Technologically, the world has the capacity to end most of human suffering, and create a sustainable society in which we all live productive, healthy, and happy lives.
Politically, we’re as far away from that potential as we are from Andromeda.
Carl Sagan died in 1996.
Maybe it’s good that he couldn’t see what the United States looks like now.
We don’t dabble in stupidity. We bathe in it. We elect it president. We have a cult of 74 million voters slavishly worshipping it.
Yeah! Go get ’em! Take it on the goddamn road!
America needs REAL Republicans. None of these pansies with traditional conservative values like small government, personal accountability, free markets and little regulation.
I want Capitol stormers. Anti-maskers. Open carriers of weapons of war. Torch bearers. Cross burners. Science deniers. Of course, gotta have some sex traffickers thrown in there too. Better get ‘er done before you go to trial.
This fellow asks a very good question. When indeed?
First, let’s realize that America is the only nation that has trouble assimilating this idea.
We are also a culture that worships money, and in this case, that may turn out to be a good thing. As I’m fond of saying, cleantech is destined to be the pre-eminent industry in the 21st Century, and apparently we are in the process of jumping into it with both feet.
When it becomes clear that people are making money by the peck in things like clean energy, efficiency solutions, electric transportation, and energy storage, cleantech will become mainstream overnight.
Janet Yellen says the administration’s proposals “are extremely important and necessary to invest in our economy so that we can be competitive.”
It’s so refreshing to see this happening. The entire rest of the world understands that building out infrastructure with a focus on sustainability is the only way to remain competitive as we move through this precarious time in human history. Now, it appears, the United States is catching on.
And there is so much more to like about where we’re going than where we’ve been. Imagine your son could have one of the jobs shown below: coal miner, solar installer, defender of America’s oil supply line. Which one would you choose for him?
From The Guardian: Cut taxes on the rich. Unleash a wave of entrepreneurship. Growth will pick up and more jobs will be created. Everybody benefits. That, in essence, is trickle down – a theory of economics that Joe Biden wants to consign to the dustbin of history.
It appears that Biden just might get this done, because, with the exception of rank corruption, there is little standing in his way. (more…)
This spoke to me.
There is a great deal of hand-wringing about the acceptance of LGBTQs into our society, but it seems like such a stupid and mean-spirited enterprise.
What Rudner writes at the bottom captures the real reason some people can’t “live and let live,” i.e., their agenda of discrimination and hate.
Both Canada and the UK have banned Fox News. Obviously, this is a far trickier subject in the United States, given our First Amendment rights to free speech. Yet, there are several kinds of speech that the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled unprotected, some of which are germane to this subject. (more…)
Here’s a piece on “heat bombs” that researchers believe are a chief cause of the vast Arctic ice-melt taking place before us.
Until now, it was known that all sea ice is on a path to disappear in the Arctic summers in the next few decades, but no one understood the mechanism by which this catastrophe is occurring. (more…)
This is true right now, in the spring of 2021. Whether it will be true when the mid-terms roll around in 2022 or the 2024 presidential election is anyone’s guess. Consider: (more…)
