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CHALLENGES "It is certain, in any case, that ignorance allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."
- James Baldwin
We shall go on till the end...
We shall fight on the seas and oceans... We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be... We shall never surrender! History recalls how great the fall can be While everybody's sleeping, the boats put out to sea Born on the wings of time It seemed the answers were so easy to find "Too late," the prophets cry The island's sinking, let's take to the sky
"And it sure been a cold, cold winter And the wind ain't been blowin' from the south It's sure been a cold, cold winter And a lotta love is all burned out" [3 Versions]
........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... What are the challenges to achieving energy independence? 1. LITERACY DEGRADATION OF READING COMPREHENSION & REPETITION. REDUCTION OF PEOPLE STUDYING. Reading is more than knowing how to see combinations of letters; reading is literacy. This type of literacy is the ability
to read. It is also about comprehension - what do the combination of letters put together called, "words" mean when strung
together in sentences? Literacy is about ingesting, analyzing, sifting the thought or experience expressed with one's own
life values. Reading requires critical thinking. It is about questioning, "What type of writing is this? Is this supposed
to be for fun and false, or intentional?....' Audio and visual manipulation: There have been talk shows since the inception of radio. Interviews are helpful to learn
about a person and his or her ideas. The influence of interviewer choosing questions to make a certain point of view be persuasive
has always been around. What is different since computers becoming interactive with media through internet (mid-1990's),
is the lack of separation of consumption.
The correlation of democratic governments and their societies being at least 50% literate are well documented. A reduction of literacy, as there is for adults, shows signs of having other people's views stand in for their own, influenced mostly through radio, television, and internet. "Seeking to expand their reach, toy companies have rolled out alternative or simplified ways to play board games for
years, ranging from “junior” editions made for younger children to multiple sets of instructions that
players can opt into for increasing difficulty."
International Literacy Day is every September 8th. 2. AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM "Well, it's never mattered really to me if anybody 'get it.' I understood at the time why people didn't get it. The
thing about America that's quite sweet, amongst many things is, you guys think something hasn't happened unless it has happened
in America. So you didn't know for 10 years...."
[How "American Exceptionalism" is RUINING U.S.A.]
AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM = Egotistical, superiority thinking by United States citizens that everyone is beneath them, and so
dismiss, intentionally ignore, and have no curiosity as to how other peoples' countries and cultures think, live, and solve
similar and same problems. "The Problem of American Exceptionalism" - Pew Research Center (2006) "The Myth of American Exceptionalism" - Foreign Policy Magazine (2011) "Exceptionalism does something more insidious: it convinces those who are insulated from the country’s worst problems
that what the US provides for them is worth the price it takes from others. At its worst, exceptionalism discourages
people from seeking to change things."
Regarding America today, .... "We're not designing one rail. We're just not solving - anything." - Jeffrey Sachs Regarding America today, .... "We're not designing one rail "We're just not solving - anything." - Jeffrey Sachs
.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. "How Baltimore Invented the Modern World" - Baltimore Magazine 110 Anniversary Edition (2017) RESOLVE BECOMING EQUALITY-MINDED: "An efficiency-minded person behaves more generously when helping someone else doesn't cost her much — for example,
when she's told she needs to give up only 10 tokens for the other participant to get 20. But an equality-minded person
is just as willing to share even if it costs her more. ....
The psychologists Kraus and Keltner have found that people who rank themselves at the top of the social scale are significantly more likely to endorse essentialism, the notion that group characteristics are immutable and biologically determined—precisely the sort of beliefs used to justify the mistreatment of low-status groups such as immigrants and ethnic minorities." 3. INABILITY TO BE HUMBLE Inability to apologize when wrong has become an epidemic. It does not help that a previous President of the United States continues to role model that one never is to apologize for wrong-doings.
4. SLAVERY CURRENT: There are today, more than ever, in history of mankind - human slaves.
Estimated 50,000,000 people are Slaves: 21.300,000 people are Forced Laborers, 3.300,000 being Children, 22.000,000 Women are in Forced Marriages (Sexual and Domestic Slavery), and 6,300,000 girls and women; Commercial Sexual Exploitation. In total, 70% of Slaves are Female: Girls and Women. - International Labour Organization (ILO) (2021) 5. SALESPEOPLE The adage is, "I can even sell ice to Eskimos!"*
As a society, Americans don't always choose the best items for them. There used to not be a standard key design for typewriters, and the one we use today is much more challenging to our hands. Well over 100 years ago there were electric-run automobiles. Brick-type cellular telephones made way to flip to rectangles only for flip cellular telephones to resurge. * [Today; the Indigenous peoples are longer lumped together; Inuit (including the Alaska Native Iņupiat, the Canadian Inuit,
and the Greenlandic Inuit) and the Yupik (or Yuit).]
Mr. Haney Sells Best - "Green Acres" The problem is, at local level, it affects financially poor even more. Taxes are the backbone of any government. The poor
and middle class pay taxes, while developers get multi-layers of tax credits. In Baltimore, ten years 100% free and many
others. Property tax raise 2023, and "Historic" becomes "Heritage" and 1973 buildings are now included
in mostly what was "Red Line" map to "Black Line." Mockery of "Historic." No matter what citizens
say, it doesn't matter to City Council. Lack of money and mismanagement = corruption as "gave the city away" brings
cities to receivership. Tax breaks can banktrupt.
"How To Avoid Solar Panel Scams" - "Ask This Old House" (2022) Hear How Slick gets done: "Solar Sales Pitch - 4 Ways To Sell Solar | Sam Taggart D2D Experts (2021) 6. STRANGE BEDFELLOWS - CONCRETE/CEMENT/SAND/TAR - COMING SOON
"Oh, it's raining again
Oh no, my love's at an end Oh no, it's raining again And you know it's hard to pretend" 7. DISCONNECTED FROM NATURE Before highways, before street signals, before automobiles, even before wagons and carriages, people either rode a horse, donkey, or burro, or walked. In what became the United States, it was expected that one can walk 5 miles in a day. Towns became incorporated approximately 5 miles apart. Today, if one lives in a town or city surrounded by highways, it is nearly impossible to be able to walk from one town to another, or even recognize that one town or city has ended, and another begins. In terms of land boundaries, there are markers to let one know where Baltimore City begins/ends on major roadways, like Reisterstown Road. "Best believe somebody's paying the pied piper
All the pain inside amplified by the fact That I can't get by with my 9-to-5 And I can't provide the right type of life for my family 'Cause man, these g-d-amn food stamps don't buy diapers' .... You only get one shot, do not miss your chance This opportunity comes once in a lifetime You better" "Lose Yourself" - Eminem
8. USAGE AND DELUSIONAL BELIEF THAT ENERGY IS BOUNTIFUL - NO NEED TO, "CONSERVE" Reduction in use, called, "Conservation" "conserving," needs to re-enter the human lexicon. Where oh where can anyone talk about not using everything up? Reduce use to save for later, for tomorrow?
DISCIPLINE: USE LESS "You better - save it for a rainy day"
"Save it for a Rainy Day" - Kenny Chesney 9. INCOMPLETE, WHETHER ON PURPOSE OR NOT RESEARCH, BECOMES ERRONEOUS DATA
Government bodies relying on batteried, "electric" vehicles to primarily reduce carbon emissions is erroneous concept. Larger
carbon emissions come from buildings. Houses, buildings especially for rent, use the most toxic and cheapest materials and
therefore, least weatherization efficient. "New building" have some restrictions, but yet are allowed in Baltimore City to
install gas lines, gas stoves, gas furnaces, gas appliances, so though considered, "better," majority of buildings and homes
will still continue to pollute. Misrepresentation and giving false hope through, "By year ____" without any today action is
insidious so as to not be personally inconvenienced or politically challenged - by - reality. 20%: 1 out of 5 (9 out of 45)
Baltimore City Residents have asthma compared to USA statistics of 9% - 9 out of 100. Baltimore City has second most asthma-related
deaths in U.S.A. In contrast to Baltimore City government intentionally idled as Autumn 2022 City Council Health Hearing
exposed, incinerated trash from Baltimore City and Baltimore County blows from its stack toxic ash, takes its sold ash to
landfills, and hence, continues to support Baltimore County citizens "breath well" and evade respiratory illnesses (asthma).
Just saying so does not make it come true. Not choosing to passing legislation that addresses specifically today's condition
- of toxic ash air pollution from incinerator and tire erosion. Simply, people are using too many disposables, don't recycle,
Baltimore County sends their trash to be incinerated too, and drivers pollute with 4 or more tires - more than their tailpipes.
10. PRIVATIZATION - ESPECIALLY OF PHYSICAL ASSETS AND ON PURPOSE MADE MONOPOLISTIC UTILITES Baltimore City must have full control of its conduit - above ground on telephone poles, underground, in water, and everywhere
else in between in order to redesign infrastructure - as today is - the future. There cannot be any entity that can have
any opportunity to say, "No." RECOGNITION AND GOVERNMENT PROTECTION AND COMPLETE SEPARATION THAT PRIVATE SECTOR UTILITIES HAVE INTEREST ONLY IN THEIR STOCKHOLDERS
- NOT WELFARE FOR PEOPLE'S LIVES - ESPECIALLY NOW IN CLIMATE CRISIS
"The pace and scale of what has been done so far, and current plans, are insufficient to tackle climate change.
More than a century of burning fossil fuels as well as unequal and unsustainable energy and land use has led to global warming of 1.1°C above pre-industrial levels. This has resulted in more frequent and more intense extreme weather events that have caused increasingly dangerous impacts on nature and people in every region of the world. .... In this decade, accelerated action to adapt to climate change is essential to close the gap between existing adaptation and what is needed. Meanwhile, keeping warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels requires deep, rapid and sustained greenhouse gas emissions reductions in all sectors. {Carbon} Emissions should be decreasing by now and will need to be cut by almost half by 2030, if warming is to be limited to 1.5°C." What and Why are there local, State of Maryland, and national challenges for the public to receive timely and pertinent information to make decisions for their lives regarding, "The Greenhouse Effect", "Global Warming", "Climate Change", and now, "Climate Crisis"? What is being hidden? What is being intentionally left out? Who does not want Baltimore, State of Maryland, and every other entity it has monopolies? Personal Interests become Political Interests Personal Pocketbooks/Wallets create Political Interests Lower carbon emissions helps, but the rise in temperature of the Earth is accumulative. This is why, "Undetectable" carbon emissions level is imperative. Through Geothermal, countries like Iceland have and continue to achieve undetectable carbon emissions.
Click Picture For Full Size & Article The lies are so vast and pervasive, that the United States Government has had to issue the truth about Geothermal, dispelling especially solar panel makers and installers. Taking mined, fracked not "natural" gas to burn to convert to electricity, and then have emissions left over is THE WORST
use of ENERGY! This is the length Exelon has gone to. And if you are a customer, this is what they take your money for!!!!
This is what you bought, but none of it is yours!!!!
Exelon lies, even in their own articles. States that there are no emissions, while later on stating: "NET Power produces only electricity, liquid water and pipeline-quality CO2, as well as valuable argon and nitrogen, all while operating as efficiently as most natural gas power plants in operation today. The emissions can be piped for other commercial uses, such as oil recovery." Exelon "new" gas plant is attempting to also mimic what a gasification plant does, yet gasification NEVER - EVER uses brand new - straight out of the ground fuels.
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LOCAL & STATE OF MARYLAND On Election Day, November 8th, 2022, Baltimore City Citizens 76.67% voted; "YES": "TO PROHIBIT SALE, TRANSFER, OR FRANCHISE
OF BALTIMORE CITY CONDUIT." Seek Here: BG&E TO EXELON: PRIVATIZING POWER UNITED STATES OF AMERICA MISSED OPPORTUNITIES ...................................................................................................................................................... |
ENERGY INDUSTRY Seek Here: BG&E TO EXELON: PRIVATIZING POWER |
CORPORATIONS Contention that "Natural" Gas and Nuclear have lowest employee deaths. No mention in second table of geothermal
regarding deaths.
"Sixth Assessment Report" - IPCC (2023) "US Tries to bury Report on Climate Change's Dire Health, Economic Impacts" - Ars Techinica .............................................................................................................................................................................. |
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