The developed countries have materialistic lifestyles, not available before the 1800’s, that support higher standards of living than poorer nations with all the products made from crude oil petrochemicals. We’ve become a very materialistic society over the last 200 years, and the world has populated from 1 to 8 billion because of more than 6,000 […]
Southern US Border Ecosystems Destroyed by Mass Migration
The open southern border of the United States, and the millions of individuals flowing across that landscape, has created an environmental disaster 2,000 miles long, and one that will cost billions of dollars to remedy. While mass migration has battered the southern border’s ecosystems for decades, the recent surge of over ten million individuals crossing illegally, in the […]
Imagine No Jets, Ships, Defense, or Space Program!
Over the last 200 years when the world populated from 1 to 8 billion, we learned that crude oil is virtually useless, unless it’s manufactured (refineries) into oil derivatives that are the basis of the fuels to move the heavy-weight and long-range needs of more than 50,000 jets moving people and products, and more than […]
Earth – Why Bother?
I suggested to a friend that she read The Overstory, by Richard Powers. Months later, she finished the first story/chapter and made the mistake of telling me. Poor soul, she then had to listen to me expound at length — accompanied by ferociously animated hand gestures — on Powers’s ingenious use of the active voice in his […]
Unsold Electric Cars May be Signaling a Death Spiral for the Auto Industry
Endless government subsidies to encourage EV sales seem unable to sway the logical thinking and the numerous concerns of the average citizens to buy into EV’s. With new EV inventories beginning to increase on dealer lots, the auto industry has many challenges such as locating the buyers that may have serious concerns about a wide […]
It’s Time to be Transparent About the Costs of Going “Green”
Supplies to support “green” inflict environmental degradation, humanity atrocities, and increases in emissions, not transparent to the green movement. Summary The green electricity movement has yet to identify the replacement for crude oil that is the basis of more than 6,000 products in our daily lives that did not exist before the 1900’s, and […]
Are The Environmental Impacts and Human Atrocities Worth An EV Battery?
EV owners may not be aware that they may be contributing to the industry of “blood minerals” to make their “dirty” car batteries. The Dakota Leader Commissioned and published March 28, 2022. Are The Environmental Impacts and Human Atrocities Worth an EV Battery? EV owners lack transparency to the environmental degradation and human atrocities occurring […]
CLIMATE CHANGE: [Opinion] “ESG = Extreme Shortages Guaranteed!”
The Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors climbing up the agenda in the banking industry would have banks divest in fossil fuels. This would lead toward a world like that in the 1800’s, the last time the world was “decarbonized”. Back in the 1800’s, we had no coal or natural gas power plants, and we […]