Congress Girding for Oil Fight

by | Aug 18, 2008 | Blog

Congress is girding for an oil fight that could shut down the federal government. Republicans are tired of being stonewalled by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and are planning to go on the attack when Congress reconvenes on September 8. At stake is the vote on domestic...

Are Possible Water Wars Just Overblown Hype?

by | Aug 15, 2008 | Blog

Are dire predictions of future water wars just overwrought environmentalists fanning the flames of fear? You be the judge. By 2025, the United Nations estimates that two-thirds of the world’s population will live where water is scare. Unsafe drinking water...

Great Lakes States Prepare for Water Wars

by | Aug 13, 2008 | Blog

The Great Lakes hold one-fifth of the world’s fresh surface water and 95% of the fresh surface water in the U.S. With droughts and the population shift from the Midwest into southern and western states, the eight states and two Canadian provinces that border the Great...

Droughts, Pollution Could Spark Water Wars

by | Aug 11, 2008 | Blog

Water wars? World leaders and military strategists are already planning for a day when the Earth’s most abundant resource — water — becomes more precious than oil. Mankind can survive without oil, but water is essential to life. Climate change,...

FINALLY

by | Jul 11, 2008 | Blog

Finally the industrialized world is beginning to wake up. That’s the good news. The bad news, we overslept. But better late then never. Furthermore, I have learned that you will never get anyone to buy something until they are ready. Finally the industrialized...

I’m Not The First To Think It

by | May 9, 2008 | Blog

I’m not the first to think it, but I might be the first to put it in print.Every single indicator of human well being that I can find, I’m talking globally here, has a negative slope. In other words, things don’t look like they are going to get better any time soon....