Her response reminds me a lot of Daryl Davis, a black musician who engages KKK members with kindness and has convinced many of them to leave and denounce the organization.
The world needs more roundabouts because they keep working during power outages.
In Texas, the drop in power production from natural gas was more than five times greater than that from wind turbines. So we clearly can't rely on fossil fuels to keep us warm.
The problem with nuclear is that it isn't load following, just like renewables. The carbon free solution for both nuclear and renewables is grid storage.
Carbon taxes are the worst kind of taxes - they are regressive
The gasoline tax isn't regressive. Assuming general carbon taxes are regressive, a carbon fee and dividend is a good way to make it progressive.
Just look at UK, Germany and so on - they committed economic suicide and achieved none of their stated goals.
Germany has made a lot of progress, and are still improving. Let's wait until they plateau before we judge them.
France has already plateaued because, as it turns out, load following (which nuclear can't do cost effectively) is more important than steady output, and the solution for both nuclear and renewables is grid storage.
However, you cannot make taxes retroactive.
The EPA disagrees.
Because we love the freedom of having our own cars and resent it when some schmuck tells us we have to ride the bus.
In fact, we resent it so much that we take freedom from businesses (even those that serve alcohol) to decide how much parking to provide for their customers so that driving is always easier than taking the bus.
And we resent it whenever someone tries to wean us from our addiction to cars because slavery to Big Oil and Big Auto is freedom.
And we do all this because we love freedom, right?
The only reason there were regulations on broadcast mediums was that it was a limited resource...Newspapers did not have this level of regulation.
Personal ads in a newspaper was a limited resource and so newspapers regulated themselves and charged per word. It was an early form of frictional design.
I expect that Japanese rice cookers will soon have water and drain lines, kind of like an RO system, to handle the draining, rinsing, and refilling as part of the new cooking process.
Like the restaurant that decided to save on grocery costs by switching to inferior ingredients and reducing portion sizes and then wondered why people stopped eating there.
Or the business that fired its advertising team in order to save money and then wondered why it no longer had customers.
So much winning!
Japan used its industrial revolution to enslave tens of millions and kill millions more. With that and the poor working conditions and child labor and air pollution and GHG emissions and so on, it remains to be seen whether the industrial revolution was, on balance, a good thing.
Can you actually support for example right wing economic policy while supporting left wing human rights?
it is frequently pointed out that the prosperity produced by properly implemented capitalism is responsible for more improvement in human rights than anything else.
Ah yes, the "slavery was good for the slaves" argument.
Even Bernie Sanders is only just left of center.
The GP is correct. America doesn't have a "left wing".
So when they could afford to take a vacation, they took vacations. How is this an argument against a UBI?
Take everything in stride. Trample anyone who gets in your way.
