Civilization To Hold Off On Having Any More Kids For A While - The Onion

"Now is our chance to get around to some of those things we had to put on the back burner because of kids," read another section of the carefully worded statement. "You know how we've been meaning to figure out how to keep the international food-distribution system in place and functioning after the nonrenewable fossil fuels run out? Or make sure that enough rain forests remain to keep oxygen in the atmosphere? Or just basically set aside more 'us' time in general?"

Human society added that there was already barely enough time in the day to raise its children while also ensuring basic human rights for the existing population, averting a potential collapse of the international monetary system, and finally getting around to its oft-procrastinated goal of solving the massive climate-change crisis before lots and lots of people die.

"Truth is, with the environment the way it is, we're not even sure what kind of landmasses we're going to be looking at in the next couple centuries," the statement read. "It might actually be a little irresponsible to have more kids now, given the threat of a general collapse into a tribal-barbarian-type second Dark Ages. That wouldn't be fair to us or the kids."

Used Electric Car Batteries May Get Second Life Storing Power for Grid - NYTimes.com

Valencia said a group of 50 homes could be powered through 33 used Volt batteries, with enough storage capacity to keep them all running for about four hours.

Would Things Be Different If the Public had Perfect Information on Climate Science and Solutions? | ThinkProgress

If the entire public had perfect information on all matters related to climate — the science and the solutions — we would certainly be on a path to below 450 ppm (see, for instance, Scientists find “net present value of climate change impacts” of $1240 TRILLION on current emissions path, making mitigation to under 450 ppm a must).

Australian Govt doesn’t give a toss what you think « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

The Australian government asks for submissions, gets around 4500, mostly against the tax, then ignores almost all of them. It’s just another form of suppression and censorship, a sign that the elites don’t give a fig what we think.