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A Kick-Ass Era to Be Alive
These are turbulent times. Extreme weather events indiscriminately wreak havoc around the world. Floods and landslides wash away entire communities in minutes. Rising urban air pollution cause millions of deaths every year. 200 million youth are unemployed. 1 billion live in urban slums. Political instability, conflict and terror has severely deteriorated the global security situation and caused an unprecedented refugee crisis with 60 million desperate people forced to flee their homes.
Amidst all of this, pockets of extreme wealth exist, with now just 62 individuals owning as much as the bottom half of the world population. Somewhere between 21 and 32 trillion USD of private wealth is hidden away in secret offshore bank accounts. And among the privileged elite of the world, old xenophobic political ideologies and populist narratives are flourishing.
Turn on the news, and it doesn’t take long to realize that we are living on a planet under pressure. The earth is growing steadily less inhabitable, human and economic costs are rising, and a myriad of progressively complex issues threaten our collective wellbeing.
Now, you might think that this is somewhat contradictory to the title of this blog. But the fact of the matter is: we might be at a historic turning point where the way that we choose to live our lives is not only threatening our future prospects; it is preventing future generations to enjoy the same levels of wellbeing and prosperity as we do today.
So, this may very well be as awesome as it gets. The kick-ass era to be alive. Unless, of course, we decide to change course.
In 2050, 70% of the world population, or 7 bn people, will live in cities. Losses from flooding could near $1 trillion annually, and by 2070, USD 35 trillion worth of property could be at risk (Photo: Lee Yiu Tung).
The battle for the future
For the past 10 or so years, I have been given the opportunity to devote myself to the study of the future and how our current social, economic and political systems shape the world we are heading towards.
For me, this has been both a blessing and a curse. I feel tremendously fortunate to spend my days reading, writing and lecturing about this important, and sometimes terrifying, topic. How can we create a future society that is better, more resilient and more prosperous for everyone on this planet? What are the changes that we need to make to our lives to see this happen? And how can we go about making these changes – as quickly as humanly possible?
On a personal level, this gives me a deep sense of meaning and purpose. But at the same time, I am plagued with worry. What if we do not manage to overcome the struggles that we see in our world today? Or what if we do, but just simply not fast enough? What if we lose the battle for the future?
Now, perhaps the one key insight I have acquired over the course of these years is that the future is not what is use to be.
Put simply, we can no longer look at past achievements to predict the future. Whether we track GDP growth rates, poverty reduction rates or child mortality rates – past progress is no longer a good measure of future prosperity.
And how is that?
Well, as the now famous team of scientists at the Stockholm Resilience Centre have shown: for the first time in the history of mankind, we humans have become what they call a planetary force. Our actions change how the planet works – and we are changing it in a negative direction.
Yes, it is true that history has evolved for the betterment of (most of) humanity. In the past century, we have seen remarkable progress in many aspects of human development; health, life expectancy, economic opportunity, education and so on. For most people, our lives have never been better. So, this is truly the kick-ass era to be alive.
But then the concern: If we continue doing exactly what we are doing today, we might in fact be the peak generation.
The systems and models we have constructed for our societies and economies are not built to meet the challenges of today, and will gradually hamper economic growth, destabilize societies, and erode the foundation for future prosperity. In short, if we do not change course, we will be handing over to our children a planet in a far worse condition than the one we inherited.
Turning the tide
Now evidently, this is just not acceptable. But luckily, nor is it inevitable. The good news is the following. We are the first generation in history that can with a relatively high degree of certainty predict where we are headed. To a large extent, we know the problems, we know the consequences, and we know the actions we need to take to get us out of this mess. We have the knowledge, the technologies and the resources to change path.
So, perhaps this is the kick-ass era to be alive after all? We have a golden opportunity, a unique chance, to shape the future that we would like to see. A future that is not only safer, more resilient and sustainable, but also more convenient, compassionate, collaborative, vibrant and cooler.
So, despite my constant deep sense of concern, I am filled with hope. Every day, thousands of initiatives pop up all around the world offering clever solutions to today’s problems while safeguarding the needs of the future. Solutions that will radically improve how our societies are organized, and by doing so, can put the world back on a sustainable track.
So, this is my passion, and what I will devote this blog to. Writing about the opportunity that we now have to transform the societies we live in, the changes we need to make and the many inspiring examples of courageous and far-sighted individuals, organisations and businesses that are already doing this.
I have no doubt in my mind. We are in the early phases of a wide-reaching transformation that will profoundly alter not only the way we organise our societies (our economies and our political systems), but also our fundamental belief and value systems. And if we do this right, I believe the future will be bright.
And I think that is pretty cool!
43 Comments on "A Kick-Ass Era to Be Alive"
i1 on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 6:21 am
Dude, lemme get some of that skunk bud yer huffin.
Davy on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 7:03 am
I love these cats with this mentality. Just wait to the lights flicker and the store shelves start to go bare. If this happens even a little it will be a cold shower. I feel for these people who want to be optimistic. We are told from very young it is a success strategy. Our TV commercials are always optimistic even the ones asking for money for the poor or the abused animals “YOU can make a difference” bull shit. It will be those who embrace sobriety and pessimistic acceptance that have a chance except luck always saves a few of the idiots.
Cloud9 on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 7:05 am
Hubris, there is no collective we. Billions of individual choices made with limited information driven by local circumstances shape our future. It is an organic process that cannot be centrally planned or directed. At best central planners are con artist trying to secure for them and theirs a bigger cut of dwindling resources. At worse, they are delusional fools that believe their own con. The hope springs eternal mime is as old as the ages. Take a look at when the film “Things to Come” came out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atwfWEKz00U
Think about the times that caused this production and think about what happened three years later. I suppose it is comforting to imagine that some benign, far more intelligent than we are, well meaning persons have this all under control.
Let me assure you. The people who would lead us to the promised land are no more intelligent than your local PTA. We are on our own. If we are lucky, we will not be raped, pillaged or killed by the central planners. Prepare accordingly.
makati1 on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 7:06 am
Another psycho taking a paycheck for spewing crap. If anyone remembers the National Inquirer, that is all the Us has for “news” today. Bullshit, sensationalism and lies in fancy packages. Not worth reading.
The author is correct in that: ” We are in the early phases of a wide-reaching transformation that will profoundly alter not only the way we organise our societies (our economies and our political systems), but also our fundamental belief and value systems.”
But the last sentence: “And if we do this right, I believe the future will be bright” is pure bullshit. Like i1 said, they’re smoking some good stuff at Huff these days.
theedrich on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 7:14 am
Needed: more 3rdWorld insectivores to swamp us. What with Georg Sörös, Papa Frank and the Outhouse Ø all aiming to import more of them into Whiteland, it’s going to be just what Dr. Karl Marx ordered. The soon-to-be-crowned, hebephrenic banshee out of the depths of the Demonic Party will wipe every tear from a victim-soul maiden’s eye on our path to mud-filled utopia. And as she takes us into nuclear war in pursuit of “American interests” (and enlarging her and Billy’s bank accounts), all of the world’s problems will be solved. But don’t you worry, little anti-Whites, it will be really exciting or, as the mainstream media like to say, “historical.”
peakyeast on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 7:15 am
I agree with the authors title… Its certainly kick-ass time… literally kick-ass.
Kenz300 on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 7:29 am
Every problem becomes harder to solve with the worlds ever growing population. Endless population growth is not sustainable.
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dave thompson on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 7:43 am
At one end of the spectrum this guy shows up writing about “hope”. At the other end you might find a Guy McPherson writing about near term human extinction.. In between it all? You will find billions of people trying to survive.
george on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 7:47 am
It’s the Borg. They planted a singularly in the center of the pale blue dot.
paulo1 on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 9:11 am
This Goof lost me on, “We are the first generation in history that can with a relatively high degree of certainty predict where we are headed.”
As my father-in-law liked to say about twits, “He needs a good slap in the face”.
He must work at a university.
PracticalMaina on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 10:03 am
We are the first generation in history to know that we destroyed our habitat, to an extent it will effect billions of us globally within our lifetime. Sometimes it sucks to be first.
Apneaman on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 10:14 am
The cult of techno positivism.
PracticalMaina on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 10:30 am
We live in an era where you better not try to screw with the megacorps.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/04/21/newser-man-charged-felony-after-filling-mcdonalds-water-cup-soda/83331670/
The taxpayers are going to have to pay to imprison someone because he ripped off a multi billion dollar corp for what, a buck fifty? Haven’t the tax payers paid enough on healthcare for all the diabetes and obesity that mcdonalds has caused?
This a day after the Norwegian courts decided they were being too rough on a convicted terrorist murdering piece of shit, and he gets better treatment than anyone in an American jail.
Dredd on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 10:37 am
“… despite my constant deep sense of concern, I am filled with hope …”
“That’s dope.”
There are other words for what you are filled with (The Criminally Insane Epoch Arises – 5).
Apneaman on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 11:00 am
Wish it away
Shenandoah wildfire grows to 5,600 acres as 350 firefighters battle to contain it
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/shenandoah-wildfire-grows-to-6ooo-acres-as-350-firefighters-battle-to-contain-it/2016/04/20/0ab479d2-0733-11e6-b283-e79d81c63c1b_story.html?hpid=hp_local-news_fire-640pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
penury on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 11:09 am
I agree with the author’s assertion that “this is a …} However that I think is in comparison with what is coming. our (1st world) standard of living allows us to live better than any King before us, But as is typical everyone wants MORE, there is not enough more for everyone so tribal conflicts are continuous, I live in the U,S, (obvious stupid) so all I can speak to is that. If there is any hope it will have to come from the lesser developed nations.
Plantagenet on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 11:09 am
Hope! Change! Obama 2008!
That didn’t work. Lets try again.
Hope! Change! Bernie 2016!
PracticalMaina on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 11:28 am
Trumps gonna demo the US and build a newer classier fancier tackier one in its place.
Apneaman on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 11:31 am
Getting earlier every year.
Wildfire season starts early in B.C., raising fears about the summer to come
Things could change, but parts of B.C. already have a high fire danger rating and snow is melting
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/2016-wildfire-start-early-1.3543139
Apneaman on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 11:38 am
Here is another product of industrial carbon civilization that our primitive ancestors never had. Can’t get this without our advanced technology. You kids just don’t know how lucky you are….ungrateful bastards.
Record warm oceans have spawned scary slate of monster tropical cyclones
“In the past six months, the Earth has witnessed several of the freakiest, most intense storms in recorded history.
Spurred by the highest ocean temperatures observed to date, record-breaking tropical cyclones — the class of storms that includes hurricanes and typhoons — have explosively developed in three regions: the northeast Pacific Ocean, the south Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/04/20/record-warm-oceans-have-spawned-scary-slate-of-monster-tropical-cylcones/
Apneaman on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 11:47 am
Let’s ask the good people of Houston how “kick ass” and hopey they are feeling about the future this morning.
The Latest: New thunderstorms hit flood-plagued Houston
http://www.newschannel10.com/story/31783438/the-latest-new-thunderstorms-hit-flood-plagued-houston
Barker and Addicks Dams Under a Flood Warning. That’s Never Happened Before.
“The National Weather Service in League City has issued a flood warning for the Addicks and Barker watershed.
For the first time ever.
“It’s true,” says Chuck Roeseler, a NWS meteorologist and senior forecaster at the League City office. “Since we’ve been located here, they’ve never been this high before and I’ve been here since 1992.”
In 2012, the Houston Press reported on the crumbling Barker and Addicks dams. Owned and operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the watersheds, built in 1945 and 1948 respectively, protect central Houston from Hurricane Katrina-like flooding by holding back water that would otherwise overtax Buffalo Bayou.”
http://www.houstonpress.com/news/barker-and-addicks-dams-under-a-flood-warning-that-s-never-happened-before-8343556
Uh um uh, we’ll have to get back to them on that. Apparently they are somewhat preoccupied with the present.
PracticalMaina on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 11:55 am
Apneaman, a marsh next to the ocean had a wildfire that nearly spread last week in my state. Not a big fire, but it was in a tidal marsh. Strong wind and dry conditions made this relatively small brush fire nearly spread to the surrounding city’s structures. At a time when the marsh should have still had snow blanketing some of the vegetation. This state has not had a very extensive forest fire that I am aware of since 47, I am worried this will soon change, we have more woods now, and the time period between there being snow and there being green vegetation is getting longer.
http://www.pressherald.com/2016/04/15/three-alarm-brush-fire-causes-evacuation-of-old-orchard-beach-condos/
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This article about the fire season in 47 sounds eerily familiar to the warm weather we are experiencing now.
http://www.pressherald.com/2012/10/07/the-week-that-maine-burned_2012-10-07/
HARM on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 12:27 pm
“Compassionate Conservatism!” – George W Bush 2000
That didn’t work. Lets try again.
“A Safer World and a More Hopeful America!” – George W Bush 2004
There… fixed it for ya, Planty! 😉
HARM on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 12:33 pm
Dude… I’m diggin’ this post!
The future’s so bright I gotta wear shades!
http://ft.fckitupload.com/I5/FaceNuke.jpg
geopressure on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 2:38 pm
If you guys think that Bernie (or Hillary for that matter) is going to be the next president, then you are not paying attention to the signals being sent by the present administration…
Biden will be the next president, it has already been determined…
peakyeast on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 2:44 pm
@geo: I am very interested – how did you come to this conclusion?
Boat on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 3:13 pm
Hillary is the next prez.
Your view of presidential power is vastly overrated.
Boat on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 3:20 pm
geo
Rival Whiting Petroleum Corp, the biggest producer in North Dakota’s Bakken formation, will stop fracking new wells by the end of March, but would “consider completing some of these wells” if oil reached $40 to $45 a barrel, – See more at: http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/143271/US_Shales_Message_For_OPEC_Above_40_We_Are_Coming_Back#sthash.J6lW9ZcP.dpuf
Apneaman on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 4:44 pm
Boat, see any floaters around Houston today? Too bad for them eh? If they would have stayed indoors on the computer (peakoil.com) cheering on fracing and the other cancers they would still be around. AH fuck em – we got ours so who cares about a bunch of hopeful college students looking forward to the rest of their lives? You got your truck and gas is cheap. As long as we can be comfortable for that last 15-20 years of our lives who gives a shit about young people and kids. We lived the most privileged lives of any commoners in human history. It would be cruel to make us live with less just so some stupid fucking generations after us can have a chance. Boat we can tell ourselves “it’s just capitalism” and we have no responsibility to anyone but ourselves. FUCK EM ALL! boaty, let’s go coal rolling yeee haw!
I’m an energy voter
College student, 25, named as eighth victim of deadly Houston floods as pictures emerge of Texans who lost their lives in disaster
At least eight people are recorded dead amid the historic floods swamping Houston, Texas, on Monday
Victims include a junior high teacher, a 25-year-old college student and Houston city contract employee
More than 1,200 residents were rescued from floods Monday while 1,000 homes were flooded in Harris County alone
Forecaster warn more heavy rain is predicted for today while rising floodwaters have caused further evacuations
Officials are assessing two dams – both 20 years past their life expectancy – which are rated ‘extremely high risk’
Claudia Melgar, 25, named as eighth flood victim after her body was recovered from a submerged SUV yesterday
Teri Rodriguez, 41, died in early hours on Tuesday when she drove into high water on the way back from sister’s
Six other deaths were reported on Monday all of whom had drowned after getting trapped in their vehicles
Sunita Singh, 49, Suresh Tallurri, trucker Pedro Rascon Morales, junior high teacher Charles Odum, and Antonio Franco were all found dead
Another woman, who has not yet been named, was also discovered in her car in Austin County on Monday
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3549921/College-student-25-named-eighth-victim-deadly-Houston-floods-pictures-emerge-Texans-lost-lives-disaster.html
Apneaman on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 5:03 pm
Yeah, we just kicked ass on one of the 7 natural wonders of the world. Former natural wonder of the world now. Another proud moment for the fossil fuelled cancer monkeys.
A Death of Beauty — Climate Change is Bleaching the Great Barrier Reef Out of Existence
https://robertscribbler.com/2016/04/21/climate-change-is-bleaching-the-great-barrier-reef-out-of-existence/
If you’re a diver and had the great barrier reef on your bucket list, you’ll have to cross it out. No worries, because the consequences of AGW has provided the privileged with another opportunity to amuse themselves.
This one is doubly awesome, because you get to admire the quickly shrinking Arctic, due to fossil fuel burning, while burning even more carbon.
There is no limit to ape perversity, so we should be entertained right up to doomsday.
Climate Change Opens Up the First Luxury Cruise Route in the Arctic
http://www.wired.com/2016/03/climate-change-opens-first-luxury-arctic-cruise-route/
onlooker on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 5:38 pm
What planet is the author of this article posting and reporting on, because it is certainly NOT Earth!
HARM on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 6:06 pm
@Apneaman,
But who cares about some stupid reef when we’ve got CHEAP GADGETS AT WALMART!
Besides, that luxury arctic cruise for our finance Overlords sounds FABULOUS!
Can’t wait until our 0.1% can start summering in Antarctica. And just think of the untapped mineral wealth there! (to be appropriated by the Rentier class).
It’s good times and noodle salad, people…
dubya on Thu, 21st Apr 2016 11:41 pm
This is the era of peak prosperity, and quality of life. These are the good old days.
Now, there are many that would disagree – there have always been the desperately poor, and there is a whack of ’em now. On the other hand there have always been the fabulously wealthy, and 60 or so for whom that term is trivial.
But all-in-all if you are alive now (especially the old farts like my 1930 model father) you have seen the best of ‘progress’ and little downside.
He grew up with no electricity into a life of fishing, gained radio, TV, running water, cars, airplanes. Join the army! See the world! Meet interesting brown people and kill them!
His grand kids will likely see cities drown, agriculture crash and a net death of billions.
Me? Dunno yet. But it’s been pretty good for now, and the real nastiness has yet to really get going. Even the ‘Limits to Growth’ curves are still going up. When that inflection point arrives – well, I hope there is still a seat when the music stops.
Sorry about the tuna & rhino; but there is sure a lot more chicken & cows!
Apneaman on Fri, 22nd Apr 2016 1:15 am
dubya, it’s not the material goodies. There is a legion of folks in the west who have no sense of control or meaning in their lives. There is a great sense of disappointment and anxiety about the future among the young especially. They see where things are headed. Look at the tens of millions of middle class westerners who “have it all”, yet are spiralling into depression and addiction in ever greater numbers in their gilded cage. Corporate consumer neo liberal capitalism is not meeting any core abstract human needs. It’s a soulless ideology that has divided communities, impoverished many and turned society into a hyper competitive cage match. Most of the tv shows are all some kind of competition and the people are aggressive and disrespectful to each other.
There is an American social psychologist, Sheldon Solomon, (the Jeff Spicoli of psychology) who said America has become a “petri dish of psychopathology.” If times are so good why do tens of millions need to pop anti depressants, anti anxiety and recently they have added anti psychotics to the mix, just to get through a normal day? You can add in all the alcoholism (growing) and ever harder street drugs(growing) and all the addictive behaviours, shopping, eating, gambling, etc. That’s some progress eh?. Don’t be surprised if we start to see some new ideologies and highly organized movements popping up. You know like fascism did in Europe in the 1930’s.
Afraid of the Dark: Humanity at the Crossroads | Sheldon Solomon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuJhD5TkX-0
Gotta tip your hat to Tuna to last as long as they have seeing how they are so yummy to apes. Put em on the E list with the rest.
Tuna? We don’t need no stinking Tuna!
Jellyfish: It’s What’s for Dinner
Niche food becomes big business.
http://modernfarmer.com/2014/09/jellyfish-whats-dinner/
penury on Fri, 22nd Apr 2016 9:13 am
I think all readers should study Apneamans comment above IMHO it encapsulates what is really occurring throughout the Western countries of the world.
Apneaman on Fri, 22nd Apr 2016 9:21 am
Seems like too many have not been feeling so “kick ass”. Must be their fault for not being positive enough.
U.S. suicides have soared since 1999, CDC report says
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-suicides-soared-since-1999-20160421-story.html
onlooker on Fri, 22nd Apr 2016 9:22 am
Yes thanks AP and Pemury. At some point we should dwell on social ills because that is affecting us in the here and now. Ignoring the Massive Tidal Wave from the Environment for a moment, we have in the US a utterly dysfunctional population who are possessed with primitive urges and who lack any discernment of what is important going into the future. That is what Capitalism has bought us not just what it has not given us. I am afraid I have to nod my head to the anti-americans we are at this point a crazy infantile spoiled society. That is why I personally wish for the future to arrive already.
Apneaman on Fri, 22nd Apr 2016 9:24 am
PODCAST – On domination, extinction, and capitalism’s long history of slaughter.
“We can’t maintain biodiversity in a world in which there is unrestrained, hyper-capitalist exploitation based on ceaseless growth. It’s fairly obvious that a system based on ceaseless expansion, on a finite planet, is going to run up against natural limits. And the extinctions we’re seeing right now is one of the prime examples of that.
Author Ashley Dawson examines the ways capitalism has powered a wave of extinctions across the globe – by amplifying the brutality of our colonial past, to coopting future solutions to environmental crises – and explains why resisting further ecocide, and hopelessness, requires a globally connected fight against capitalism itself.”
https://thisishell.com/interviews/896-ashley-dawson
onlooker on Fri, 22nd Apr 2016 9:31 am
So it is not surprising that in the most hyper-capitalistic country in the world we also have the most people who are in some way afflicted by some pathology.
Apneaman on Fri, 22nd Apr 2016 10:36 am
All Hollowed Out
The lonely poverty of America’s white working class
“For the last several months, social scientists have been debating the striking findings of a study by the economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton.* Between 1998 and 2013, Case and Deaton argue, white Americans across multiple age groups experienced large spikes in suicide and fatalities related to alcohol and drug abuse—spikes that were so large that, for whites aged 45 to 54, they overwhelmed the dependable modern trend of steadily improving life expectancy. While critics have challenged the magnitude and timing of the rise in middle-age deaths (particularly for men), they and the study’s authors alike seem to agree on some basic points: Problems of mental health and addiction have taken a terrible toll on whites in America—though seemingly not in other wealthy nations—and the least educated among them have fared the worst.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/white-working-class-poverty/424341/
Apneaman on Fri, 22nd Apr 2016 10:40 am
The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans
Nearly half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency. I’m one of them.
“The Fed asked respondents how they would pay for a $400 emergency. The answer: 47 percent of respondents said that either they would cover the expense by borrowing or selling something, or they would not be able to come up with the $400 at all. Four hundred dollars! Who knew?”
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/my-secret-shame/476415/
Apneaman on Fri, 22nd Apr 2016 11:02 am
Status Anxiety, AKA – “Keeping up with the Joneses” is a part of human nature. What is not “natural” is the pathological level of it neo liberal corporate consumer capitalism has managed to instil in the consumer (formerly referred to as citizen or human being). They call it marketing, but it’s really social conditioning on a scale that embarrasses religion. They start with the young and we never evolved any defences for something that overpowering. It’s criminal. The renowned American physicist and Nobel laureate Steve Weinberg once said,
“Good people will do good things, and bad people will do bad things. But for good people to do bad things — that takes religion”
Clearly the same thing can be said about capitalism. Especially the latest neo liberal version that has people doing bad things to themselves as well. Apparently driving ones species to extinction is unhealthy as well.
It’s a cancer that has encompassed the globe.
Canadians’ household debt climbs to highest in G7 in world-beating borrowing spree
http://business.financialpost.com/investing/outlook-2016/canadians-household-debt-highest-in-g7-with-crunch-on-brink-of-historic-levels-pbo-warns
Higher debt loads making Canadians more vulnerable than ever, PBO warns
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/debt-loads-pbo-1.3410052
Kenz300 on Sat, 23rd Apr 2016 8:58 am
The top 1% want it all….. and the RepubliCON party will give it to them………..
What do RepubliCONS believe…….. depends who is paying….. follow the money……. fossil fuels….. oil, coal natural gas…, nuclear, NRA………the top 1%
Are RepubliCONS the real EVIL DOERS………..they want to end Social Security, Medicare and access to contraception…….
New Documents Show Oil Industry Even More Evil Than We Thought
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oil-cover-up-climate_us_570e98bbe4b0ffa5937df6ce
Climate Change is real….. we will all be impacted by it
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Oil Giants Spend $115 Million A Year To Oppose Climate Policy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oil-companies-climate-policy_us_570bb841e4b0142232496d97
The Kochs Are Plotting A Multimillion-Dollar Assault On Electric Vehicles
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/koch-electric-vehicles_us_56c4d63ce4b0b40245c8cbf6
Inside the Koch Brothers’ Toxic Empire | Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/inside-the-koch-brothers-toxic-empire-20140924?page=2