Yes, the U.S. Is In a Terrible Place Right Now, But There Is Hope
It would be easy to look at the United States right now, and conclude that all the stupidity, greed, selfishness, dishonesty, corruption and other forms of criminality that underpin our federal government and its state-run “news” agency are happening equally all around the world. As shown here, that is clearly not the case at all.
Maybe the Americans who are learning about New Zealand will insist that some of that sanity and decency wear off and land here. Maybe not.
Whoever created this did a workmanlike job. I would add:
Bernie Sanders writes: Did you know that the United States ranks 53rd on the list of World Freedom Rankings? Americans are not financially free when they are chained to student debt and astronomical health care costs. It’s time to revitalize our democracy.
While this may not sound perfectly scientific, I don’t have a problem using the word “sin” to describe what’s driving climate change. In fact, if I were a religious person, I don’t think I could find a better term to characterize the greed and selfishness that lie behind our civilization’s continuing practices that trap increasing amounts of radiant energy from solar heat under the atmospheric blanket. 
Those looking for a blow-by-blow description of the 
Can you see the deep warmth in those eyes? Me neither. He is a creature utterly devoid of compassion.
Betraying trust is rapidly replacing baseball as America’s national pastime. We revel in it on a national and international level; witness the Kurds, the Iran peace agreement, DACA recipients and the Paris Accord. 
White nationalist Sebastian Gorka, former deputy assistant to U.S. president Trump, is promoting a group to compete against the extremely popular AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons) with its 38 million dues-paying members, on the basis of politics. He writes, “AARP wants you to believe they are a non-partisan organization. But you need to understand WHAT you are supporting if you are an AARP member. AARP backed Obamacare and strict gun control. AMAC (Association of Mature American Citizens) fought AGAINST all of these things. And AMAC fought hard to block the federal funding on abortion, and won.” 
Funny? I thought so.
You’ll travel a long way to meet someone who knows more about the business and science of energy than my colleague Stephen Lacey, contributing editor with Greentech Media. This morning he tweeted: “Usage of the term ‘climate-emergency’ increased 100-fold in the space of 12 months.” 
