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Cats: between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion
She is a retired Northampton science teacher and is concerned that photosynthesis, which depends upon sunlight, would not happen and would keep the vegetation from growing. She said she has observed areas near solar panels where vegetation is brown and dead because it did not receive enough sunlight.
http://www.snopes.com/north-carolina-town-rejects-solar-panels/
The town as a whole did not reject the installation because it would "suck up all the energy from the sun", but rather based on the true assertion that:
1) It does displace flora that would be using that ground and sunlight to grow, and the fauna that depend on it, thus impacting the ecosystem.
2) It is an eye-sore and that can affect light commercial business development if it ruins otherwise attractive scenery.
But regarding the teacher, I've said it before and I'll say it again, teachers are NOT overpaid. They are mostly underqualified half-educated house-wives playing teacher, not experts in their fields, and the reason that they reject standardized testing for their students is because it would make it obvious that they can't teach in an objective manner. But most of the US, and [H] is no exception, insists that our teachers are so great and that women like this should be the ones coming up with their own tests, and not held to any standards and paid more... *rolleyes*
What do you expect when 4 in 10 Americans Believe God Created Earth 10,000 Years Ago??
Sure, but do you really believe that is the norm?Maybe. My ex is a teacher. Before she became a teacher, she worked in the chemical industry - she has dual degrees in Chemistry and Biology.
Which is the problem with unions in general, and don't get me started on my opinion on how its even LEGAL that government employees are allowed to unionize (should be illegal). Non-unionized and adhering to a good standard where everyone in the country takes the same tests so you can compare apples to apples, would provide data points so that teachers can be rewarded accordingly. A bonus based on the score compared to the national average, and a bonus based on a county average (so teachers in areas with stupid kids can still get a monetary reward for improving them, even if they are below average nationally). Money makes the world go round, and teaching should be no exception.The problem isn't poorly qualified teachers (this idiot in this article notwithstanding), it's that the bad and lazy ones are held up with the actual good ones by the unions. There's no incentive to go above and beyond.
What do you expect when 6 out of 10 Americans believe that a system vastly more complex than the most sophisticated supercomputer gradually evolved by random chance against mathematically impossible odds?
What do you expect when 6 out of 10 Americans believe that a system vastly more complex than the most sophisticated supercomputer gradually evolved by random chance against mathematically impossible odds?
evolution very often isn't a "random" thing, it's a mutation used to adapt to a given situation... yanno kind of like how people from more sun drenched regions are naturally much darker skinned.
Do you know what generates jobs?
Solar farms.
I guess that makes sense, its just really easily misread, especially since we are expecting to be reading crazy talk.
Crazy, indeed. Construction generates jobs. Solar farms require almost no labor - i.e. jobs - at all.
http://www.snopes.com/north-carolina-town-rejects-solar-panels/
The town as a whole did not reject the installation because it would "suck up all the energy from the sun", but rather based on the true assertion that:
1) It does displace flora that would be using that ground and sunlight to grow, and the fauna that depend on it, thus impacting the ecosystem.
2) It is an eye-sore and that can affect light commercial business development if it ruins otherwise attractive scenery.
But regarding the teacher, I've said it before and I'll say it again, teachers are NOT overpaid. They are mostly underqualified half-educated house-wives playing teacher, not experts in their fields, and the reason that they reject standardized testing for their students is because it would make it obvious that they can't teach in an objective manner. But most of the US, and [H] is no exception, insists that our teachers are so great and that women like this should be the ones coming up with their own tests, and not held to any standards and paid more... *rolleyes*
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Not included in graph:
Cell towers and radio towers: 6.8 million
Buildings: between 100 million and 1 billion
Cats: between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion