Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts

Monday, September 2, 2019

Environmental Governor Needed!

Environmental Governor Needed! Your help is vital!




gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K [CC BY 2.0]

Social Animals, like the dark, go where other cockroaches are, consume and multiply.






Putting an environmentalist in the governor's office will help us achieve 350's goals. Governor Baker is a barrier to progress. Being apolitical is often associated with environmentalist. I believe big money has been used to manipulate would be environmental activists to be politically passive. Environmentalists must get involved with political activities if they are going to save the planet. We are in the 11th hour. Loss of the Amazon represents 30% or our oxygen production. Unions are powerful political players. We need to emulate them.

Our Republican governor is more popular with Democrats. Wait, what?

"Still, it’s notable that Governor Charlie Baker, a Republican seeking a second term in November, had a higher job approval rating with independents and Democrats, 76 percent and 71 percent, respectively, than he did with Republicans, 59 percent of whom gave him high marks in a recent poll from Suffolk University and The Boston Globe."


"This matters given that a Morning Consult poll last month found Massachusetts to be the most anti-Trump state in the nation." " Massachusetts likely voters surveyed said Baker is anti-Trump,"

There is a nagging feeling that Governor Baker is not on our side. Why is that? It helps to understand Baker's connection to the Koch Network.

I first got interested in the Koch network after reading "Democracy in Chains" by by Nancy MacLean. I helped a friend, Frank Kashner, set up: 
http://unchaindemocracy.org/. The site shows 85 Koch organizations. Climate change denial is an important activity for the Kochs.

Charlie Baker on Wikipedia. "In the late 1980s, Baker was hired as co director of the newly founded "Pioneer Institute", part of the State Policy Network.

EXPOSED: The State Policy Network  The Powerful Right-Wing Network Helping to Hijack State Politics and Government

Exposed How Rights State Based Think Tanks Are Transforming Us Politics


Affiliate: Pioneer Institute, Massachusetts, 185 Devonshire Street Unit 1101 Boston, MA 02110 Phone: 6177232277. Contact: Micaela Dawson

What does the Koch Network want? David Koch ran for president in 1980 as a Libertarian. This was his platform: End all of the following:
Aid to the poor
All Taxation
Department of Energy
Department of Transportation
Medical insurance regulation
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal Aviation Administration
Federal Election Commission
Food and Drug Administration
Medicare and Medicaid
Minimum Wage Laws
Obamacare
Public highways and railroads and waterways
Public Schools
Social Security
Support for Abortion Services
US Postal Service
Welfare


But they are keeping the police and prisons! They believe in meritocracy, except when it applies to their relatives and friends. No estate tax for them.

Baker made secret trip to conservative meeting. By Jim O’Sullivan Globe Staff,March 16, 2016, 6:53 p.m. Baker’s trip took him to Sea Island, home to posh resorts, for the so-called World Forum, an elite, off-the-record gathering of right-leaning power brokers hosted by the American Enterprise InstituteThe American Enterprise Institute's head of energy studies, Benjamin Zycher, has suggested there is doubt about man-made climate change[5]
“The issue of the climate sensitivity of the atmosphere to increasing GHG concentrations is nowhere near resolution.”  ref: https://www.desmogblog.com/american-enterprise-institute
The Politically-Driven, Koch-Backed Campaign to Undermine Boston Transit"MBTA has its flaws, the charges against it don’t stem from a good government campaign so much as an ideologically-driven assault, filled with exaggerations and lies and backed by groups affiliated with the Koch brothers"

https://www.politicalresearch.org/2016/11/18/privatizing-massachusettsPrivatizing Massachusetts, The Right-Wing’s Blue State Game Plan

Baker Keeps a low profile How two Republican governors in bright blue states will survive the blue wave

THREAT TO PUBLIC EDUCATIONNOW CENTERSON MASSACHUSETTS "Governor Charlie Baker has made charter expansion a top priority, mirroring his privatization efforts involving transportation and other public services. Baker vows to hold the line on taxes despite the myriad unmet needs that persist year after year for our public schools, colleges and universities, as well as for early childhood education. Make no mistake: The governor remains faithful to a hard-line conservative ideology even as he puts forth a moderate front."


References:
Income Inequality
desmog database of deniers

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

USA and Others, 2011 per capita carbon emission

click here

http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/emis/top2011.cap
Ranking of the world's countries by 2011 per capita fossil-fuel CO2 emission rates.  National per capita estimates (CO2_CAP) are expressed in metric tons of carbon (not CO2).
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Source: Tom Boden and Bob Andres
        Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
        Oak Ridge National Laboratory

        Gregg Marland
        Research Institute for Environment, Energy and Economics Appalachian State University
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USA,4.5;Russia,3.4;Japan,2.5;Germany,2.4;China,1.5;Indonesia,0.6;India,0.5;

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Land Degradation from stevenlevymath

Tags: Math, science, climate change, graph, college, environment, videoscribe, animation

Narration: This is Steven Levy and this is stevenlevymath. This Video is about land degradation.

Narration: The data for this video came from the UN's report "Livestock's Long Shadow" unless stated other wise, 

Reference: "Livestock's Long Shadow" from the UN, page 29 to 30.

Reference:
Per wikipedia: total earth surface=510, water 361, land 149 in millions of sq. km.

Narration: According to Wikipedia, the Surface area of the earth: 510 million sq km. Water is 361 and land is 149 square km.

Narration: According to Wikipedia, arable land 19 million sq km, Pasture is 39, Forest is 48. And urban is 2 million sq km.

Reference, Wikipedia: Land: arable land is13% (19 km sq), pasture 26% (39), forest 32% (48), urban 1.5% (2).

Narration: 10.9 million sq km is degraded by water, 5.5 by wind, 2.4 by chemical, and 0.8 is physical.


Advanced Image Search: https://www.google.com/advanced_image_searchI used this site to find images in Creative Commons.

Here's how I attributed works:
NAME_OF_WORK=
AUTHOR_NAME=
AUTHOR_EMAIL=
URL_OF_WORK=
FILE_NAME=
UPLOAD_DATE=
LICENSE=under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0. Full terms at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0.

Photos I used:
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Houghall Farm - Severe & Catastrophic Erosion.
Narration: Water does the most damage.
Degraded by Water
NAME_OF_WORK=Houghall Farm, Severe & Catastrophic Erosion
AUTHOR_NAME=Trevor Littlewood
AUTHOR_EMAIL=http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/39198
URL_OF_WORK=http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/41/56/1415690_9cd09683.jpg
LICENSE=under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0.
Full terms at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0.


File:Dust-storm-Texas-1935.png
Narration: Wind strips the topsoil.
Degraded by Wind
NAME_OF_WORK=Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas. Dust Bowl surveying in Texas
AUTHOR_NAME=NOAA George E. Marsh Album
AUTHOR_EMAIL=coastsurveycommunications@noaa.gov
URL_OF_WORK=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Dust-storm-Texas-1935.png
LICENSE=under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0.
Full terms at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0.


 Polluted stream.
Narration: Chemical pollution is expensive to repair.
Degraded by Chemicals
NAME_OF_WORK=red water pollution
AUTHOR_NAME=Auckland Council,Auckland,Australia
AUTHOR_EMAIL=http://aucklandcouncil.custhelp.com/app/ask
URL_OF_WORK=http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/environmentwaste/pollution/Pages/home.aspx
LICENSE=under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0.
Full terms at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0.



Narration: Mining operations cause physical degradation.
Physical Degradation
Strip coal mining By Stephen Codrington, CC BY 2.5
NAME_OF_WORK=Strip coal mining
AUTHOR_NAME=Stephen Codrington
AUTHOR_EMAIL=
URL_OF_WORK=https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=221253
FILE_NAME=Strip coal mining.jpg
UPLOAD_DATE=12 July 2005
LICENSE=under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5. Full terms at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/



"Stop the Koch Brothers" by Free Press/ Free Press Action Fund licensed under CC 2.0

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