Below is a video taken at 4:07 a.m. in Century City, Cape Town. The power goes out and the entire area goes dark as Eskom, via the City of Cape Town, cuts power due to load shedding. Then the private companies' generators kick in, and the lights come back on in the buildings.
This could be California's future, since we are running out of power generating capacity. We are mothballing natural gas plants in Los Angeles; letting the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant be phased out; losing hydroelectric power in droughts; and virtually banning other fossil fuels.
Two decades ago, Eskom was to be privatized, but the left balked. Thus South Africa has privatization by default. The generators use diesel fuel. So in the name of reducing emissions to fight climate change, California could end up increasing emissions, in this scenario.
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...
