“The more trees a neighborhood has, the more resilient it is to climate change.” This is about the neighborhood during climate change, not the entire planet. The statement is true. Trees mitigate the effect of heat (and cold) in the neighborhood during climate change.
There is no claim that it affects the entire planet. Only about the resilience of a neighborhood.
Neither do they claim planting trees in a neighborhood affects worldwide climate change. This is about an area being resilient during climate change, not changing climate change.
Your claim is false. And based on false assumptions as well.
In case you were wondering what Trump was up to and his take on current events, here’s a recent interview highlights. Basically what you’d expect, except the media is trying hard to ignore him.
Just to follow up on the CRT issues, here’s Sullivan’s take from the left on the threat this far left authoritarian ideology poses.
Once a generation grows up believing that there is no such thing as reason — just “white thinking” and “black thinking”; once it grows up believing that free speech is a device for oppression not liberation; once it sees our founding documents as cynical lies to perpetuate slavery and “white supremacy”; once it believes that no progress has ever been made in race relations, because the “systems” sustain unaltered “white supremacy” for ever, then we have detonated the foundations of a free society.
The Catholic bishops have approved a document which could be used to criticize politicians, including Biden, who approve of aborting human life. As you would anticipate, the left wing liberal propaganda media is throwing a fit. After all, abortion for them is a human right.
What I love is when they label the bishops’ action with the “C” word:
controversial
Reflect on the fact that “Thou shalt not kill” has for these media jackass assassins, in 2021, actually become controversial. It is a measure of their unbounded left wing arrogance that they so blithely take issue with the Ten Commandments, suffering in the process no twinge of conscience whatsoever.
Hindsight is 20/20. It’s clear now Trump realized he had a tiger by the tail with COVID-19. He understood the only meaningful thing he could do was obtain vaccine for us ASAP. And Trump delivered on the vaccine. What progress we have made up to now is thanks to his vaccine vision.
But the people could not stand Trump and kicked him out of office. The torch was handed to Biden. Credit where due: Biden did not screw up Trump’s plan early on. But since the initial days of his administration, the burden has fallen more and more to Biden to take the next steps. He no longer can rely on Trump’s extraordinary expertise, intelligence, and vision.
Biden’s first big test personally is meeting his goal of 70% of Americans receiving the Trump vaccine by Independence Day. It is a worthy goal. But, with July fourth just around the corner, it more and more is appearing Biden will fall short.
That Biden would fail where Trump succeeded is not a surprise. Biden has other priorities, ones more important than life and death for Americans. After all, Biden aspires to be President of the Entire World. His focus is on giving away vaccine to foreigners and winning praise from abroad, not on vaccinating Americans.
we’ve commissioned more vaccines than we need, even if everyone here wanted one (which they don’t, or don’t yet), so it’s hard to fault giving away the surplus of good but not great vaccines ala AZN or JNJ to someone, hopefully for diplomatic reasons, who would be appreciative and use them.
Agreed, xerty. But you missed my point. Biden needed to “focus like a laser beam” on American inoculations in order to hit the bullseye of his most important target: the war on COVID-19.
Instead his focus is all over the place as he champions a widespread liberal agenda here and abroad. Now all that subordinate stuff would be OK provided he were on pace to meet his own July fourth target.
But he is not. Trump brought the vaccines home on time and on budget. Biden’s assignment, timely dispersal of same among American citizens near and far, is not being carried out with equal success.
I believe a great deal more could be done, a “full court press” if you will. But it would require focus and concentration on what is, for us, the most important thing out there.
I acknowledge the hesitancy among many Americans to trust the vaccines. That is an educational issue. There are also still many Americans for whom local availability of the vaccine is a problem. And there are additional reasons Biden has fallen short.
Point is, where is he focusing and expending maximum effort? I wish he were putting the same effort into vaccinating Americans as he is expending importing poor Central American peasants, creating new Federal holidays, and running all over Europe shouting “America is back”.
Biden’s principal, most important, target is widespread inoculations. Were he achieving that goal all the other stuff would be fine. He is not. Biden needs to expend less administrative energy on matters of subordinate importance. But that is not at all his approach.
You know, it’s funny. I well remember the voices only a few months back emphasizing that Americans are not safe until the entire world is free of COVID-19. Well forget the entire world. How can Americans be safe today when so many of our own citizens remain without inoculation and at risk for the virus!
I disagree with this. I think it’s a political issue first and foremost. There is a certain segment of the MAGA population that will never trust anything a Biden government has to say on the topic of COVID. It’s not just skepticism, it’s a “If the government says the sky is blue, it must be anything but blue” sort of attitude.
This despite Trump making a bunch of hay over the fact that his administration pushed the Warp Speed project. There are other groups of anti-vaxxers but this picture tells the tale:
I dont know about that. If it is an educational issue, it’s because they dont want to be educated. So we’re back to “against their will”.
I think the primary issue is that those remaining unvaccinated simply do not find it necessary. They’re the ones who think there was no reason for life to be thrown into such extreme chaos in the first place. When asking why I had to be affected despite my very low risk, I was told that it was to protect granny who faces high risk - now granny is vaccinated, so what’s the next excuse? For large segments of the population, it’s a pretty legitmate perspective.
Just like how any implication that a vaccine would bypass the FDA approval process to hasten distribution sparked outrage due to “Trump”. Yet now that Trump is gone, we’re a half-step away from mandating vaccinations despite the fact it still has not been through the FDA approval process.
"The Trump campaign hasn’t yet paid a dime. It owes the El Paso police department more than $381,000 alone. Michael Glassner, the CEO of Trump’s campaign, told ABC two years ago: “We are reviewing” the bill.
“It shows a lack of concern for the community and the tax-paying voters of El Paso,” city Rep. Alexsandra Annello told the El Paso Times as Trump let the debt twist in the wind. Trump has “put a financial burden on this community,” she complained."
The Trump campaign still owes a number of cities money for costs it racked up during Trump’s campaigning. Albuquerque, New Mexico, which hasn’t yet received a penny of the $211,000 the Trump campaign owes, sent yet another invoice in April directly to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago golf resort in a last-ditch bid to recoup expenses."
Trump and the Trump Organization have a history of not paying bills and have been the target of several lawsuits in a bid to collect money. Trump Organization properties have declared bankruptcy six times."
Owes money? Doesn’t pay his debts? Shafts taxpayers? Make him President! He’s so responsible and honest!