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The big Galveston hurricane. Erik Larson (the Devil in the White City guy) wrote a book about it called Isaac's Storm. Pretty interesting read.
Lot of the houses survived the wind, but the storm surge lifted big rafts of debris that plowed across the island. I was in Biloxi for Katrina, and even though the building was more than tough enough to survive the wind you could hear shit banging around out in the darkness. I can't imagine what that would have been like in wooden buildings.
He was a pioneer in establishing what we know now as the NWS so you aren’t far off. One of the best books I’ve ever read is called <em>Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History</em> by Erik Larson(Devil in the White City) that reads like a firsthand account recreated with what’s known from the actual history.
It’s a relatively quick read and it really dives into interesting things like how poor communication(among other socio-political issues) between the US and Cuba prevented the news of the 1900 storm getting out in enough time to do much about it. The book was gifted to me when I lived in Houston, and interestingly enough also explains how Houston became the dominant port city as a latent effect of the 1900 storm’s effect on Galveston and any future it may have had as the big-dog port city.
Pressed send too soon. Do yourself a favor and read about this storm in Isaacs Storm by Erik Larson. This storm and this man are why we now have a national weather service.
https://www.amazon.com/Isaacs-Storm-Deadliest-Hurricane-History/dp/0375708278
Have you read Isaac’s Storm by Peter Larson*? It’s about the 1900 Hurricane and is written by the same guy who wrote The Devil in the White City that’s being made into a movie. It’s a fantastic read and really gave me perspective on the region after moving to Houston years back. I highly recommend it if you haven’t already.
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The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells perhaps offers some reasons for us to care. I'm about 2/3 of the way through listening to it on audio. It's blunt and harsh and not an easy listen/read in some places. But people need to hear it in that form.
https://www.amazon.ca/Apocalypse-Never-Environmental-Alarmism-Hurts/dp/0063001691
Very good book and excellent reviews, I'll be starting it tomorrow... He debunks the whole myth of the world will end and even exposes the eugenics as the culprits in all this bullshit.
Spread the truth and educate yourselves on this subject, they are constantly spreading disinformation on this subject in order to further advance their goals of fascism and tyranny... Fascism going forward will come not only from the "War On Virus" hoax but also the climate change hoax.
Despite decades of news media attention, many remain ignorant of basic facts. Carbon emissions peaked and have been declining in most developed nations for over a decade. Deaths from extreme weather, even in poor nations, declined 80 percent over the last four decades. And the risk of Earth warming to very high temperatures is increasingly unlikely thanks to slowing population growth and abundant natural gas.
Curiously, the people who are the most alarmist about the problems also tend to oppose the obvious solutions.
What’s really behind the rise of apocalyptic environmentalism? There are powerful financial interests. There are desires for status and power. But most of all there is a desire among supposedly secular people for transcendence. This spiritual impulse can be natural and healthy. But in preaching fear without love, and guilt without redemption, the new religion is failing to satisfy our deepest psychological and existential needs.
I'm an atheist and I don't believe in magic (to put it lightly). John Michael Greer isn't your usual zany anti-science nut. His books are actually quite good, and he takes a pretty rational approach to analyzing things. Check out Dark Age America for one example.
More death. Period. End of story.
The nuclear bomb won WW2. I know that there are people who disagree, but most boots on the ground agree that the invasion of Japan would've been a long brutal affair with millions more dead. And, without nuclear deterrence, the US may have gone to war against the USSR because conventional wars seem far less of a losing proposition than mutually assured destruction and a potential extinction levelevent.
Nuclear energy, is actually the safest and cleanest energy production method we have. (I highly recommend you check out: this book by Michael Shallenberger for a more thorough treatise on the benefits of nuclear power. In his book, he outlines how oil, gas, and coal are responsible for a LOT of pollution and the shortening of the lifespans of many people due to air pollution-related illnesses. In a world without nuclear power, we move from energy-dense matter-poor energy production techniques to more matter-dense materials. These materials create pollution and are more prone to environmental catastrophes like oil spills, fires, etc.
Now, you may be saying "yeah, but what about wind and solar?" Wind and solar are causing extinction issues in birds and bats, and are woefully inadequate at this time to solve our energy problems. Developing nations are actively lobbying against renewables like wind and solar because they are so unreliable.
So, in summary: Nuclear weapons make the cost of war heavier than conventional warfare. A world without nuclear weapons sees more war in the 20th century and more war-related death. Nuclear energy provides clean electricity and a world without it becomes far more polluted, leading to more deaths and shorter lives.
I'm a climate change natalist - I recognize that civilization is over and humanity might be too. Our grandkids won't have electricity and may not have agriculture. Our great-gradkids may not have enough oxygen. Anyways given the coming crash I had a kid that I'm raising to make it through the bottleneck with good wholesome values intact. I'm raising her competent and co-operative.
If you're feeling down about working retail you should read this book. It's about the expected results of each degree of climate warming. It's 10 years old. The changes predicted here are actually mild compared to the changes we've seen, suggesting that we may be on track for a 4° warmer world (mass extinction, complete desertion of the mid-latitudes, the amazon first burning then drying to a desert, human fight toward the poles, endemic drought throughout asia, most crop-land blowing away as dust). Capitalism can't survive that!!
We’ve not blasted past the point of no return. Don’t get me wrong...We shouldn’t be complacent or deny that climate change exists, but the fear/crisis stories sell.
Here’s a book based on NATO scientific reports complied by an economist explaining the reality of the situation and how best to approach the problem globally
False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541647467
Great question. I think the answer to your question depends on how smart policy the country crafts.
I believe UBI is the correct answer. We're in the midst of technological revolution and faing the climate change. As new book Bill Gates published, we have to shift from production based economy to environmentally sustainable one. UBI is powerful key to this transition because it can allow people to do what GDP doesn't count.
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>Exactly this. I'm surprised more headlines aren't proclaiming what amazing news this is for the planet.
Some related bestsellers that just released this month False Alarm and Apocalypse Never
It will be interesting to see how governments handle the pension crisis. Liberal states overspent and tried to leverage their pension funds. Man that's a ticking time bomb and all those states will have to massively increase taxes in the upcoming months to stay afloat, much less pay pensions.
Actually, everyone should read this, https://www.amazon.com/Uninhabitable-Earth-Life-After-Warming/dp/0525576703. In it, the author refers to a study which showed that when cattle were fed a diet of seaweed the amount of methane they produce is reduced by a large percentage. I won't quote a number, but it was high enough to be able to keep eating meat.
Start with How to Avoid a Climate Disaster.
When you're finished with that, there are plenty of great books out there on how to stop being lazy and do your own research. I'd recommend reading one of those, next.
The science of climate change isn't settled at all (at least not how it is advertised by the corporate media and leftist hippies in general). See, e.g., Lomborg 2020 and Koonin 2021.
I have so many thoughts after watching this video.
On climate, pollution, etc.., Smith is repeating basically the same lines that Kenney did. Positive about Alberta energy vs other (dictatorial, more rights abusing) producers and sharing a fairly balanced view of the future of energy and petrochemical products while acknowledging our responsibility to reduce emissions and limit climate effects. She even invokes Shellenberger and (like Shellenberger) talks about lifting people in the developing world out of poverty using Alberta's LNG, etc.
However, these well reasoned opinions are literally opposite of Conserative party policy provincially and federally. Climate change denial is official party policy. Reducing Canada's foreign aid to nations with desperate poverty is party policy.
The fact that she still blames inflation on Trudeau is just embarrassing politicking. It's world-wide and Canada actually faces far less inflation than many other nations. Later in the interview she complains about "legacy" media fishing for soundbites, but it doesn't stop her from using meaningless talking points with no grounding in reality.
Alberta has, under former conservative governments, had among the greatest healthcare and education systems in the world. Yet she describes how those governments did it wrong and proposes to absolutely decimate what is left of those systems to install a wild-west privatized system of service delivery that has never worked ever any other place o the planet.
The last comment I have is that, throughout the interview, it appears that Smith is fully under the sway of the utterly debunked "efficient market hypothesis".
Edit: I'm not suggesting Alberta has a perfect rights record, so I added the more above. We don't have kill squads.
Je te suggère de lire ceci Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
You should consider including arguments for both sides. There’s a book called unsettled that covers this topic really well. I’m not going to claim to summarize this or that I agree fully with him. But I definitely try to seek as many perspectives as possible especially with something as difficult as climate change. It’s a great read that even covers how governments go about making decisions related to this topic.
https://www.amazon.com/Unsettled-Climate-Science-Doesnt-Matters/dp/1950665798
"The Guardian" is a warped eco-Marxist modern media manipulation operation. I've read some of the actual IPCC report...the one that has very specific scenarios for future models. The one that readily admits, the worst case scenario is extremely unlikely.
Steve Koonin wrote a brilliant synopsis of the IPCC reports. This is not a "denial" of anthropogenic climate change, it is a realistic examination of what is actually going on vs the hysteria being stirred up by "The Guardian".
Really great non-fiction read on this and how one man screwed over a whole lotta people by denying what the Cuban meteorological office kept telling him was going to happen: Isaac's Storm.
I do. I read this book about a year ago https://www.amazon.com/Unsettled-Climate-Science-Doesnt-Matters/dp/1950665798
I also read Bill Gates book. https://www.amazon.com/How-Avoid-Climate-Disaster-Breakthroughs/dp/059321577X
Both are pretty convincing and well sourced. TLDR: Climate change is a real problem that needs facing. It is not "the end of the world" and we have valid strategies to combat it without destroying economies. Nuclear power is the bridge to more sustainable energy.
Bien d'accord. Je termine Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All en ce moment et l'auteur illustre ce point de manière très détaillée.
I read this book and found it pretty convincing. You might be interested, but it doesnt sound like you have an open mind on the topic.
https://www.amazon.com/Unsettled-Climate-Science-Doesnt-Matters/dp/1950665798
I also read Bill Gates book, who has a much more level headed approach than the mainstream climate movement.
TLDR: Climate change is real and it is is a problem. It is dramatically overstated, largely due to the belief that unless people act like its the end of the world (it's not) then no one will do anything about it. Lying to get the behavior you want is not how you influence change.
> philanthropic leaders
The world's biggest and best-known "philanthropist", Billy Gates, would be shocked by this! He's pulling out all stops and giving all his money away to make the world a safer, more comfortable place for everyone. He's even written a book to help us all: 'How to Avoid a Climate Disaster' which he's ~~giving away for free~~ selling for only $14.79...
https://www.amazon.com/How-Avoid-Climate-Disaster-Breakthroughs/dp/059321577X
Since climate change seems to your religion, I suggest you read
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
I'm about a fifth of the way through after having watched a podcast with the author, and the book might give you a little perspective.
I don’t have time to reply in detail right now but I highly recommend you read his book. Climate change is one of the most important issue facing humanity but it is not the only important issue.
Lots of the policies being pursued in the aim of solving climate change are misguided and often counterproductive.
The solutions that have the best prospects of being effective are also counterintuitive like allowing underdeveloped nations to generate more CO2 now because it will lead to less in the future.
Pour tout les climato-anxieux, je vous suggère fortement ce livre:
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
L'auteur a participé à l'écriture d'une version précédente de ce qui est devenu le "Green New Deal" aujourd'hui. Je l'ai vu sur un podcast et je n'ai pas encore terminé son livre, mais à date c'est très informatif.
You're being misled, and you're doubling down on your ignorance. Literally the worst kind of person in this debate.
https://www.amazon.com/Unsettled-Climate-Science-Doesnt-Matters/dp/1950665798
Good to hear, yea I really liked it as well.
If you ever get the chance, I would recommend Isaac's Storm which tells the story of the 1900 Galveston Hurricane which effectively wiped the city off the face of the map.
It’s got that same gripping account storytelling of the Circus fire.