This article currently appears in the Times of Israel: An open letter to Animal Rights Activists Dear Animal Rights activists As a fellow animal lover I am a great supporter of the work that you do. I too would rather go naked than wear fur. I believe tusks belong on an elephant and the only […]via An open letter to Animal Rights activists — Roro's Rantings
The grassroots citizens’ group Lebanon Pipeline Awareness, Inc. has announced it will hold a weekly protest on Friday afternoons from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. in downtown Annville to raise public awareness about the negative consequences of fracking, […]
If you’ve ever waged a one-person war on disposable cups, you know how frustrating and lonely it can be. Around twenty years ago, when I was trying for zero waste, I bought a rather expensive […]
The whole point of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act was to make businesses think before clear cutting or being careless with their emissions.
It may never be a better time to get solar panels for your home or business. Net metering has not gone away, and prescient solar installers still have reserves of low-cost Chinese solar panels. As […]
The top ten animal rights issues are climate change, habitat destruction due to human development practices, invasive species, and seven more.
Trump undermines solar power at the peril of us all. By Lynn Hamilton United States President Donald Trump has devastated the solar industry in America without bringing back coal jobs. You may remember that Trump […]
The big news today is that science has managed to clone monkeys. PETA’s stand is that cloning is a huge waste of resources and represents too much suffering on the way to getting it right. […]
Americans need to just accept the fact that the Chinese have gotten ahead of us on solar panel manufacture. China saw an opportunity and ran with it. Americans sat around with their thumbs up their butts, claiming that solar power would never work.
Fast forward about twenty years. Now U.S. solar manufacturers want to be protected from competition from China, where manufacturers have figured out how to deliver efficient products for cheap. China’s motives may have been entirely rooted in profit, but somehow they have become the world’s savior in the fight against climate change.
Instead of crying into our diapers, the U.S. needs to find the next cool, earth-saving technology.
That’s the message U.S. President Donald Trump should have sent to American manufacturers. Instead, he has announced that he is going to impose tariffs on Chinese panels. Tariffs have never worked, and tariffs on China are going to backfire in some huge way that we just didn’t have the imagination to anticipate.
Around this time, you might be wondering what Trump’s tariffs have to do with animals. This is how it works: Trump imposes these tariffs. Fewer people can afford solar panels. Climate change continues apace, destroying many species who simply can’t adapt fast enough to weather extremes and, in particular, changes that affect food supply.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has compiled a list of the top species that are declining rapidly because of climate change. On this list are coral reefs that are the seas’ nurseries. When the coral reefs go, the collapse of the fish industry will only be the beginning. Also on the list are Beluga whales, leatherback sea turtles, koalas, and arctic foxes.
Please sign this petition asking Trump to rescind tariffs on solar energy: https://www.thepetitionsite.com/258/650/626/stop-trumps-war-on-clean-energy-reject-solar-tariffs/
Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr., sons to the current United States president, are trophy hunters. Posing with a dead elephant in 2012 may be their greatest claim to fame. At one point, they killed […]