Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social

Good question

As ranked choice voting gains momentum, parties in power push back https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082123_ranked_choice_voting/as-ranked-choice-voting-gains-momentum-parties-power-push-back/
Ranked choice voting has become increasingly popular over the past decade, with 13 million American voters in 51 jurisdictions now using the system in which voters rank candidates based on preference - but the challenge to the status quo has led to opposition from people in power.
#Tucson #Arizona

Just pulled my second skin bandage off and OOOOOOOOOOOUCH #tattoo

My 54th birthday celebrations have included:
– A long breakfast
– A nap after that
– Hearing some marvellous, atmospheric #funk / #jazz drifting into my sleep from the playlist I left running on shuffle… and not finding the song afterwards from the list. So was it an invention of my dream or a mutation of some tune on the playlist?

Annyhoo, I guess that was my birthday gift. Thank you, brain. Kinda defines a lot of stuff in my life.

Legendary Iowa Caucus Pollster Puts DeSantis in the Ballgame, Despite Sizable Trump Lead: ‘Closer Than it May First Seem’ https://www.mediaite.com/news/legendary-iowa-caucus-pollster-puts-desantis-in-the-ballgame-despite-sizable-trump-lead-closer-than-it-may-first-seem/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

If we value religious pluralism, secularism is how we get it.

#atheism #secularism #activism #ChurchAndState #ChristianNationalism

https://www.atheistrev.com/2023/08/remaining-hopeful-in-face-of-christian.html

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar rips Trump and DeSantis for 'sending a racist message' to their supporters https://www.alternet.org/trump-desantis-2664194575/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

In a historic and wonderful decision, the people of Ecuador chose by referendum to stop the extraction of oil from their Amazonian region, one of the most biodiverse in the world.

Yay!
✊❤️‍🔥🎉

https://infotel.ca/newsitem/lt-ecuador-amazon-oil-referendum/cp575021927

#dumpdesantis #voteblue

"Unionize"
Spotted in Asheville, North Carolina

In the piece below, the author asks, "Why is the government putting big money behind dubious carbon capture projects that specifically benefit Big Oil and help delay climate action?"

Spoiler: It's capitalism.

You probably already knew that, but the article does a great job of explaining exactly why subsidizing carbon capture is such a disastrous policy choice, and why the Biden administration nevertheless is pouring billions of dollars into it...
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Record heat waves. Widespread fires. Devastating storms. The tragic toll of climate change is becoming more evident every day.

To avoid even more severe impacts in the future, we must quickly and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions — largely caused by fossil fuels. Fortunately, the tools we need to cut emissions through energy efficiency, renewable energy, and beyond are growing quickly, becoming better and more affordable over time.

We will also need some “carbon removal” in the future — where we use nature (with trees or soils) or industrial processes to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, sequester it, and keep it from adding to our climate woes.

In the last few years, more attention has focused on industrial methods, because they can bury carbon in permanent, geologic reservoirs, unlike trees and soils that can burn down or be plowed up. In principle, this makes sense. But in practice, industrial carbon removal is wildly expensive, far too energy and resource intensive, and only removes pathetically small amounts of carbon. It’s nowhere near being a viable solution to climate change.

For the foreseeable future, cutting emissions is the most feasible means of addressing climate change. And whatever carbon removal we might eventually develop should only be used to address the final, hard-to-abate emissions left after fossil fuels are phased out. Most of all, carbon removal should *never* be used as a substitute for cutting emissions, or to help delay phasing out fossil fuels.

So why is the federal government doing exactly the opposite — putting big money behind dubious carbon capture projects, in ways that specifically benefit Big Oil and help delay climate action?
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://globalecoguy.org/stop-giving-big-oil-a-carbon-fig-leaf-a6f49a40851b

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CO2 #Emissions #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual