Derange the home stove, the Ford, or the range?

Either greed or religion has killed the most people before their time. One of them has to go.

I’d bet that ‘lemmings’ wouldn’t work.

Leave the poor things alone. They already don’t kill each other all of the time.

“The change would force the companies to prioritize the government’s social and economic objectives over corporate profits.”

That starts to sound good. What are those objectives?

I noticed in that video how Al Gore looked as he listened. Sagan died in 1996. Gore released his documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, 18 years ago in 2006. I believe Sagan would not have been surprised at the film’s reception, nor surprised by how little impact it has had on effective response to the threats it outlined. You can lead a horse to water…

If we are realistic enough to put the fight against further global warming on a wartime basis, then we can operate things on a wartime basis. Which means planning things so that everything is focussed on winning the war. For example gasoline rationing would encourage people to plan their use of gasoline for maximum efficiency. It means people can get only as much as they can justify.

Rationing was used in the US during WW2. To see what that meant, read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_States

The wonderful thing about burying CO2 is that nobody can tell you didn’t. If it leaks out, nobody can tell it did. If you can get paid for it, that’s the most wonderful thing.

CO2 is like nuclear plants in that way. When Rocky Flats had a big fire in their weapons plant, and plutonium fell all over the Denver suburbs, they just didn’t tell anyone about it.

Sugar daddies …

This Cat-4 started just down by the Yucatan and worked up 140mph-sustained winds in a couple of days over the Gulf of Mexico. I’m wondering how common that’s been before.

I ran into a very old saying yesterday: A fish rots from the head down.

Quite the contrary! The idea is that today’s curricula and methods of instruction have changed a lot over two centuries. Here in the US, it is not uncommon for secondary arts teachers and programs to be dropped whenever schools are feeling a budget crunch. Now we see similar things going on in major universities.

In the high school I attended, and later in one that I taught in, the separate building for the sports program was as large as the rest of the school. I thought those were fairly clear statements of what the district’s priorities were. ‘Education’ is a very broad word that can mean many things in many places.

A musician friend of mine, when asked “Why are there no Mozarts or Beethovens any more?” replies “We went through your schools.”

As they always teach over at Electoral College.

Up to about the 1980s, the popular magazines used to frequently run cartoons with ragged-looking people holding up ‘It’s the END OF THE WORLD!!!’ signs. Guess they ran out of variants on that joke. But Doomsday Prophets have been around for centuries (some made big money from it) … and yet … here we all are.

We humans like to scare ourselves, but observation seems to show that it’s not a big worry. Will it all end, sure, some day. When? NOBODY KNOWS. Carpe diem, my friend … seize the day. And go ahead and make plans and execute them. Save your worry time for the little things that are inevitable.

Glad to hear that! I’ve got that problem too! Sometimes it takes hours to find the way out … hours free of social media, boring or horrifying news (real or fake) … today it was the Medici family history …

US parts prices are … WOW … There was a time when there were junkyards, guess there aren’t so many as once.

Talking the talk is popular with these guys. They know it helps their image. In this case, it’s gaslighting.

On the whole, car should be lighter (-engine & parts,-muffler,-fuel tank) … depending on # batteries needed (+ holding structure + cables)(might lose the back seat). Same Transmission/drive train needs.

Oh, for sure. Heat pumps are a-comin, dear Lisa.