#ndc-comics

[leori-the-unlearned]

sad to say but sometimes i am a hater (and in this post the thing i am a hater of is specifically the neo diamond cutters in da idw comic of sonic)

now i dont MIND them as a team and i was hyped at first! but thats kinda. decayed. under the readmore are my thoughts on them (long & rambly)

theres a few reasons to it: the visual designs next to each other, the team dynamics, the way tangle is treated in those dynamics, the reason the team even formed, the way they had tangle take the diamond cutters name so insensitively… i really *don’t* like them as they are that much, although i still dont ‘hate’ the team as a concept

visual designs: their color schemes overlap so much and not necessarily in a good way. every color used on one is used on the others in some form, which kinda blends them together instead of building separate identity. looking at other 3-man sonic teams highlights this: not just sonic tails knuckles being distinct primary colors, but even team dark that overlaps in black and reds is still distinct thru shadow and omega’s body shapes, rouge having pink instead of red, AND having different concentrations of each color. the neo diamond cutters/NDC have two majority white characters, both of whom wear yellows and browns and warm tones, and then one character who is yellow and brown and warm and wears cold gray tones. their shapes do stand out with tangle’s stripes and tail, lanolin’s puffs, and whisper’s angles, but still all the white is super same-y (and it gets worse when silver teams up with them). and the character designs aren’t bad on their own - but they’d work so much better together to be tweaked imo, maybe by working more purple into tangle’s design with her eyes (which is a color neither of the others use), and finding a way to give whisper a bit more of a peppy outfit (her extreme gear fit works SO well for this, the blue is cute on her and works great with the gold in a different way than it works with tangle’s white and purple with gold), and then lanolin can kinda stay the dusty down-to-earth tones, maybe work in green somewhere..

then my next point….. why does tangle stay with them i know the reason they gave her is she wants to stick close to whisper, but why is she back in a team with authority over her and responsibility and specific missions? isn’t that why she left the restoration - besides to be free to go find whisper, to be able to go where she wants and be helpful where she feels she’s needed? i can’t see tangle being content with this setup for very long, especially as it is where lanolin is clearly like their commander/boss. seeing that scene with lanolin slapping the paddleball out of tangle’s hand instead of asking her to stop - based on what they show in the comic, lanolin went right to smacking around instead of communicating, and based on what tangle says, didn’t even communicate to tangle that she wanted her to stop. tangle, who HAS been shown to be fairly good at self-correcting and staying within boundaries with whisper. it’s sure not the only part of their dynamic but the fact it was there is, man,, additionally tangle herself is getting slandered this arc, particularly by recharacterizing her as a rookie who hadn’t done any fighting until sonic showed up - issue 4, tangle’s introduction, explicitly contradicts this by showing tangle already easily handling badniks before sonic and her even first see one another!!!

for the purpose of this NDC team layout where lanolin and whisper are Good At Things and tangle is the rookie who needs their training and doesn’t even know how to fight, they’re scratching out the parts of tangle that made her so cool and fun! and it’s so frustrating seeing the character i like being written so wrong, i want to make a separate analysis post just for how recent issues contradict or build friction with recent tangle vs how she was in earlier issues.

additionally, if whisper’s trying to move on from her past and the diamond cutters, the better way to show that narratively isn’t by forcing whisper into another team, it’s letting her function outside a team, with her friends - the way tangle does. so instead pushing tangle into whisper’s box having a team, it grates all that down into ‘but what if they were secret agents sorta’. (oh, and all had wisps except tangle. is she allergic to wisps or something, or are they trying not to give tangle anything else special because she has her tail, despite whisper having *5* wisps not being too many?)

i guess i dont really have a conclusion besides ‘i hope tangle realizes she isnt having a good time here and that adhering to the standards other people hold for her instead of playing to her own strengths is holding her back and goes and spends time with literally anyone besides whisper and lanolin’, but i really wish this team hadn’t started at all, or at least ended up as a one-off instead of a recurring unit that isolates each member from anyone else in the comic unless they join the team. it pulls tangle and whisper away from potentially more interesting situations and interactions with other characters and pushes them into a structure, even ignoring what the writers had to break (ie tangle) in order to force them into that structure. and tangle clearly came out the worst among the three of them, but i think they all kinda hurt for it.

and hey, if you disagree- well first, why did you read all this if you knew i was just gonna be hating on the thing you like?- you’re free to share your standpoints! i’m not committed to thinking of NDC as Bad and Awful, but the things done with them have made the comic less enjoyable to me, so i’m not inclined to like the team very much. and i don’t dislike the characters themselves, just this specific way they’re stuck together. even lanolin, my least favorite, still has good points but is kinda kept in her ‘unlikable’ state by being stressed and put supervising the other two when she doesnt like it.

[ndc-comics]

I keep seeing a lot of Capybaras being shared around online recently and i just wanted to join in. Here is babbeh.

[merle-ccc-time]

Week 5: Colonisation and Nationalism

GROUP DISCUSSION: NZ Advertisements of the 80s and 90s

Who is each ad aimed at?

Their established image of the 'average kiwi'. The adverts present the average kiwi as modest, stoic and grassroots - people trying to start a family or farm, enjoying the outdoors, and building communities. Māori aren't a part of this identity - there are two shots of Māori culture throughout the entire four adverts.

What imagery are BNZ and Toyota using?

Landscape shots showing the beauty of NZ as well as established homes. Once again speaking to the potential behind

As characters, who do Barry & Scotty represent?

Barry is an adjusted 'kiwi' who gets straight to the point. He knows the land and how to navigate it (barrelling through the native bush). This is opposed to Scotty who resists - he's not dismissive or critical of Barry but he is cautious and doesn't fully understand or know what to do (e.g, wearing his helmet and Sunday best in the Hilux). He comes across as naive and new to NZ, maybe representative of the younger generation or as an opposite to the proposed traditional kiwi (Barry). It's a clever way to say 'hey if you're a real kiwi you act like this and drive our car.'

Who is Biggles?

Don't know - I'll google it. Mentioned in the BNZ advertisement as a children's book I think?

Did a quick google search and asked my dad: Biggles is a pilot and an adventurer, and the protagonist of the Biggles series. He seems to explore a lot and mentioning the series in the BNZ advert was a good way to tap into feelings of nostalgia shared by kiwis and associate that with the BNZ brand.

The flag? The B of NZ?

The BNZ advert doesn't have a logo, it uses the NZ flag waving in the background which I think is very presumptuos.

Underlying message of its patriotic to use the Bank of New Zealand. An everyday Kiwi uses BNZ - banal nationalism example.

Who’s world is “Our World”?

NZ Settlers/Kiwis. I'd argue that established families in NZ are still settlers as behind this advertisement there was this attitude of 'pioneering the land' presented as a part of the Kiwi identity. There are only two shots of Māori people, both presentations of culture - the haka and hongi. Never are Māori people depicted as living a domestic life in NZ - they aren't included as kiwis.

Reminds me a little bit of Hawaii where the natives of Hawaii are exploited for tourism profits, at their expense and dismissal of their culture and claim to the land. The depictions of Māori in the advert have a similar tone to this.

Who is John Grenell? Why is that question relevant?

John Grenell is the singer behind the song 'Welcome to Our World' which plays in Toyota's 1995 advert. The original song is called Welcome to my World and is by American songwriter Jim Reeves. It's an American country love song and it's been repurposed as a love letter to 'our world, the New Zealand presented in the advert.

Crumpy and Scotty 1st Hilux Commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyHBKX29_Q8

Crumpy and Scotty - Toyota Hilux https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yj1gff-ndc

Bank of New Zealand Advertisement, 1990 https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/22430/bank-of-new-zealand-advertisement-1990

Welcome to Our World - Toyota (1995) https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/welcome-to-our-world-toyota-1995/overview

Independent Study

Task 1: Reflect

The kiwiana identity that a lot of advertising we looked at in this sesssion sold as the common New Zealander excluded different identities, such as the entirety of Maori culture. There was a set way to be a NZer - Scotty who was pakeha even fell out of the traditional kiwi type. The language used in the advertisements did this as well through nods to collective experiences those targeted could relate to (baches, biggles books and farming culture etc).

Presented NZ as a place to be pioneered asserts over the mana tangata of those already here.

Task 2: Read a Kiwi At My Table

Task 3: Planning

I want to do a journal comic panel format type representing the experience of being out of touch with tikanga surrounding funeral customs and the effect that has.

Very personal piece - possibly too personal. I am trying to show my understanding and relationship to the topic I've chosen though.

I want the title to be "Something Something, Then and Now", which is a nod to the awkward transition and delayed grief that the proceedings had on me and others.

Based on when my friend passed away during the first lockdown and the impact that had on me and the community and how that affects someone.

Kind of autobiographical - based on an idea I've wanted to make for a while but adjusted under my current understanding about the impact of not following tikanga or being able to engage with tikanga.

Going to try and represent time and impact - change and transition - loss - then and now.

[historyhermann]

A Lack of Imagination: Fictional Acceptance of Dewey Decimal System Without Question [part 1]

Fiction is a medium which allows people to question and challenge existing norms, beliefs, and systems of our world. It provides the opportunity to create new places, characters, and situations, which might mirror the real world, but are something entirely new, even if that is inspired by existing fictional works. Despite this, there seems to be a profound lack of imagination when it comes to the well-known library classification system, the Dewey Decimal System (DDC), in fiction. Instead, there seems to be an acceptance of this system  of classification at face value, without challenging the values and beliefs which undergird the system. This is the case for animated series like Futurama, Ascendance of a Bookworm, The Owl House, Teen Titans Go!, and We Bare Bears, a comic associated with Steven Universe, and fan fictions. This article will look at those fictional works and provide comments on DDC and other library classification systems.

In the Futurama episode "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid," one of the Big Brains remarks that humans had doomed themselves by arranging knowledge by category, making it "easier to absorb." He then declares that the DDC played right into their hands, laughing maniacally. In an episode of Ascendance of a Bookworm, Myne, the anime's protagonist, advocates for re-organizing all the books in a temple library using the NDC (Nippon Decimal Classification) system, which is the Japanese version of the DDC, which she remembers from her previous life. Although she can't organize all the books, she is able to make sure the books are more ordered than elsewhere they were before. She even had a PSA on the role of Melvil Dewey, argues later about the importance of giving away books for free rather than for profit, and industrious.

In contrast, the public library in The Owl House, the Bonesborough library, has something called the Demon Decimal System, which spoofs the DDC. It has a sign saying to not feed it, reading areas and books floating above the ceiling you can choose from. In Teen Titans Go!, when Raven complains it will take forever to find a book in the library, Beast Boy asks her if she is familiar with the Dewey Decimal System. In We Bare Bears, a branch of the San Francisco library is shown which uses the Library of Congress classification system (LCCO) and DDC numbers. In a comic associated with the Steven Universe series, Connie tells Steven that you find things in the library with the DDC. This confuses him because he thinks Mayor Dewey (the mayor of Beach City) organizes the books with math. Connie then declares that, no, it is referring to Melvil Dewey, who invented it in 1876, allowing books to be organized by topic, which impresses Steven.

© 2022 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

Reprinted from Pop Culture Library Review and Wayback Machine

[obuabamedia]

Government’s delay to seek IMF support due to self-denial – Mahama

Former President Mahama has asserted that the Akufo-Addo government was in a state of self-denial for far too long as regard the resort to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for economic assistance. He said the delay in seeking help, when it was obvious that the country needed one, has caused significant damage to the economy. “After a lengthy period of living in denial and plunging the economy into unprecedented doldrums, government finally decided a few weeks ago to request for an IMF programme. They left the decision so late that substantial damage had been done to the economy by the time the call was finally made. Inflation stands at a 19 year high of almost 30% for June and is almost set to rise. Our deficit and revenue targets have so far been badly missed and we are most likely to post yet another double-digit deficit at the end of this financial year,” he said at a workshop attended by members of the Minority Group in Parliament held on Sunday. Mr. Mahama bemoaned the fact that, “ Indications from the data collection exercise of the IMF team that visited Ghana last week are that government has up to GHS 40 billion in arrears and contingent liabilities in addition to the official public debt of about GHC400 billion.” The former President this is believed to have increased the country’s debt to GDP ratio over 90%. “Our ability to meet our debt service obligations remains tenuous with Ghana ranked as the country with the second highest likelihood of debt default in the world after El Salvador. It is no secret that our foreign currency reserve position is extremely precarious. This leaves us vulnerable unless there is an urgent injection of additional foreign exchange inflows,” the 2020 NDC flagbearer posited. He contended that against this background, “the economic hardship is set to remain for an extended period.” He described Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s speech at the Accra Business School as light-hearted, “Amid this gloomy outlook, those responsible for the mess refuse to exhibit contrition and sobriety. One of the key architects of the failed policies and mismanagement that have led to our economic downfall and suffering, found it necessary a couple of days ago, to put up a public display that verged on the ridiculous and comical.” He noted that elsewhere, Dr. Bawumia would have resigned, “In a government where honour and responsibility are respected, the Chair of the Economic Management Team that has thrust us into this crisis would have stepped down or be dismissed.” “In fact, the very idea that this government has requested for an IMF programme would have been sufficient reason for him to go in view of all the unenlightened propaganda he dabbled in against our IMF programme of 2015. Rather, he has chosen to show a gaping deficit in leadership attributes by making untenable excuses and seeking to shift blame onto the government that left power almost six years ago and which had no role to play in the poor policy choices that have delivered these disastrous outcomes,” Mr. Mahama concluded. Read the full article

[impactwithdj]

The most disappointing part of this for me is how well educated/exposed business owners and persons with respectable careers, are engaging in childish trolling and cyberbullying of this man.  And no, I am not making a statement because he is NDC.  I would put this post up regardless of whom it is.  This post is not for the masses, the uneducated, the Npp supporters.  It is for the person with career ambitions. I would like to congratulate @johndumelo1 for his successful participation in the 2020 election.  His votes count was super impressive for a 1st time candidate.  John Dumelo pursued his career ambitions in politics.  He won the NDC seat to contest against NPP.  That in itself is a big achievement!  He proved that he was serious and worked hard towards his goals. We all saw evidence.  So why has it become comic relief? You sit behind your phone, create memes and post it online.  I am confident those who have time to create memes are not people with high career ambitions.  Then you with high career ambitions, take it upon yourself to post it on your social media, thinking you are making a fool of a man who has proved that he believes in something and in pursuit of it.  You on the other hand, haven’t even sat in the midst of kings and queens before.  So who is really the one who must be trolled?  Certainly you the reposter of the meme.   I am so disappointed in my friends who have engaged in this act of cyber bullying.  Some of you have never even been seen worthy enough to be nominated for an award in your business industry let alone to be voted for to win or lose.  Some of you haven’t been promoted in your jobs in the last 4 years.  Some of you have applied for a change in job but still not found one.  You read this and say to yourself whatever.  But be honest this should be food for thoughts.   Ask yourself what you gain from participating in trolling someone pursuing his career goals? What are your personal career goals? How far have you gotten?   Ghana needs more young men like you!  Focused, ambitious and dedicated. When you were acting, you were great at it.  When you decided to pursue politics, you came this far. Well done ...... ᴍᴀᴋɪɴɢ ᴀɴ ɪᴍᴘᴀᴄᴛ  https://www.instagram.com/p/CIkUePwJYEy/?igshid=l7ztocpahlqc

[ethstudios]

Teacher Kojo Shames Critics By Endorsing NDC-NPP TO Preach Peace

Teacher Kojo Shames Critics By Endorsing NDC-NPP TO Preach Peace

Ghanaian comic teacher, Teacher Kojo shames critics by displaying a non-partisan move by wearing both NDC-NPP party T-Shirt altogether.

In a Facebook post yesternight, the comic actor and social media influencer put on the new NDC party T-Shirt while facing the camera.

He received several backlashes from his fans who were not in support of his move to endorse NDC, this as others think…

[yokoozuan]

Sayonara Amerika Sayonara Nippon: The Global Roots of Tadanori Yokoo’s Visual Language

Just a quick note before we get going: I can not speak or read Japanese. While Tadanori Yokoo was infamous and influential in 60s and 70s art and design circles, very little has been written about him in English. Much of my research consists of googling the kanji spelling of his name, 横尾 忠則, combing through Japanese internet archives, and translating as best I can. There are a few online translation tools I use. For a no frills Japanese-english dictionary, I use Weblio. To translate sentences and phrases, I use JIsho.org. And to translate the text within Yokoo’s work itself, I use Google Translate’s “word lens” feature on my phone. When I point my camera at Japanese text, the app translates it as best it can. None of these methods are perfect, but with a proper fact checking, they do offer a glimpse into Yokoo’s work I wouldn’t otherwise have.

For the sake of context, I’d like to discuss Yokoo’s background, his early influences, and his nondescript career as a graphic designer before he took the contemporary art world by storm in the mid 1960s.

Tadanori Yokoo was born in 1936 and grew up in Nishiwaki, Hyōgo Profecture, a modest working class town in south central Japan. As an infant, he was adopted by relatives, an elderly, working class couple who owned and operated a kimono silk wholesaler.

Yokoo began drawing almost immediately, first copying illustrations from children’s books, similar to the ones below:

Growing up in, as Yokoo remembered later, “premodern” Nishiwaki,  a place of simple, old world, “nativist” values, had a profound effect on his pop-art aesthetic. Similar to Lichtenstein's comic strips, and Warhol’s soup cans, Yokoo found endless inspiration from the everyday images of his Showa-era youth.

Yokoo loved kitsch, and specifically remembered the labels his parents attached to the wholesale silk they sold. The charming designs on these labels blended traditional Japanese design, with Western themes and motifs. Yokoo’s work would do much the same, elevating the quaint and benevolent to the outer reaches of the avant garde.

Another influence from Yokoo’s childhood were Menko cards. Menko was a children’s game where cards made of thick paper or wood were slapped down to flip over an opponent’s card. Menko cards featured famous samurai, sports heros, and movie stars, and also display a growing western influence on Japanese culture post WWII.

Yokoo had no formal artistic training. Yet, needing money to support himself after high school, he landed work as a graphic designer. He learned design principles and printmaking techniques on the job, first working for a printing company, then a newspaper, and  finally an advertising firm.

During these years, Yokoo absorbed the aeshetics of modern design. He gravitated towards the bold, playful, and innovative work churned out NYC’s Push Pin studios. Yokoo was especially influenced by the work of Seymour Chwast and Milton Glaser.

Here’s a Selection of Seymour Chwast’s work in the late 50s and early 60s:

And a election of Milton Glaser’s designs from the same period, pre-1965:

Later, when his prints were displayed in America, Yokoo in turn inspired the designers at Push Pin, as seen in Push Pin’s 1969 anti-war ad. 

Regional success in graphic design led Yokoo to move to Tokyo in 1960, where he was hired by the premier design firm in Japan, Nippon Design Company, or NDC. Tokyo at the time was experiencing a youth revolution in politics, arts, and music, similar to the hippie counterculture in the United States. The forward thinking ideas Yokoo encountered in Tokyo would inspire him to rebel against the forms of modern design and empower his transformation from respected graphic designer to ground breaking contemporary artist.

But before his emergence as a singular artistic voice following his first gallery showing in 1965, Yokoo capped his pre-fame graphic design career at NDC with his work on a design campaign for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Yokoo was one of nearly a dozen of Japan’s top designers to work on the seminal graphics for the games, which was a seen at the time as symbolizing Japan’s resurgence and modernization following WWII. The graphics were quirky, and sleek, and hugely influential around the world. Most notably, the design campaign was the first time simple male and female pictograms were used designate gendered bathrooms. These graphics were soon adopted by the British Rail in the UK as part of a major modernization program and corporate re-branding, which soon became universal symbols

“Facilities label” as part of Tokyo Olympics design campaign:

Typical symbols of Male and female bathrooms:

More on that can be found here: https://lookingfortokyo.wordpress.com/2014/09/29/graphic-design-and-the-64-tokyo-olympics-just-look/

Thanks for reading. In my next blog, I’ll be looking at Tadanori Yokoo’s seminal prints from the late 60s. Until then!

[tabletopgamingguild]

IDW is partnering up with CMON to create a new three part comic series based on the Rising Sun Universe created by Eric Lang and Adrien Smith! I am super excited about this and to make it better it will come with a exclusive promo for the board game! I am definitely preordering this at my FLGS (NDC)! #tabletopgamingguild #boardgames #tabletopgames #newdimensioncomicsbutler #risingsunboardgame https://www.instagram.com/p/B1hkNLXhHpQ/?igshid=dpzq4lavax96

[mikecoulter-blog]

"Never Die Club Vol 1. - O Anti-Buda de Havana" (Roteiro de Marcello Fontana. Arte de Thony Silas. Cores de Paulo Torinno). . A orelha de Never Die Club é assinada pelo diretor da Quanta Academia de Artes e ele define esse volume como "um daqueles filmes de aventura produzidos na década de 1980 e que forjaram (...) boa parte da cultura pop até os dias de hoje". Discordo. Never Die Club (NDC) é para mim uma série nova da Netflix: é instigante, ágil, com personagens sedutores, um cenário exótico e sociedades secretas surgindo nas sombras, deixando o leitor ansioso pelo que pode vir na segunda temporada. . Há muitos séculos (talvez milênios), um grupo de pessoas descobriu o segredo para imortalidade e, desde então, atravessam os tempos curtindo a vida, dependendo apenas do sofrimento alheio para que tal imortalidade não chegue ao fim. Basta realmente desejar a morte para que se possa, finalmente, descansar. Esses são os imortais, grupo apenas rivalizado pela tão abscôndita Ordem Vaucent, cujo objetivo é perseguir e prender os imortais. . Quando a bela imortal Venus se apaixona por um mortal, cabe a Tristan, um igualmente sedutor membro do NDC, relembra-la que os imortais devem zelar pelos segredos do clube e eliminar quaisquer possíveis ameaças. Concomitantemente, os agentes da Vaucent enxergam uma grande oportunidade de finalmente prender Tristan de uma vez por todas. . Com os traços dinâmicos de @thonysilaspro, brasileiro que muito bem nos representa na Marvel e na DC, e um roteiro instigante e rico em uma mitologia própria, NDC é um excelente exemplo de material de qualidade brasileiro. . Você deve ler por dois motivos: 1 - é excelente. 2 - precisamos apoiar projeto assim para que cresçam ainda mais e tenhamos o vol. 2 muito em breve! . Já corre atrás do seu: @neverdieclub @quadroaquadro . #neverdieclub #ndc #geekvoce #quadrinhonacional #equipesuperamigos #comics #instacomics #hqdodia #hqnacional #ccxp2017 #quadrinhoindependente

[ndc-comics]

[africaown]

I'm ever ready to battle with my sweat,blood for Mahama- Mr.Beautiful

I’m ever ready to battle with my sweat,blood for Mahama- Mr.Beautiful

Ghanaian comic actor Clement Bonney popularly known as Mr Beautiful has stated though his acting career might have been affected for publicly declaring his support for former president Mahama, and the NDC, he has not regretted making that decision.

The actor who has been missing in action after the NDC’s defeat in 2016 elections, in an interview with Graphic Showbiz reiterated his love for the…

[mcebisco]

Everything in Ghana has gone up, except Akufo-Addo’s height – ABA Fuseini

Everything in Ghana has gone up, except Akufo-Addo’s height – ABA Fuseini

Member of Parliament for the Sagnarigu Constituency in the Northern Region, Alhassan Bashir Fuseini has comically said Akufo Addo has increased the price of everything in the country except his own height.

Mr Fuseini made this funny, albeit derogatory comment at the 7th edition of the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) Moment of Truth series in Accra, Thursday, December 12, 2019.

He said, “to…

[downthetubes]

Nottingham Does Comics offers its first Comic-Making workshop

Nottingham Does Comics offers its first Comic-Making workshop

The next Nottingham Does Comics event takes place at Nottingham Writers’ Studio on Tuesday 10th April at 7.30pm. This session brings Nat Titman and Gareth Howell from Nottingham Hackspace, who will be presenting NDC’s first comic-making workshop. So, for a change, no speakers but lots of engagement, chat and learning curves. No drawing skills or literary brilliance required. All materials will be…

[globalwarmingisreal]

The Paris Agreement and the Trump Effect

Easier said than done

Last week, Taryn Fransen and Kelly Levin of the World Resources Institute published an informative analysis on the “Trump Effect” on the Paris Agreement, signed in Paris at COP21 in  December 2015. It was historic in many respects, not least of which was that it was the first time the whole world agreed on anything so ambitious.

Even so, it wasn’t ambitious enough. The Paris Agreement turns on the phrase “increased ambition“.

In other words, save for a handful of countries (North Korea, Syria, Nicaragua), the world of nations agree to decarbonize the economy by the last half of the century. We know it’s unimaginably easier said than done, and just saying it was hardly easy. It took 20 years.

The Paris Agreement is gooey and loose enough to get everyone on board. It’s the first step.

The unraveling

Even with all of Obama’s policies in place, including the Clean Power Plan, the United States will fall short of its NDC target of 4.8 to 4.9 GtCO2e in total emissions (gigatons of CO2 equivalent). In 2015, the U.S. economy emitted 5.8 GtCO2e. We knew we had work to do, but there was a plan to do it.

Obviously, it gets worse under Trump.  Or better, I suppose, if you think the whole thing is a hoax. Whichever, it’s time to make up your mind.

Isolated Trump

The irony is almost comically tragic. The handful of countries that refused to sign on in Paris now have. It is the United States that has pulled away and stands alone and isolated.

But we aren’t Trump. The president abdicates his administration’s authority, not U.S. leadership.

Others must now lead.

Photo by Aral Tasher on Unsplash 

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[patrickolliffe]

I'll be part of the "Aftershock takes over New Dimension Comics" signing with Joe Pruett and Paul Jenkins this Thursday at the NDC St. Clairsville, OH store from 6pm-9pm!! If you're in the area stop on by!!