Killing a Parasite, Part 2 — How to Implement Student Debt Cancellation
The other side of student debt: Salaries of some private college presidents according to the Chronicle of Higher Education (source). These numbers are deceptive.
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Killing a Parasite — Canceling Student Debt, Part 1
For families under age 35, growth of student debt outstrips by far the growth of any other debt source, including mortgage and credit card debt (source).by Gaius PubliusIn America today, 44 million people collectively carry $1.4 trillion in student debt.
"The Death Merchant of the World," An Exercise in Cognitive Dissonance
It's well, well worth watching all of this exchange between Laura Ingraham and former CIA director James Woolsey. Woolsey acknowledges that the US has meddled in other countries' elections in the past and is doing so now, and both he and Ingraham find this laudable and funny. pic.twitter.com/TR3X7VM7Np— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) February 17, 2018
Cape Town Not Alone: The Eleven World Cities Most Likely to Run Out of Drinking Water
As a result of a 20th-century project to drain nearby swamps, water from the Atlantic Ocean began seeping in to the Biscayne Aquifer, Miami's main source of freshwater. Infographic credit: YouTube (source)by Gaius PubliusOne last follow-up to the Cape Town water crisis story.
Obama Energy Secretary Named to Board of Utility Giant
A two-party race to the bottom (source)by Gaius PubliusAs one commenter noted after reading this news, "Well, that just says it all." My inner reply: Services rendered; services paid.
Electricity from Plants — An Off-the-Grid Way of Lighting Your Room, a Street, a Park
Prometheus, bringer of fire, was punished for the crime of rendering less the sum of human wretchedness (Byron). Can we replace his gift with another? Or will we let the fire we burn, burn us?by Gaius PubliusIn the beginning, before we emerged into civilization, we were given fire as a source of energy — all we had to do was light it.
More on the Cape Town, South Africa, Water Crisis
What water rationing looks like, minus the anger (source).by Gaius PubliusEarlier we wrote about the extreme water shortage in Cape Town, South Africa.
In April 2018 Cape Town, South Africa, Could Become the First Major City to Run Entirely Out of Water
Roadside sign in Cape Town, South Africa, from February 2017 (source)by Gaius PubliusIn Cape Town, South Africa, they're calling it the day the water taps could be turned off. They're also calling it, not an impending crisis, but a "deep deep deep" crisis now. It's also a vision, perhaps, of the future of California and the American Southwest.
Do Mainstream Democrats Really Want to Eliminate Carbon Emissions and Fossil Fuel Use?
Rep. Joe Kennedy III gives the official Democratic Party response to Trump's State of the Union address (source). Can he see global warming from his house? Unlike the rest of us, apparently not.by Gaius Publius“We can’t have an energy strategy for the last century that traps us in the past.
2017 Breaks Climate Records Despite No "El Niño Boost"
"Fig. 1. (a) Global surface temperatures relative to 1880-1920 based on GISTEMP data, which employs GHCN.v3 for meteorological stations, NOAA ERSST.v5 for sea surface temperature, and Antarctic research station data[1]." Source: "Global Temperature in 2018" by James Hansen.
