New U.S. Presidential Campaign To Feature Old Messaging on Jobs, the Environment
Those outside the U.S. have no idea how tedious it is to live in a more or less constant presidential campaign. Here, the candidates and the media are cranked up full-throttle for almost two full years out of every four, but the combatants never vanish, not even for a minute; the other two years they’re still dancing around the ring with their daily jabs and uppercuts.
The reason I bring this up is to warn readers that the tide is rising once more, and that we need to be prepared for another onslaught of pro-fossil, anti-environmental rhetoric; it’s just about ready to amp back up to its disgusting, full-on presence in Americans’ lives.
Is the message for 2016 new? Of course not. Therein lies its effectiveness. It’s a drumbeat, and it consists of three main points:
A woman in New York wants my feedback on a new gas-to-liquids technology, a supposedly better way to make methanol from natural gas. I write:
Cloud computing services have been around for a while, and there’s much discussion about their benefits for organizations of all sizes. Top on the list is that cloud technology has the ability to save small as well as large organizations a lot of time and money, and also reduce the risks inherent in other storage methods.
