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If you like to worry about things—and most people do—you are living at a great time. Climate change is coming, and it is coming right at you. Regardless of where you are on Earth, you will live to see your life or the lives of your kids and their friends change due to the... Continue Reading →
IT’S THE SPRING of 2043, and Gina is graduating college with the rest of her class. She had a relatively stable childhood. Her parents availed themselves of some of the year of paid family leave they were entitled to, and after that she was dropped off at a free child care program. Pre-K and K-12 were also free,... Continue Reading →
WITH A GREEN NEW DEAL, HERE’S WHAT THE WORLD COULD LOOK LIKE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION
100 million barrels of oil every single day…
Today we use 100 million barrels of oil every single day. There are no politics to change that. There are no rules to keep that oil in the ground. So we can no longer save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have changed. So we have not come here to beg... Continue Reading →
In a Democratic clash on Capitol Hill, progressives are pushing an ambitious plan to wean the U.S. off fossil fuels, boost renewables and build a "smart" grid. Meet the "Green New Deal." The proposal, drawing inspiration from President Franklin Roosevelt's Depression-era New Deal, is one that progressives — led by Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), a... Continue Reading →
What exactly is the ‘Green New Deal’?
moral collapse…
“Carbon emissions have now accumulated to the point where avoiding warming by 2 degrees Celsius is impossible. Even under optimistic assumptions about the speed with which countries might respond, it now seems likely that the world will warm by 4 degrees Celsius or more, which will transform the conditions of life on the planet and... Continue Reading →
ENERGY | ENERGY STORAGE (DISTRIBUTED) RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #77 AN ENABLING TECHNOLOGY—COST AND SAVINGS ARE EMBEDDED IN RENEWABLE ENERGY There is an energy transition under way, one as radical as the adoption of caol, oil, and gas at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Most would describe the transformation as the shift away... Continue Reading →
energy storage distributed…
Read the Green New Deal resolution here: https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites...
Green New Deal (Actual Resolution PDF download)
competitiveness…
Evolution favors winners. During our evolution people who successfully contended for food, shelter, mates, and other advantages produced more descendants than others. Competitiveness was thus strengthened and became an intrinsic trait of our species. We reinforce this quality today by further rewarding those who successfully compete with money, respect, and fame. Highly skilled athletes, business tycoons, war... Continue Reading →
our world will be very different than it is today…
Imagination There are two ways we learn about the world beyond ourselves. Sensation, which tells us what is happening to or right around ourselves, is far stronger than intellectual perception, which tells us what is happening beyond ourselves. What we see and feel is stronger than what we learn secondhand from outside sources. The more... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 