There is likely no perfect solution but the answer cannot be to force them to work with no protection at all.
Robert Ferry
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Climate policy, society, and the built environment. Architect, LEED AP BD+C, and Co-founder of @landartgenerator.bsky.social. https://landartgenerator.org Let's build an equitable world in harmony with nature.
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I’d assumed wildfire fighters all wore respirators. I’m shocked. The Forest Service needs to make this right.
“Internal records, studies and interviews with current and former agency officials reveal another motivation: Embracing masks would mean admitting how dangerous wildfire smoke really is.”
Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying
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Too little way too late from fossil fuel power technology improvements.
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From a US perspective, this is fundamentally worse than Sputnik, and it is having the exact opposite and wrong reaction to 1957 - retreat, shutting down basic science and clean tech commercialization, instead of diving into creating a national science complex and building fast.
How China went from clean energy copycat to global tech leader www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 🔌💡
How China Went From Clean Energy Copycat to Global Innovator
A surge in high quality research and patent applications has cemented China’s dominance in the industry.
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With the effect of tariffs ramping up, we will be entering another era of shrinkflation. Expect to receive less of everything for the same cost.
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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum: A study of scientific findings supports our claims that wind farms are just bad.
American people: Oh. That's interesting. Can we read the study?
Burgum: Not sure if you can because we placed black bars over every word. You can try I guess.
Trump admin redacts entire Empire Wind study
The administration blacked out 27 pages of findings in a document the Interior secretary cited when he ordered a work stoppage on the offshore wind project.
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You have to put yourself in your enemy’s shoes and think, “how would I prefer to be vanquished?”
Empathy for who?
Once again, fuck the New York Times.
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This is the cost of the Senate filibuster: the last time the House, Senate and POTUS were all under D control (2020 - 2022) the House passed bills to eliminate gerrymandering and give DC statehood. The Senate did nothing on either in spite of having majority support. And so here we are.
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Look I know this is utopian and there is no way to get from here to there, but it's something I think about often and in the far distant future I imagine humanity will eventually make its way to an economic system something like this if we want to continue living on a habitable planet Earth.
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There would be no need for any environmental laws or regulations since the primary incentive for everyone all the time would be the stewardship of the natural environment because that is how new money is generated.
