“Democracy requires your courage, and tyranny requires good people doing nothing … and it fails when ordinary people refuse to cooperate and they say, #NoKings and mean it.”
$40 billion could modernize water systems in every lead-poisoned town in the US and bring high-speed internet to rural America, but instead it's going towards bailing out Argentina
There has not been any kind of progress for a long time in Europe. Germany, praised for its “superb engineering” has almost no governmental institutions with even an email address, where they are communicating via letters per post. There exists almost NO significant investment to anything.
China ≠ just coal plants and solar exports. The deeper shift: electrifying everything it can. Strategic, because China relies on imported fossil fuels. Coal is still king in the power mix—for now. But the balance is changing year by year.
