. . .
S “Books on Cod and Salt discuss the profound impacts of the fish and the element on civilization. Someone should write a piece titled Coal and its pernicious consequences.”
T “A few books dig into Dirt. We have clean dirt but not clean coal. ‘Clean coal’ is an ironic, oxymoronic and alliterative phrase repeated often enough to fool many folks.”
S “And ‘Dirty coal’ is redundant.”
. . .
S “Mother Nature leads us into temptation. The stuff is not shiny like gold but does provide that warm inner glow and hot outer glow that we all covet.”
T “We must resist El Diablo Negro.”
. . .
T “Later this week, coal will be deposited in the shoes of the youngsters who have been naughty rather than nice. And may not have resisted temptation.”
S “Some folks leave switches in shoes to acknowledge unacceptable behavior.”
T “I really never needed candy.”
S “We need to jolt folks into realizing that electricity is not produced for free at a wall switch.”
T “We dig deposits out of the dirt and deposit the stuff in our power plants and then deposit the by-products around the Earth and in our lungs. The death cycle of coal.”
S “We need to get folks to switch their behavior.”
. . .
T “I installed compact fluorescent lights (cfls) which admittedly have a little mercury that must be disposed of properly. My reduced demand for coal reduces the mercury released when coal is burned to produce electricity.”
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S “A Carbon Surcharge and Dividend policy (CS&D) enlists the market mechanism to internalize the costs of carbon production and reduce its use without any other government regulation.”
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[See the article on plastics drowning the oceans at http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-gold-plastic-waste-oceans-20131104,0,1147461.story#axzz2jywwzvfA.]
[See the “e-ssays” at On Trading Off (May 9, 2011) and Energy “Manhattan Project”: The “Carbon Tax And Dividend” (March 25, 2013.]
Bumper stickers of the week:
The solution to pollution ain’t dilution.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis will be available in paper back in March.
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