" it makes sense to argue for the transition away from oil primarily as an economic issue."
So what you're saying is that we're not seeing a change in how society functions, the outcomes just happen to coincide with the smart thing to do. That's... not a good sign for the long term future. We're one invention that makes coal cheaper away from a switch to coal plants.
The wifey is a marine biologist and climate scientist, and she developed a curriculum for adult informal education about how to fix climate change at the community level. You know, before we all are boiled alive in the ever-acidifying, rising oceans!
The course is called Climate Stewards, and she developed it as the academic coordinator with the UC Environmental Stewards Program. It's moving from California organizations (for example: CA State Parks, master gardener programs, museums, community centers, nature reserves, etc) into other states, so if you're interested or want to learn more about it, click this shit:
That new refinery, which is sold in the US media as so anti-environmentalist, is meant to reduce imports of gasoline (previously, we had to export oil, and import gasoline). Keeping out foreign "investors" -- besides doing away with the need to return dividends -- also lessens the pressure to be exporting what we know is a declining resource (something we've known for years here, and are using what fossil fuel there is more as a bridge to tide us over as alternatives come on line than as an answer to our energy needs).
Now we just need to get those grubby US and Canadian hands off our minerals and don't even think about us exporting our solar power at some special price (like you forced Mexico do do for the US back in 1924, and still expect Mexico to do).
The US did not have a full time scientist as president, but Jimmy Carter has a scientific education and that made a difference. In his day, Jefferson was a pretty good amateur scientist for that era.
The oil business in Mexico has a new boss, who loves renewable energy. Solar, wind, geothermal, all of it! Mexico isn't going to stop selling oil, nobody is, the money's too good. I think she's going to be very successful implementing her energy plans. The ๐ข bidness doesn't try to run the country, like it does in America.
During her tenure here in Mexico City as the governor (yeah, we're called "City" but we're the State of Mexico City) solar panels started going up on the roofs of the public markets as they're being remodeled. The Centro de Abastos (the largest roof in the western hemisphere) now provides electrical power to somethng around 10,000 users. Waiting for my local mercado two blocks away to get its solar panels up.
We've also been electrifying the metro and the new "trolly-bus" lines, as well as the metrobus and other public transit facilities (including cable cars which are cool) and the interurban trains.
More hybrid (or EV) city vehicles, though not the garbage trucks yet.
Grew up on the dirt roads of Laredo. Whoโd elect a girl first in 1974? American and Texan men especially, you are some dumb motherfuckers. You need to get your fragile masculinity in order. Thanks a fucking lot
Don't you see? After four years of competent governance under Ann Richards, Texas HAD to elect a Connecticut-born failson, dry-drunk, TANG AWOL, cosplay cowboy. She MADE them do it!
The vile filth of the Heritage Foundation are ALARMED that Mexico has made this choice. Yet another reason why the Ripley solution needs to be exercised against these reactionary motherfuckers.
Isn't an Alonso Romero one of those cute Italian sports cars?
But seriously, folks, the first network (or non network, I don't discriminate), that pronounces her name as "Sheen-baum" I'm afraid I'll have to kick some ass.
It was the largest revenue source for the state and basically a cash cow for the neo-liberal governments, which just automatically took out more than PEMEX was turning in as profit ... probably by design to justify selling off a state asset to private investors.
Exactly. One thing that ended with AMLO's administration. It's paying down the debt it accumulated, and actually turning a profit again. Even with less exports.
As Mexico elects a woman who is a climate scientist for President, in Texas ...
Texas professors sue to fail students who seek abortions
"A pair of Texas professors figured out that their female students have sex and, boy, they do not like it. So now the philosophy professor and finance professor are suing for the right to punish their students who, outside of class, have abortions.
"Pregnancy is not a disease, and elective abortions are not 'health care,'" University of Texas at Austin professor Daniel Bonevac sneers in a federal court filing with professor John Hatfield. Instead, Bonevac writes, because pregnancy is the result of "voluntary and consensual sexual intercourse," students should not be allowed time off to get abortions. If the students disobey and miss class for abortion care, the filing continues, the professors should be allowed to flunk students. Additionally, Bonevac asserts that he has a right to refuse to employ a teaching assistant who has had an abortion, calling such women "criminals.""
I want to see where on the syllabus the assessments include "not getting an abortion." Because you can truly only fail students who don't meet the grading policies, which in turn must be assessed using fair and impartial rubrics.
Given that cis men can't get abortions, there's no way to apply a standard about abortion that doesn't violate Title IX.
Professors suing to withhold duly earned diplomas secondary to sexual behavior those teachers do not approve of damned good and well need to be stripped of their state certification.
โ๐๐ตโ๐ด ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ง๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ฆ-๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด,โ ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฆ. โ๐๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ฆ-๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ-๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ป๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ด๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ช๐ฏ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด. ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ท๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏโ๐ต, ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ป๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ป๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฃ๐ด๐ช๐ฅ๐ช๐ป๐ฆ๐ฅ[.]โ
Just in case no one else has non-commented on this...
GAHHH!!1!!!1!! SOSHULIZMS!!11!!1!
" it makes sense to argue for the transition away from oil primarily as an economic issue."
So what you're saying is that we're not seeing a change in how society functions, the outcomes just happen to coincide with the smart thing to do. That's... not a good sign for the long term future. We're one invention that makes coal cheaper away from a switch to coal plants.
Kind of OT:
The wifey is a marine biologist and climate scientist, and she developed a curriculum for adult informal education about how to fix climate change at the community level. You know, before we all are boiled alive in the ever-acidifying, rising oceans!
The course is called Climate Stewards, and she developed it as the academic coordinator with the UC Environmental Stewards Program. It's moving from California organizations (for example: CA State Parks, master gardener programs, museums, community centers, nature reserves, etc) into other states, so if you're interested or want to learn more about it, click this shit:
https://CalNat.ucanr.edu/
That new refinery, which is sold in the US media as so anti-environmentalist, is meant to reduce imports of gasoline (previously, we had to export oil, and import gasoline). Keeping out foreign "investors" -- besides doing away with the need to return dividends -- also lessens the pressure to be exporting what we know is a declining resource (something we've known for years here, and are using what fossil fuel there is more as a bridge to tide us over as alternatives come on line than as an answer to our energy needs).
Now we just need to get those grubby US and Canadian hands off our minerals and don't even think about us exporting our solar power at some special price (like you forced Mexico do do for the US back in 1924, and still expect Mexico to do).
The US did not have a full time scientist as president, but Jimmy Carter has a scientific education and that made a difference. In his day, Jefferson was a pretty good amateur scientist for that era.
We elected Al Gore in 2000, if the popular vote counts. It would have been historic for the environment.
Instead the Supreme Court installed two idiots from the oil and gas industry who advanced drilling and fracking.
Theodore Roosevelt was considered an expert naturalist in his day.
HELL YES TO RECOGNIZING NATURALISTS AS VALID CONTRIBUTORS TO SCIENCE. THANK YOU.
Yes, not to be confused with naturists.
I mean, there are definitely those of us that fit both categories. ๐ฒ๐ฆ
The oil business in Mexico has a new boss, who loves renewable energy. Solar, wind, geothermal, all of it! Mexico isn't going to stop selling oil, nobody is, the money's too good. I think she's going to be very successful implementing her energy plans. The ๐ข bidness doesn't try to run the country, like it does in America.
During her tenure here in Mexico City as the governor (yeah, we're called "City" but we're the State of Mexico City) solar panels started going up on the roofs of the public markets as they're being remodeled. The Centro de Abastos (the largest roof in the western hemisphere) now provides electrical power to somethng around 10,000 users. Waiting for my local mercado two blocks away to get its solar panels up.
We've also been electrifying the metro and the new "trolly-bus" lines, as well as the metrobus and other public transit facilities (including cable cars which are cool) and the interurban trains.
More hybrid (or EV) city vehicles, though not the garbage trucks yet.
Grew up on the dirt roads of Laredo. Whoโd elect a girl first in 1974? American and Texan men especially, you are some dumb motherfuckers. You need to get your fragile masculinity in order. Thanks a fucking lot
Don't you see? After four years of competent governance under Ann Richards, Texas HAD to elect a Connecticut-born failson, dry-drunk, TANG AWOL, cosplay cowboy. She MADE them do it!
The Bushes were the American Nazis who pushed us to the brink, maybe past it
Things may not change all that much, unfortunately:
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/06/failing-state-mexico-sheinbaum/678585/?gift=2vbqn8zJh9vvuppLMF00twXbCKNjTniBdnyhpKS4foY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
OH, David Frum! Going back 15 or 20 years, he's had a hard-on for intervening in Mexico.
The vile filth of the Heritage Foundation are ALARMED that Mexico has made this choice. Yet another reason why the Ripley solution needs to be exercised against these reactionary motherfuckers.
Nuke the site from orbit?
Zombie Fidel Castro is at our doorstep!!!!!1!!1!
He's here to kick ass and chew gum, and he's all out of gum!
"Rats. I wanted gum."
Isn't an Alonso Romero one of those cute Italian sports cars?
But seriously, folks, the first network (or non network, I don't discriminate), that pronounces her name as "Sheen-baum" I'm afraid I'll have to kick some ass.
We say it closer to something closer to Chin-bomb.
More like "Chain-bomb"
"You're sure it's not "Frahnken-sheen?'"
Ladies and Germs: The best of the best of the Republican Law and Order Party.
https://substack.com/@hoovervilles/note/c-58187396?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2lsb5b
"In renegotiating Pemexโs debt," How did a fossil fuel company get into debt? Aren't they money machines?
It was the largest revenue source for the state and basically a cash cow for the neo-liberal governments, which just automatically took out more than PEMEX was turning in as profit ... probably by design to justify selling off a state asset to private investors.
I donโt know if this is still the case, but at one point Pemex profits were responsible for half of the Mexican governmentโs operating budget.
Exactly. One thing that ended with AMLO's administration. It's paying down the debt it accumulated, and actually turning a profit again. Even with less exports.
when you only have one main asset you tend to borrow against it.
Thank you.
"AMLO" always reminded me of that Ponzi scheme/health and home care MLM bullshit that Betsy DeVos' father-in-law started.
I won't even say their real name, because then I'll get invited to a "party".
When you cannot afford Am-[censored], you go with AMLO.
Oh I get it. You mean "__-way!"
Or maybe primitive robot is sad.
checking on that smoking lamp...
yep, it's lit!
Huzzah!
As Mexico elects a woman who is a climate scientist for President, in Texas ...
Texas professors sue to fail students who seek abortions
"A pair of Texas professors figured out that their female students have sex and, boy, they do not like it. So now the philosophy professor and finance professor are suing for the right to punish their students who, outside of class, have abortions.
"Pregnancy is not a disease, and elective abortions are not 'health care,'" University of Texas at Austin professor Daniel Bonevac sneers in a federal court filing with professor John Hatfield. Instead, Bonevac writes, because pregnancy is the result of "voluntary and consensual sexual intercourse," students should not be allowed time off to get abortions. If the students disobey and miss class for abortion care, the filing continues, the professors should be allowed to flunk students. Additionally, Bonevac asserts that he has a right to refuse to employ a teaching assistant who has had an abortion, calling such women "criminals.""
https://www.salon.com/2024/06/03/texas-professors-to-fail-students-seek-abortions/
I want to see where on the syllabus the assessments include "not getting an abortion." Because you can truly only fail students who don't meet the grading policies, which in turn must be assessed using fair and impartial rubrics.
Given that cis men can't get abortions, there's no way to apply a standard about abortion that doesn't violate Title IX.
Wow, the things Texas academics have must have in their job descriptions now!
Texas professors figured out that their female students have sex, but not with them. More likely the problem
Professors suing to withhold duly earned diplomas secondary to sexual behavior those teachers do not approve of damned good and well need to be stripped of their state certification.
This is NOT remotely acceptable.
That's so horrid, weird, and dumb, I hesitate to click on the full article.
Kinda stupid for College Professors. And again, MIND YOUR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS!!!
Siri, which two Texas professors are about to be fired for doing really unethical sex stuff to unwilling undergrads who are their daughtersโ age?
Hopefully she can announce some initiatives to help Biden out on immigration because if he loses, she's going to have one shitty partner to the north.
she will most definitely not agree to pay for the wall.