Category Archives: Environment

Coal Use

Coal is extracted from the ground by coal mining, either underground by shaft mining, or at ground level by open pit mining, and its extraction and use are directly related to a number of adverse health and environmental consequences, including: • 2,800 deaths from lung cancer and black lung disease in … Continue reading →

China’s Water Problem

On February 17, 2012, an article in the Shanghai Daily reported that 40 percent of China’s rivers are seriously polluted, two thirds of Chinese cities are “water needy,” 300 million people in rural areas lack access to drinking water, and 20 percent of rivers are too toxic to even touch. In response, … Continue reading →

Plan A Diagram

Rationale As the consequences to the environment of anthropomorphic climate change continue to worsen, it behooves us all to do what we can to mitigate their effect. The solution is well known: cease and desist using nuclear fission and fossil fuels to generate electricity and run motor vehicles. One obvious … Continue reading →

Plan A: Financing

A Possible Infrastructure Investment Structure By special law, an Infrastructure Investment Bank, designated as a charity, could be federally chartered and insured by the Federal Reserve System (not the Federal Government). Neither the Fed nor the Government, nor any of their current or future potential departments, affiliates, agencies or designees, … Continue reading →

Climate Change and Nuclear War Revisited

April 29, 2021 Background On April 19, 2021, at a press conference about climate change, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres said that “we are on the verge of the abyss.” The evidence supporting his conclusion is overwhelming. Increasingly severe storms, droughts, wild fires, rising seas, and mass … Continue reading →

Winning Over Republican Voters

November 9, 2020 The frenzy of election day may be behind us, but the turmoil and uncertainty continue: the calm before the storm, if you will.  The reason for that grim assessment is because the Democrats did not win the hearts of roughly half the population. In simple terms, unless they … Continue reading →

A Seminal Discovery

June 9, 2019 In 2018 a research group led by Professor Dr. Marc Koper at Leiden University in the Netherlands discovered a catalyst that minimizes the production of chlorine gas during salt water electrolysis. The catalyst consists of two metal oxides: iridium oxide with a layer of manganese oxide only a … Continue reading →

IPCC Special Report on Climate Change

October 8, 2018 Here’s a selected portion of the Summary for Policymakers of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change. The entire report can be found here.  Editor’s comment: Time to switch to hydrogen. A. Understanding Global Warming of 1.5°C4 A1. Human activities are estimated to have caused approximately 1.0°C of … Continue reading →

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