My first thought is to share how I feel after staying up till I couldn't any longer...and then woke to find out tRump and the GOP had won so very much of the election. I am wanting to curl up and cry for hours. I am wanting to scream and throw things. I am wanting to have friends hug me and tell me everything will be alright.
None of those things are happening. I'm sort of walking through my life in a daze, feeling incredibly sad. I am shocked still when I see the banners on the news declaring tRump is the president elect. This is a new reality. I am not prepared for it. There was one of my first reactions of not wanting to live any more. But of course that passed, and I wanted very much to at least disappear from my little amount of public life, where I've spoken against those now in power, where I am now afraid that I'm on a list somewhere, and will suffer for my opinions. This is just part of my coping.
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The top 10 countries for wind and solar energy
(In case you thought I wasn't still interested in Climate Change!)
10 countries that use the highest percentage of homegrown wind and solar
energy in their electricity mix.
| Country | Electricity from solar and wind |
|---|---|
| Denmark | 67% |
| Greece | 41.1% |
| Netherlands | 41% |
| Spain | 40.5% |
| Portugal | 39.7% |
| Germany | 39.4% |
| Uruguay | 39.4% |
| Ireland | 37.5% |
| United Kingdom | 32.7% |
| Chile | 31.7% |
(Data courtesy of Ember)
*We excluded countries with populations less than 15,000 (including the Cook and
Falkland Islands) and countries — Lithuania and Luxembourg — that have high
levels of renewables but import most of it from neighbors.
SOURCE: Environmental Defense Fund newsletter Vital Signs, Oct. 31, 2024
"By mid-2024, wind and solar accounted for 18.6% of all U.S. electricity, and analysts anticipate that even more clean power will come online by the end of the year.
“If we keep our foot on the pedal, we can build a clean energy future that dramatically improves many fundamental aspects of our lives,” says Derek Walker, Environmental Defense Fund’s vice president for global energy transition.
China and India stood at 29th and 39th, respectively, at the end of 2023. But both nations are making progress. China recently met its ambitious clean energy goals for 2030 six years early. And in the first half of 2024, the country was home to more than half of all the solar power installed worldwide.
India built out more solar and wind power in the first five months of 2024 than in all of 2023, despite technical and financial challenges. “There is a consensus that renewables make sense for India from an economic, strategic and environmental perspective,” says Hisham Mundol, EDF’s chief advisor in India.
“With clean energy, there’s no question: a revolution is underway,” says Walker. “This remarkable progress is benefitting our health, our wallets and our futures.”
Today's quote: (Sorry, the format came through that way)
I love the story about A.J. Muste, who, during the Vietnam War, stood in front of the White House night after night with a candle – sometimes alone. A reporter interviewed him one evening as he stood there in the rain, “Mr. Muste,” the reporter said, “do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night with a candle?” A. J. Responded, “Oh, I don’t do this to change the country. I do this so the country won’t change me.”
- Andrea Ayvizian, The Sun magazine.
