Catocala species
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Wisconsin, USA
2019-07-27 _F2A4557aaa
“From 2017 through 2019, the country averaged about 964,000 illnesses a month, with numbers rising in the midwinter flu season. From 2020 through last year, though, the monthly average was 55 percent higher — nearly 1.5 million people missing work each month. The difference? The coronavirus.”
“The quiet cost of covid: A million people missing work each month”
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It hasn’t made economic sense to use fossil fuels for decades.
It only makes sense to the special interests selling it. Your society incurs more in expenses than the cash benefits that accrue to the select few. When that select few doesn’t pay taxes and gets hands out the diseconomy of it gets very egregious.
And governments are trying to ignore the consequences by burdening the general public with the costs. But the costs don’t go away.
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“Snowpack is well above average and rainstorms are lashing California, but an extended drought and mismanagement means the Colorado River and Lakes Mead and Powell are still in trouble.”
“California and the Rockies are inundated with rain and snow. It’s still not enough to ward off the West’s catastrophic drought.
A single good year — if the rain and snow continues for months — may stave off water catastrophe, but it’s only temporary.”
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“California was in drought. Then it was underwater. Welcome to the new normal. Two seemingly contradictory things are expected to happen more frequently as the world continues to warm: There will be longer, more severe droughts — and there will be bigger storms that produce more precipitation.”
“California’s weather is what climate change looks like”
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“There’s no question anymore. This civilization is ending. It’s not up for debate. It’s not a question of hope vs. doom. It just is. I’m writing this for a simple reason. The sooner everyone accepts the end of this civilization, the better. Humans don’t have to go extinct, but the way we’re living has to change. The harder we fight, the more denial and delusional thinking we engage in, the worse we’re going to make it.”
“We're Living through The End of Civilization, and We Should Be Acting Like It
On the delusions of normal.”
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