I’ve known that climate change was one of the most significant issues for years, but I haven’t understood a direct connection to life expectancy.

PBS has distributed this YouTube that communicates how natural disasters, made worse by climate change has impacts this.

youtu.be/LsToZlTBeGc?...

Kind of hard to for democracy to shine when the Supreme Court keeps overruling common sense decisions with non-sensible logic.

Costco is suing Donney over his tariffs, calling them unlawful. I agree with this, but I wonder….. if they win what will happen with the money? Will it go back to the customers who the costs were passed on to?

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

PLEASE REMEMBER:

trump's win percentage is shaping up to be the third SMALLEST in history.

He does NOT have a mandate, no matter what he says.

That means we push back against every single batshit crazy policy he tries to pass.

EVERYTHING.
Mandate my ass.

It is pretty clear that the incoming administration is going to be a detriment on reducing CO2 emissions.

More of the responsibility will be on us to purchase good and services that minimize impact.

It will be up to us to communicate why this is in all of our best interests.

So much fucking around, and now begins the finding out

www.cnbc.com/2024/11/19/w...

Some good news for the advancement of carbon capture tech. What isn’t clear is if this captures more CO2 than the energy it consumes, its cost to operate, or if its byproduct may be profitable.

apple.news/AoqkR18qZTDS...

Lots of stories about how mass deportations will spike food prices and cause inflation. But as Tom Bonier noted, only one published before Election Day...

PONDER THIS…

Have you ever noticed that when shit goes down, people demand that minorities be held responsible for their entire ethnic group? White folks are exempt from that demand.

When a Black person does something bad, the entire Black community must answer for it. Why is that?
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Sean Duffy is being named as Secretary of Transportation, it isn’t clear to me what transportation or executive leadership experience he has.

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/11/...

The condition of our infrastructure, how we use it, and its ability to operate allow for our economy to run and to keep costs in check.

I appreciate the summary of the progress made over the last few years.

youtu.be/uQKscybGVjc?...

Putting aside the impact to the climate, moving away from renewable energy would be a negative to domestic manufacturing.

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/11/...