Good morning, and Happy Fourth of July! This week’s newsletter includes the final few posts from our Against Climate Change project, which was originally supposed to last for two weeks but ended up going for the entire month of June. It also includes the first few posts of July, including our editor Michael Walsh’s article on one of our most underappreciated American heroes:
Critically and chronically low levels of attention span and decision-making ability exist in humanity. See the Nebraska solar farm's complete lack of consideration of normal weather variations, the almost global governmental mishandling of the COVID19 kerfuffle -- and then ask: should we really venture further into nuclear power?
It's interesting (but not at all surprising) that urban Canada has turned into California writ large.
Finally, "traditional energy sources like oil, natural gas, coal"? Pretty short-sighted use of the word, "traditional". A whole-hearted, large-scale human utilization of coal didn't occur until late 16th-early 17th century, and natural gas and oil weren't put to much use until early in the last century.
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Critically and chronically low levels of attention span and decision-making ability exist in humanity. See the Nebraska solar farm's complete lack of consideration of normal weather variations, the almost global governmental mishandling of the COVID19 kerfuffle -- and then ask: should we really venture further into nuclear power?
It's interesting (but not at all surprising) that urban Canada has turned into California writ large.
Finally, "traditional energy sources like oil, natural gas, coal"? Pretty short-sighted use of the word, "traditional". A whole-hearted, large-scale human utilization of coal didn't occur until late 16th-early 17th century, and natural gas and oil weren't put to much use until early in the last century.