Exxon and Biofuels
The caption here translates as “Exxon’s climate solution: use algae as biofuel. Experts say it won’t work.”
Of course it won’t work, but we can all imagine the conversation in the conference room at ExxonMobil’s public relations firm, where someone said: “We can’t just sit around and be perceived as doing business as usual while the planet bakes. Of course, business as usual is precisely what we’ll be doing, so we need a ruse, even if it’s one that was discredited decades ago. Let’s dredge one up. How about biofuels?” (more…)
As previously mentioned, 2GreenEnergy “headquarters” is located in Santa Ynez, CA, a fairly rural, “God and country” (read: redneck) part of Santa Barbara County. Ironically, our little burg has the completely opposite ethos of the tiny little beach city that sits only 30 miles away, featuring the University of California at Santa Barbara, home of 12 different Nobel laureates, 9 of whom won for physics and materials science.
Nowhere on Earth is this more apparent, and more devastating, than in the United States, a country in which 
Here’s a meme made in 2016, which foretold of the devastating effect that Trump would make in American education. Four years later, our children are that much further behind their counterparts around the globe in terms of math, science, reading comprehension, and critical thinking–that much less equipped to compete in the international marketplace.
Trump’s efforts to make it harder for Americans to receive food stamps ran headlong into the 
In withdrawing the United States from the Open Skies Treaty and destroying the highly specialized aircraft used to conduct surveillance on Russia, Donald Trump has made it impossible for our own nation, as well as all our allies, to know which country is to become the next Crimea, illegally annexed by Vladimir Putin. Moreover, in the likely event that Joe Biden wishes to rejoin the treaty, it will be an extremely time-consuming and expensive endeavor. (See video below.) 
In many cases, he citizens of the United States pool their resources for the good of all, so as to cover the costs of things like snow removal. This is called living in an organized society. 
A symptom of the decline in the U.S. educational system is the dramatic rise in the number of conspiracy theorists.
Who didn’t see this coming?
David Brooks: “The Rotting of the Republican Mind”