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"Today President Joe Biden used the anniversary of the Endangered Species Act to reclaim the spirit of the era in which it was written, urging Americans to protect ecosystems and biodiversity, “honor all the progress we have made toward protecting endangered species,” and to “come together to conserve our planet.” "

And, the other guy said he wants to "DRILL, DRILL, DRILL".

Some contrast, huh?

I would like to see President Biden put solar panels back on the White House roof, or wherever they can be placed.

“Rachel Carson was right.” Pesticides are dangerous. We’ve gone back to using formerly banned pesticides because —duh, who knew?— weeds are becoming immune. Plus glyphosate has never been banned in the US. “New research from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health shows that childhood exposure to the world’s most widely used weed killer, glyphosate, is linked to liver inflammation a…

My only brother had lifelong exposure to glyphosate. At age 70, he has myelodysplastic syndrome (precursor to Myeloid leukemia). True, true and unrelated? Maybe, but I doubt it.

Here's a thought; if CO2 levels in the air rise far enough, we'll be less and less able to exhale CO2. The human race will become drowsy, forgetful, stupid and then obtunded. We'll all be gone within weeks and the world can then revert back to something more compatible with life.

JS,

The fraction of CO2 in the atmosphere is only 0.04% or so. Asphyxiation isn't a threat. CO2 is, indeed, increasing rapidly and in my formerly super snowy town in the North East, we have had essentially ZERO snow so far this year and our temperature on Christmas was 53F. About 17F above normal.

A little bit of CO2 goes a LOOONG way toward warming the earth. It really traps heat well.

Regarding the extinction of humans though, what normally happens to dominant species in closed systems is starva…

All good points Mike.

The administration is pouring tens of millions into capping abandoned oil and natural gas wells which is already reducing the amount of methane in the atmosphere.

So often a fly by night oil company, which are often funded by the majors, run the oil or gas wells until they are dry and then they declare bankruptcy and walk away. There are over 120,000 documented orphan wells in the US

edf.org/orphanwellmap

The infrastructure bill has funding to cap some of these wells. Another …

We should stop buying and eating so much meat. Buy an electric car and a bicycle. Instal solar on your house. Vote Dem. Life insurance policy choice

wired.com/story/beef-co…

It seems the younger generation isn't eating as much beef and the beef industry is panicking.

That is encouraging. By "meat industry" we should be talking about the meat packing companies that are monopolies. They control slaughter, packaging, logistics, and distribution. They are the ones profiting at the expense of ranchers and farmers ( who by the way are top three professions for bankruptcy and suicide in our country. A lot of oil and methane could be sequestered if we ate more vegetables and fish instead of beef, pork, and chicken.