In our rural, God-and-country neighborhood, displaying this banner would be very likely to incite vandalism. When I worked for the Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign in nearby Santa Barbara, I had to refuse an invitation to put a bumper sticker on …
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Examining the Military Industrial Complex
Here’s a wonderful piece that Bernie Sanders made using the words of four-star general and Republican president Dwight D. Eisenhower. Of course, these words were ignored, and now the military industrial complex is a juggernaut at least as powerful as …
Greed: The Religion of the Billionaire Class
What Bernie Sanders says here may or may not be correct. I see no evidence that the nation won’t survive its transition from democracy to oligarchy, at least on the basis of economics or politics.
Technology Can Save Human Civilization from Catastrophe, But Only If We Give It a Chance
Long-time 2GE readers have seen this blog morph over the years to include more posts on politics, a result of my slowly coming to realize how completely impotent clean technology is in the absence of the political will to implement …
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More on Trump’s Impact on the U.S. Economy
In the discussion we have running here following my post “Trump’s Impact on the U.S. Economy Has Lots of Interesting Turns and Twists,” we get into the concept of ideology and what it means to be an ideologue. Apparently, this …
Energy, Poverty and Terrorism
We often talk about the imperative to bring electrification to the rural parts of the developing world. Energy is a gateway to education, and education is a gateway to prosperity, environmental conservation, as well as stronger and smaller families. This …
What an Archeological Dig in Kenya and Bernie Sanders Have in Common
There were two stories in our news last week that bear notice. One was the discovery of a mass grave in Kenya in which the bodies date back 12,000 years. It was clear that these people met their demise in …
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Saying Goodbye to Citizens United
What a great time to be alive. Just when the world’s people needed a reminder that their viewpoints still matter, it appears that we’re about to see this play itself out. In particular, the people of the United States (often …
On a Proposed Carbon Tax
From a colleague: In his interview with Vox, Bernie Sanders says, “Are the scientists right or are they wrong? If they are right they’re telling us that the planet Earth will be 5 to 10 degrees warmer by the end …
Vermont: The Mecca for Fossil Fuel Divestment
If you like self-styled people who don’t ask permission to do what they think is right, you have to live in awe of the state of Vermont. The presence of Bernie Sanders in the U.S. senate (pictured) is proof enough, …
