Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Monday, January 3, 2011

New Year's resolutions for the world

It's been a while. I have been mostly disappointed with politicians and how they are handling things.
I wish scientists ran the world. They mostly look for answers and solutions rather than re-election. Take all the new technologies being developed to replace fossil fuels.
Of course, the big oil does not want that to happen. Never mind we are all going to run out and the polar caps are melting.
Which brings me to another point. We know the polar caps are melting. We know sea levels are going to rise. We know costal cities are at risk. The only actions taken seem to be to try and get people to consume less fossil fuels. What is they don't. What is the contingency plan? Is there anyone trying to save the coastal cities, maybe by digging canals to reroute the water, building levees or anything like that? I am not an engineer but I think it would be worth looking at something like that.
And the upcoming water crisis. The polar caps are melting-tons of freshwater pouring into the ocean. Can we harvest some of that?

So here's the resolutions
Stop waging wars and start working on solutions.
Somebody has to addess the problem of coastal cities being underwater by the end of the century.
Try to harvest melting polar waters
We need multinational politics to do this and to address the abuses of multinational corporations. The middle class in America will never come back until there is a global middle class, complete with global unions.
No corporate backing of politicians anywhere anytime. I would do away with politicians altogether, but at least make them all have some kind of education requirements, especially in some kind of science or solution orientated discipline.