The Left And The Right Must Negotiate Some Kind Of Grand Compromise

[Post Change Note:
  I have added the following "See Also" references at the bottom of the post:

  1: Paris protests open up rift on American left, spark U.S. climate change debate

J.V.]

And very soon. Because no war, much less a Civil War, is going to do us, or the planet, any good at all.

And it seems to me that it mostly relates to two main issues:

1. Some folks want to live in ways that seem either quite ignorant, and/or, repugnant to the majority of us.

2. Money is the main impediment of not only solving most social issues, it is precisely what is in the way of doing anything to even recognize the planet needs saving, let alone getting around to fixing it.

As such, in my opinion, we must let the Right have the concession on having more local autonomy on how they live in their communities -- as in, much as I hate to admit it, being racist, or anti LGBTQ, or pro gun, or whatever else that isn't outright slavery, or abusive usage, they can do so; provided that they also recognize that everybody has the right to vote with their feet, and all communities get to know certain basic minimums of information on how all other communities, in this new Federation, are doing in conducting their business. Just so nobody gets sucker punched by a problem they could have seen coming, and done something to help ameliorate, if others had been a little more forthcoming.

They give us that and then the left gets to be rid of Capitalism, mandating a redefinition of work, as well as the elimination of money. As well as to say that this nation will then take on the responsibility of leading the rest of the world in doing what we need to do to help all of the other nations help us start cleaning things up so life can go on. As well to say to also begin the infrastructure work in order to begin the next new "Great Migration;" the one that will provide the continuing to save, population relief, logistical system, to allow us to begin our expansion to the stars.

I know that this is a lot of "I don't like" for both sides, and understandably so. Probably to the degree that it seems insufferably so, but I assure you that, however bad it might be ultimately, it will be much preferable to the alternative we will be heading for if we do anything that is short of truly revolutionary change. Because it is only truly revolutionary change that will save us now, with the time we have left; with the clock ticking as I write.

It is all related guys. Everything affects everything else, to one degree or another, so you can no longer make piecemeal changes, like so many band aids on a very beat up personage; and where said personage is only going to continue to get beat up by the mutated form that Capitalism has become. A mutation that cares only for the ever expanding amount, and flow, of money as electrons, seeking the path of least resistance. The only true value now. The very reason it now spreads toxic corruption so easily.

And it all comes down to a final, very important choice. Either you are for the continuation of life, and meaningful connections, or you are not. Either you value loving, meaningful connections more than you value profit, and personal gain, or you do not. Which will it be.

The referenced article quick list:

1:In GOP's post-election power grabs, experts see 'disturbing' trend

2:The Planet Has Seen Sudden Warming Before. It Wiped Out Almost Everything

3:Millennials Didn’t Kill the Economy. The Economy Killed Millennials

4:Millennials Aren’t Post-Consumerist, They’re Just Poor, Fed Finds

5:Video game addiction is real, rare, and poorly understood

In GOP's post-election power grabs, experts see 'disturbing' trend

The Planet Has Seen Sudden Warming Before. It Wiped Out Almost Everything

Millennials Didn’t Kill the Economy. The Economy Killed Millennials

Millennials Aren’t Post-Consumerist, They’re Just Poor, Fed Finds

[Post Note: Maybe it is rare, and maybe it is a good deal more than just that. One thing is quite probably true, however, and that is that it is poorly understood. Do you think this will be one addiction they will ever criminalize, however? Not while they're making the money on it that they are making now. J.V.]

Video game addiction is real, rare, and poorly understood

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[Post Note: We see here, illustrated only too well, exactly why you can no longer do either "Liberal," or "Progressive" reform, a few measures at at time, here and there; even if for all for the right reasons, of course.

We want to provide incentive to not use bad fuels, even as we use that money, hopefully, for further investments in carbon reduction improvements. But that quickly runs into the broadside of economic reality that blasts out from all of the unintended effects that a change in a complex system can have; especially on consumers already strapped by social systems already tax starved because the corporations want only the rights of citizenship, and hardly ever any of the responsibilities. Which is also why regressive user taxes are one of the few options municipalities still have to do any new revenue now with.

This supposed "Rift" would vanish in an instant if Liberals, or Progressives for that matter, would recognize that Capitalism cannot be "reformed" any longer. It's inherent obsolescence now makes that an ever increasing impossibility. If there is to be truly effective change at all now, it has to be fundamental change, and fully integrated with a new definition of how we want to do social household; one where we also recognize that a money based economy cannot handle the demands that a nation, that must mobilize itself completely, to meet the challenge, will have to face as it deals with extreme weather events, and the increasing chaos around the world because of that; as well as the ever present chaos of an out of date operating system, still making things worse with its dangerous competitions for markets, and resources, and technological dominance. J.V.]

Paris protests open up rift on American left, spark U.S. climate change debate

1: Dangerously Competing With Nations We Need To Be Cooperating With Because of it.

2: Flaunting the differences in outcomes it allows for.

3: Trying to hide it, so you scan justify getting more.

4: Trying to hoard it increasingly because the more you get, apparently, the more you need, you see, to continue to be important at each new level.

5: And then, of course, always trying to find cheaper new ways to control those you just know are scheming to take it away from you, because, after all, you are certainly, at least thinking about, schemes to do the same to all those who would challenge your supposed supremacy.

And as far as saving the planet is concerned? Well... Does it really pay to believe in all of that doomsday talk? Hasn't Big Money always been able to use their money to buy that special dispensation? I mean even Mother Earth has to have a price, right?

Now aren't you so glad we all have money in our lives. I know the top X percent certainly is (where X is something around one, to eight or nine percent, or so, depending on who you ask).

You just have Uber, or Lyft, or Waymo, drop you off at your nearest escape of choice, and everything will be just fine. I am sure they will be able to find it, as the new, commercially refined, AI of choice, will have figured out an improved form of GPS, just for you, and will take you right too it. Happy vapor trails my friends.

The referenced article quick list:

1:‘We are in trouble.’ Global carbon emissions reached a record high in 2018.

2:The Case for Letting Malibu Burn

3:Exclusive: The Pentagon's Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed

4:The Reason Many Ultrarich People Aren’t Satisfied With Their Wealth

5:AN EYE-SCANNING LIE DETECTOR IS FORGING A DYSTOPIAN FUTURE

‘We are in trouble.’ Global carbon emissions reached a record high in 2018.

The Case for Letting Malibu Burn

Exclusive: The Pentagon's Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed

The Reason Many Ultrarich People Aren’t Satisfied With Their Wealth

AN EYE-SCANNING LIE DETECTOR IS FORGING A DYSTOPIAN FUTURE

I Am Beginning To Feel Like Those Guys In The Movie "Dream Catcher"

And a lot of it stems from their, what would you call it, survival saying: "Same Sh*t, Different Day" or "SS,DD" for short, the very presence of which, and confusion over, thwarts an alien presence in one guys head from taking complete control of him. That's pertinent because if this guy gets completely controlled the alien would know that he, as well as his childhood friends, were given gifts from someone else who had a big load of "savant" dropped on him; readying him, it is later revealed, for the final confrontation with the alien thing.

I am getting that feeling today by perusing the general tornado blast of info feed I get every day; from both the many layers of the infosphere proper in our lives today, but also from what I like to refer to as bit streams from non traditional sources; the stuff I think my body meaning space does most of the reception of, then its own means of feeling translation, leaving my mind meaning space side the responsibility to dwell, and meditate upon, endlessly, in order to approximate some semblance of a worded understanding of it all.

And I must say, today's blast is all too similar to previous days. So much so that I think I am entitled to a little "SS,DD" declaration here.

As well as to say that everything listed, again, via different examples, relates to the same kinds of connections as my last post:

1: Big Money, and the system that supports it,, not only caused most of the problems, it inevitably
gets in the way of solving any of them.

2: Information as jealousy hoarded commodity will not allow Democracy to operate in any way,
shape or form, according to how it ought to operate; at least if one is sincerely vested in the notion
of a workable society, that respects the rights of the individual, as well as the rights of the group as
a whole.

3: It is not too late to turn back catastrophic climate change, but the window of opportunity for that
chance is closing as I write this, so we must act quickly. But despite that urgency, we must still
demand that the technology we use to help block sunlight must adhere to the twin notions that:

a: It must be as non invasive as it is possible to be.

b: If it is something that we dial up in effect, than it must be something that we can dial back
down.

c: It must not only coordinate with new environmental goals as it works to do what ever needs
doing, it must also endeavor to be a leveraging element itself towards reducing carbon in the
air; as in having whatever it is you do utilize natural fibers as much as possible, to further
accelerate demand for more carbon sequestering plant production.

4: The only way we can take advantage of that window of opportunity is to dump Capitalism,
mobilize the nation, much like we did for W.W. II, and then do a complete worker buyout of the
entire national edifice of commercial ownership; following that up, as fast as new academic
research, and new holistic planning, can devise, the way we will translate ourselves into a new
definition of work, and the means by which we balance the rights and responsibilities, of both the
individual, and the larger social construct itself. And if that means convening a Constitutional
Convention to amend the Constitution significantly, so as to allow for more City State
independance, than so be it.

5: And the only way to form the political will to do this, in my opinion, is to form a new "Grand
Compromise" party. A party that would embody the compromise between the Libertarian Right,
and The Progressive Left.
There truly is not much time left to do enough, soon enough. That is why it is time to cut all of the crap and get down to some very basic, ugly truths. Either we do what we need to do to adapt or we perish. It is that simple.

The referenced articles quick list:

1:Coal question looms large as COP24 climate talks begin in Poland

2:Medical device makers spend millions lobbying to loosen regs in D.C.

3:Geoengineering is a last-ditch option to stall global warming — and it’s getting a first test

4:Losing Lordstown

5:Public Housing Is a Pest-Infested Hellscape and HUD Doesn't Care

Coal question looms large as COP24 climate talks begin in Poland

Medical device makers spend millions lobbying to loosen regs in D.C.

Geoengineering is a last-ditch option to stall global warming — and it’s getting a first test

Losing Lordstown

Public Housing Is a Pest-Infested Hellscape and HUD Doesn't Care

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[Post Note: If you want to get an understanding of what it is meant by a real "Mobilization," you only need to listen to Mr. Stewart here. Instead of hearing all the personnel needed, though, as just more bodies for making war, just think of ordinary working folks who felt the call to serve in something very important. A grave threat to be sure, but one now that does not need weapons. It needs people willing to sacrifice for something that is as precious as life itself, and I think the survival of the planet qualifies for that. J.V.]

1942 U.S. ARMY AIR FORCE PROMO FILM ''WINNING YOUR WINGS'' w/ JAMES STEWART 21814

The Problem With Centralized, Giga Production, And Major Effort Initiatives Based On The Valuations Of Markets

This factory that Tesla is building is truly impressive. And the logic behind trying to make good use of economies of scale, is also sound.

The point that is often missed here, though, is that this presupposes an important property of the system in which you are operating in, which in this case, is of course the very beginning assumption of mass production for mass consumption. Efficiency, in that regard, becomes quite narrowly focused on only a few aspects of the process of making things; as in only the factors of cost that apply to a commercial entity, in getting a thing made, and then getting it to a market to be sold. At which point, in the original model, other process providers take up the task of getting a consumer to purchase, to thus recirculate the capital.

The other point that is often missed here is so obvious that it becomes almost impossible to see, especially for those who relish swimming with the sharks, for the love of money; unless, of course, you happen to be blessed/cursed as one of the most oddly formed people you have ever hear of, who just wasn't built to stand the thought of such immersion.

Be that as it may be, however, the missed point is an obvious fact already illustrated quite plainly when Tesla Motors stock began fluctuating so wildly, only a few weeks ago, in fact, on the mercurial behavior of an, undoubtedly, very creative, though also no doubt, quite complicated person. When only a few weeks before that, most analysts were poo pooing the idea of anyone even thinking of selling Tesla short.

This is important, though, beyond the crazy casino that the stock market is. This is so because of how the entrepreneurs always seem to forget that the consumer now is already stretched so thin, on what they can afford, discretionary spending wise, that even hints of recession increasingly mean they start holding back on their purchases; and all on the very reasonable fear that layoffs are sure to soon be coming. And this on top of the already now prominent fears of some extreme weather related event doing them costly harm, if it hasn't already, as well.

All to say, at the end of the day, that depending on a consumer, steeped in the increasing roil of chaotic events occurring, to keep spending as you desire, is like depending on islands build at sea with nothing more than sand, now that the sea levels are already rising.

That being said, what kind of real longevity, or dependability, do these, even well intentioned, entrepreneurs, expect here in the sense of reliable demand, to service the capital requirements of centralized processes so vast? And how ready for change really, in any case, can such large facilities be, when changing circumstances might require completely new kinds of things to be made (as in let's just fill the space with endless rows of servers for the cloud stuff that can return profits just as fast as the servers can be made to operate; or as in desperation makes us start growing food inside them instead)?

And perhaps again, and maybe most importantly, how can you have something that might become quite critical for hoards of other systems, be so not fault tolerant? At least as far as all of the dependants are concerned, whose subsequent failure, because of the loss of one critical, very large, point source, then creates a terrible, cascade event, that ripples out with ever increasing, catastrophic failures.

This is where my bias as a database guy comes in. Also fueled by the fact that I was there when the thinking about computing went from the very big mainframe behemoths that IBM used to make, to the desktop revolution that first taught us the value of "distributed processing."

In databases, my experience taught me that going as granular as possible was always the best bet, and by that I mean creating table structures with as few indexes as possible. More tables, and less indexes, though can be a real bitch for the T-SQL programmer; which is why I had to get as creative as I could, early on, to set things up so that the T-SQL could be created dynamically; trying to find clever ways to logically accommodate change contingencies, in the code creation algorithms. That way you could create union queries no matter how many tables, changing requirements, make you have to add to all of the joins that the user, or established business logic might require, while also  inserting, dynamically, the needed filtering criteria, for each join.

It turns out, however, that you actually don't want only "distributed processing," in your attempt for as much self sufficiency as you can get. No, it is actually better to use various hybrid combinations of distributed, with both granularity, and some regional, medium sized centralizations; all dependent on the regions, and their individual characteristics, and the effect that might have on local requirements.

The bottom line here is not that Mr. Musk will live or die by the Gigafactory, but that his Giga efforts are, first and foremost, dependant on markets that will be forced to start factoring in ever more elements of the chaos that too much instability, pumped into too many, interdependent systems, has wrought, and from which has lead us to the hot house environment we see in all of our major complex systems now, creating ever more complex turbulenc; in both natural, and social/economic systems.

If Mr. Musk thinks investors are twitchy now, just wait six months to a year and a half from now, when it won't be just them, it will be the entire world ready to twitch into spasms of brute reaction that may cause us to look back on these times with envy.

The reference article quick list:

1:TESLA WILL LIVE AND DIE BY THE GIGAFACTORY

2:WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A FACTORY TOWN LOSES ITS FACTORY

3:How did Microsoft just overtake Apple as the world's most valuable company?

4:Microsoft has better fundamentals, but buy Apple, says Heartland Financial CIO

5:An Amazon revolt could be brewing as the tech giant exerts more control over brands

TESLA WILL LIVE AND DIE BY THE GIGAFACTORY

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A FACTORY TOWN LOSES ITS FACTORY

How did Microsoft just overtake Apple as the world's most valuable company?

Microsoft has better fundamentals, but buy Apple, says Heartland Financial CIO

[Reference Note: So far, we've been talking about the possibility of entrepreneurs of "Big" who are ostensibly well intended. Obviously, there is also the possibility that they are not so well intended, at least as far as the hopes, aspirations, and needs, of the rest of us are concerned.  J.V.]

An Amazon revolt could be brewing as the tech giant exerts more control over brands

If You Were Really Honest With Yourself, Are There Any Of These Issues That Wouldn't Be Helped By Dumping Capitalism?

[Post Change Note:

I added the "See Also" entries as promised. You can see them at the very bottom of this post.

Rest Assured that this new list could have been longer. And to paraphrase our Corrupter-n-Chief: There would be nothing wrong if I had actually put more down, but fortunately for you, I will refrain; and not just for brevity's sake; as the real pain of what is being ignored too much here, can be very hard to bear when collected like this.

And I also want to thank him for proclaiming "Business As Usual," as it is now practiced, as his true Brand. As much as it also pains me, to say this, he actually said something with a deeper truth to it; even if he wasn't actually aware of it. We'll take what we can get, right?

Hopefully everyone will take proper note of this development.
 
J.V.]


This is a big list of issues, but I want you to think for a moment about one thing related to them all, as you hold this big list up in front of you, on a virtual whiteboard (and there will be even more in an "See Also" section, after I'm done with this post):

A prominent guy in the shipping industry just indicated, in discussing the health of the shipping industry, that, for every uptick in our GDP, there is also two uptics in the amount of containerized traffic around the world. And that's just the transportation across the oceans.

Even if you allow that the diesels are running more efficiently, and they filter more particulates, that is still a pretty big environmental impact. And then there is, on both the shipping, and receiving ends, of this of course, a bunch more of putting, and taking, and delivering; not forgetting for a moment that a particular item has to go through several rounds of this (just think of all of the sub assemblies that go into a car assembly plant, or an aircraft manufacturing plant, or major consumer product assembly plant), with further processing/assembly steps involved, before it gets to a place where an item can be moved to a final consumer.

Then consider the amount of effort spent in both marketing the need for an item, as well as the packaging of it, cocommintant to the branding naturally, which bleeds from, and over, into the shipping of the item. All of that extra material, organic and otherwise, that then needs to be collected, and further transported again, so as to be available at all for reuse, or disposal.

If we didn't have Capitalism a major majority of all that effort, and at least a significant portion of the transportation effort, would be eliminated from the daily burden that not only we pay for, but the planet pays for, as well.

And it could be done simply by recognizing that we could re organize ourselves in whatever way that might better do the things remaining, that we really need doing, as well as the things we can decide, without marketing, to provide for ourselves, quite well enough I think; as in the things we need and want for our personal use. Perhaps more to the point, however, is that we could do this and also make so many more aspects of our lives meaningful again; precisely because we all would matter so much more in the communities that would need every able bodied worker they could get, in order to be as self sufficient as they can possibly be.

And this thought exercise would yield valuable results, even if Capitalism weren't a toxic, mutated thing (simply because it is so grossly inefficient, and wasteful); which it certainly is now. And made so by the effects of new, electrified instrumentality, it was never meant to handle, much less be able to perceive, and analyze correctly. And this also hardly takes into account what getting rid of all of the associated "Dangerous Competitions" (as in competing in ever more cutthroat markets, contending every more over diminishing resources. and, because of the first two, all of the weaponization races now that ever increasing instrumentality make possible)  that Capitalism fosters.

I use this as a preamble to the array of issues displayed here to suggest to you that we could have a lot of possible resource to work with if we (in mobilizing the nation just like we did in WW 2), indeed, wanted to do the things that would address the problems associated with what you see arrayed here. And even better, we could make it so that money then never again had to get in the way of actually accomplishing the things that the majority have stated, with their direct vote, is what needs to be accomplished.

The bottom line here is simply this: The answer to the question stated in this post is quite unequivocally no. There are none of them that wouldn't be helped because Capitalism is making all of them impossibly worse;  worse even than the dislocations that doing a change-over, that something new would create, would do; if for no other reason than sticking with Capitalism will, in my opinion, make dealing with catastrophic, global circulation changes, virtually impossible; along with the unlikely survival of ether much of civilization at all, or the species that depends on it.

The referenced article quick list:

1:Drug overdose deaths top 70,000, drive down U.S. life expectancy

2:Rising seas threaten Norfolk Naval Shipyard, raising fears of 'catastrophic damage'

3:Heat waves, mosquito outbreaks, landslides: 6 ways climate change is hitting the U.S.

4:US farms are going bankrupt at an alarming rate. Trump’s trade war is partially to blame.

5:Retirement in America? Too Expensive

6:Which Industries Are Investing in Artificial Intelligence?

Drug overdose deaths top 70,000, drive down U.S. life expectancy

Rising seas threaten Norfolk Naval Shipyard, raising fears of 'catastrophic damage'

Heat waves, mosquito outbreaks, landslides: 6 ways climate change is hitting the U.S.

US farms are going bankrupt at an alarming rate. Trump’s trade war is partially to blame.

Retirement in America? Too Expensive

[Post Note: I have included this little tidbit from Priceonomics because, whether you realize it or not, one of my pet peeves about investment avenues of questionable social efficacy is not only illustrated here, it also shows you quite clearly how one aspect of that "bad social efficacy" is precisely related to costing us a great deal in diverted expertise. And I can say that because the top utilizer of AI, according to this report, is "Algorithmic financial trading;" not only the epitome of "Crunching numbers, just to get more numbers," but also a sector that can afford to outbid other folks who might need AI scientific, and engineering, talent. And of course, the sectors that would go the most begging would be exactly the kinds of basic science, materials research, and anything to do with weather forecasting, that would help the most in diverting the coming ecological disaster. J.V.]

Which Industries Are Investing in Artificial Intelligence

See Also:

7 New York hospitals that illegally billed sex-assault victims for their rape kits agree to settlement

Maryland high school football players accused of sexually assaulting teammates with broom

Border Agents Fired Tear Gas Into Mexico. Was It Legal

Why Tear Gassing Children Migrants Is Wrong -- Response to US Border Agents Using Tear Gas

Donald Trump Wasn't The Only President Who Used Tear Gas -- Talker

Chinese Scientist's Gene-Edited Babies Have Opened Pandora's box. Brace Yourselves

Opinion -- Before The Claims Of Crispr Babies, There Was China's One-Child Policy


CRISPR Gene Engineered Human Babies Immune to HIV, Smallpox and Cholera

Trump's new Russia deal defense -- Just business as usual

We Used To Give Thanks For Our Bounty (however illusionary).

 Now we give thanks for disaster not touching us too much this season, Even as we look for a way out.

I guess its a case of having our eyes "wide shut" for far too long. And now it has become a competition to see who can keep them shut, or pry them open, the best. A horrible competition of competing manipulations (with even myself trying to push vanity clicks into a system that refuses to hardly acknowledge my message at all  --  despite what over 25 years of intense systems analysis, and building, and repairing, some very tough situations, have given me in experience, in the very economic system I criticize now).

Perhaps it is this very sort of "shell shock," if you will, of surviving not having disaster touch you too much that puts us in a frame of mind that accepts whatever cold comfort we have now, continuously depreciated though that might be, and says, for a real case of "more's the pity," don't rock your leaking boat now, even if you do have a spare second from bailing things out as fast as you can.

I picked this list of related articles for the reason that they all flow from the questions asked by Tarence Ray, in his article, "A Way Out." And I picked his article because it really expresses the understandable frustrations of trying to fight "Big Money" as a non profit, public oriented organizing entity. Having done this sort of thing from various angles (joining the Democratic Party early on; volunteering for initiative drives, and then trying to do -- ineptly -- my own state initiatives, as well as the current quest for change that I have given myself, now that I can devote myself to it full time). After all of this, even during working full time, I can tell you I can empathize with Mr. Ray greatly. 

The problem is, as it was back a few decades when William Greider described in a series of books ("Who Will Tell The People," "Secrets Of The Temple," etc to name a few), traditional Liberalism does not work any more. And that is because "Big Money" won the class war they sought to keep the rest of us from thinking was something "reasonable" people would even want to talk about. And they won it because they will always have more money than Liberals have; not to mention the lack of moral compunction to limit themselves in what they are willing to do with that money. And so now you see a lot of electronic ink being flashed on screens indicating just how ready Liberals are now to get down and dirty with their opponents. Something I think still won't work, but even if it did, would we want to look in the mirror to see what we'd have to become to outdo these people at their own game?

The other articles are here to help show you some of the other reasons, though, why changing things is so hard. Almost impossibly hard even if "Big Money" wasn't always involved in direct opposition. The need for change, obviously, is there, that much is obvious even if the other side does deny and deny all of the time (not only because of the increasing corruption, but because so many can just not care anymore, being so high on whatever drug, be it money or some other). But changing a very complicatedly integrated complex system is no walk in the park; even if you think you really know what you are doing. And this is because the more complex a thing is, the harder it is to know just how all of the ripples that flow out from your change will affect the myriad of other subsystems that you might have no idea of, or only limited knowledge at best. A fact that gets much more exacerbated by the layers of change already imposed upon said overall system. You can, in fact, make things far worse with your change, than what the original problem was causing.

My bottom line, though, remains the same. There is a "Way Out." but it must necessarily involve a vastly comprehensive, and a totally rethought, new formulation of what a social/economic operating system should be, now that we are in the new age of electrified instrumentality; which is, I assure you, a fundamentally new operating environment.

So please. Don't just glance over these thumb nail pics. Take the time to read at least a couple of them. And think about how giving thanks the way we may be doing it now isn't going to be enough to keep this planet the living blue marble it is supposed to be. No, that is going to take some real sacrifice by all of us. And that is why I am talking about massive work stoppages all across the boards of American commercial enterprise. Because going about this from within "Business As Usual." has just become too obviously stacked against us.

What do you think?

The quick list of related articles:

1:A Way Out

2:Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet. Instead It Unleashed a Catastrophe

3:“I Hereby Confess Judgment”

4:The human costs of Black Friday, explained by a former Amazon warehouse manager

5:What an unprecedented study found about 3D printing’s dangers

A Way Out

Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet. Instead It Unleashed a Catastrophe

“I Hereby Confess Judgment”

The human costs of Black Friday, explained by a former Amazon warehouse manager

What an unprecedented study found about 3D printing’s dangers