Emergencies, Both National and Global
Like beauty, the concept of an emergency is in the eye of the beholder. If you were asked to point to one, you would not be wrong if you pointed to the opioid epidemic, veterans’ suicide rates, environmental devastation, Americans’ dying of treatable illnesses, or 1.5 billion people worldwide with no access to clean drinking water.
Having said all this, if you still believe that illegal immigration across the southern border of the U.S. is a national emergency after reviewing this interview between conservative Fox News anchor Chris Wallace and senior policy advisor for policy for President Trump Stephen Miller, I’m not sure what to tell you.
Craig,
“I’m not sure what to tell you”
Well, that’s obvious! Seriously Craig, look at your last few articles.
The latest is a sort of standard “never Trumper” fluff piece, while its predecessor praises a trite,and immature, tweet from a leftist student. The article before the two inane contributions is a weirdly nostalgic reminisce about a fairy tale Norway, that never existed (and still doesn’t). The idea of advocating we should all encourage the dangerous practice of hitchhiking as a method of transport, is just plain irresponsible.
Honestly, even the ’60’s hippy’s eventually grew up or died out.
I’m afraid sitting ’round singing “Kumbaya”, may have some nostalgic appeal, very few of today’s youth have any comprehension of what you and the ancient crock from Vermont are on about.
But what’s really sad is you seem to have completely lost you passion and interest for advances in Clean(er) Technology.
Over the past year, I’ve tried introducing you to some of the most astonishing advances in Clean Tech, all of which are occurring, most of which are even practical.
Yet, you seem to have become obsessed by fighting an irrational, almost nostalgic, leftist crusade while totally ignoring, and even disparaging, any new developments in clean tech that don’t suit either your political ideology or now very dated ideas.
Blind adherence and allegiance to any political doctrine will cause an adherent to become so tunnel visioned as to be unable to comprehend or adapt to change. The adherent becomes a narrow minded fanatic, fearful, even paranoid, incapable rational logic and objectivity.
Ranting on about the perils of Trump, isn’t helping introduce clean technology. This is especially true in a time when, thanks largely to his policies, the US enjoying an incredible economic boom defying all odds and continuing to grow to the benefit of all Americans.
All over the world, young scientists, engineers and researchers are finding new ways to slay the ’emissions dragon’.
Unlike you, they’re not paralyzed by ancient leftist doom and despair ideology, or dreams of utopian “revolution”. These researchers are too excited at the prospect of Clean Tech becoming reality.
Craig, the US (and the world) has many thousands of journalists, pundits, leftist ideologues to rant,( and be outraged) at all sorts of things, including the Trump Presidency.
What is in short supply, is objective, commercially experienced, practical advocates for the adoption of clean(er) technology to slay the emissions dragon.
The world isn’t short of propagandists, each crying “Hooray for my side” ! (These folk seldom have any real solutions, their main motive is just shouting down rivals).
I beg you, stop trying to be the Guardian,Buzzfeed or CNN (they’re crazy, but are very good at crazy). The world doesn’t need another poor man’s imitation of Huff Post (they already proliferate).
What is desperately needed, is something for which you once displayed great talent and passion.
Our Planet needs passionate, but objective, clean(er) tech advocates with practical commercial knowledge and a flexible, creative mindset to encourage and advance the adoption of Clean(er) Technology.
Emissions are the common enemy, they can only be ‘slain’ by an inclusive, clean(er) tech evolution, not disruptive, impractical
ideologically driven agenda.
Once again, I invite you to rejoin the Clean tech evolution and comment on the research results announced by the RMIT scientists.
(Don’t get me wrong, I like Natalie Shure. I caught her Stand Up act on two occasions and was impressed by her obvious fierce intelligence. However, her contribution isn’t exactly substantial, and your preference for her tweets to years of solid research by the equally young researches at RMIT, is baffling).