Locally produced, “Yellow Skies” Music Video for Climate Action

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8 responses to “Locally produced, “Yellow Skies” Music Video for Climate Action”

1. Aug 19, 2023 10:32 AM

   Tuvia LLC

   Beautiful voice…
   I am curious about structural changes which would return more power to youth in our city and county: first and foremost, lowering the voting age at least for local elections would seem to be part of a change that would allow people under 18 to be on various commissions as full voting members, in addition to creating youth commissions (I recently noticed that the city of Galt in southern Sacramento County has a youth commission… So perhaps the under 18 thing is not a barrier, except to voting of course.)
   It’s people over 18 who are doing most of the damage, especially wealthy people…. Adults need to take more responsibility.
   Alternative music video for the same song has adults clearing out the cars from the parking lot at Davis High School and planting vegetables there…

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2. Aug 19, 2023 3:43 PM

   Alan C. Miller

   The industrial revolution has been going on for 250 years. There is no current state of emergency so much as we have been fucking up the planet ever since we started burning fossil fuels en masse. Before y’all go off like we can do something about this, take a look at the direction India, China and Congo are going with coal burning for energy as they modernize. Climate change is global, and with the immense damage being increased worldwide, what we do is a blip. But it might make you feel good. And as the government starts talking about taking our gas stoves, you can count on your unpopular extremism to backfire on itself. Do whatever you wish, but gas stoves are not the problem, China, etc. are. And are any of you demanding we put an end to the jet edge? Do want to start taking a boat to Europe? Because jets ripping through the stratosphere while depositing jet fuel fumes way up there ain’t helping at all.
   And you know how we make electricity in the north Valley? We burn en masse natural gas, and very expensively, thanks to Gray Davis and those lousy contracts he signed. That should be conserved as relatively clean (compared to diesel or gas) but instead its being BURNED so we can convert it to energy in the form of electricity to power our CLEAN electric cars. You know the best its ever gonna get? When people didn’t travel due to Covid-19 — we’ll never get our energy use down that low again — unless a much more effective virus actually kills off most of the human race. Now THAT would solve our issues with air pollution.

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3. Aug 19, 2023 5:02 PM

   Keith

   “Yellow Skies asks you to join in the work and to declare a climate emergency, a national climate emergency.”
   This is the latest push by the left to give untold powers to Biden. I can’t think of anything more naive than that. The man doesn’t have all his faculties.

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4. Aug 21, 2023 3:39 PM

   Scott Steward

   Keith,
   The “left”, really. The collective energy is not about who is president, it’s about putting an end to fossil fuel/green house gas emissions. Molecules and temperatures don’t care who is in power.

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5. Aug 21, 2023 10:19 PM

   Alan C. Miller

   And often the true believers are extremely naive and destructive. “Clean” energy is fraught with severe environmental problems – bird Cuisinarts, low-frequency sound whale harpoons, desert tortoise habitat scraping with a 50% relocation mortality rate — the list goes on. Get it through your heads: electricity is not a source of energy, it is a secondary form of energy. Hydrogen is not a source of energy, it is a gas battery. The global pollution is the totality of the grid as a whole, and it always will be. Not having the pollution near you just foists it on someone else. Destroying habitat in a naive frenzy and mega-subsidizing mega-globs like Solyndra and Proterra is not the solution. I’m in favor of reducing pollutants in the air, but you can’t turn an oil tanker in your kiddie pool.

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6. Aug 26, 2023 11:44 AM

   Scott Steward

   Not sure if the diatribe that is Alan Miller is worth attempting to bring aournd, in a kiddie pool or anywhere else. Humanity is frought with problems and it’s a matter of caring anyway.
   Sustainable regenerative solutions that bring about comprehensive postive change are possible, and the stones thrown by the resolutely irate are just part of the journey. We will build it without these increasingly irrelevant passengers.

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7. Aug 26, 2023 12:04 PM

   Scott Steward

   addendum to the former – I am glad Alan cares enough to comment – let’s see if we can come to some common ground about how we get engage the rest of us.

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8. Aug 26, 2023 12:29 PM

   Alan C. Miller

   SS: Say what ?
   I care deeply about the planet – always have. Decades. I find many of the solutions under the rather-new term ‘climate change’ to be political and ridiculous and many putting the cart before the horse, causing much damage themselves. I do not believe that Davis ‘doing the right thing’ is going to amount to a hill of beans or inspire anybody. In case y’all haven’t noticed, Davis is more ‘n more laughed at by most north of the Yolo County line and east of the Sacramento County line.

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