Leaders define their country. Democracy is an effort to find leaders who are defined by their country. It sometimes works, not always. Dictators destroy their country. Putin is a complex beast as he pretends to be democratic but killing all those that oppose you is a sign of dictatorship in desperation. Biden is a simple …
Category: Environment
Disaster Capitalism versus Green-Tech
The Desirability of Solar and Wind Energy Introduction: What is Disaster Capitalism? When profits rule the minds of political planners, it does not matter how far down the rabbit-hole of destruction society travels, the same dead-horse flogging is pursued until the inevitable result of ignored environmental destruction reduces available resources for those who do not …
The Climate Emergency
The Arctic is now a source of excess CO2 as the danger of climate instability and global warming is becoming more critical every year.
All Life Matters
Evolving Better Government Photo by Julian Wan on Unsplash BLM is completely correct. It has demonstrated how important political issues are hijacked by those who oppose it. BLM is an important, vital political message - minorities are vitally important. But the real issue we face as a species, all humanity is how we live inside …
The Climate Prophet
Greta Thunberg had dedicated her life for the past year to telling the world that how they are talking about climate, what they are doing about the ongoing climate catastrophe. Her voice means something. She speaks a plain language that even politicians can hear. The public needs to hear it as well. https://youtu.be/14w8WC1I3S4 Greta Thunberg …
Empire of Dirt
Sustainability is a word that casts a political shadow, in the same dark place where "a vote for Green is a wasted" vote lives, i.e. discouraging people to take action to protect life on Earth. Empire building takes many forms. The 20th Century saw major world powers allow mega-corporations to ruin the natural world with …
Air pollution
The WHO now see air pollution as the new tobacco. That is a strange word, "new". It is not new that people object to air pollution and it is certainly not new that excessive poisons in our atmosphere is nothing but a crime against humanity.
12 years to avert catastrophe
The IPCC has said that the planning to limit global temperatures rises to below 2C by 2100 is not now a goal that will be achieved, instead advising we must stop warming before it exceeds 1.5C by 2030. That is twelve years of accelerating and increasing decline in stability before we are well and truly …
Denuclearisation
In the opening minutes of the Trump-Kim summit it will become very obvious that Trump will withdraw because Kim does not immediately lie down and offer his entire nuclear arsenal in exchange for reunification with South Korea. Kim has already achieved what he wants - a meeting with the US President. He will offer an …
Nuclear Threat
Does North Korea pose a genuine threat to the USA with a handful of nuclear missiles pointed in its general direction? Does the USA pose a genuine threat to North Korea? Both bear the scars of a dreadful war in the early 1950s; a war that has not officially ended. In the intervening years, South …