6 Myths About Renewable Energy, Busted! Imagine a world free of oil accidents, coal pollution and nuclear waste. A world where we wouldn’t have to feel helpless in the face of climate change, because we did everything we could to prevent further warming. A world where energy was clean, safe and available for all. That world is within our reach now. The evidence is in: Renewable energy is viable, reliable, and ready to go – all that’s needed for a clean energy revolution. On this page we’ve grouped together some of the most common myths about renewable energy, explaining why they are just that – myths that don’t stand up to reality. But here’s the thing, although we’ve busted the myths here, we need you to make the myth busting go beyond this page. Please share it widely. Now, let’s get going! In recent years the costs of wind and solar energy have declined substantially.
. • Citigroup: The age of renewable energy is beginning. The Hidden Costs of Coal and Nuclear 1. 6. What is a smart grid? Download the Revolution. DROM. "That debt is neither inevitable nor ethical is one of the powerful assertions of Strike Debt, whose brilliant manual is both a practical handbook and a manifesto for a true debt jubilee: an economic rebirth in which the indebted are freed and financial institutions are reinvented. It's a stunning intersection of ferocity (against the debt industry) and compassion (for the people whose lives are broken by debt). In years to come, we may look back on it as a landmark in social transformation; right now it is both useful and exhilarating. " —Rebecca Solnit, author of A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster and Wanderlust: A History of Walking "The impact of the neoliberal assault on the U.S. population in the past generation has rightly been designated a 'failure by design.' This failure is sharply class-based-for the designers it has been a grand success, and a failure for most of the rest.
The same is true of debt. The Right to Save Seed | 5 minutes pour comprendre la “folle” histoire des semences. A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse | David Graeber. David Graeber [from The Baffler No. 22, 2013] What is a revolution? We used to think we knew. Revolutions were seizures of power by popular forces aiming to transform the very nature of the political, social, and economic system in the country in which the revolution took place, usually according to some visionary dream of a just society.
Nowadays, we live in an age when, if rebel armies do come sweeping into a city, or mass uprisings overthrow a dictator, it’s unlikely to have any such implications; when profound social transformation does occur—as with, say, the rise of feminism—it’s likely to take an entirely different form. It’s not that revolutionary dreams aren’t out there. At moments like this, it generally pays to go back to the history one already knows and ask: Were revolutions ever really what we thought them to be? A quarter of the American population is now engaged in “guard labor”—defending property, supervising work, or otherwise keeping their fellow Americans in line.
50 Astounding Facts About Rainforests (INFOGRAPHIC) Rainforests play a critical role in the maintenance of our planet's good health. Not only are they home to more than half of the world's species of flora and fauna, rainforests are also the source of about 40 percent of the planet's oxygen supply.
They also help to maintain the Earth's fresh water levels, as well as regulate temperatures and weather patterns. Sadly, despite being so rich, diverse and life-giving, humans continue to wreck these priceless habitats through deforestation. "Every second, a slice of rainforest the size of a football field is mowed down. That's 86,400 football fields of rainforest per day, or over 31 million football fields of rainforest each year," the Nature Conservancy writes.
According to the National Geographic, rainforests could vanish from the planet completely within the next century if current deforestation rates continue. Suggest a correction Contact Us Use this form to alert a HuffPost editor about a factual or typographical error in this story.