Climate discussions overlook the stampede of elephants in the room: we simply don’t have any way to pay for the incredible expense of a climate solution, estimated at about $5 trillion/year. (See for example $4–6 trillion/yr estimate, P69 of U.N. Emissions Gap Report “The Closing Window” — download from htt ps://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2022 and $50 trillion total climate solution cost estimate by Morgan Stanley researchers https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2019/10/24/stopping-global-warming-will-cost-50-trillion-morgan-stanley-report/?sh=23535c351e23)

Excerpts from “Money and Sustainability: The Missing Link” © Triarchy Press, 2012 It is widely believed that societies have always, and must always, impose, as a monopoly, a single, centrally-issued currency, on which interest is charged. In fact, several societies have encouraged multiple parallel currencies. This has resulted in greater…

Dear Senators Feinstein and Padilla: I hold our 100 United States Senators 100% responsible for the 21 unimaginably tragic deaths in the most recent mass shooting. You have failed to enact even the most common sense gun control, despite overwhelming support for doing so by the vast majority of American…

3/29/22 rev 4/8/22 Our Global Financial System can’t provide enough funding to end the climate crisis. To end the climate crisis, we need to upgrade our Global Financial System immediately. …

I’m a private invester. I subscribe to several investment newsletters (for example, Motley Fool). Mostly, they focus on “Discovering” and recommending hot new stock and other investment picks that they brag will bring the investor huge returns. Sometimes they also recommend funds or schemes on how to invest in multiple…

I’m very upset that the news is focusing on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 when we are NOW in the middle of the most critical existential crisis humanity has ever faced. We have just witnessed record-shattering destruction including flooding of New York City and are currently battling record fires in…

(revised 8/9/2021) I just wanted to take a minute to point everyone to some of what I’ve discovered as my very favorite music. I recommend youtube.com as the best place to find and browse for the ultimate best music — all sorts. My very favorite at this time is CREEP…

Revised 7/19/21 PLEASE do what you can to publicize ecosia.org & encourage people to use it and publicize it. ecosia.org is unique in that all one has to do is take a couple of minutes to change their default search engine to ecosia.org, and then in the future, they plant…

Contrasting Gates and Thunberg is critical. However, people get distracted by Gates’ focus on technical methodology. The REAL question is our DEGREE OF RESOLVE AND URGENCY. You need look no further than their book titles: “How to AVOID The Climate Crisis” vs. Our House IS on Fire” (emphasis added to both)…