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    I’m ok with that, just as soon as the cost of cleaning up the sickness, mess and pollution caused by the fossil fuel industries is factored in to the equation.
  2. 1 point
    I'll just leave this here...... https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/11/business/coal-murray-energy-bankruptcy/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN&utm_term=link&utm_content=2019-10-11T17%3A51%3A04
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    Nope. Since it's sold directly to end users, and since we have a mostly capitalist market, the direct benefits are captured in its costs. (Again, Econ 101.) Now, if you want to capture ALL the benefits/costs, internal and external, then you have to include benefits to society as well as harm to society (deaths, warming, acid rain etc.) Let's take a purely economic approach to everything, and end subsidies for everything. Cancel Price-Anderson. No more cheap mineral leases; you buy and sell the land you need (or no longer need) like capitalists. No more military defense of oil trade routes. No more overunity depletion allowances. No more subsidies for anything, and no more tricky tax loopholes like the intangible drilling tax deduction. Companies pay directly for the damage they cause, whether it's environmental damage or deaths. Then let the market decide.
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    Comfortable clothing, appropriate to the weather. I usually wear jeans under my jumpsuit. Shorts also work. Lots of ladies wear yoga pants. T-shirt or sweatshirt on top. Avoid collars, hoods or strings. Sneakers (trainers) are typical. Students should wear closed toe shoes, even though there are experienced jumpers who wear sandals or even go barefoot. Make sure you don't wear shoes with hooks (hiking boots usually have them). They are considered a snag hazard. Try to get a good night's sleep the night before (good luck with that). Stay fed & hydrated. Don't eat a huge, heavy meal, but make sure you eat. Pay attention to the instructors and make sure you understand. If you don't understand something, ask. Do NOT, under any circumstances say "but they said on Dropzone Dot Com..." Don't pay a whole lot of attention to what you read on here. You don't have the understanding to know what is good advice and what is crap (and there's a lot of crap on here). As Skybytch noted, there are a lot of training differences between Tandem, AFF & static line jumping. But the above applies to all of them.
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    Yep, I have two kids (10 and 6), 55 years old, lived in Europe 5+ years, been to 19 countries and have lived in, (not visited but lived in) 9 states, and have a post graduate education. With regard to changes in weather, YES I have seen the weather change, it is what weather does. Floods, droughts, hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, blizzards etc., we have seen it all in the past we are seeing it now and we will continue to see it in the future. In the past, bad weather was attributed to an angry god/gods or a witches curse, now we chalk it up to SUVs. With regard to climate, of course I believe in climate change, if not for climate change NY would be under a mile of ice, without climate change Great Brittan would still be a wine producing country, without climate change the Sahara would be a lush savanna. The only course of action proven to be effective against natural disasters and climate change, is economic development. Because fossil fuels have proven to be a critical component of economic development, they are a force for good.
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    Oh yeah, and Conservatives, Republicans and Libertarians
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    You forgot: homophobes, xenophobes, transphobes, pronoun purists, rednecks, gun nuts, climate deniers, 1%ers, greedy people who don't want to share their money with the government, anyone with a confederate flag and everyone who says Washington Redskins.
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