"The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, which took place last October and was rebroadcast on ABC on New Year’s Day, is a reminder of why rock and roll doesn’t need a hall of fame."
--Tom Nichols, Staff Writer, The Atlantic
From the "Knocking Over Sacred Cows Dept." A humorous takedown of a Boomer institution: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Should Not Exist.
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I have been recently introduced to a new source of climate-related common sense, a substack called Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein. Here is an insight.
"It’s an irrefutable but little-known fact that as the world has warmed 1° C, humans have become safer than ever from climate danger. The rate of climate-related disaster deaths—from storms, floods, temperature extremes, wildfires, and drought—has fallen 98% in the last century."
- master drought danger via irrigation and crop transport,
- master temperature danger via heating and A/C,
- master storm danger via building resilient infrastructure plus storm warning and evacuation systems
Read & Share: Three Undeniable Facts About Climate
https://alexepstein.substack.com/p/3-undeniable-facts-about-climate
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That's all for today. Think about it.
3 comments:
Jesus H Xmas. "Climate-related deaths." Not "climate catastrophes," which have demonstrably gotten worse. Could that reduction in deaths have anything to do with better responses, better warning systems, better health resources, more regulation on how buildings are constructed? But yeah, better to convince us that it's no big deal, because that's easier than addressing the problem.
Which problem are we talking about?
The one I worry about is the potential collapse of our energy grid.
Did you read the link I included at the end? Here it is again.
https://alexepstein.substack.com/p/3-undeniable-facts-about-climate
What problem am I talking about? Oh, I don't know... how about LITERALLY THE ONE I QUOTED?! Epstein's whack-job assertion that we are "safer from climate danger," which is so utterly, patently absurd.
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