And that's why you let educators decide which textbooks they deem fit for their subjects, not partisan regulators with an agenda.
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Ex-fucking-actly!
Not like the cause of trillions of dollars in future damage and wars and famines and recessions is an important topic to learn about
Nothing jesus can't fix
Not a problem for the ruling class.
They'll see it as an opportunity.
Maybe Texas should, you know, transition to selling wind energy so their economy doesn't crash when fossil fuels are finished.
I read Texas's biggest imports and exports are oil. So the only thing bigger than their oil economy is their resistance to change.
So here's the thing. When they say "Texas" in the royal sense like all of Texas is trying to will something, what they actually mean is the people and institutions capable of affecting change in Texas. Essentially the government and it's various arms.
Due to the fact that lobbying is very real and backroom payments are allowed to be a thing, the government inevitably bends to the entities with the most money. Guess who those entities are.
So when you say
Maybe Texas should, you know, transition to selling wind energy so their economy doesn't crash
what you're saying is
Maybe all those people who make their obscene riches in oil should give up their golden goose and let other people make their money in alternative energy forms
There's no reality where they go for that. "Texas" is always going to fight tooth and nail to keep alternate forms of energy down, because the biggest money in Texas is oil. The people have no control over that.
You've worded this much more eloquently than I could have hoped to. Thank you 🙂
But don't you see? They've discovered the most dirty and destructive ways possible to extract the lowest quality fossil fuel remnants in the world for just long enough that all the top executives will probably be dead or retired by the time it runs out! In other words, no problem!
Ignorance is bliss.
You'd think so, but with the amount of angry shouting and paranoid delusions of these ignoramuses, I'm not convinced..
Good point. Ugly reality…
I wish this was what was really said
That's the actual quote from the show.
And it's spot-on.
that makes me so happy
Ever wonder why Kennedy was killed in Texas?
Oswald was aiming for the books in the repository but missed.
Would you reject a science textbook if it had too much information about ionic bonding?
Depends how much the Ionic Bonding Lobby Group was paying me.
everybody knows the licentious covalent bonding is where it's at~
Nope. Then again, I'm not a fundie loon 🤷
