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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Uncategorized

The short video here presents an interesting viewpoint on home schooling, and it’s one that resonates with a growing number of Americans today. In summary, it suggests that the public school system is all about indoctrinating kids, where children taught by their parents are steered clear of this evil.

I guess it’s all a matter of what you choose to believe.  Yes, kids in school will learn about the true history of American slavery, climate change, the theory of evolution, and the fact that there are other political/economic structures in the world other than unbridled capitalism.  Kids will not learn that Jesus is Lord.  If that upsets you, you’re not alone, and perhaps home schooling is for you.

But if that’s the case, please don’t try to tell me that you object to your kids’ being “indoctrinated.”  They’re just being fed into another mental wood-chipper that focuses on one particular religious sect, the rejection of science, and the glorification of a country that has its faults. You’re stifling your kids’ capacity to think for themselves.

Own that.

by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

I’m not a financial pro, but here’s some advice:

Don’t live on a budget.  Make a lot of money and live far beneath your means.  What value does luxury actually bring to your life, especially if it makes you nervous about running out of cash?

As I told my kids when they were growing up, “Unless you’re completely shallow, showing off your money is an idiotic thing to do.  You make false friends and have people glomming onto you to sell you stuff you really don’t need.”

Warren Buffett still lives in a modest house in Nebraska, a state in which he could buy an entire county.  Maybe there is something about him and his values that could benefit you.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Photovoltaics

I see.

There’s not enough land in Spain to support rooftop and ground-mounted solar at a fraction of the cost.

LOL.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

It’s possible that right now, there are other civilizations observing the human race, studying us from afar, and noticing our decline into savagery and eventual extinction by turning billionaires into trillionaires.

People say that the principal weakness of human beings is that we can’t plan for the future as a species.  Dogs are arguably even worse, though they aren’t consumed with greed.  They don’t plot the starvation of millions of other dogs so they themselves can have enough food to last a billion years.

As an elderly man, I’ll be leaving this planet soon, but I won’t cease pondering this until my heart stops beating.

 

by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

The drawing here reminds me of a conversation I had with my mother in the early days of 2GreenEnergy when she saw that my focus had become an ongoing effort to improve the wellbeing of all the planet’s inhabitants–now and into the future.

She asked me, “Why don’t you just live your life?”

I explained, “This is my life.”

 

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Members of a small (pop. 200), rural, and very conservative town in Montana are not happy that ICE has rounded up and deported “Roberto,” a local businessman who came here illegally, “worked his butt off,” and over the years became “a neighbor, a member of our community.” Short video linked above.

“How can there not be a way to make him legal?” a citizen asks.

Sadly, this is what being a conservative is all about in today’s America, i.e., you think abuse is fine, until it impacts your own life.

 

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I agree with Joseph T. Stegall at left, but the main reason Trump needs to face justice is for the good of the country–and the entire world.

If Trump dies a “controversial figure” rather than a vicious criminal, the United States will never recover from the drubbing it’s taken on the world stage and the incredible amount of harm that’s been inflicted on the American people.

Moreover, failure to prosecute Trump would set the stage for the next sociopath to come along and take us down even further. Keep in mind that the next guy is probably not going to be as incompetent as Trump and may turn this place into North Korea.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

If you want to remain ignorant of science, that’s your choice. Homeschool your kids and teach them that rejecting Christ will send them to an eternity of torment in hell.

You’ll need to start while their still young, while they’re still incapable of asking you why all the little boys and girls who are born in non-Christian countries are doomed to be tortured forever.

Maybe if you can isolate them such that they’ll never question why the bible says the Earth is 6000 years old, when dinosaur bones are hundreds of millions of years old.

If you want to go down this road, which I call child abuse, you have that right.

But realize this: as time passes and science continues to help us cure disease, explore space, extend our lives, and, we hope, help us to avert environmental collapse, your position will reveal itself for what it is: cruel stupidity.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

Dr. Brian Cox has risen to the status of what I would call an “astrophysics badass” in a matter of just a few short years.  Anywhere you go on social media, there’s Cox making you think the most profound thoughts imaginable.

In this video, he explains what he told world leaders what they must do about climate change — and why — at a recent COP summit in Glascow.

I won’t give anything away, but I caution you to fasten your seatbelts.

 

 

 

 

 

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