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Fosopaganda is fossil fuel propoganda. We live in a world soaked in fossil fuels. In a climate disaster waiting to happen fosopaganda is everywere. Our dominant media is the primary outlet.

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Representation matters
Environmental destruction is the basis of the economy. It makes white people rich. It's only possible because of land theft and labor degradation. Large environmental organizations have enabled the situation with their complacency in the face of human rights violations. Change happens by representing impacted communities on boards and in government. Photo by Gladwyn. Cucumber beetle on wild California buttercups.
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Can government be trusted to keep the public safe from infectious agents?
California buckeye, spring emergent, found near hillside streams. Industry is looking to locate infectious manufacturing near populated areas along the edge of San Francisco Bay. The public is asked to trust politicians to regulate them to safeguard public health. Large environmental organizations are backing industry.
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Repair the world with public microgrids, an informed public, and public participation
Fires and floods surround us. Denial and conspiracy theories have stalled policy. Violent white supremacists host a shooting every day. We can repair the hurt in the world with public microgrids, an informed public, and public participation instead of succumbing to doom and gloom.
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Nuclear, a solution to nothing!
Once the province of narcissistic megalomania, nuclear remains beloved from China to North Korea.
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Can We Get to 1.5 Degrees C of Warming with Electric Vehicles?
The investment horizon for EVs stretches well into 2080, which is fine with automakers and politicians from oil producing regions. Meanwhile, staying below 2 deg C (3.7 degrees F), the point of no return, is becoming increasingly impossible. The IPCC shows we are hurtling towards 3 degree C of warming by 2050, making wildfires, storms, drought, extreme heat waves, and floods exponentially worse and risking life on Earth.
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Voting: The time is now for Biden to step up
Voting needs to be fair, free, and accessible to all Americans. We can't afford to allow restricted voting to continue a racist America of minority governance. The loser of the popular vote in 2016 spread a pandemic and attempted a coup. His sycophants want to enshrine repression.
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The Divestment Campaign: Stop the Fossil Fuels Money Pipeline
Divestment—the selling of stock and bond holdings in fossil fuel companies--is a powerful action that we an take right now to combat climate change   
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The Open Secret of the Dirty Economy
It is impossible to get away from the fossil fuels.
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Restoring Nature
We explore nature based solutions to environmental crises. Restoring Nature is a group that reads books which look at the possibility of overcoming the current destruction to our ecosystems. The discussion looks at how the material in the book can help our understanding and response to environmental issues in the Loma Prieta Chapter.
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Broadband For All Work Plan

A work plan for BayCATs to pass legislation for CBN in San Mateo County.

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Palo Alto’s Waste Ordinances by Jake Kim

We can successfully divert our waste from landfills and consume sustainable alternatives to plastic products.

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Bioswales by Mark Menz

Bioswales are a creative alternative to standard sewage piping during the aftermath of storms. These natural and innovative funnel and filter systems for stormwater treatment push for a community to be more optimized than it could have been before.

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Bike Lanes by Victoria Lin

Bike lanes benefit society. If we are strategical about where we place them and follow through with building them, it will be a step towards an effective eco-friendly movement.

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Encouraging Environmentally-Friendly Behavior

I have been thinking about the problem of how to incentivize people to behave in an environmentally-friendly way.

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Climate Change, Fish Migration, and Political Conflict

As our planet heats up, fish are migrating north, spurring conflict among nations.

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Local Climate Actions Are Critical

Actions to combat climate change need to focus much more on local actions.

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Car Companies: The Bad and the Good

Toyota, GM, Subaru, Chrysler , Nissan, Hyundai, Mazda, and Kia have sided with the Trump administration in its attack on California’s much stricter carbon emissions standards.

Election Central
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Why Universal Basic Income Will Not Work

Universal Basic Income, or UBI, is an idea that has been promoted by “progressive” capitalists who are not interested in fundamental structural changes.  Instead, they advocate glitzy band aids slapped on gushing wounds, believing that such measures would alleviate serious problems like the extreme income inequality that plagues many developed countries.

Must Reads
Obstacles to Medicare for All

The for-profit private healthcare insurance companies,  hospitals,  and big pharmaceutical will fight Medicare-for-All to the bitter end.  They have everything to lose and nothing to gain.

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Immigration 101: History of Immigration Law and Current Situation

First, a few key historical facts about Immigration in the U.S. Until 1965, American immigration law has always been racist, starting with the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act

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Green New Deal 101

The idea of a “Green New Deal” has been germinating for a little over 20 years  in the U.S. and U.K.  The name is inspired by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930s when his administration  created a whole host of new programs and social safety legislation to lift America out of the Depression. 

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Breaking Up Big Tech by Elizabeth Warren

Today’s big tech companies have too much power — too much power over our economy, our society, and our democracy. They’ve bulldozed competition, used our private information for profit, and tilted the playing field against everyone else.

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How Amazon Gobbles Up Small Businesses

The way Amazon competes and the power of its monopoly are seldom highlighted in the media. Elizabeth Warren mentions it frequently as the reason why breaking up big tech is important, because the “winner take all” !

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A Middle Class is Essential to Democracies

It's no secret that America's middle class is in decline. But while we focus on how that decline started (and who is to blame), we often forget to consider what happens if our middle class is wiped out entirely.

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Reasons to Worry About the Disappearing American Middle Class

Despite gains in national income over the past half-century, American households in the middle of the distribution have experienced very little income growth in recent decades.

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Automation is Not the Main Reason for Low Wages and Job Loss

In an opinion piece, Princeton economist Paul Krugman states that while many people assume that automation is the main reason for job loss and low wages, this is just not the case.

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Madeleine Albright: 21st Century Fascism

The rise of demagogues with autocratic tendencies--men who can rally certain segments of society using nativist, racist, and fake populist appeals--is an emerging trend today.

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Don’t Blame the Robots for Manufacturing Job Losses in U.S.

This piece by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) is based on studies comparing countries’ levels of automation and job loss. It concludes that while there is a relationship, it is definitely not the only reason. Why?

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Trickle Down Economics Does Not Work

The economic theory championed by conservatives that emerged during the Reagan era—that by cutting the tax rates of the rich/corporations would “trickle down” to everyone else through economic growth and job creation—has been proven to be INVALID.