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Treehugger – After Being Insulted, I Ask THE Important Question!

Again, from the same post from TH: Are British Conservatives Really Committed to Climate Action?  Note the nuance of the structure of the post title – can we TRUST Conservatives? Do they really accept Climate Change – and are willing to use Government (in this case, the new and then quickly former Prime Minister Liz …

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Treehugger – What’s Faster? Fracking or Weatherizing Every Building in the Country?

While Treehugger is still alive, barely, it isn’t the harder hitting / deeper posts of the past. Thus, I’m spending far less time there and I’m just going to put up the last comment threads from some of the posts I thought were worth keeping.  This set is both timeless, in the past, and kinda …

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Quick Thought: So What Is Government Good For? Treehugger Commenter Would Make a Good Progressive

TreeHugger, either the writers nor the commenters, ever want to discuss what should be a fundamental question within Society: WHAT is the role of Government? So when someone there decides to squeak out an opinion on this, I jump all over it. In a post (“The Comeback of Small Cars and Trucks Is Good for …

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Quick Thought – What’s the Ramifications of Building Less/Owning Less?

Yep, Treehugger time again. This time, Lloyd asks the “hoisted on his own architecture petard” question (reformatted, emphasis mine): Can Architects Survive in a World Where We Have to Build Less? The key to green building is to use less stuff. In a recent post on the subject, I quoted engineer Scott Brookes’ answer when asked how …

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Disqus Doodlings – A Full on Assault and Defense of Capitalism vs a “Guided Economy”

Yep, I have a few of these to catch up on. What started as an observation by TreeHugger author Lloyd Alter that Germans were “gamifying” the use of less energy (“Germans Are Competing With Each Other to Save Energy“), my first thought was “oh, competing to see who could have a worse standard of living …

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DISCUS Doodlings – Behavior Must Be Legislated

From “Progressives and the Proper Role of Government – and your subservience to it”: NH State Rep Kris Roberts (D): “Government has to protect us from our own stupidity.” NH State Rep Leigh Webb (D): “The role of government is to legislate behavior“ NH State Rep Laura Pantelakos (D): “I don’t care about protecting peoples’ Liberty“ NH …

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DISQUS Doodlings: No, Lloyd, SCOTUS Didn’t Limit the EPA Powers; Congress Never Gave It That Power to Begin With! Part 1

The absolute beserk attitudes of the Greenies continues as the SCOTUS decision concerning the EPA’s capability to regulate CO2 emissions from power plants is still reverberating (along with Dobbs (abortion back to the States), NYC (Second Amendment / Conceal Carry), and First Amendment (Religious Liberty for a football coach and religious school student vouchers)). This …

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Disqus Doodlings – Biden’s DPA Invocation for Non-military Reasons – Green New Deal Part 1

DPA standing for the Defense Production Act. This legislation was passed for national emergency reasons – specifically during times of war.  However, Biden has declared that the Green New Deal (which Congress failed to pass for many reasons) is such a crisis to have industry work on, not material for war, but for insulating houses …

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