Insight from Thom Hartmann



Who likes to lose close to a billion dollars, with an even bigger loss waiting in the wings?

Now, of course, if you’re Elon Musk, you have a vested interest here. Your net worth is such that it could wipe out world hunger or avert climate disaster if you so chose, but you have no intention of any of that, so it makes sense for you to resent the hell out of Soros

I dispute the assertion that human civilization is making any real attempt at leaving wealth to its children. The richest 1 percent grabbed nearly two-thirds of all new wealth worth $42 trillion created since 2020, almost twice as much money as the bottom 99 percent of the world’s population, reveals a new Oxfam report.
So yes, the trust fund babies are inheriting more money than they ever had in the past, but consider for a moment that two-thirds of Americans cannot meet an unexpected expense of $500. That’s not a great deal of wealth, sustainable or otherwise.

Once democracy is taken away, it’s extremely difficult to restore.


The spokespeople for these budding enterprises speak completely understandable English, though through some heavy European accent. If you vant to make a fortoon, zees es yur beeg chance. Apparently, we think Europeans are less likely than Americans to rip us off.
Here’s Arthium, the very epitome. Chek zees oot. The technology itself would be laughed at by any high school science teacher.
Of course, most Americans have never heard of the French physicist Carnot, through whose principles we now understand that this idea is a total joke.

The benefits of an educated population reveal themselves over a period of decades. Similarly, the environmental damage caused by climate change occurs over long periods of time, and human beings (especially Americans) have extremely short time horizons that inform their thinking and decision-making.
The extreme right-wing believes that there is no value, perhaps even negative value, to education, insofar as it cranks out woke socialists.
It’s provable that educated people tend to be liberals. If you doubt this, look at the rankings of education by state to the results of the 2020 presidential election (see chart below) that Trump lost by 7 million votes.
It may be worthwhile to compare the U.S. to countries that provide free college education to anyone who wants it. The latter tend to be happier, healthier, and, perhaps most interesting of all, freer.

Flywheels have been around for hundreds of years, and, actually represented a viable potential solution to our energy storage needs, until the cost of batteries came down and their energy/power density improved over the past decades.
I tend to be unimpressed with presentations that are largely about the problem to be solved, in this case, global warming, and only tangentially about the solution.