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Discussion over why its far better for the environment to pipe water from Tasmania to Melbourne than building the Wonthaggi desalination plant

  Guest post by David Middleton In order to search for the 3% Renewable Energy ‘Tipping Point’, we must ascertain a definition of the phrase… Definition of tipping point : the critical point in a situation,...

Day 159: We will not let them take health care away from millions! We can not let the republicans take health care away from millions to pay for dramatic tax cuts for rich people who could give fuck all about the rest of...

Day 158: Republican: Someone who uses the government to help them up the ladder of life, only to burn the ladder down once they are on top Seriously what is it about all these republicans in office, all of whom have benefited...

Donald Trump's campaign slogan "Make America Great Again" has become infamous - as it casually writes off the other 7.17 billion or so people that share the planet with America. But recently elected French president Emmanuel...

Around two months ago the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under President Donald Trump took down climate change information that had been on their website...

Day 157: If you let the republicans get away with taking health care from people, they will only become more brazen: Taking away someones supply of oxygen is suffocating them, taking away someones food is starving them, taking...

Day 156: Ugh: It’s hot, Trump is an idiot, and here is the news Further Reading: Trump and Pence’s $7 million bribe to Carrier officially fails, ends in layoffs Sally Yates: Making America scared again won’t...

Day 155: Fuck the republicans: We Will Throw This Health Care Bill in the Garbage Mr. President, I have some bad news for you. This pathetic health care bill is not getting through the Senate. We will throw this in the garbage...

Day 154: The inevitable specter of our dark future looms closer: But that doesn’t mean we can’t fight!  Fight and win!  Remember, we demand a better future, and our politicians had better head that demand or...

Sweden just took a huge step to become even greener than they already are. Their parliament just passed a law - 254 to 41 votes - to slash carbon emissions all the way down to zero by 2045. The move makes them the first country...

Although 97 percent of scientists agree that climate change is a real threat, the Trump administration maintains that global warming is a “hoax” - and it's gutting the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...

Day 153: There will be days like this: It was always unlikely that Ossof was going to win in Georgia, its been a solidly red district for 50 years, and I thought his message could have been more progressive...

Guest post by David Middleton This morning, I received another email from the American Association for the Advancement of Science… We cannot overstate this: Under the current administration, the future of scientific...

Day 152: Jesus Christ Trump Is A Horrible Person: Really, the rich are not like the rest of us.  They start to lose touch with what really matters, and start to think of everyone else as “less than.”  It’s...

South Korea currently obtains around 30 percent of its energy from nuclear power, but with the election of a new president the country seems ready to shift away from that energy source to something a bit safer...