Reading archive 2021-11-22

These Americans Are Just Going Around in Circles. It Helps the Climate.: An Indiana city has the most roundabouts in the country. They’ve saved lives and reduced injuries from crashes — and lowered carbon emissions. - "Carmel, Ind., has the most roundabouts in the country. The main reason is safety; compared with regular intersections, roundabouts significantly reduce injuries and deaths. 

"And because the city doesn’t have red lights where cars sit and idle, burning gasoline, the cars of Carmel emit many fewer tons of planet-heating carbon emissions a year. 

"The reason that Carmel has so many roundabouts is Jim Brainard, the city’s seven-term Republican mayor. When he studied at the University of Oxford in the 1980s, he became taken with European traffic flow. Brainard built Carmel’s first roundabout in 1997. Now it has 140, with a dozen still to come.

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"Having greener intersections dovetails with Mr. Brainard’s climate mitigation efforts. He was among the thousands of leaders who pledged to uphold the Paris climate agreement when former President Donald J. Trump announced the American pullout in 2017. Carmel’s city vehicles are either hybrid or run by biofuels, green spaces sown with native plants have exploded in number and size, and solar panels help fuel the city’s water treatment and sewage plants. Under Mr. Brainard’s watch, the city has also added bike paths, taken out traffic lanes, widened sidewalks and increased walkability, all in an effort to get people out of their cars."

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Two Fox News pundits quit over concerns about ‘conspiracy-mongering’ Jan. 6 documentary: Conservative writers Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes said ‘the voices of the responsible are being drowned out by the irresponsible’ at Fox

Inside the QAnon Cult That Believes JFK Is About to Return: “Many people make huge sacrifices financially, in their relationships, in their lives, just to be there.”

The QAnon JFK Cult in Dallas Is Tearing Families Apart: “My sister may be too far gone, but it's not too late to bring awareness to others. Do not fall into this trap.”

Michael Flynn Wants to Outlaw All Religions Except Christianity Now: “If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion,” Flynn told a QAnon conference over the weekend.

QAnon Leader Ron Watkins Is Running for Congress and It’s Not Going Great: The QAnon influencer vowed to raise “at least a million dollars” and win a House seat in Arizona. How’s that going?