With great power comes great responsibility, especially in the Anthropocene. We need to stop our CO2 emissions to keep Earth habitable. go.nasa.gov/2KQfFms
...stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers ... the absence of tension to ... the presence of justice - MLK hartford-hwp.com/archives/45…
The greenest, cleanest New Deal would involve massive infrastructure build in nuclear energy. Even 2nd gen nuclear reactors are cleaner and safer than coal and gas. Not one death in all US reactor history, including nuclear submarines.
The need for energy is fundamental to the economy, and yet a remarkable feature of our culture is the opposition to almost any form of energy—a pathology that Hall dubs “ergophobia”.
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Th iconic fist sculpture has returned to George Floyd Square. To celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the community at 38th St. and Chicago Ave helped the artists install the new fist, now constructed entirely of steel.
All We Can Save
Currently living through the hottest January I've ever seen for Northern California. There used to be frost in the mornings but now it's just 75F/24C. Wearing shorts in Jan is not something I expected so soon.
the argument of "if there's a $15/hr minimum wage then more jobs will be automated" always fucks me up because if our whole economic system wasn't backwards, people working less thanks to automation would be a GOOD thing
Billionaires convinced y’all certain jobs aren’t hard work, so don’t require a decent wage. And y’all ate it up. Yet in a pandemic those same workers became “essential workers” and kept our service economy from collapse.