Briefly Noted

Recently Noted – Your Burger vs. Transatlantic Flight – how much CO2?

Recently Noted – Your Burger vs. Transatlantic Flight – how much CO2?

October 4, 2019

The New Yorker published “Value Meal: Impossible Foods wants to save the world by inventing a better burger” by Tad Friend in the 9/30/2019 issue. During the introductory paragraphs the following statistic was cited: Every four pounds of beef you eat contributes to as much global warming as flying from New York to London—and the average American eats that much each month.


Politics

Trump Republican Policy Crimes (some only attempted at the moment)

Trump Republican Policy Crimes (some only attempted at the moment)

November 30, 2017

Trump – Republican Positions and Crimes (some just attempted) against the poor, working and middle class. The current Trump Republicans effort to cram their bill to pay back their corporate and rich supporters with giant tax breaks has me frothing a bit. I wrote down this list, partial though it may be. Add to it!


Briefly Noted

Recently Noted: The Environment under Trump – from National Geographic

Recently Noted: The Environment under Trump – from National Geographic

November 5, 2017

The National Geographic has a running list of the Trump regime’s efforts to save the environment for capitalism. A Running List of How Trump Is Changing the Environment –  “The Trump administration has promised vast changes to U.S. science and environmental policy—and we’re tracking them here as they happen.”


Briefly Noted

Recently Noted – about free market capitalism – is capitalism the real problem?

Recently Noted – about free market capitalism – is capitalism the real problem?

July 14, 2017

Capitalism is driven by a single internal logic that requires the transformation of people and nature into commodities to produce profits. This logic is amoral and the system, excepting for external controls by government and social institutions, just churns on.


Capitalism

Dumping Concrete: a law of capitalism In action – a local example

Dumping Concrete: a law of capitalism In action – a local example

May 6, 2017

Every company seeks to get someone else to pay for as many of its costs of doing business as possible. The laws of capitalism require this. If all of Stickles’ competitors are similarly avoiding the costs of disposing of their waste concrete they must do likewise. Otherwise their cost of doing business would be higher. In the short term their profits will be lower. In the longer term they will be forced out of business because they will have to charge higher prices. This is so regardless of the moral values or sense of community of the owners of F.H.Stickles. This how capitalism works.