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The violence we do to others by thinking we know what is best for them is dramatically illustrated in a story from India. It seems a passerby witnessed a monkey in a tree with a fish. The monkey was saying to the fish, “But I saved you from drowning!” The monkey, thinking it had saved the fish, had taken the fish to a place that couldn’t meet any of the fish’s needs for survival or growth. We can’t save people, or fix them. All we can do is model, and that points the finger back at us.
The Yamas & Niyamas
Deborah Adele
For hydrogen to be completely green, it must be produced by electrolyzing water, which splits this into the H2 and O that it is made of. You can produce H2 from fossil fuels (usually methane), but this creates either “grey” hydrogen (which still produces lots of CO2) or “blue” hydrogen (which captures 90% of the CO2 and stores it, merely delaying the problem). Only electrolyzing hydrogen from water using electricity generated from renewable sources makes the fuel entirely green.
Why Are We Still Talking About Hydrogen?
James Morris
Filling the void, politicians vacillate between scapegoating (blaming immigrants and big government) and Band-Aids (creating regulations that address symptoms rather than root causes).
Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
Peter Calthorpe
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