow Boat Upon the Stormy Seas
Which is exactly why, regardless of cause, adults should be slow if not completely adverse to putting children out in front of their political causes.
Jay Inslee For President
Symposium: Vote for the candidate who believes there’s a real existential crisis that has to be addressed.
On Climate Change, DNC Decide There Is Nothing to Debate
The Democratic National Committee declined the calls by some to have a debate solely about climate change.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee Wants to be POTUS
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced on Friday he will be running for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2020.
Ordinary World for 13 Oct 2018
Your Ordinary World links for Saturday 13 Oct 2018, with stories and perspectives on religion, economics, and two from the Ordinary Times vault. Read, Share, and discuss.
Morning Ed: The Planet {2018.06.06.W}
Energy, the environment, climate change, and Trump. Oh, and Octopuses.
