"The problem being that many do NOT have plenty."

"Yes, society has never erupted into chaos over wealth inequality. The French Revolution was nothing but a psychological disorder."

""Broadly speaking, people do not want to live in those communities, and will pay more to avoid living in them. Cars and the lifestyle they enable were not forced down peoples' throats, people like them."

"'The roots of the problem,' write Szalavitz,'appear to reach deeper than [access to public health care]. Indeed, they may go back to the dominance hierarchies of our primate ancestors.' "

A better question would be "how does oil exploitation cause a region to become basically permanently uninhabitable".

"And that's because we built them that way. We can build walkable communities and link them. It's been done for thousands and thousands of years."

I'm not complaining primarily about costs of deploying "green tech", though some of it is indeed counterproductive (generally this can be determined by looking at the size of the federal subsidies required).

Pretty much all of the studies indicate no link. Also, high-tension lines are not giving anyone cancer, nor killing the bees, nor -insert conspiracy claptrap here- .

You seem to be a team-joiner. That really messes with one's ability to reason, but at least you have a lot of friends.

Scientists have no power. They can't do much on their own, and being right does not change that.

Utterly impractical. Human nature so abhors this solution that it's obviously unworkable.

"We need an engineering solution to climate change"

"Seriously, did you have to take my post so painfully literally? "

The various churches preserved a lot of knowledge, too - they just tended to hoard it instead of teaching it widely.

You apparently fail to grasp the Constitutional amendment process. Congress can't amend the Constitution, they can only approve an amendment to be put to popular vote in the States, where it then needs to be approved by 38 of them. Good luck trying to bribe enough citizens of the US to vote for an amendment abrogating…

I generally love her work, but apparently she got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.

It might not be any good for that.

The better study would be "what percentage of all objects have fecal matter on them".

Low atmospheric pressure and high humidity characterize the windy conditions ahead of a hurricane. These are poor conditions for the spread of wildfires, and they more-or-less cancel out the wind as factors in the severity of the fire.

Perhaps the glass is very, very good?