“How many climate-related disasters will it take for us to understand that this is a serious issue?”
Source: What’s Left of the New Green Deal? – CounterPunch.org
“How many climate-related disasters will it take for us to understand that this is a serious issue?”
Source: What’s Left of the New Green Deal? – CounterPunch.org
We have watched the failure of virtually every green initiative proposed in the last two-plus decades, and the failure of the BBB due to Manchin makes a final mockery of activist optimism. The lesson, as the article assumes, is that government is powerless and that we must act independently…But it would seem that the whole question, short of revolution, hopeless…??
Build Back Better is on the ropes. But other parts of a just transition are moving forward.
Source: Opinion | Where the Hell Is the Green New Deal? | John Feffer
The largest category of power plants applying to connect to the US grid are now solar, and over a third of those are hybrids that include battery storage.
Source: Meet the power plant of the future: Solar + battery hybrids are poised for explosive growth
A draft of the executive order obtained by The Intercept would use the Defense Production Act to ramp up mineral production for electric car batteries.
I have read this post before–I must have??? in 2010…then just before Trump, and then Trump, nothing happened, Trump followed by Biden, a new hope, even with Congress and Senate, nothing, … What combination is possible at this point to change my skepticism from 2010…
Is there a revolutionary option? The_Last_Revolution_Postcapitalist_ Futures_ver_FNL_5xa_12_27_21
Environmental and labor movements need to join forces by embracing the global Green New Deal.
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – China reached a milestone this fall, of producing a terawatt of electricity from renewables — …
Source: For first time, China now gets a Trillion Watts of Electricity from Wind-Water-Hydro