Can a U.S.-Chinese Collaboration on Climate Change Become a Reality?

One of the unfortunate consequences of our robo-consumer society is that people who take the concept of “utopia” seriously are immediately branded as worthless dreamers.  “Hey, we’re not trying to achieve world peace here,” one commonly hears as a metaphor for “we’re not trying to do the impossible; our feet are firmly planted in the real world.”  In truth, of course, it is only the dreamers of the world who have created anything of any real value here on Earth.

That’s why I salute my colleague Walter Feuchs and freely pass along his newsletter, this one focusing on a U.S.-Chinese partnership to address climate change and the other disastrous ecological consequences of our current throw-away society.   Walter knows something important, and it’s a basic element of success in life that perhaps most of us have forgotten:  an idea has to be conceptualized before it can become a reality.