Over the years, I've developed a cooling strategy that keeps our home comfortable while reducing energy use. You don't need solar panels or home batteries to benefit from most of these ideas.

On the hottest days, please don't expect the same things from your body that you'd expect on a mild spring morning. The air is thinner than it looks. Treat a 103°F Reno afternoon the way you'd treat a hike at altitude — with respect, with preparation, and with permission to take it easy.

The claim sounds intuitively reasonable: EVs are heavier than gas cars, heavier vehicles damage roads more, therefore EV drivers should pay extra to compensate. But when you dig into the physics, the data, and the current policy landscape, the argument turns out to be far more complicated — and in some cases, already backwards.

As writer, Michael Pollan said, in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion. It's the American paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we seem to become

Are We Doomed? invites us to take a breath. To ask what history actually shows, before we retreat to our corners and dig in.

New technology is neither savior nor monster. It's power — power that requires wisdom, limits, testing, and humility. And, ultimately, stewardship.

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