About the only route I can see that serious carbon mitigation will begin is through Asian developing nations. Chiefly China & India. They have almost 40% of the World's population and are eager to develop rapidly which means rapid energy growth. They quite simply will not be able to sustain that growth with rapidly depleting fossil fuels. And their most economical and only significant domestic fossil fuel being filthy coal which is killing millions of their own people while poisoning their atmosphere.

They really will have no choice eventually to go rapid nuclear expansion. That will let the cat out of the bag, and you can be sure they will sell dirt-cheap nuclear reactors, probably barge-built, to developing nations, and that will finally break the nuclear blockade.

While western nations continue relying on fossil fuels, with some token renewables to greenwash them and supply propaganda & disinformation for the gullibles, developing nations will be forced to move to nuclear. This will make western nations look so pathetic and backward that eventually they will be forced to relent out of total embarrassment and remove their roadblocks against nuclear.

That is about the only way that this climate change, GHG emissions, peak oil, high energy price catastrophe will be solved.

Conservatives hate government only if it's democratic and accountable to the people. They absurdly and outrageously try to characterize democratic government as tyranny.
Their ideal society is the police state of China where they moved all their factories after Mexico didn't work out because the workers and public there got organized and got some collective bargaining agreements and environmental regulations passed and defeated the purpose for moving there in the first place. They thought the workers and people in China couldn't organize because China was a police state.
All politics in the United States is victimology and conservatives play the victim card most absurdly and outrageously characterizing the rich and powerful, the very dominators of society, as the victims of society because they have to pay taxes, obey regulations that protect the environment or the health and safety of others of the community or because they have to give a fair share of their profits to their employees. For them democracy is tyranny.

What this country needs is a good old fashioned cholera outbreak; or Typhoid; or tuberculosis (that one may be about to happen).

Human memory is much too short.

The psychopaths are in power.

Paraphrasing Thom (Robert Reich might have said it first;) too many people in power are psychopaths who couldn't care less about anything besides their own selfish interests. While too many Americans have been asleep at the switch, the psychopaths have rigged the game to where they get to have their cake and eat yours too. Adding insult to injury; too much of the game is not value-added activity consisting mostly of middlemen and paper. Even when endeavors are value-added, goals are shortsighted and not long-term; essentially killing the goose that lays the golden eggs to get the eggs right now. But no worries, the taxpayers will buy them more geese.

Would extend the same arguments for making banks a public utitlity.

Credit is too important for the "commons" to let scumbag bankers

make decisions for private profit.

ct

Spelling error(!)--"..why THEIR sick..." Otherwise, D'Accord!! Great stuff!

Race is not merely a social concept, though it has more of a social definition now than it used to due to the abundance of people with mixed heritage. The fact that it's primarily about pigmentation doesn't make it imaginary. "The race question", written for UNESCO originally in 1950, and serving an agenda of anti-racism, said that there was no basis for the idea of pure races, while talking about 3 actual races (apparently ignoring aboriginals of the New World and Australia). The fact that there is variation within any race doesn't make race imaginary; it just supplies us with an argument of the beard. And the same is true of languages and biological varieties.

I cannot figure out what the "no such thing as race" believers think the definition of race (or particular races) is. Sometimes they seem to confuse it with species, saying that since the human races can interbreed they're not races. In biology, varieties within a species are frequently recognized, and they can interbreed, but usually don't. Today, Thom claimed that race isn't real because it's not located in a single gene. Well, neither is schizophrenia, but schizophrenia is still a disease. Sometimes they claim that it's because pigmentation differences (which are not the only racial differences) arise from an evolutionary cause, in this case selection due to ultraviolet-light exposure. However, all the differences between varieties, species, genera, families, orders, classes, phyla and kingdoms are due to selection.

I think this push to convince everyone that there's no such thing as race is PC crap. You don't have to say that race doesn't exist in order to say that it shouldn't be used as an excuse to treat people differently. And the problem with saying race doesn't exist is that it would mean racism doesn't exist and that you can't commit genocide unless you kill the requisite percentage of the entire human species, and that police violence against black Americans is a coincidence.

Cold Shoulder for the Repugnantans

{a limerick}

Their stench grows stinky-ly older

as it wafts from their debate in Boulder.

May lower they poll

off the candidate-roll.

May folks shrug them off cold-shoulder.

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I don;t know, but here are some of the bigger ones (the tip of the iceberg) that have become extinct recently, apparently http://www.pixable.com/article/heres-every-single-animal-that-became-ext...

It is seldom that we can say exactly when a species became extinct. The passenger pigeon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_%28pigeon%29) and the Tasmanian Tiger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine are exceptions.

There is really very little hope anything significant will be done about this catastrophe. There is just way too much money in fossil fuels, the World's biggest industry and intimately connected to the ruling Bankster overseers, who control and fund the Big Fossil companies.

My own country, Canada, has degenerated into another Petrostate. Oil up, C$ up, lots of jobs, Oil down, C$ in the sewer, layoffs all around, cutbacks in social services, healthcare, hiring freezes, imports very expensive. Very little appetite up here to replace fossil fuels. Even myself, ardent opponent of fossil fuels, still suffer occasionally the nagging thought " how much better it would be for us if the Oil price went back up above $100".

You see these ads on CNN everyday for rail companies touting how they supply our goods. What they don't tell you is half their loads are coal. And rapidly increasing are crude oil. They will not sit back and allow a hundred car coal train to be replaced by a pickup truck load of uranium.

All these other Petrostates: Norway, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Iraq, Venezuala, Nigeria, USA have no interest in giving up much of their income for the benefit of humanity.

Bankster's Globalist empire is based on the petrodollar and the international trade in oil & gas, all funded by petrodollars, which they create out of thin air, and lend to desperate nations so they can buy the energy lifeblood of their economy. Forcing nations to go into debt, and become debt slaves, as Greece now is. And vast profits from oil speculation. As favorite Bankster stooge Henry Kissinger stated: " If you control the energy you control the country; if you control food, you control the population..".

These guys are the masters of deception and they will use any ruse to prevent any serious effort to replace fossil fuels.

And automakers that rely on fossil fuels to power their product, gas stations, utilities, giant Oil, Gas and Coal equipment companies like GE, which make much of their income on turbine sales. Arms merchants make massive profits on petro-conflicts. Take away Oil & Gas and the Middle East would become a boring desert which would scarcely make it into the news. No more oil wars and petro-funded terrorism.

So I'm afraid, all of these Vested interests will buy every politician, his wife, kids and even the family pet, in order to prevent replacing fossil fuels. And use every deception imaginable, buy all the mainstream media, buy ENGOs, like Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, UCS, NRDC and a thousand more. Buy bureaucrats & government agencies.

Take Hillary, her & Bill are Big Oil/NG stooges if there ever was any. Promoting her nutty home solar plan which will cost ten's of $billions and achieve precisely zip. All smoke and mirrors, propaganda, sounds impressive, gets gullible greenies happily waving their little green flags, but doesn't achieve anything, except pushing up electricity prices so the poor can't afford electricity. Obama calls that "energy efficiency".

And Bill Clinton and his "Clinton Global Initiative" teaming up with Shell Oil promoting what they call an "important energy solution" for the developing nations. Supposed to save the world with "renewable energy". They have the soccer star Pele promoting it. They developed this soccer ball with a pressure to current transducer and a battery inside it. So the kids can play soccer all day thereby charging the battery, and then one of them (the captain of the winning team?) gets to take the soccer ball home and plug a LED lamp into the soccer ball for some fun reading or porn viewing in the evening. The lengths the fossil fuel disinformation cronies are going to foist these bait-and-switch scams upon the gullible public are amazing.

There is only one way to solve the fossil fuel / climate change dilemna. And that is a rapid build-out of nuclear power. Entirely doable, and that is why the Bankster/Oil barons, fossil fuel vested interests will do anything and everything to blockade Nuclear power:

Sweden and France show that China, India and the World could go 100% nuclear within 25-34 years:

http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/09/sweden-and-france-show-that-china-india.html

"...Staffan Qvist, physicist at Uppsala University, and his co-author Barry Brook, an ecologist and computer modeler at the University of Tasmania, relied on comes from two countries in Europe to prove nuclear energy scaling: Sweden and France. The Swedes began research to build nuclear reactors in 1962 in a bid to wean the country off burning oil for power as well as to protect rivers from hydroelectric dams. By 1972, the first boiling water reactor at Oskarshamn began to host fission and churn out electricity. The cost was roughly $1,400 per kilowatt of electric capacity (in 2005 dollars), which is cheap compared to the $7,000 per kilowatt of electric capacity of two new advanced nuclear reactors being built in the U.S. right now. By 1986, with the addition of 11 more reactors, half of Sweden's electricity came from nuclear power and carbon dioxide emissions per Swede had dropped by 75 percent compared to the peak in 1970...."

Sorry! Typo should read 'unattainable'

Happy to hear Don in Oak Park's call about his school's police procedures.