I have a question. Only one.

Does doing nothing but chasing profits result in a far lower quality of life?

Hint: Million-Billionaires always figure they can provide for optimal quality of life because of their wealth. What are the costs these jerks experience and when does it all become a really dumb way of looking at life?

...That financial gut punch (click here) won’t just affect big governments and corporations. According to the United Nations, the world is heading toward a gain of nearly 3 degrees of global warming in the next century, even with current climate policies and goals – and researchers say individuals could bear the economic burden.

The researchers in Wednesday’s study, published in Nature, said financial pain in the short-term is inevitable, even if governments ramp up their efforts to tackle the crisis now.

“These impacts are unavoidable in the sense that they are indistinguishable across different future emission scenarios until 2049,” two of the study’s researchers from the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research, Maximilian Kotz and Leonie Wenz, told CNN via email....

When does pure living become unattainable?

...But Zillow (click here) has now deleted this climate index after complaints from real estate agents and some homeowners that the rankings appeared arbitrary, could not be challenged and harmed house sales. The complaints included those from the California Regional Multiple Listing Service, which oversees a database of property data that Zillow relies upon.

Zillow said it remains committed to help Americans make informed decisions about properties, with listings now containing outbound links to the website of First Street, the non-profit climate risk quantifier that had provided the on-site tool to Zillow....

Ya think?

Okay, so it was three questions.

This is a problem that must be solved. American minorities have increased stress under Trump.

December 3, 2025

By Fernanda Figueroa and Jaylen Green

Two pregnant Black women nearly 1,000 miles apart (click here) were ready to do what many do every day: welcome new bundles of joy, and just before the start of the holiday season. Instead, the health of both women and their babies was put at risk after hospital staff did not immediately provide the needed care.

One woman was discharged and delivered her baby on the side of an Indiana highway, while the other nearly gave birth in a Texas hospital’s emergency waiting room. Both women survived, but are still reeling from ordeals that have drawn national attention — in part, because they were captured on video and shared on social media.

Each instance highlights the long-standing and rising disparities in health outcomes for Black women, who die at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher than white women around the time of childbirth, according to a 2023 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report....

Black women and families have a higher rate of impoverishment. It could be due to many factors including racism, lack of availability of education, or other oppressive forces due to segregation. This disparity needs to be solved. The stress women of lower income are under can be causing many problems including heatlh issues and maternity deaths.

As a side note: the average age of home buyers has changed from 32 years old to now 59 years old. Former Vice President Kamala Harris' plan to bring eligible working Americans to the housing market in providing $25K for a down payment would be the beginning of ending the LOCK OUT of Americans from purchasing their home a part of the American Dream.

Earnings of Women Aged 20–59, by Age Group and Race/Ethnicity, 2020–2021 (click here)

This is third world MAGA. Loyalty to the corrupt and corruptable.

December 3, 2025

By Michelle L. Price

President Donald Trump (click here) pardoned Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife in a federal bribery and conspiracy case on Wednesday, citing what he called a “weaponized” justice system.

Trump, who has argued that his own legal troubles were a partisan witch hunt, said on social media without presenting evidence that Cuellar and his wife, Imelda Cuellar, were prosecuted because the congressman had been critical of President Joe Biden’s immigration policies.

Trump, a Republican, said in a social media post that Cuellar “bravely spoke out against Open Borders” and accused Biden, a Democrat, of going after the congressman and his wife “for speaking the TRUTH.”

Federal authorities had charged Cuellar and his wife with accepting thousands of dollars in exchange for the congressman advancing the interests of an Azerbaijan-controlled energy company and a bank in Mexico. Cuellar is accused of agreeing to influence legislation favorable to Azerbaijan and deliver a pro-Azerbaijan speech on the floor of the U.S. House....

Part of the peace plan or did Cuellar remind Trump who exactly asked him to bring about plans in Congress of the Azerbaijan energy company? It might make for prolific election fodder otherwise.

December 2, 2025

By Michael Rubin

On August 8, 2025, (click here) Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. According to the White House press release, the three leaders “signed a historic joint declaration for peace after decades of bitter conflict and scores of lives lost — a landmark achievement for international diplomacy that only President Trump could deliver”.

In reality, peace remains distant. Whether his Gaza peace plan, the peace between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, or his much-ballyhooed claim that he ended the “1,000-year-old” India-Pakistan conflict in a mere 24 hours, the reality is that Trump’s declarations of peace are akin to holding a grand opening ribbon-cutting for a building whose foundation is not even completely dug....

And what exactly is responsible for these climate catastrophes and death?

A new normal? Really?

There is nothing normal here nor should the global community believe there must be a new normal. Not when it comes to the climate crisis and the tragedies that accompany it.

December 3, 2025
By Aniruddha Ghosal and Anton L. DelGado

Songkhla Province, southern Vietnam

Southeast Asia (click here) is being pummeled by unusually severe floods this year, as late-arriving storms and relentless rains wreak havoc that has caught many places off guard.

Deaths have topped 1,400 across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, with more than 1,000 still missing in floods and landslides. In Indonesia, entire villages remain cut off after bridges and roads were swept away. Thousands in Sri Lanka lack clean water, while Thailand’s prime minister acknowledged shortcomings in his government’s response.

Malaysia is still reeling from one its worst floods, which killed three and displaced thousands. Meanwhile, Vietnam and the Philippines have faced a year of punishing storms and floods that have left hundreds dead.

What feels unprecedented is exactly what climate scientists expect: A new normal of punishing storms, floods and devastation.

“Southeast Asia should brace for a likely continuation and potential worsening of extreme weather in 2026 and for many years immediately following that,” said Jemilah Mahmood, who leads the think tank Sunway Centre for Planetary Health in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia....

Investing in fossil fuels only fuels hardship for Americans of all generations.

December 1, 2025

The U.S. Department of Energy (click here) today renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) the National Laboratory of the Rockies. The renaming is effective immediately and will be reflected in all public communications and official correspondence.

“The energy crisis we face today is unlike the crisis that gave rise to NREL,” said Assistant Secretary of Energy (EERE) Audrey Robertson. “We are no longer picking and choosing energy sources. Our highest priority is to invest in the scientific capabilities that will restore American manufacturing, drive down costs, and help this country meet its soaring energy demand. The National Laboratory of the Rockies will play a vital role in those efforts.”

“For decades, this laboratory and its scientific capabilities have pushed the boundaries of what's possible and delivered impact to the nation,” said Jud Virden, laboratory director of the National Laboratory of the Rockies. “This new name embraces a broader applied energy mission entrusted to us by the Department of Energy to deliver a more affordable (that benefits Trump's fossil fuel cronies) and secure energy future for all.”...

The fossil fuel industries should be held responsible for these tragedies. This is not damage from a hurricane. It is complete catastrophic collapse of infrastructure due to a stalled system over the Smokey Mountains. Stalled systems such as the remains of Helene only started since 2005. These are new catastrophic events that has developed out of the Climate Crisis. There is no federal plan to deal with the climate crisis, hence, the collapse of infrastructure well planned for weather events that were normal to Earth. This stalled and catastrophic remnant of Helene was not normal and the USA was not prepared for the needs of the people or how to protect them. It was treated as a hurricane and not the burgeoning catastrophe it became.  

September 22, 2025

By Jane Winik Sartwell

Damage (click here) from Hurricane Helene on the Blue Ridge Parkway

This level of damage was noted after the eruption of Mount St. Helens. Not a hurricane. The mountain tops of the Smokeys blew apart sending enormous amounts of debris below destroying towns and killing Americans.

One year after Helene, (click here) emotions run high. Physical reminders of the destruction remain, but the anniversary is a mental reminder, one that threatens to reopen certain scars.

“It is OK to feel like you are grieving a loss right now, because we did lose a lot,” David Jackson, president of the Boone Chamber of Commerce, told Carolina Public Press.

“We lost time. We lost people. We lost places. We have been so concerned and busy with restoring that not everybody has fully processed what happened. This one-year milestone will do that.”

Beside that grief, however, is hope. For Fabrice Julien, professor of health science at UNC-Asheville, balancing the two isn’t always easy....

Russia is already a third world country.

The hideous amounts of blood and treasure it spends on Putin's obsession with rebuilding the Soviet Union has taken in back in time, not forward. It no long has space launch capacity. In addition to this failure, the Russia wing of the International Space Station is in very bad repair. It probably should be jettisoned. 

The United States of America is headed for third world status.

The Paris Accords were ignored and now the Executive Branch of the USA federal government is seeking to turn the clocks back decades for the sake of profits. This RECOMMENDATION (not regulation) was to assist the private sector to build better buildings NOT CHEAPER ONES.

The abuse of the atmospheres of Earth is extensive and needs to end. The petroleum industry is the primary driver of greenhouse gas pollution and this is more of the same. The generations of Americans have a right to a future unencumbered by past sins of climate. This is the most ridiculous use of Executive Power in this country. Trump is a sellout and nothing more. He is in office to cause problems not solve them. It is why he is trying to convince others he must be king to ensure all of the roll backs remain in place.

He and all the fossil fuel companies should be sued for reckless endangerment of human life, species destruction, ocean heating, coral loss (carbon sinks) in willful ignorance of the reality all moral people know to be paramount to Earth's benevolent climate. Trump and his minion administration has proven that death means nothing to them so long as they are safe in their beds at night.

A Notice by the Energy Department on 12/03/2025 (click here)

As outlined in Executive Order 14154, “Unleashing American Energy,” agencies are required to, “review all existing regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, settlements, consent orders, and any other agency actions (collectively, agency actions) to identify those agency actions that impose an undue burden on the identification, development, or use of domestic energy resources.” 90 FR 8353. As part of that review, DOE has identified the National Definition of a Zero Emissions Building as a guidance document that does not align with Administration priorities.

The Request for Information (RFI) for the development of the National Definition of a Zero Emissions Building suggests that a key impetus for the development of the standard was the Biden-Harris Administration's goal of a, “net-zero emissions, economy-wide, by 2050 and a 100% clean energy electricity sector by 2035.” 89 FR 1086. These goals were detailed in the February 2021 Executive Order 14008, “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.” 86 FR 7619. However, Executive Order 14008 was rescinded through President Trump's January 2025 Executive Order 14148, “Initial Rescission of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.” 90 FR 8237. Thus, the goals outlined in Executive Order 14008 are no longer applicable and a guidance document that would support those goals, such as the National Definition of a Zero Emissions Building, is no longer needed....