“Making broad racial generalizations, and stripping minorities of agency, does not lead to racial progress — it does the precise opposite,”argued @Ravarora1 last summer.
Afterwards “I lost friends, former classmates, colleagues, and social connections.”
“The handful of young moderates in my social circle who support my work messaged me in private, saying they respected my views but were unable to publicly support or share them on social media”
“The editor of my local newspaper (who happens to be white), started taking to social media to accuse me of downplaying racism in our society and spreading misinformation…& described my views as “alt-right” (frequently used to describe white nationalism).”
“62 percent of sampled college students believe the climate on their campus prevents them from sharing their views on social and political issues, mostly because they fear backlash from professors and other students.”
Being attacked by the woke mob shows you who your real friends are: “the majority were ‘good but useless.’ … they have too much to lose.”
Over the last decade, energy experts repeatedly assured policymakers around the world that increasing the use of renewables, while shutting down nuclear plants, would make energy supplies more secure, while lowering prices.
But those reassurances have come into question as gas prices have spiked, resulting in street protests & contributing to inflation
“The sudden slowdown in wind electricity production off the coast of the U.K. in recent weeks whipsawed through regional energy markets” — @WSJ
Media pundits & political leaders should have roundly condemned yesterday's assault by a white woman wearing a gorilla mask on black California gubernatorial front-runner @larryelder. Instead they downplayed it. The double standard is appalling.
Imagine for a moment that a white woman wearing a gorilla mask threw an egg at the first black American with a serious chance of becoming governor of California as he visited homeless encampments with black and Latino community leaders.
Imagine that, seconds later, both the gorilla-masked woman and a white man punched the candidate’s security guard. And imagine that somebody fired a pellet gun into the crowd.
When people die from floods, blackouts, and fires because you failed to upgrade sewers & evacuate; maintain & weatherize power plants; and manage forests: just blame climate change
They said climate change was an “inconvenient truth” but it‘s become quite convenient
“Anger seemed particularly palpable in Queens, where 12 people perished as water gushed into subterranean spaces, leaving residents to drown in their own homes. Many of those basement apartments were illegal, according to the city’s Department of Buildings.”
For many decades it has been big news for black Americans to be the “first” of anything, and for good reason. The history of white supremacy has meant that black achievement is something we all should celebrate.
We spent a decade discussing our first black president, before & after the election of Obama. Cities still celebrate the first black mayors, police chiefs, and governors. Why then aren’t we talking about the possibility of the first black governor of California, Larry Elder?
The cost of disasters overall is rising, but that rising cost is explained by rising wealth. When you “normalize” the data by accounting for economic growth, as IPCC & every other *scientific* body does, the cost of floods and other disasters to are flat or declining.
Activist scientists and reporters sometimes seek to trick people into believing there is a trend of rising costs by cherry-picking a very short period of time, like the last few decades, even when there is data going back twice as long. This has been done on floods in the US.