The all-purpose heavy duty Climate Chaos thread (sprinkled with hope).
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Weak? Smart. Law of averages. Higher rejection amongst the populace of anyone or anything that looks or is different + higher % or average number of gun owners + higher number or average of “responsible” gun owners = better places to visit.Out of My Mind and Time said:
How weak do you have to be to avoid an entire state, in case some people may have a different viewpoint than yours? Weirdbrianlux said:tempo_n_groove said:
We will go on no matter what happens. Hell, if the world goes to shit it's those rural places that I would rather be in.static111 said:
I have seen the future brother, it is murder...tempo_n_groove said:
If you listen to Andrew Yang and the obsolescence of certain jobs it would be wise for America to invest in it's future.static111 said:
Almost like we need a Socialist Green New Deal... A man can dream...brianlux said:tempo_n_groove said:
Mining coal from the topside or underground is still a job though and they have been in a sharp decline looking at those charts.mickeyrat said:
they didnt for the losses stemming from mountain top removal processes that dodnt require the same number of minerstempo_n_groove said:
I hope the coal states have a contingency plan or there will be a whole lot of people unemployed.mickeyrat said:2010 to 2020 mining jobs in the u.s.
If you go out to those mining areas there isn't a whole lot going on usually and the other areas that stopped mining are just dead towns with no life.
Put up some wind turbines in those areas for a shot of life?
I understand for the need to stop burning coal. It's just the areas that they effect are bad off as it is. I think of the old steel areas too. Most of those towns never recovered.I agree that cities that go into poverty because of outsourcing or, in the case of coal, discontinuation, need some kind of help with a recovery plan. I remember passing through downtown Akron, Ohio after the tire industry had moved out. The place was like a ghost town. It was strange and sad.The difference, of course, is that Akron and steel towns like Bethlehem PA, etc. suffered due to corporate greed moving the industry and manufacturing to other countries where they could get cheap slave labor. Coal towns, on the other hand, may die because their industry needs to. What they need is a transition plan. I think that could happen if there is a will to make it happen.There are a number of towns and small cities in California that died when gold mining dried up. Places like Coloma became something close to being ghost towns but eventually recovered through things like tourism and wine country. But that had at least as much to do with luck and local than planning. Hopefully coal town will receive help through good planning.
But seriously we would have to stop with guns and war, proxy or otherwise and I'm not sure that the future will take precedent before it is too late.
You are wise to have experience in both the worlds of urban and rural.
But I would avoid Idaho. I'm told that these days that state is turning into a completely anti-tolerance, anti-anything-close to liberal, major bastion of the hard core right. Sounds a bit scary to me! Too bad, because much of the state is beautiful.09/15/1998 & 09/16/1998, Mansfield, MA; 08/29/00 08/30/00, Mansfield, MA; 07/02/03, 07/03/03, Mansfield, MA; 09/28/04, 09/29/04, Boston, MA; 09/22/05, Halifax, NS; 05/24/06, 05/25/06, Boston, MA; 07/22/06, 07/23/06, Gorge, WA; 06/27/2008, Hartford; 06/28/08, 06/30/08, Mansfield; 08/18/2009, O2, London, UK; 10/30/09, 10/31/09, Philadelphia, PA; 05/15/10, Hartford, CT; 05/17/10, Boston, MA; 05/20/10, 05/21/10, NY, NY; 06/22/10, Dublin, IRE; 06/23/10, Northern Ireland; 09/03/11, 09/04/11, Alpine Valley, WI; 09/11/11, 09/12/11, Toronto, Ont; 09/14/11, Ottawa, Ont; 09/15/11, Hamilton, Ont; 07/02/2012, Prague, Czech Republic; 07/04/2012 & 07/05/2012, Berlin, Germany; 07/07/2012, Stockholm, Sweden; 09/30/2012, Missoula, MT; 07/16/2013, London, Ont; 07/19/2013, Chicago, IL; 10/15/2013 & 10/16/2013, Worcester, MA; 10/21/2013 & 10/22/2013, Philadelphia, PA; 10/25/2013, Hartford, CT; 11/29/2013, Portland, OR; 11/30/2013, Spokane, WA; 12/04/2013, Vancouver, BC; 12/06/2013, Seattle, WA; 10/03/2014, St. Louis. MO; 10/22/2014, Denver, CO; 10/26/2015, New York, NY; 04/23/2016, New Orleans, LA; 04/28/2016 & 04/29/2016, Philadelphia, PA; 05/01/2016 & 05/02/2016, New York, NY; 05/08/2016, Ottawa, Ont.; 05/10/2016 & 05/12/2016, Toronto, Ont.; 08/05/2016 & 08/07/2016, Boston, MA; 08/20/2016 & 08/22/2016, Chicago, IL; 07/01/2018, Prague, Czech Republic; 07/03/2018, Krakow, Poland; 07/05/2018, Berlin, Germany; 09/02/2018 & 09/04/2018, Boston, MA; 09/08/2022, Toronto, Ont; 09/11/2022, New York, NY; 09/14/2022, Camden, NJ; 09/02/2023, St. Paul, MN; 05/04/2024 & 05/06/2024, Vancouver, BC; 05/10/2024, Portland, OR;
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I know this is a positive thread but we just had an explosion here in texas at one of our "clean" LNG processors.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/06/09/explosion-texas-lng-plant-puts-added-strain-global-energy-market/
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Nah. All good. Stay in your blue safe (LOL) bubbles. It's a win win for all of us.Halifax2TheMax said:
Weak? Smart. Law of averages. Higher rejection amongst the populace of anyone or anything that looks or is different + higher % or average number of gun owners + higher number or average of “responsible” gun owners = better places to visit.Out of My Mind and Time said:
How weak do you have to be to avoid an entire state, in case some people may have a different viewpoint than yours? Weirdbrianlux said:tempo_n_groove said:
We will go on no matter what happens. Hell, if the world goes to shit it's those rural places that I would rather be in.static111 said:
I have seen the future brother, it is murder...tempo_n_groove said:
If you listen to Andrew Yang and the obsolescence of certain jobs it would be wise for America to invest in it's future.static111 said:
Almost like we need a Socialist Green New Deal... A man can dream...brianlux said:tempo_n_groove said:
Mining coal from the topside or underground is still a job though and they have been in a sharp decline looking at those charts.mickeyrat said:
they didnt for the losses stemming from mountain top removal processes that dodnt require the same number of minerstempo_n_groove said:
I hope the coal states have a contingency plan or there will be a whole lot of people unemployed.mickeyrat said:2010 to 2020 mining jobs in the u.s.
If you go out to those mining areas there isn't a whole lot going on usually and the other areas that stopped mining are just dead towns with no life.
Put up some wind turbines in those areas for a shot of life?
I understand for the need to stop burning coal. It's just the areas that they effect are bad off as it is. I think of the old steel areas too. Most of those towns never recovered.I agree that cities that go into poverty because of outsourcing or, in the case of coal, discontinuation, need some kind of help with a recovery plan. I remember passing through downtown Akron, Ohio after the tire industry had moved out. The place was like a ghost town. It was strange and sad.The difference, of course, is that Akron and steel towns like Bethlehem PA, etc. suffered due to corporate greed moving the industry and manufacturing to other countries where they could get cheap slave labor. Coal towns, on the other hand, may die because their industry needs to. What they need is a transition plan. I think that could happen if there is a will to make it happen.There are a number of towns and small cities in California that died when gold mining dried up. Places like Coloma became something close to being ghost towns but eventually recovered through things like tourism and wine country. But that had at least as much to do with luck and local than planning. Hopefully coal town will receive help through good planning.
But seriously we would have to stop with guns and war, proxy or otherwise and I'm not sure that the future will take precedent before it is too late.
You are wise to have experience in both the worlds of urban and rural.
But I would avoid Idaho. I'm told that these days that state is turning into a completely anti-tolerance, anti-anything-close to liberal, major bastion of the hard core right. Sounds a bit scary to me! Too bad, because much of the state is beautiful.
For the good part of the thread. Bought a battery leaf blower. So I did my part.0 -
Bummer. I can't read the whole article right now but I hope no one was injured or killed.static111 said:I know this is a positive thread but we just had an explosion here in texas at one of our "clean" LNG processors.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/06/09/explosion-texas-lng-plant-puts-added-strain-global-energy-market/Out of My Mind and Time said:
Nah. All good. Stay in your blue safe (LOL) bubbles. It's a win win for all of us.Halifax2TheMax said:
Weak? Smart. Law of averages. Higher rejection amongst the populace of anyone or anything that looks or is different + higher % or average number of gun owners + higher number or average of “responsible” gun owners = better places to visit.Out of My Mind and Time said:
How weak do you have to be to avoid an entire state, in case some people may have a different viewpoint than yours? Weirdbrianlux said:tempo_n_groove said:
We will go on no matter what happens. Hell, if the world goes to shit it's those rural places that I would rather be in.static111 said:
I have seen the future brother, it is murder...tempo_n_groove said:
If you listen to Andrew Yang and the obsolescence of certain jobs it would be wise for America to invest in it's future.static111 said:
Almost like we need a Socialist Green New Deal... A man can dream...brianlux said:tempo_n_groove said:
Mining coal from the topside or underground is still a job though and they have been in a sharp decline looking at those charts.mickeyrat said:
they didnt for the losses stemming from mountain top removal processes that dodnt require the same number of minerstempo_n_groove said:
I hope the coal states have a contingency plan or there will be a whole lot of people unemployed.mickeyrat said:2010 to 2020 mining jobs in the u.s.
If you go out to those mining areas there isn't a whole lot going on usually and the other areas that stopped mining are just dead towns with no life.
Put up some wind turbines in those areas for a shot of life?
I understand for the need to stop burning coal. It's just the areas that they effect are bad off as it is. I think of the old steel areas too. Most of those towns never recovered.I agree that cities that go into poverty because of outsourcing or, in the case of coal, discontinuation, need some kind of help with a recovery plan. I remember passing through downtown Akron, Ohio after the tire industry had moved out. The place was like a ghost town. It was strange and sad.The difference, of course, is that Akron and steel towns like Bethlehem PA, etc. suffered due to corporate greed moving the industry and manufacturing to other countries where they could get cheap slave labor. Coal towns, on the other hand, may die because their industry needs to. What they need is a transition plan. I think that could happen if there is a will to make it happen.There are a number of towns and small cities in California that died when gold mining dried up. Places like Coloma became something close to being ghost towns but eventually recovered through things like tourism and wine country. But that had at least as much to do with luck and local than planning. Hopefully coal town will receive help through good planning.
But seriously we would have to stop with guns and war, proxy or otherwise and I'm not sure that the future will take precedent before it is too late.
You are wise to have experience in both the worlds of urban and rural.
But I would avoid Idaho. I'm told that these days that state is turning into a completely anti-tolerance, anti-anything-close to liberal, major bastion of the hard core right. Sounds a bit scary to me! Too bad, because much of the state is beautiful.
For the good part of the thread. Bought a battery leaf blower. So I did my part.Too bad that first line is so unnecessarily snarky because your second comment deserves kudos.
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Ever hear of a rake and a broom? Brooms, they’re not just for riding.Out of My Mind and Time said:
Nah. All good. Stay in your blue safe (LOL) bubbles. It's a win win for all of us.Halifax2TheMax said:
Weak? Smart. Law of averages. Higher rejection amongst the populace of anyone or anything that looks or is different + higher % or average number of gun owners + higher number or average of “responsible” gun owners = better places to visit.Out of My Mind and Time said:
How weak do you have to be to avoid an entire state, in case some people may have a different viewpoint than yours? Weirdbrianlux said:tempo_n_groove said:
We will go on no matter what happens. Hell, if the world goes to shit it's those rural places that I would rather be in.static111 said:
I have seen the future brother, it is murder...tempo_n_groove said:
If you listen to Andrew Yang and the obsolescence of certain jobs it would be wise for America to invest in it's future.static111 said:
Almost like we need a Socialist Green New Deal... A man can dream...brianlux said:tempo_n_groove said:
Mining coal from the topside or underground is still a job though and they have been in a sharp decline looking at those charts.mickeyrat said:
they didnt for the losses stemming from mountain top removal processes that dodnt require the same number of minerstempo_n_groove said:
I hope the coal states have a contingency plan or there will be a whole lot of people unemployed.mickeyrat said:2010 to 2020 mining jobs in the u.s.
If you go out to those mining areas there isn't a whole lot going on usually and the other areas that stopped mining are just dead towns with no life.
Put up some wind turbines in those areas for a shot of life?
I understand for the need to stop burning coal. It's just the areas that they effect are bad off as it is. I think of the old steel areas too. Most of those towns never recovered.I agree that cities that go into poverty because of outsourcing or, in the case of coal, discontinuation, need some kind of help with a recovery plan. I remember passing through downtown Akron, Ohio after the tire industry had moved out. The place was like a ghost town. It was strange and sad.The difference, of course, is that Akron and steel towns like Bethlehem PA, etc. suffered due to corporate greed moving the industry and manufacturing to other countries where they could get cheap slave labor. Coal towns, on the other hand, may die because their industry needs to. What they need is a transition plan. I think that could happen if there is a will to make it happen.There are a number of towns and small cities in California that died when gold mining dried up. Places like Coloma became something close to being ghost towns but eventually recovered through things like tourism and wine country. But that had at least as much to do with luck and local than planning. Hopefully coal town will receive help through good planning.
But seriously we would have to stop with guns and war, proxy or otherwise and I'm not sure that the future will take precedent before it is too late.
You are wise to have experience in both the worlds of urban and rural.
But I would avoid Idaho. I'm told that these days that state is turning into a completely anti-tolerance, anti-anything-close to liberal, major bastion of the hard core right. Sounds a bit scary to me! Too bad, because much of the state is beautiful.
For the good part of the thread. Bought a battery leaf blower. So I did my part.09/15/1998 & 09/16/1998, Mansfield, MA; 08/29/00 08/30/00, Mansfield, MA; 07/02/03, 07/03/03, Mansfield, MA; 09/28/04, 09/29/04, Boston, MA; 09/22/05, Halifax, NS; 05/24/06, 05/25/06, Boston, MA; 07/22/06, 07/23/06, Gorge, WA; 06/27/2008, Hartford; 06/28/08, 06/30/08, Mansfield; 08/18/2009, O2, London, UK; 10/30/09, 10/31/09, Philadelphia, PA; 05/15/10, Hartford, CT; 05/17/10, Boston, MA; 05/20/10, 05/21/10, NY, NY; 06/22/10, Dublin, IRE; 06/23/10, Northern Ireland; 09/03/11, 09/04/11, Alpine Valley, WI; 09/11/11, 09/12/11, Toronto, Ont; 09/14/11, Ottawa, Ont; 09/15/11, Hamilton, Ont; 07/02/2012, Prague, Czech Republic; 07/04/2012 & 07/05/2012, Berlin, Germany; 07/07/2012, Stockholm, Sweden; 09/30/2012, Missoula, MT; 07/16/2013, London, Ont; 07/19/2013, Chicago, IL; 10/15/2013 & 10/16/2013, Worcester, MA; 10/21/2013 & 10/22/2013, Philadelphia, PA; 10/25/2013, Hartford, CT; 11/29/2013, Portland, OR; 11/30/2013, Spokane, WA; 12/04/2013, Vancouver, BC; 12/06/2013, Seattle, WA; 10/03/2014, St. Louis. MO; 10/22/2014, Denver, CO; 10/26/2015, New York, NY; 04/23/2016, New Orleans, LA; 04/28/2016 & 04/29/2016, Philadelphia, PA; 05/01/2016 & 05/02/2016, New York, NY; 05/08/2016, Ottawa, Ont.; 05/10/2016 & 05/12/2016, Toronto, Ont.; 08/05/2016 & 08/07/2016, Boston, MA; 08/20/2016 & 08/22/2016, Chicago, IL; 07/01/2018, Prague, Czech Republic; 07/03/2018, Krakow, Poland; 07/05/2018, Berlin, Germany; 09/02/2018 & 09/04/2018, Boston, MA; 09/08/2022, Toronto, Ont; 09/11/2022, New York, NY; 09/14/2022, Camden, NJ; 09/02/2023, St. Paul, MN; 05/04/2024 & 05/06/2024, Vancouver, BC; 05/10/2024, Portland, OR;
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so if it's weak to want to stay out of red states, wouldn't logic dictate that it's weak for you to want democrats to stay out of them?Out of My Mind and Time said:
Nah. All good. Stay in your blue safe (LOL) bubbles. It's a win win for all of us.Halifax2TheMax said:
Weak? Smart. Law of averages. Higher rejection amongst the populace of anyone or anything that looks or is different + higher % or average number of gun owners + higher number or average of “responsible” gun owners = better places to visit.Out of My Mind and Time said:
How weak do you have to be to avoid an entire state, in case some people may have a different viewpoint than yours? Weirdbrianlux said:tempo_n_groove said:
We will go on no matter what happens. Hell, if the world goes to shit it's those rural places that I would rather be in.static111 said:
I have seen the future brother, it is murder...tempo_n_groove said:
If you listen to Andrew Yang and the obsolescence of certain jobs it would be wise for America to invest in it's future.static111 said:
Almost like we need a Socialist Green New Deal... A man can dream...brianlux said:tempo_n_groove said:
Mining coal from the topside or underground is still a job though and they have been in a sharp decline looking at those charts.mickeyrat said:
they didnt for the losses stemming from mountain top removal processes that dodnt require the same number of minerstempo_n_groove said:
I hope the coal states have a contingency plan or there will be a whole lot of people unemployed.mickeyrat said:2010 to 2020 mining jobs in the u.s.
If you go out to those mining areas there isn't a whole lot going on usually and the other areas that stopped mining are just dead towns with no life.
Put up some wind turbines in those areas for a shot of life?
I understand for the need to stop burning coal. It's just the areas that they effect are bad off as it is. I think of the old steel areas too. Most of those towns never recovered.I agree that cities that go into poverty because of outsourcing or, in the case of coal, discontinuation, need some kind of help with a recovery plan. I remember passing through downtown Akron, Ohio after the tire industry had moved out. The place was like a ghost town. It was strange and sad.The difference, of course, is that Akron and steel towns like Bethlehem PA, etc. suffered due to corporate greed moving the industry and manufacturing to other countries where they could get cheap slave labor. Coal towns, on the other hand, may die because their industry needs to. What they need is a transition plan. I think that could happen if there is a will to make it happen.There are a number of towns and small cities in California that died when gold mining dried up. Places like Coloma became something close to being ghost towns but eventually recovered through things like tourism and wine country. But that had at least as much to do with luck and local than planning. Hopefully coal town will receive help through good planning.
But seriously we would have to stop with guns and war, proxy or otherwise and I'm not sure that the future will take precedent before it is too late.
You are wise to have experience in both the worlds of urban and rural.
But I would avoid Idaho. I'm told that these days that state is turning into a completely anti-tolerance, anti-anything-close to liberal, major bastion of the hard core right. Sounds a bit scary to me! Too bad, because much of the state is beautiful.
For the good part of the thread. Bought a battery leaf blower. So I did my part.By The Time They Figure Out What Went Wrong, We'll Be Sitting On A Beach, Earning Twenty Percent.0 -
Of course. Cooties. Don’t want no cooties. Scat, guns n all.HughFreakingDillon said:
so if it's weak to want to stay out of red states, wouldn't logic dictate that it's weak for you to want democrats to stay out of them?Out of My Mind and Time said:
Nah. All good. Stay in your blue safe (LOL) bubbles. It's a win win for all of us.Halifax2TheMax said:
Weak? Smart. Law of averages. Higher rejection amongst the populace of anyone or anything that looks or is different + higher % or average number of gun owners + higher number or average of “responsible” gun owners = better places to visit.Out of My Mind and Time said:
How weak do you have to be to avoid an entire state, in case some people may have a different viewpoint than yours? Weirdbrianlux said:tempo_n_groove said:
We will go on no matter what happens. Hell, if the world goes to shit it's those rural places that I would rather be in.static111 said:
I have seen the future brother, it is murder...tempo_n_groove said:
If you listen to Andrew Yang and the obsolescence of certain jobs it would be wise for America to invest in it's future.static111 said:
Almost like we need a Socialist Green New Deal... A man can dream...brianlux said:tempo_n_groove said:
Mining coal from the topside or underground is still a job though and they have been in a sharp decline looking at those charts.mickeyrat said:
they didnt for the losses stemming from mountain top removal processes that dodnt require the same number of minerstempo_n_groove said:
I hope the coal states have a contingency plan or there will be a whole lot of people unemployed.mickeyrat said:2010 to 2020 mining jobs in the u.s.
If you go out to those mining areas there isn't a whole lot going on usually and the other areas that stopped mining are just dead towns with no life.
Put up some wind turbines in those areas for a shot of life?
I understand for the need to stop burning coal. It's just the areas that they effect are bad off as it is. I think of the old steel areas too. Most of those towns never recovered.I agree that cities that go into poverty because of outsourcing or, in the case of coal, discontinuation, need some kind of help with a recovery plan. I remember passing through downtown Akron, Ohio after the tire industry had moved out. The place was like a ghost town. It was strange and sad.The difference, of course, is that Akron and steel towns like Bethlehem PA, etc. suffered due to corporate greed moving the industry and manufacturing to other countries where they could get cheap slave labor. Coal towns, on the other hand, may die because their industry needs to. What they need is a transition plan. I think that could happen if there is a will to make it happen.There are a number of towns and small cities in California that died when gold mining dried up. Places like Coloma became something close to being ghost towns but eventually recovered through things like tourism and wine country. But that had at least as much to do with luck and local than planning. Hopefully coal town will receive help through good planning.
But seriously we would have to stop with guns and war, proxy or otherwise and I'm not sure that the future will take precedent before it is too late.
You are wise to have experience in both the worlds of urban and rural.
But I would avoid Idaho. I'm told that these days that state is turning into a completely anti-tolerance, anti-anything-close to liberal, major bastion of the hard core right. Sounds a bit scary to me! Too bad, because much of the state is beautiful.
For the good part of the thread. Bought a battery leaf blower. So I did my part.09/15/1998 & 09/16/1998, Mansfield, MA; 08/29/00 08/30/00, Mansfield, MA; 07/02/03, 07/03/03, Mansfield, MA; 09/28/04, 09/29/04, Boston, MA; 09/22/05, Halifax, NS; 05/24/06, 05/25/06, Boston, MA; 07/22/06, 07/23/06, Gorge, WA; 06/27/2008, Hartford; 06/28/08, 06/30/08, Mansfield; 08/18/2009, O2, London, UK; 10/30/09, 10/31/09, Philadelphia, PA; 05/15/10, Hartford, CT; 05/17/10, Boston, MA; 05/20/10, 05/21/10, NY, NY; 06/22/10, Dublin, IRE; 06/23/10, Northern Ireland; 09/03/11, 09/04/11, Alpine Valley, WI; 09/11/11, 09/12/11, Toronto, Ont; 09/14/11, Ottawa, Ont; 09/15/11, Hamilton, Ont; 07/02/2012, Prague, Czech Republic; 07/04/2012 & 07/05/2012, Berlin, Germany; 07/07/2012, Stockholm, Sweden; 09/30/2012, Missoula, MT; 07/16/2013, London, Ont; 07/19/2013, Chicago, IL; 10/15/2013 & 10/16/2013, Worcester, MA; 10/21/2013 & 10/22/2013, Philadelphia, PA; 10/25/2013, Hartford, CT; 11/29/2013, Portland, OR; 11/30/2013, Spokane, WA; 12/04/2013, Vancouver, BC; 12/06/2013, Seattle, WA; 10/03/2014, St. Louis. MO; 10/22/2014, Denver, CO; 10/26/2015, New York, NY; 04/23/2016, New Orleans, LA; 04/28/2016 & 04/29/2016, Philadelphia, PA; 05/01/2016 & 05/02/2016, New York, NY; 05/08/2016, Ottawa, Ont.; 05/10/2016 & 05/12/2016, Toronto, Ont.; 08/05/2016 & 08/07/2016, Boston, MA; 08/20/2016 & 08/22/2016, Chicago, IL; 07/01/2018, Prague, Czech Republic; 07/03/2018, Krakow, Poland; 07/05/2018, Berlin, Germany; 09/02/2018 & 09/04/2018, Boston, MA; 09/08/2022, Toronto, Ont; 09/11/2022, New York, NY; 09/14/2022, Camden, NJ; 09/02/2023, St. Paul, MN; 05/04/2024 & 05/06/2024, Vancouver, BC; 05/10/2024, Portland, OR;
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Halifax2TheMax said:
Of course. Cooties. Don’t want no cooties. Scat, guns n all.HughFreakingDillon said:
so if it's weak to want to stay out of red states, wouldn't logic dictate that it's weak for you to want democrats to stay out of them?Out of My Mind and Time said:
Nah. All good. Stay in your blue safe (LOL) bubbles. It's a win win for all of us.Halifax2TheMax said:
Weak? Smart. Law of averages. Higher rejection amongst the populace of anyone or anything that looks or is different + higher % or average number of gun owners + higher number or average of “responsible” gun owners = better places to visit.Out of My Mind and Time said:
How weak do you have to be to avoid an entire state, in case some people may have a different viewpoint than yours? Weirdbrianlux said:tempo_n_groove said:
We will go on no matter what happens. Hell, if the world goes to shit it's those rural places that I would rather be in.static111 said:
I have seen the future brother, it is murder...tempo_n_groove said:
If you listen to Andrew Yang and the obsolescence of certain jobs it would be wise for America to invest in it's future.static111 said:
Almost like we need a Socialist Green New Deal... A man can dream...brianlux said:tempo_n_groove said:
Mining coal from the topside or underground is still a job though and they have been in a sharp decline looking at those charts.mickeyrat said:
they didnt for the losses stemming from mountain top removal processes that dodnt require the same number of minerstempo_n_groove said:
I hope the coal states have a contingency plan or there will be a whole lot of people unemployed.mickeyrat said:2010 to 2020 mining jobs in the u.s.
If you go out to those mining areas there isn't a whole lot going on usually and the other areas that stopped mining are just dead towns with no life.
Put up some wind turbines in those areas for a shot of life?
I understand for the need to stop burning coal. It's just the areas that they effect are bad off as it is. I think of the old steel areas too. Most of those towns never recovered.I agree that cities that go into poverty because of outsourcing or, in the case of coal, discontinuation, need some kind of help with a recovery plan. I remember passing through downtown Akron, Ohio after the tire industry had moved out. The place was like a ghost town. It was strange and sad.The difference, of course, is that Akron and steel towns like Bethlehem PA, etc. suffered due to corporate greed moving the industry and manufacturing to other countries where they could get cheap slave labor. Coal towns, on the other hand, may die because their industry needs to. What they need is a transition plan. I think that could happen if there is a will to make it happen.There are a number of towns and small cities in California that died when gold mining dried up. Places like Coloma became something close to being ghost towns but eventually recovered through things like tourism and wine country. But that had at least as much to do with luck and local than planning. Hopefully coal town will receive help through good planning.
But seriously we would have to stop with guns and war, proxy or otherwise and I'm not sure that the future will take precedent before it is too late.
You are wise to have experience in both the worlds of urban and rural.
But I would avoid Idaho. I'm told that these days that state is turning into a completely anti-tolerance, anti-anything-close to liberal, major bastion of the hard core right. Sounds a bit scary to me! Too bad, because much of the state is beautiful.
For the good part of the thread. Bought a battery leaf blower. So I did my part.Oh, but they're so cute!
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I just read about ALL of Spain being warned that that country is faced with “extreme fire risk” because of the heat and drought: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/20/spain-wildfires-2022-europe-heatwave/?wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https://s2.washingtonpost.com/car-ln-tr/3726184/62b09743cfe8a21601b5962b/604c147f9bbc0f1fcd5adc57/37/72/62b09743cfe8a21601b5962b&wp_cu=f1df8e9f060546716b6dcc8a3a7198b8|C0D495C2B2C412F6E0430100007F5FA8)In response to that news, I asked Google this question: Are there still climate change deniers? And got this:
Climate Deniers in the 117th Congress
There are 139 elected officials in the 117th Congress who still deny the scientific consensus of human-caused climate change.
According to new analysis from the Center for American Progress, there are still 139 elected officials in the 117th Congress, including 109 representatives and 30 senators, who refuse to acknowledge the scientific evidence of human-caused climate change. All 139 of these climate-denying elected officials have made recent statements casting doubt on the clear, established scientific consensus that the world is warming—and that human activity is to blame. These same 139 climate-denying members have received more than $61 million in lifetime contributions from the coal, oil, and gas industries.
While the number of climate deniers has shrunk by 11 members (from 150 to 139) since the CAP Action Fund’s analysis of the 116th Congress—largely in the face of growing and overwhelming public support for action on climate—their numbers still include the majority of the congressional Republican caucus.* These climate deniers comprise 52 percent of House Republicans; 60 percent of Senate Republicans; and more than one-quarter of the total number of elected officials in Congress. Furthermore, despite the decline in total overall deniers in Congress, a new concerning trend has emerged: Of the 69 freshmen representatives and senators elected to their respective offices in 2020, one-third deny the science of climate change, including 20 new House Republicans and three-of-four new Republican senators. Of note, no currently serving Democratic or independent elected officials have engaged in explicit climate denial by this analysis’ definition.**
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I think it might be time to change the name of the thread again. Please, if you can, prove me wrong.This is huge. I'm surprised this same article was ignored in the SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the Un-united States) thread.
US supreme court rules against EPA and hobbles government power to limit harmful emissions
Court sides with Republican states as ruling represents landmark moment in rightwing effort to dismantle ‘regulatory state’
The US supreme court has sided with Republican-led states to in effect hobble the federal government’s ability to tackle the climate crisis, in a ruling that will have profound implications for the government’s overall regulatory power.
In a 6-3 decision that will seriously hinder America’s ability to stave off disastrous global heating, the supreme court, which became dominated by rightwing justices under the Trump administration, has opted to support a case brought by West Virginia that demands the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) be limited in how it regulates planet-heating gases from the energy sector.
The case, which was backed by a host of other Republican-led states including Texas and Kentucky, was highly unusual in that it was based upon the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era strategy to cut emissions from coal-fired power plants that never came into effect. The Biden administration sought to have the case dismissed as baseless given the plan was dropped and has not been resurrected.
Not only was this case about a regulation that does not exist, that never took effect, and which would have imposed obligations on the energy sector that it would have met regardless. It also involves two legal doctrines that are not mentioned in the constitution, and that most scholars agree have no basis in any federal statute.
However, the supreme court has sided with West Virginia, a major coal mining state, which argued that “unelected bureaucrats” at the EPA should not be allowed to reshape its economy by limiting pollution – even though emissions from coal are helping cause worsening flooding, heatwaves and droughts around the world, as well as killing millions of people through toxic air.
“Capping carbon dioxide emissions at a level that will force a nationwide transition away from the use of coal to generate electricity may be a sensible ‘solution to the crisis of the day’,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts in the opinion. “But it is not plausible that Congress gave EPA the authority to adopt on its own such a regulatory scheme in Section 111(d). A decision of such magnitude and consequence rests with Congress itself, or an agency acting pursuant to a clear delegation from that representative body.”
Roberts was joined by the conservative justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. The three liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer dissented. It is the most important climate change case to come before the supreme court in more than a decade.
But the ruling could also have sweeping consequences for the federal government’s ability to set standards and regulate in other areas, such as clean air and water, consumer protections, banking, workplace safety and public health. It may prove a landmark moment in conservative ambitions to dismantle the “regulatory state”, stripping away protections from Americans across a wide range of areas.
It could fundamentally change what the federal government is and what it does. And, as justice Elena Kagan pointed out in her dissent, it could leave technical decisions to a political body that may not understand them.
“First, members of Congress often don’t know enough – and know they don’t know enough – to regulate sensibly on an issue. Of course, members can and do provide overall direction. But then they rely, as all of us rely in our daily lives, on people with greater expertise and experience. Those people are found in agencies,” she wrote.
Several conservatives on the court have criticized what they see as the unchecked power of federal agencies, concerns evident in orders throwing out two Biden policies aimed at reducing the spread of Covid-19.
Last summer, the six-to-three conservative majority ended a pandemic-related pause on evictions over unpaid rent. In January, the same six justices blocked a requirement that workers at large employers be vaccinated or test regularly for the coronavirus and wear a mask on the job.
The Biden administration was supported in the EPA court case by New York and more than a dozen other Democratic-led states, along with prominent businesses such as Apple, Amazon and Google that have called for a swift transition to renewable energy.
The administration has vowed to cut US emissions in half by the end of this decade but has floundered in its attempts to legislate this outcome, with a sweeping climate bill sunk by the opposition of Republican senators and Joe Manchin, the centrist Democratic senator from West Virginia.
The federal government also had the power of administrative regulations in order to force reductions in emissions but the supreme court ruling will now imperil this ability.
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In the event that it matters, the NY Times concurs with the above ^^^ saying:"In striking down an E.P.A. plan to reduce carbon emissions from power plants, the court issued a decision whose implications go beyond hobbling the government’s ability to fight climate change. Many other types of regulations might now be harder to defend."Pay attention. This s. is f.u.
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coal is on the way out anyway.
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The US supreme court just made yet another devastating decision for humanity
The EPA ruling means it may now be mathematically impossible through available avenues for the US to achieve its greenhouse gas emissions goal
"In a 6-3 decision, the openly partisan and undemocratic court ruled in favor of a lawsuit brought by fossil-fuel-producing states against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The decision strips power from regulatory agencies and advances the Republican goal to end government oversight. In particular, it eliminates one of the only remaining avenues for systemic federal climate action: using the Clean Air Act to phase out fossil fuel power plants. As a result, it may now be mathematically impossible through available avenues for the US to achieve its goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, which is anyway feeling dangerously unambitious in light of recent climate disasters.
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We seem to be highly motivated to do ourselves in. What causes this insanity?
‘Condemning everyone alive’: outrage at US supreme court climate ruling
Limiting the Environmental Protection Agency at a time when fossil fuel emissions need to be curbed is ‘devastating’
Amid heat records being shattered across the world and historic wildfires raging across the west, climate activists and policymakers working to aggressively curb greenhouse gas emissions are now facing a new kind of challenge – restrictions issued by the US supreme court.
Earlier today, the court released a ruling in West Virginia v EPA limiting the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to regulate emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants, in a major environmental case with far-reaching impacts. This has been classified a “devastating” outcome by environmental lawyers, climate scientists and activists alike. One with far-reaching implications for the future of the country, and world.
“At this point, for those in positions of high power to deny the urgency and the stakes of the climate crisis is to condemn everyone alive today and generations to come to life in a sick and impoverished world,” said Ginger Cassady, executive director of Rainforest Action Network.
The court’s conservative majority voted 6-3 in favor of leading coal producer West Virginia, in a lawsuit with challenges originally brought by 20 other Republican attorneys general, who sued for the EPA to have less regulatory power over existing power plants without express authorization from Congress under the Clean Air Act. In the ruling, the court’s conservative supermajority determined that the Clean Air Act does not authorize anything other than direct regulation of power plants.
“Global climate change is the underlying environmental challenge of this day and age,” said senior attorney Frank Rambo, who leads the energy program at the Southern Environmental Law Center. “And the US is the leading contributor to that globally. The ability of our federal government to get a handle on our contribution to climate change is what’s at stake.”
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all centered on rulemaking that was abandoned......
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Cmon, its not like these fish pay taxes.0
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watched David Attenborough's A Life On Our Planet on Netlix. if that doesn't scare the bejesus out of everyone, nothing will.
on the flip side, everyone seems to say we're "killing the planet". no we aren't. we're killing ourselves. Earth will be just fine if we're eventually gone. Once the virus is eradicated, the host thrives.By The Time They Figure Out What Went Wrong, We'll Be Sitting On A Beach, Earning Twenty Percent.0 -
I grew up next to Idaho. Our summer basketball tournaments always conflicted with the Aryan nation parades in Coeur d’Alene. That was the late 90’s. Hasn’t changed.brianlux said:tempo_n_groove said:
We will go on no matter what happens. Hell, if the world goes to shit it's those rural places that I would rather be in.static111 said:
I have seen the future brother, it is murder...tempo_n_groove said:
If you listen to Andrew Yang and the obsolescence of certain jobs it would be wise for America to invest in it's future.static111 said:
Almost like we need a Socialist Green New Deal... A man can dream...brianlux said:tempo_n_groove said:
Mining coal from the topside or underground is still a job though and they have been in a sharp decline looking at those charts.mickeyrat said:
they didnt for the losses stemming from mountain top removal processes that dodnt require the same number of minerstempo_n_groove said:
I hope the coal states have a contingency plan or there will be a whole lot of people unemployed.mickeyrat said:2010 to 2020 mining jobs in the u.s.
If you go out to those mining areas there isn't a whole lot going on usually and the other areas that stopped mining are just dead towns with no life.
Put up some wind turbines in those areas for a shot of life?
I understand for the need to stop burning coal. It's just the areas that they effect are bad off as it is. I think of the old steel areas too. Most of those towns never recovered.I agree that cities that go into poverty because of outsourcing or, in the case of coal, discontinuation, need some kind of help with a recovery plan. I remember passing through downtown Akron, Ohio after the tire industry had moved out. The place was like a ghost town. It was strange and sad.The difference, of course, is that Akron and steel towns like Bethlehem PA, etc. suffered due to corporate greed moving the industry and manufacturing to other countries where they could get cheap slave labor. Coal towns, on the other hand, may die because their industry needs to. What they need is a transition plan. I think that could happen if there is a will to make it happen.There are a number of towns and small cities in California that died when gold mining dried up. Places like Coloma became something close to being ghost towns but eventually recovered through things like tourism and wine country. But that had at least as much to do with luck and local than planning. Hopefully coal town will receive help through good planning.
But seriously we would have to stop with guns and war, proxy or otherwise and I'm not sure that the future will take precedent before it is too late.
You are wise to have experience in both the worlds of urban and rural.
But I would avoid Idaho. I'm told that these days that state is turning into a completely anti-tolerance, anti-anything-close to liberal, major bastion of the hard core right. Sounds a bit scary to me! Too bad, because much of the state is beautiful.
Central and north Idaho tends to be the white power crowd, north Idaho is also full of militia people, anti government not necessarily racist as a primary agenda. South Idaho gets into LDS territory. The Mormons are fine but not exactly tolerant politically
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