Probably makes the guards lives easier if the kids are distracted

Sri Lanka decided to ban imported fossil fuel derived fertilizer and failed to adequately replace it a few years back.

It is really possible to mess this one up, and that’s only one of many places fossil fuels are used in agriculture

Coal, oil, and gas, all three need to be stopped. They are the bulk of the problem, but not all of it; we also need to end some industrial chemicals like SF₆ stop deforestation, and sharply reduce methane production in agriculture.

Cold turkey will kill a lot of people as existing food systems depend on fossil fuels for everything from nitrate fertilizer manufacturing to food delivery.

A managed phase-out is far preferable because of that.

Not just in theory; we’ve seen interest rates used exactly that way several times.

FDR had high enough taxes on the wealthy.

That did not have a lot of Americans in it because American billionaires don’t need to use shady overseas tax shelters; they’re able to keep their money in US accounts and evade the taxes.

That involved both interest rates and tax policy via changes to the R&D credit, so perhaps not an ideal example

Interest rates do indeed control inflation because high rates put people out of work. Its been done before.

Yeah, blizzard conditions. Probably went because there hasn’t been so much snow and this seemed like an opportunity

No. I think that some of the sites that claim to rank outlet bias intentionally describe center-right content as “left” in order to skew how people view things

The problem is that those areas are in the subtropical dry zone, where water constraints mean we won’t see sustainable large-scale agriculture.

It’s a bit too simplistic; coffee doesn’t tolerate the overnight lows that you get outside the tropics and only grows between 25°N to 30°S. You could in theory grow it indoors with artificial lighting like marijuana, but that’s really expensive.

Yay!

No. They’re just building concentration camps.

You can always look at the documents themselves

He’s a naturalized citizen — the one thing he can’t do is become President.

In California, any new tax like this has to go to the voters. I suspect that it has been poll-tested.

In much of the US, living together and presenting yourself as married over a period of years means you’re actually married.

I’m not usually a participant in them. Feel free to do so yourself if you are.

The big group this impacts is married women — in particular it has a name-matching requirement which will block a large fraction of married women from voting. They’re doing this because women have consistently been more likely to vote for Democrats than men:

This makes it very much worthwhile for Americans to ask their Senators to block this legislation by any means necessary.