#Death toll texas freeze free#

I personally don’t have a problem with the concept of Gaia as you expressed it. and as you point out, they are not all capitalist. Yes, there are multiple nations driving global climate change, the drastic reduction of biodiversity, etc. I was trying to commiserate with you without being too direct, because I didn’t especially feel like being lambasted by our resident CCP booster today. You aren’t the one who initially brought up either nation.

“I wasn’t so much contrasting China’s system…” So I prefer to go by “Dr Action & Reaction”. (And indeed, one of the issues in Texas was the severing of those links due to a natural disaster and poor preparation.) It’s not hard to predict the consequences of destroying the fishbowl, is it? We need to be connected to our fishbowl via pipes, ships, trucks, or a spacesuit. We also rely on organisms which are less resilient to change than we are for food and other services. All our artificial enclaves require support from hinterlands to provide our basic needs. In the final analysis, our biological bodies require that which all creatures require: a habitat. Furthermore, the need to compete with capitalist “productivity” leads to extreme environmental degradation in countries that are not nominally capitalist as well. However, you don’t have to be nominally capitalist to feel the effects, as the endless floods in China in the midst of 2020’s coronavirus plague demonstrate. It’s rapacious exploitation of the natural environment makes natural disasters more likely and its profit motive leads to neglect of public services such as infrastructure maintenance thus exacerbating the human impact of such disasters. I’ll agree that capitalism fails on multiple fronts. This planet has thoroughly winnowed its life forms multiple times… “if the current situation doesn’t destroy it” similar disasters caused by cutting costs or corruption:.The other US power grids held up under the storm. And power plants were not properly winterized. Even last summer there were brownouts, a warning sign. But cutting costs meant little spare capacity. Electricity is now 20% cheaper in Texas than in the rest of the US. That led to more competition and lower prices.

#Death toll texas freeze free#

Worse still, the ERCOT power grid is cut off from the rest of the country, so it was on its own.ĭeregulation: Texas politicians had cut off the power grid from the rest of the country to free it from US government regulations. Shortfall: Texas needed 75 GW of electricity to get through the deep freeze, but could only come up with 51 GW. The deep freeze affected them all, even nuclear. “ totally reliant on windmills.”Įnergy sources: In 2017, ERCOT, which runs the main power grid in Texas, got its electricity from these sources: “this shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America.”

“Only the strong will survive and the weak will parish” I’ll be damned if I’m going to provide for anyone that is capable of doing it themselves!… Bottom line quit crying and looking for a handout! Get off your ass and take care of your own family!”

This is sadly a product of a socialist government where they feed people to believe that the FEW will work and others will become dependent for handouts…. “The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING! I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout!… If you are sitting at home in the cold because you have no power and are sitting there waiting for someone to come rescue you because your lazy is direct result of your raising! …. Tim Boyd, the mayor of Colorado City, Texas on Facebook: I have never experienced anything like this in my life” govt refusing to even acknowledge what’s happening. people are freezing to death in their homes and cars. “I don’t even have words to describe how awful things are down here in Texas. Meanwhile, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who wants to be president some day, went to sunny Cancun, Mexico on on Twitter on February 18th: Most homes in Texas are not insulated, which led to freezing temperatures even inside. The water was no longer safe to drink for 13 million (45% of Texas) – because there was no power to treat the water. It covered most of the state with snow, a freak event, and knocked out power for as many as 4.5 million people, some of them for days. The Texas deep freeze of 2021 (since February 14th) brought the coldest temperatures in over 30 years.