Last year, I moved my site from Natural-Writes to Hanna writes. The following is from my latest blog post there.

Humans are the odd duck in the animal kingdom.

We evolved to have a combination of features that allowed us to prosper and thrive over time: being bipedal, having opposable thumbs, and of course our brain which expanded energy towards developing our reasoning and cognitive ability. However, when we dive into the anatomy of man we begin to see the trade offs as well as the detrimental attributes we accumulated.

I was greatly amused by the headline of this piece: "‘Silver bullet’ to suck CO2 from air and halt climate change ruled out."

Here's the explanation:

Cross-posted from Real Economics.

In Colorado, an electric utility's request for proposals to build new generating capacity resulted in stunning evidence that renewables are now cheaper than fossil fuels--even with storage capacity included for when solar and wind are "down."

December 28, 2017. Cleveland is in a deep freeze. It seems to have come about a month early this winter. The weather service forecasts the cold spell to run for at least another week. I am driving through icy, slushy streets. But it's mostly sunny, though by the rays of a low-arching winter sun. I see one car that looks like it has just been washed. The rest have a road salt glaze.

Book review: Naomi Klein, No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need. Chicago: Haymarket, 2017.

The climate disasters are coming, and there probably won't be a lot of traction for the next four years because the Democrats all got behind Clinton (who wasn't going to do anything besides propose an overelaborated and useless sop to the fossil fuel companies anyway).

This is the picture of the capitalist system given us in Paul Street's most recent salvo, Capitalism: The Nightmare. I'd recommend a read before going further.

Everyone's idea of "what to do" involves presuppositions that "Omigod we've got so much to lose!" while at the same time what they're doing (or not doing) will cause them to lose what it is they most fear losing.

Cruise Ship comes up the channel to Port of Galveston, two weeks before the Port closed for Hurricane Harvey and stranded 15-20,000 people out to sea. Still not reopened as of this afternoon.