Well, sort of. But down in San Diego, the sky that provides most of your water is rather far away.
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I don't disagree and I ultimately think the sun and earth have much stronger control over the climate than we do. I think we've done a tremendous job in certain cases with improving water quality. Maybe a more efficient approach is to improve things on a case by case basis, i.e. scars here and there on the earth instead of trying to implement global policies that are likely to fail for a variety of reasons.
Yes, but some of us depend on long canals to get the sky water into our taps and toilets. Not a lot of that in Illinois.
I remember w standing in what looked like a Texas roadside ditch the first time he brought up switchgrass. I got the impression it was essentially a free weed, sort of like the blackberries that grow alongside the roads in Oregon.
Desert Hound
DA
California needs to up its water storage. The last major water projects in the state were in the 60s. Since that time the population has more than doubled.
They oversell electric, but it is still a big win.
A small electric car gets about 4 miles per kilowatt hour. A comparable size gasoline car with similar acceleration would get about 30 mpg.
Which means you have to ask whether 15 kilowatt hours are worse then two gallons of gasoline.
The electricity costs you 12.75 pounds of CO2. (using national average of .85 lbs per kwh)
The gas costs you 37.48 pounds of CO2. (average of 18.74 lbs per gallon)
Over the 180,000 mile life of the car, that saves you about 37 tons of CO2.
You still have to make the battery, which is more energy intensive than making a combustion engine. But you’re still saving around 30 tons of CO2 per car.
More, if you can switch to non-carbon power generation for your lithium refining.
"Whisky is for drinking, water is for fighting".
Had a property in Utah that I subdivided. Only well water for drinking and local ditch for irrigation. Let me just say, you learn about your neighbors. Fun times getting that approved. Best part is the most opposition came from those that just recently subdivided or built themselves.
"The difference between a developer and an environmentalist is a developer wants to build a house in the woods and an environmentalist already owns a house in the woods."
You also once recommended LA tear out much of its “green space” to build housing. Not very “climate friendly”.
Hüsker Dü
DA
You are projecting on me your preferred stereotype. We had checks and balances within the political system and amongst the parties themselves. The extremist back in the day were neutralized, not so much anymore. When Sarah Palin opened her mouth on a national stage (and began attracting believers) things started going sideways.
I agree with many, if not most, of what traditional conservatives ‘say’ they are about. The reality often doesn’t always resemble the talk. The “trump style Republicans” and their base aren’t preaching policy to disagree with they are pushing their aggrieved feelings.
Policy? What policy?
As the right pulls further away they look back thinking it’s an equal split. We now have American political pundits siding with Putin, think about that.
Green space? No. I recommended you allow dense development in places you already allow buildings. Quite climate friendly. And it would make that toy subway of yours look a little less silly.
Nope. You made a pretty clear reference to all of the golf courses. Dense development further reduces green space (ie Lawns and shrubbery).
Oh please...with every step you are showing your partisanship more clearly. I agree the right has moved (I'm no Trump fan). The left has moved as well from the days where Bill Clinton joined the railing against welfare moms and illegal immigrants. Then there's all the PC stuff and diversity stuff and Bernie Bro economics (where Bernie is even considered, among some on this forum, too tame in comparison to Reich, AOC and/or Elizabeth Warren). It's not just the right that's moved...the left very clearly has and I'd argue even more substantially (when they moved into outright COVID hysteria and punishing the kids).
The biggest difference is that the right used to take it and cloth themselves to be softer (e.g. "a thousand points of light", "compassionate conservativity", gentlemanly Mitt (who still got bashed as evil) and Mavericky McCain). With Trump, they voted for someone who wouldn't just let the left and media walk away with it (and at the same time claim that they were being "nonpartisan") without fighting back. That part is here to stay (but hopefully they can get someone saner than Trump).
Golf courses are the least environmental example of green space you could pick.
There is nothing environmental about pouring pesticides, herbicides, and water on 100 acres of grass for the benefit of a very small number of golfers. You have what, 72 people using it at a time? For 100+ acres that you killed with the pesticides?
Rip it out and put in 100 acres of sports fields. You’d serve more than ten times as many people.
Hüsker Dü
DA
Slick Willie wanted to get things done so he acquiesced to some of Newts demands. Hence the pact. The whole welfare queen fantasy that derived from Reagan was bs to scare white suburbanites into voting for tax breaks for the wealthy . . . like always.
Again, something is important to everyone, including a nice walk ruined. For you, it's traveling to club soccer games, tournaments, masks and having children. For someone else, it's golf. You can't do this by veto.
Grain of truth but your partisanship is showing again Mr Moderate.
Hüsker Dü
DA
Not moderate, lean left, would consider myself a conservative Democrat (that use to be a thing).
Here is an example of what I “disagree with” and where it is going: https://www.businessinsider.com/mtg-claims-biden-backing-ukraine-because-has-hunter-dirt-2022-1
So a Machin/Sinema supporter? I'd be shocked but somehow I just don't think so. I'd guess maybe a Moynihan D but even that's a stretch.
Your recommendation was to rip them out and build housing on them.
just like your recommendation to do away with HS sports because not everyone can make the team.
Desert Hound
DA
Pew does research on this.
They look at major political issues over the past couple of decades.
The rise of ideological uniformity has been much more pronounced among those who are the most politically active. Today, almost four-in-ten (38%) politically engaged Democrats are consistent liberals, up from just 8% in 1994. The change among Republicans since then appears less dramatic – 33% express consistently conservative views, up from 23% in the midst of the 1994 “Republican Revolution.”