End poverty & promote sustainability: Charge high fees to industries that emit pollution, take natural resources or destroy wildlife habitat. Share fee proceeds
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"How Xinjiang's Desert Became China's $80 Billion Agricultural Powerhouse That Amazes America"
@Grok, is this based on forced labor of political prisoners (i.e., slavery)?
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Human beings won't need to play the role of booster & detractor of particular industries if we decide to embody respect for Truth and Fairness in our institutions
Sustainable options will be the more profitable options
An honest market will find the best solutions automatically
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This is an extraordinary result: a rejection of Vučić’s government’s authoritarian suppression of opposition and a victory for democracy and free speech. The Student List have shown amazing courage. Putin will be furious to lose one of his loyal allies.
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After seven failed attempts, some of which were thwarted by opposition from U.S. officials, Maria Corina Machado is back on Venezuelan soil, her aides confirm.
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Useful disclosure here from Thomas Wright. State sponsored terrorism is apparently contingent on a body count. Putting a bomb on a commercial plane is in itself insufficient, but prompts a warning of future designation. Well, seven cargo ships were hit in the Black Sea in the past two weeks alone; around 30 sailors were killed or remain missing. I wonder what the threshold is. Or if minor casualty events don’t ever add up to “mass.” theatlantic.com/internationa…
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@HaranSteph18662 Do you have a favoriite policy for how to account for externalities in an efficient and fair way?
What other criteria should we use to evaluate, beyond (or instead of) efficient and fair?
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New: In April 2025, an unidentified intruder broke into the diplomatic residence in Addis Ababa, then in use by @ymahmoudali, the chairman of the Africa Union Commission, and his family. The intruder stayed for four minutes before fleeing the premises.
He may have planted surveillance equipment or exfiltrated data while he was inside.
@InsiderEng has identified the intruder as Major Aleksandr Dubikov, a GRU officer stationed at the Russian Embassy in Ethiopia, a known hub for GRU activity in Africa.
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Imagine that, instead of political parties choosing Electors according to who is loyal to the party, we invite citizens to choose Electors according to who we think, from among all people in our Congressional District, who has the qualities of a good President.
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The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
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The Russians hacked Kushner, then the Dutch, and this is the criminal helping Russia to force Ukraine to surrender as Russia massacres Ukrainians
Outrageous but not surprising
Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million In Transfers vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
Have you called for a global policy of fee-and-dividend as a way to manage environmental impacts and end abject poverty? If not, why not?
Do you have a different policy that you are promoting that would achieve those goals?
Or are they not goals worth pursuing?
Something else?
Jackdaw is climate vandalism.
Labour are putting Shell's profits before people and planet.
ALT Green Party quote graphic with the headline “JACKDAW DECISION IS CLIMATE VANDALISM” in bold white text on a dark green background. Behind the text is a black-and-white photograph of an offshore oil and gas platform, with Green Party leader Zack Polanski pictured speaking in the bottom right. Quote from Zack Polanski: “This is climate vandalism. Today’s decision by Labour is a betrayal of all of our futures, Labour has abandoned all credibility in the fight against climate change. The Energy Secretary has herself said it will make no difference to energy bills, the Health Secretary has admitted the summer heatwave added to pressure on the NHS and the industry’s own assessment is that will create only 27 jobs. This is a victory for Shell over the people.” Green Party logo and promotional imprint at the bottom.
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I wonder how far you think the trend can go and remain 'not a problem'.
Is your view on increasing abundance of H+ ions in seawater similar: It's increasing, but not a problem?
How high can it go, do you think, and still be a non-problem?
If we share natural wealth, fewer people will seek and take jobs that lack any psychological reward.
There will be fewer people involved in activities that offer no benefit to society.
There will be other benefits, too. Sharing natural wealth will align profit w/ sustainability
Utilities are required to keep 15% of total demand on standby, to prevent problems caused by sudden changes in demand.
This capacity could be used to power the growing demand for AI (with changes in regulations), if the AI is set up to instantaneously cut its demand when needed.
2/3 of the U.S.’s virtual power plant and demand response potential is sitting idle.
Scott Nystrom, Director of Research and Analytics, finds 500+ GW of technically achievable unused grid capacity: buff.ly/Y5lme4L
#EnergyCapacity #GridModernization
Will the situation become so bad that people around the world demand a global policy of strong respect for individual sovereignty, so taxpayers can stop their money from being used to cause harm? What could possibly explain the fact that we don't see that demand already?
This is beyond 'misdemeanor'. Congress?
East Potomac Park was established more than a century ago by Congress for the recreational leisure of the people: golfers, hikers, bikers, walkers, yoga classes and you name it. Hundreds of thousands of people in the DMV and visitors from elsewhere enjoy this beautiful landmark. Of course, Trump’s now trying to steal it for another imbecilic vanity project so billionaires and Trump’s royal court have another place to golf. They have already illegally demolished hundreds of trees where they want the new course to go. With Halloween approaching, maybe it’s time for a march of the Loraxes to stop this criminal desecration and destruction of federal property. washingtonpost.com/sports/20…
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A group of friends, a flashlight and a set time to be home teaches kids a lot more than how to fill a candy bag. It tells them we trust them. People will rise to the level of your expectations.
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I was looking for examples of replies I directed at John Shewchuk, to see what offended him and provoked a block. One thing came up as a direct reply.
Plus a handful of replies to others in a thread