For Goodness Sake, Make All the Money in Energy You Possibly Can
Apparently, Bernie Sanders wants to move all our IOUs (investor-owned power utilities) into the public sector, though I can’t image why. What’s the problem with making money if you’re doing it in an environment where you’re cleaning up your mess, and not dumping it in the sky for someone else to clean up?
There are probably at least a dozen variations on this theme, but if, for instance, you implement my personal favorite, the carbon fee and dividend plan that we’ve been discussing here, you’ll clean up the energy and transportation sectors so fast you won’t have time to blink.
Everyone involved in business transactions that involve carbon pays a fee according to its amount that is refunded, dollar for dollar, to the general populace. Big carbon sellers/consumers will lose money; low carbon sellers/consumers will make the exact same amount. Incentive to use less carbon will drive down its use and create furious R&D in the low-carbon space.
Most of our coverage on Iceland has dealt with its fabulously passionate approach to environmental sustainability. Iceland’s Prime Minister, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, became deputy chairperson of the Left-Green Movement in 2003 and has been their chairperson since 2013.
Trump’s behavior, with the frantic, bald-faced lying at every turn, and for no reason, is unsustainable. This cannot continue; it’s going to cross a line somewhere, and soon. The man is insane. This must cease. I feel very strongly that the end is near.
One thing you can say about humankind is that, when we have a crisis, lots of creative ideas pop up like mushrooms after a summer rain. Of course, like mushrooms, some are better than others. 
There are so many enormously positive developments in our civilization it’s hard to count them. As noted, the 
When my wife and I were taking our daughter Valerie to visit prospective colleges we took a tour of San Francisco State University. During a stroll along the streets downtown afterward, she told me, “Daddy, I don’t think I like this city,” to which I replied, “Well that means you don’t like cities. Outside of Paris or Prague or New York, you’re not going find more fun concentrated in one place.” 
At a certain point in his life, 
The U.S. Senate is an extremely powerful institution whose tasks include the approval of treaties, the confirmation of Cabinet secretaries, Supreme Court justices, federal judges, as well as conducting the trials of those impeached by the House. Senators serve six-year terms, and thus one-third of the body come up for election every two years. 
The caption to the left should actually read, “The Amazon Can’t Recover 
Who knew that Maine would become the first state to officially ban single-use polystyrene (Styrofoam) containers? 
