The video link below is a YouTube video featuring Professor Snyder analyzing our current situation and summarizing his book “On Tyranny”. We all need to support the US Constitution and rule by law.
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Scientists are coming to believe that people in Europe had dark skins until less than 3,000 years ago according to this article from New Scientist. DNA suggests that all humans have common ancestry that began in Africa, but of course we continue to suffer with racism. Many believe racism is the reason for the current Trump presidency and the chaos that goes with it. The narratives that we believe can be incredibly destructive. Research, learn, and act to save our republic and human civilization. Climate change is real and is not waiting for us to pull our heads out of the sand.
We are living in a time where the American political system has installed a president who appears incoherent and untrustworthy. Nations that were the closest of allies a few weeks ago are now being threatened with invasion and trade wars. Unqualified people are being placed in charge of federal agencies while the demand for good governance increase. Members of the new president’s team are saying we need to suffer an economic collapse to have a better future. America is in trouble and historians are making the point that it is easier to tear things down than to build them up. Do Americans feel like a massive mistake was made in the last election? There is a lot of evidence that they do. A lot of eligible voters stayed home because they thought their vote didn’t matter. An important reform for the future would be to have national vote by mail, and a voting holiday to support high turnout elections. I think the wisdom of the people becomes apparent when more people vote.
Economist Joseph Stieglitz explains why he feels we are currently an oligarchy in the video linked below. Almost everything he says makes sense and matches my perception of reality. See what you think.
https://youtu.be/oPz8YyGb_PI?si=AgvN86RzxyHBdah-
The attached video from David Parkman features Tom Hartman explaining how we got an oligarchy. This is not the first time America has been under the threat of oligarchy.
In America we have a new president and congress, but they don’t talk about the future, they talk about the past. Scientists have told us for decades the climate is changing but we not planning to act on the information. The new republican politicians want to fight and deny science. The insurance and real estate markets won’t let republicans get away with bull jive. Check out this video for your edification.
https://youtu.be/PORbrxg-2GQ?si=6j6SeY8cjNa8zhlN
The attached video is a very real analysis of today’s America.
https://youtu.be/SvhswXFZb-s?si=9aK282P8O-qhfQj3
The video below from Democracy Now features climate scientist Dr. Peter Kalmus explaining why he moved from Altadena two years ago, and that the continued heating of the planet by CO2 means the problem will get much worse. We have to act now!
After listening to President elect Trump say his focus is “drill baby drill” yesterday, and watching parts of LA burn today (due to climate change driven weather); I have to wonder: Are we screwed? Adding more CO2 to the atmosphere will only make our planet uninhabitable for humans. I am a student of history and I know that poor leadership results in the failure of societies. The climate crisis has an expiration date when it turns into an extinction crisis. Humanity must realize that we will have to turn to each other and not on each other to survive, but that does not appear to be what we are doing. The destructive events keep coming and getting worse. We are all responsible for making the world around us better; not being selfish and drifting to destruction. Some researchers say we are heading towards a murder off and then a die off as we selfishly seek comfort and power while failing to make changes. Research and act as if survival depended on your actions. There is hope for the future but it will not place itself in our hands. We will have to work, and act, to turn hope into a mighty river of reality.
The attached video tells the story of climate in crisis with many societies responding at varying rates of speed. But the US is at the bottom of the list, will we recover and show leadership? The video questions that idea with good reason. Research and act for a better future.
https://youtu.be/VG-xfPNxqrE?si=BoeS_8hvTbNcsdNl
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