Hayden Clarkin This green is a very temporary, seasonal effect.
We are in a permanent state of long term drought which will be periodically interrupted by inundation which we are mostly failing to capture and sequester as groundwater.
Do NOT think of California as having plentiful water.
Rebecca Clark [email protected] Hayden Clarkin Yup, it's something that people in California needs to be discussing about.
Robotbeat🗽 ➐ Will Stancil goldfish Real jobs require skills. Skills require training and focus. And that requires investment, which is something that next-quarter capitalism (ie the Jack Welch/GE/Boeing “management” school) ruthlessly minimizes.
Robotbeat🗽 ➐ Will Stancil goldfish On the flip side: jobs.
People need to have some kind of productive activity to engage in. It’s a shame that food service is the best we can come up with for most people.
Hayden Clarkin [email protected] Unsustainable growth in two desert regions doesn't necessitate attempting replication in a third.
Nathan Lewis [email protected] David Roberts Projection. Trying to demonize anyone who disagrees with you, while also trying to convince everyone that if you drive a ICE car you are trying to pollute as much as possible. The inconvenient truth, EV's also are not good for the environment.
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Galen Metzger🪬📈🇺🇦🌐 Any claim such as #1 should trigger automatic skepticism. That sort of accounting is very hard to do well, and highly subject to interpretation.
Land use is not included. That’s a very large omission, that has grown greatly esp in recent decades.
It did not happen accidentally
Hayden Clarkin Star🇵🇸Incarnate (they/them) [email protected] I doubt you truly know this unless you’re the “go to guy” for economic development in the area.
Moreover, water is plentiful but at some point it requires desal, which is crazy expensive. Prob lots of projects don’t want to take that cost burden.
Jason O. Mirabito Nathan Lewis [email protected] David Roberts F150 and other large heavy ICE pickups best selling vehicles for years, yet now all of a sudden we’re concerned about weight of EVs? Disingenuous argument
Jack Lantern TongKee Hayden Clarkin Scrolling back now I didn’t realize the Jack Lantern was the one who came up with this stupid cell phone analogy in the first place.
You’ve wasted WAY more of everyone’s time than you deserve to. Blocking you momentarily.
Graham Cummins Eric Levitz “Our kids are running screaming from our politics” is not a look most people are going to be able to hold in the mirror.
Jason O. Mirabito David Roberts It’s elitist to not want you to shit on my lawn?
I thought that was called being an American.
I am telling you, man. Do not fucking (tire) tread on me!
Make it make sense!
[email protected] Hayden Clarkin I’m all for working with nature instead of against it, wherever and whenever possible
But uranium is natural
And humans building powerful problem-solving machines is natural, too
Jason O. Mirabito [email protected] David Roberts Projection. You are the elitist. 'I should be able to pollute as much as possible. I will oppose every effort to change things just because of my stubbornness.'