China is a conundrum. They are at the same time constructing more "renewables", and also more coal plants. Last I knew. But I agree with you to some extent. It's not just a US problem, and we're already over the tipping point for a 2-3C change over the norm. So it is now lower on my priority list, even if I think the US should make progress on this front.**

Gaza is a mess. We can't expect Israel to put up with attacks on their people (we wouldn't if it was a group in Mexico killing folks in San Diego). At the same time, most Gazans just wanted to go about their lives in peace. Ironically, the Brits were contributors to this problem (and several others) since they occupied that territory, and divided it up as they saw fit at the time.





**Specifically, our grid needs a lot of modernization, and we should probably take advantage of that opportunity to install cleaner, more efficient, power generation. In the end our grid needs to be hardened to cyber-war, and it needs to not go down in 6 states when a tree falls on a power line.