This past week some 150 businesses from Midwestern states met with officials in Washington, D.C. to push for new climate and energy policies.
A question raised was, “whether or not the U.S. will be a worldwide leader in the next global industry, green technologies.”
Of course the proof, in South Korea or anywhere else, is what concrete actions are taken to demonstrate real change.
But the U.S. has some reason to be concerned if countries in Asia as well as in Europe start to get serious about climate change and energy alternatives. We could be left way behind if we are unable to keep up, compete, and produce an educated workforce.
Will we Americans still be yapping that global warming is a hoax and the fossil fuel industry cannot be inconvenienced? For that matter will we end up being grateful for any sort of work we can find?
C'mon, a comic book that has Bertrand Russell, who grabbed my attention in my senior year of college, talking to Kurt Godel and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The authors are Christos H. Papadimitriou and Apostolos Doxiadis. In this case we ought not to be afraid of Greeks bearing gifts.
Whether or not this works in explaining the abstruse ideas of some of the best minds in the 20th century remains to be seen. It's worth finding out.
Only in a dysfunctional society would this story not be a pure work of fiction. Access to affordable health care is a right--and makes really good business sense.
Each day this private health care obscenity continues in the U.S., the less likely we'll recover from much of anything, but we will move closer to becoming a "failed state," which is how we once referred to countries in the third world.
Be optimistic
(Buzz Holling, father of resilience theory)
It's easy enough to blame the public's apathy about climate change on all the confusion sown by the denial crowd and their frequent misrepresentation of facts. Unfortunately, the complexity of climate change is sufficiently “complex” with or without climate denialists.
It is also easy to become skeptical about how soon we can actually transition into alternative energy. It seems to me that one reason for the skepticism is that the “green” solutions were oversold in the beginning.
An excellent presentation for both children and adults. How do we get to a clean energy future? Could we actually build the "sun" on the earth. Is it possible to discover the holy grail of harnessing fusion energy?
The National Ignition Facility thinks it is. Edward Moses, associate director of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, presents the possibilities. This is approximately 58 minutes long.
Life is good for the people's representatives and even better when these underpaid souls “transition” into the world of lobbyists. Most of these fine folks are not going to be lobbying for the poor. Where does the anger and cynicism come from in America? Visit Hallelujah I'm a Bum.
Maybe it really is possible in America to almost fool all the people almost all of the time.
Dick Armey, the former Republican House Majority Leader in the 1990s, is living proof that a slick political operative can run the supreme con on a great many Americans. Armey, after all, helped Newt Gingrich some fifteen years ago put together the “Contract with America,” a very clever Potemkin Village.
We must maintain American exceptionalism at all costs. Nothing could be worse than getting rid of the status quo. Go to Protect Insurance Companies.
