“Free trade” is too costly. It extracts fossil fuels and ships it overseas. Union jobs go the other direction, draining into sweatshops. US citizens, tell Biden no exploitation of Asian land and labor. #
AEMarling
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EV’s and all cars are a dead-end technology. They serve the auto industry and don’t help much else. We need more trains and eBikes.
“ With the price of renewables dropping precipitously, however, the project's economics have worsened. Some of the initial backers started pulling out of the project earlier in the decade, although the numbers continued to fluctuate in the ensuing years.” Ah well. Let’s wait for fusion.
No biggie. EV’a are a capitalist scam anyway and a dead-end technology.
“To earn revenue, the company is selling carbon removal credits to companies paying a premium to offset their own emissions.” So, this isn’t any help yet. But it will be an important technology to develop because otherwise it takes 300 years for carbon to leave the atmosphere.
High rises aren’t efficient, but
“ The sweet spot for mass timber, he argued, is not a showy high-rise but the vast number of mid-rise buildings: schools, apartment blocks, auditoriums, sports arenas, warehouses, bus depots and office parks
They are at it again, trying to block solar on churches and schools. Tell Gavin Newsom to get his CPUC in line.
If you live in CA, call the Governor to sign the bill.
This is a year before the next presidential election. It’s important to be critical of lesser evils, to force them to work for you. Specifically, this week at APEC, Biden will likely make economic decisions that could cause decades of damage, exploiting oil and labor reserves in Asian countries. Now is the time to call him out and the system as a whole.