Somebody partly opened it to make a fountain for kids to cool off under

If you were a vegan villan, you could spread the ticks that induce the allergy.

Kind of amazing how cheap wind and solar are when they scale up to create periods when markets don’t set prices based on fossil fuel costs.

If you have an electrical hot water heater, you can put it on a timer.

People who are already living low-energy lifestyles can’t shift as much demand, but enough can to make it a big deal

They both certainly existed, though the latter was somewhat underground in the 1950s.

It’s easy to find documentation of their positions on fluoridation; it’s not so common to find evidence of environmental groups opposing it when there was a clear public health benefit.

Berkeley hires a bunch of far-right types too.

Not to any meaningful degree in the US. It was the John Birch Society and KKK here.

Pretty much anything will harm you at too high a dose. Water included.

You’re looking at studies of the impact at far higher fluoride concentrations than are used in the US. We’ve known that those high concentrations are problematic for a very long time…which is why they’re not used. They remain a problem in some parts of the world where fluoride is naturally present.

Steyer’s been a significant climate advocate for a long time, but has not held elected office.

Katie Porter has been too, but has been rather mean to her staff (though not a sexual abuser)

Lots of choices, and really important that Democrats figure out how to at least somewhat consolidate so that we don’t end up with an R vs R general election.

FWIW, the anti-fluoride thing started off when the John Birch Society, a right-wing hate group, started pushing it decades ago.

The military has long had some of it at particular facilities — the Air Force academy is notorious. But it’s long been illegal, and was quite rare outside the military.

Because researchers got data. We know flouride helps prevent tooth decay, and a bunch of Republicans are lying about it so they can harm kids

It’s more that converting a power plant from burning fossil fuels isn’t going to improve things, as the change in forest cover associated with that conversion results in similar emissions. We need to stop burning stuff at scale.

Yes, but not at the scale needed to offset the fossil fuel burning that’s going on.

Actually making this work means removing land from agricultural production, for example by ending US burning of corn as ethanol blended with gasoline, or by a huge, society-wide rejection of meat-eating.

See the Access Options above.

They won’t say it’s really kidnapping until there is a conviction

Yeah, so long as the number of home users does not rise, they can be ok. Most of the world getting off fossil fuels can’t shift to wood

He’s got a whole staff to create this stuff, but I expect staff would have noticed the demon at the top center, so I figure he actually prompted “trump as healer” or something.

Because by showing that living a better way is possible, you can help shift how society as a whole operates. It’s not the only thing, but part of the story.