Living in rural New Hampshire, even where the flatlanders roam, is very different from most urban settings. Most of America is like that, truly, so I’m not speaking to a fringe audience. But this is a group who, if not familiar with city living, has (hopefully) forgotten how different it is. For example, I live on a paltry 2.4 acres, give or take.
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Night Cap: Ecosexual Existentialism
A woman from British Columbia has announced her relationship with a tree. Not just any tree, an Oak Tree. Vancouver Island resident Sonja Semyonova, who likes the feeling of being tiny and supported by something so strong, discovered her feelings for the tree during COVID.
Is Residential Solar Bad for the Environment?
One of my favorite Dalrymple quotes is (paraphrased) that misery will always rise to meet the government subsidies created to alleviate it. And so it is with residential solar. The number of installs near my home has exploded, as has another interesting habit.
UK Plan to Mitigate CO2 By Planting Millions of Trees Could Actually Make Matters Worse
Decades of being wrong about everything has not stopped the Climate Cult across the Pond from seeking solutions to the non-problem of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The Brits are determined to fix what’s not broken, so they want to plant 11 million trees. But they worry that might make matters worse.
Weather Channel Calls Nor’ Easter a Bomb Cyclone – Stupid Name
Bomb Cyclone is a recent term. Maybe a few years old. And it’s stupid. Because what we just had roll through New England has a name. We call ’em nor’ easters. Maybe this one was in transition, and the Weather Channel is just being #Woke?
Stop Giving Money to Dartmouth (‘cuz Climate Fraud)
Dartmouth did some excellent research on carbon sequestration by forests in New Hampshire. Trees sequester carbon into themselves and the soil. Good work. But they then ruined it by making it about manmade co2 and climate change.
Quick Shot: How To Profit in Your Green New Deal Future: Invest in Horses, Timber, and Wool
The Green New Deal future is dark. It has to be. There will never be enough electricity. So candles might be a good investment. But if you are ready to buy in on the reality of it, I’d suggest putting your money into horses (transportation), Timber (heat), and Wool (warm clothing).
Are You Ready for the Ecosexual?
If you thought you’d heard it all well you have not. A Feminist professor from Saint Mary’s College of Maryland has imagined a new concept in sexuality she believes will be beneficial to the environment.
Writing in the academic journal Feminist Theory, Lauran Whitworth suggested the idea of ecosexualsim. An ecosexual “takes the earth as their lover,” or just “a person that finds nature sensual.”
Move aside treehuggers; you’ve got some competition.
GrokTALK! – Hot Sauce, Uber, Trees, and Taxes!
We start this weeks program with California vs. Sriracha sauce, Uber vs. Taxi Medallions, Seeing the Forest for the Socialist Trees, and keeping your tax dollars from leaving your state in the first place.
E-Books Top Print publishing Sales
The Financial Times is reporting (free sub. req.) that E-books have surpassed print books in total sales for the first time.