I’m trying to guess how many replacements for wood we have around us. For decks alone, there are at least eight. We don’t have “a” company replacing wood as building materials; we have many dozens.
If you’re an expert in the subject, and you think these people with their super-flamboyant “television personality” spokesperson is the very best, feel free to invest today.
Maybe you’ll be glad you did. Lol. I highly doubt it.
The strangest part about the Trump phenomenon in the United States is that, until very recently, this country had a profound reverence for its Founding Fathers and their perspective on how American government should function (see left).
The rest of the globe still can’t believe this has happened to the United States. Sure, it’s the type of thing that happens in developing countries constantly, but not here, where until recently, we were the envy of most of the peoples of the planet.
Now we’re an afterthought, a bare remembrance of the nation we once were.
It’s up to you and me to do what we can to put this back together.
Trump and his administration are working hard to control what Americans see and hear; they’re suppressing independent journalism, the only profession that’s specifically mentioned in the U.S. Constitution.
Destroying the free press is always among the first actions taken by authoritarians.
Yes, but it’s a very tiny number, and one that is extremely unlikely to go much higher.
Ocean wave energy is a subset of hydrokinetics, and, just a few years ago, it seemed that some flavor of extracting energy from moving water might play a significant role in our renewable energy future. That is, until the cost of energy via solar and wind went through the floor.
At this point, anyone interested in the subject are either hobbyists or owners of homes that happen to be in extremely rare positions.
Imagine your property abuts an ocean, and is located with no access to the grid and terrible solar irradiance. Places like the one shown below in the islands off Northern Scotland do exist.
This seems to follow the trend towards removing science from policymaking, something very few mentally healthy people would recommend on a planet that is rapidly baking itself.
How is it possible that we have lost our way? Maybe this was never our “way” to begin with.
American society is largely built upon a kind of rugged individualism, where our people really don’t care too much about others’ well-being. By contrast, the Scandinavian countries, and to perhaps a lesser degree, the rest of the developed world, live in the belief that the welfare of all citizens is important.
That’s why the citizens of these countries don’t mind paying slightly higher taxes if that means that no one lives in poverty, or is denied healthcare and education. As a result, these nations are constantly getting stronger and more cohesive, where the United States seems to have lost its grasp on even its most basic tenets, like democracy, that have guided it for 250 years.
Dissenters against autocrats in Hungary, Serbia, and Turkey see the same “democratic backsliding” in the U.S. “Americans think this is something that also only happens to others,” said an opponent of Hungary’s Viktor Orban. “That mindset has to be fought.”
Trust me, the majority of Americans are acutely aware that Trump represents a grave threat to U.S. democracy. If it weren’t for the consolidation of power in the executive branch, and Trump’s lack of concern for anyone and anything other than himself, this whole thing wouldn’t be anywhere near as terrifying as it is now.