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BTR Interview
Please follow this link http://breakthruradio.com/#/post/?blog=107&post=916 to a recent BTR interview in which David discusses some of the latest hot button topics as well as possible solutions to our most vexing problems. Interlaced with music that you can choose to enjoy or … Continue reading
For our Planet and Soul
Want to cut taxes, decrease the deficit, reduce regulations and improve the environment? A carbon tax would accomplish all that, but it has surprisingly few supporters. In fact, policy makers are running the other way. Economists have long argued … Continue reading
How Taxing Is It? III
Budgets need balancing; roads need repairing and CO2 needs to be reduced. All governments face these challenges. Is there anything that can address all three problems simultaneously? How about raising the gas tax? In the U.S., the federal tax on … Continue reading
Global Warming – Fact or Fiction?
President Obama, in his second Inaugural Address, significantly elevated the priority of climate change. “We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that failure to do so would betray our children and future generations,” he stated. The President … Continue reading
Old Problems Need New Thinking
Over the past 18 months, Wide Angle Thinking has addressed a number of critical problems. The subjects included: pollution and global warming, terrorism and war, debt and deficits and health and health care. We also discussed a number of specific … Continue reading
Everything is Changing: Why you should care
Change is everywhere – politics, business, the environment, our institutions – and it’s accelerating. Leaders in power for decades are being toppled. “Twenty something” entrepreneurs create ground-breaking technologies out of thin air. Record-setting temperatures and devastating “natural disasters” become part … Continue reading
“It doesn’t make any sense” III
Ethanol subsidies, first introduced in 1978 and expanded by Congress many times since, is one of the most egregious examples of ill-conceived government policy one can find. These subsidies have inflated food prices, undercut the competitiveness of U.S. cattle, hog … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs On Current Affairs & Events, Economics, Environment, Money, Political
Tagged biofuel, climate change, CO2, Congress, corn, deforestation, ethanol, food prices, fossil fuels, gasoline prices, global warming, pollution, renewable energy, subsidies, The Nature Conservancy
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“It doesn’t make any sense” II
The world population rose from 1.6 billion in 1900 to 7 billion in October 2011, and the U.N. projects that it will reach 9.3 billion by 2050. Achieving agreement on the “right” number of people may be impossible, but it’s … Continue reading
Let’s Talk
During the holiday season, friends and families come together to celebrate and discuss important events in their lives. These gatherings mirror society as a whole and often lead to a contentious airing of seemingly irreconcilable points of view on everything … Continue reading
Homeland Insecurity
On and around September 11, politicians and the media did what one would expect; they honored those who died on 9/11/01 and congratulated those who have kept us out of harm’s way. Honoring the former is certainly appropriate as is … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs On Current Affairs & Events, Economics
Tagged 9/11, beliefs, cancer, climate change, crime, debt, gun violence, heart disease, homeland security, terrorism
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