New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and other Democrat leaders nationwide announce that students can skip classes Friday (9/20/201) to join the global climate strike aimed at protesting man-made climate breakdown. Is this just a craven political move, at the expense of taxpayers and of student learning, or a great way to give young people an active role in the crucial work to save the planet?
The World Bank says there are now 720 million living in extreme poverty, defined as less than $3/day. To combat poverty, we need jobs, and good industrial jobs require cheap, reliable electricity.
In a normal society, deranged prophets of doom get mocked. In a corrupt society, they get a government grant, or they get elected so they can pass laws banning people from mocking them.
This is a dragon that eats its own tail. The Green revolution kills the green revolution because energy is too expensive. Not to mention that fantasies of weather control attract terrible managers.
The authors argue that these patterns raise questions about the assumption that human-produced CO2 is the dominant driver of global temperature change.
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New Zealand’s education system is teaching children a modern ideological story as ancient truth – a story that rewrites history, embeds race-based authority and quietly undermines democratic equality.
