You’re free to kill yourself in the privacy of your home but you do not have the right to do so on sidewalks & parks
If you do you should first be told to stop & if you don’t you should be arrested AND (not OR) offered drug treatment as an alternative to incarceration
Everyone should have a right to basic shelter. As for receiving housing, it should be contingent on abstinence & other steps in a person’s plan. Details here:
Because the homeless crisis is not about spending too little money on housing, it's about spending too much money incentivizing self-destructive behaviors
When we change the incentives we will change the behaviors:
Blackouts, higher energy prices, China-made "slavery" solar panels, foreign dependence, and conflicts-of-interest more than politics are behind the failure of the Democrats' climate legislation in Congress
In recent weeks, Democratic confidence in passing sweeping climate legislation has rapidly faded. “I don’t think the votes are there in a reconciliation bill for the climate infrastructure-type issues,” an insider told the Washington Post.
Nations (and states like California) that cannot for economic reasons meet their climate commitments simply change the target to farther off in time, while adding targets that sound more aggressive to journalists with little awareness of history.
I’m happy to confirm that all major Bay Area media are covering the protest, with commitments to appear from Supervisors @MattHaneySF@Ahsha_Safai schedules permitting with @LondonBreed & all other Supes warmly invited to attend & say a few words
Here's a detailed explanation of how and why @PeterGleick is a pseudoscientific Malthusian ideologue who grossly misrepresents the science to advance the claim that the world doesn't have enough resources for all humans to enjoy high standards of living
“People wonder how we made it through the heat wave of 2006. The answer is... We had San Onofre [nuclear plant] of 2,200 MW, and a number of other plants, totalling thousands of MW not there today,” said Calif. grid operator during 2020 blackouts.
“There was very little electricity from wind during the summer heatwave in California ... the same weather pattern, a stable high-pressure bubble, is the cause of heatwaves, since it brought very low wind for days on end along with very high temperatures”