Solar farm or strip mine. Hard to tell the difference in esthetics.

Why has Columbia collected and retained all this information? If Columbia does not judge you by your race, then it does not need to know your race. Or sex, gender, orientation, disability, citizenship, origin, income...

Whatatboutsim.

(I'm told that shuts up stupid commentators)

It is possible for private citizens and organizations to gather data, you know? How hard is it to get an air sample and analyze it?

There are plenty of think-tanks, universities and companies that collect and publish economic data. If you rely on the government to do everything for you, you run into exactly the kind of problem we have here.

As the kids say, that is some late-stage capitalism, right there.

Wow, you are a real end-stage capitalist!

27 posts (so far), and nobody...

Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.

P. J. O'Rourk

PLA is biodegradable. Good luck.

What happens when sites refuse to work with this browser? This kind of nonsense is already a thing. Do RFCs still matter?

"If people can't have both benefits for the now with benefits for the future then maybe we need to work harder on providing options to hold off global warming."

I agree with this. Because everything you talk about involves reducing emissions in some way, which is not working. An asking people to go hungry now for the sake of the future is not going to happen. Other options needed.

A cost-benefit analysis comparing various options for responding to the reality of global warming. Reducing emissions being only one of the options, and which has not made a difference up to now and looks certain to fail in meeting targets.

Western North Carolina, residential flat rate:

$14/month basic customer charge
12.119c per kWh
11.119c per kWh for the additional kWh over 800, October to April
https://www.duke-energy.com/-/...

I guess our power costs a lot more the California's because we don't have so much wind and solar. I assume power is essentially free there, like the wind and the sun.

Falcon Heavy successfully launched its first time. But that's the only one I'm aware of.

Assuming you are a poor American, you are still far richer than most non-Americans on the planet. So why don't you go first and start living like a Congolese peasant?