Dr. Lucky Tran Jun 27, 2023

Record-breaking heat wave in Texas.

NYC & Chicago recording the worst air quality of major cities in the world due to wildfire smoke.

First US cases of malaria in decades.

#Climate change is the biggest public health threat humanity faces, and it's happening now.

Show threadTheCityDweller 
@luckytran 'The #Texas #powergrid will fail soon again. But this is #GOP "#freedom" and "TEXAS IS INDEPENDENT"....
Jun 27, 2023 at 11:02pmWeb
Show threadgfamJun 28, 2023
@toor @luckytran - It's wild to me that because of the lack of regulation Texas had the fastest growing renewable energy industry in the US... so the GOP decided to regulate that specifically.
Show threadTheCityDweller Jun 28, 2023

@gFam @luckytran Power grids on a continental scale were actually rolled out to increase resilience and availability. It became doable to sync a continental international power grid to the same frequency. In the US there are two grids. A Western and Eastern. Texas refused to be connected to any of them - with the exception of a small part due to location restraints. Guess whose power went not out in the catastrophic winter in Texas.

Texas also refused to be part of the Interstate network.