One need only witness the folly of Germany in its virtuous move to wind and solar and destruction of its nuke plants to see where an unreliable grid with preponderance of EV virtue signaling will lead us.
We can certainly count on Mr Kerry to deliver us all from the evil of our livelihoods as we enter into the darkness of no base load power, EVs stranded in the snow and fat democrats laughing in their beachfront mansions. Thank you Mr Kerry, Mr Gore, Mr Biden.
For my sins I sat and watched a bit of the latest Davos event and it reminded me very much of countless real estate conferences I've suffered in the past;. boring self serving speakers, a very bored audience, and awful entertainment - although, as far as I know, there were no over-priced hookers!! Mind you, looking at most of the attendees I'd suggest there wouldn't be a whole lot for the call girls to do. As arch villains they should up their game, or no one will take them seriously anymore; rich privileged, self important wankers with, hopefully, a limited shelf-life
Great Column Bill! John Kerry and a whole bus load of other bureaucrats and leeches need to dropped off on their own self-made Utopia. Maybe they could you us SpaceX or Bezos's rocket. Anyway, I am happy where I am. If you want to save the world, talk to a back yard gardener.
Wit all the talk about eating crickets and worms, what's wrong with feeding them to chickens first so we get eggs and meat. I think the Left are just unhappy, miserable cretins who hate to see people eating burgers and fried chicken. Apart from their other shortcomings.
Regarding decreased property values and lower building starts, you need to check what's happening in our neck of the woods, Northeast Tennessee. Quite the opposite with building, both residential and commercial going up everywhere you look, and property values soaring. People are pouring into the the area, and judging by the out-of-state tags crowding our roads and streets they are coming from mainly New York, Texas, Florida and California. Climate refugees? Covid refugees? I don't know, maybe you could find out for an upcoming column to give the true picture. The averages certainly do not give the true picture, at least no here. Kae lewis
The planet undergoes cooling cycles and warming cycles on the average of 1500 years. Consisting of cooling of 750 years followed by warming. The Black Plague occurred during the last cooling cycle. These cooling cycles result in shorter growing seasons, famine, and general ill health in humans. The death toll during the Black plague was exacerbated by general poor health and living conditions besides a lack of medical understanding of the cause and cure. Our life of plenty is due in part to the current warming cycle.
These cycles are contained within larger global cycles or Ice Ages of 90,000 to 100,000 year cycles.
The last ice age had little to do with human activity nor has the present 750 year cycle been influenced by human activity.
If you're cursing me under your breath, listen to the science.
Science tries to report facts. Sometimes it fails. But the science is now telling us that climate change is happening. It is observed and observable worldwide and reported to be happening. What is happening is not propaganda. It is not a political ploy. It is really and truly happening. The consequences of our burning carbon fuels and ruminant digestion are creating an atmosphere that is heating the earth.
This heating of the atmosphere is changing the weather around the world. It is melting the ice caps.
We humans can change our way of doing things to reduce this heating. If we do nothing and continue on doing the things that are causing climate change, we will cause major human and other species die offs. The earth will continue, that is true. But we may not. That is the question before us. Can and should we change our habits so that we and other species may continue to live or should we turn our backs and hope for the best.
There is little doubt that we humans are already responsible for the extinction of many species. Not just through climate change, but also through pollution and destruction of habitats.
When human numbers were smaller, taking from nature did not jeopardize entire species so greatly. Now, we are so many that the oceans are nearly devoid of life and whole fisheries are destroyed.
We are headed for our own extinction. Before we kill ourselves by our destructive habits, we will destroy a large share of the earth's others species as well. Species, incidentally, that we depend on for our lives.
The leaders in Davos are charged with addressing these global problems. They pull the levers of industry and politics. It is not easy to change human actions so that we do not destroy ourselves and others species along with us. But that is the hope and the goal. It may be an impossible goal. But is worth addressing and attempting.
Personally, I have my doubts that the global leaders and we individuals are up to the task. Too many rich and powerful leaders have benefited by taking from nature and giving nothing back. Many, if not most, of them will not voluntarily divest or give up their comfort, power, and wealth.
Why would they? They will not die off en mass as the rest of humanity will as water and food become scarcer. They will become even more powerful and wealthy as humanity struggles to survive.
So, as things get worse and chaos reigns, billions of humans will die and species will become much less diverse. Ecosystems will collapse. They are already collapsing all around us. And the privileged will sit back and watch it all with a degree of detachment and aloofness content that they will not suffer a similar fate. In fact, the rich and powerful may even find it a boon for their bottom line.
Less people means more for the rich and powerful.
The Davos men and women are, as you keep pointing out, barely treading water in a flood that will drown most of humanity.
Telling us that Davos is a joke is spot on. It is a joke that has a very real punch line.
Talk. Talk. Talk. It is all bullshit. When these people return home and try to cause change they will be met with derision and outright blockage. Nothing will be done and more and more people will die in the wake of apathy and power brokering.
So, where does that leave us?
Make money at any cost and find a bolt hole.
We are not all in this together.
And billions will die.
That is the truth and the science is telling us so.
And the caption should read - " Now listen to me John,you have to stop being such a dick-head,or I will be forced to smite thee with great fury and vengence".
The thing about the housing (investment) discussion that fascinates me is it is all relative to whether you are talking about leveraged or unleveraged ownership. If I'm leveraged on a property, then of course it makes a difference if house values goes down. If I save and own a property (that is not my primary) outright - and intend to stay in this arrangement for a long time - then why do i care whether it goes down in value ? All I care is that people will have to pay to rent there , no ? And if the world goes to shit, they may pay less in rent, but then things must cost less, right ? And if the world prospers, then they will pay more, but yes things may cost more too. I realize it's more complicated than this, and maybe I could have done better if I did some other investment strategy, but isn't this sort of inflation / deflation proof way to get income on your savings ? Not saying I'm all in on this strategy, but am I missing something here? Maybe this theory breaks down if you are talking about investing in areas that are not local to where you live, but let's keep it simple and say that the cost of living on investment property is comparible to where you live. Thoughts ?
One need only witness the folly of Germany in its virtuous move to wind and solar and destruction of its nuke plants to see where an unreliable grid with preponderance of EV virtue signaling will lead us.
We can certainly count on Mr Kerry to deliver us all from the evil of our livelihoods as we enter into the darkness of no base load power, EVs stranded in the snow and fat democrats laughing in their beachfront mansions. Thank you Mr Kerry, Mr Gore, Mr Biden.
For my sins I sat and watched a bit of the latest Davos event and it reminded me very much of countless real estate conferences I've suffered in the past;. boring self serving speakers, a very bored audience, and awful entertainment - although, as far as I know, there were no over-priced hookers!! Mind you, looking at most of the attendees I'd suggest there wouldn't be a whole lot for the call girls to do. As arch villains they should up their game, or no one will take them seriously anymore; rich privileged, self important wankers with, hopefully, a limited shelf-life
Great Column Bill! John Kerry and a whole bus load of other bureaucrats and leeches need to dropped off on their own self-made Utopia. Maybe they could you us SpaceX or Bezos's rocket. Anyway, I am happy where I am. If you want to save the world, talk to a back yard gardener.
Wit all the talk about eating crickets and worms, what's wrong with feeding them to chickens first so we get eggs and meat. I think the Left are just unhappy, miserable cretins who hate to see people eating burgers and fried chicken. Apart from their other shortcomings.
https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/whos-building-that/kingsport-housing-starts-quadruple-rate-of-2-years-ago-double-last-year/?ipid=promo-link-block-ml2
Regarding decreased property values and lower building starts, you need to check what's happening in our neck of the woods, Northeast Tennessee. Quite the opposite with building, both residential and commercial going up everywhere you look, and property values soaring. People are pouring into the the area, and judging by the out-of-state tags crowding our roads and streets they are coming from mainly New York, Texas, Florida and California. Climate refugees? Covid refugees? I don't know, maybe you could find out for an upcoming column to give the true picture. The averages certainly do not give the true picture, at least no here. Kae lewis
The planet undergoes cooling cycles and warming cycles on the average of 1500 years. Consisting of cooling of 750 years followed by warming. The Black Plague occurred during the last cooling cycle. These cooling cycles result in shorter growing seasons, famine, and general ill health in humans. The death toll during the Black plague was exacerbated by general poor health and living conditions besides a lack of medical understanding of the cause and cure. Our life of plenty is due in part to the current warming cycle.
These cycles are contained within larger global cycles or Ice Ages of 90,000 to 100,000 year cycles.
The last ice age had little to do with human activity nor has the present 750 year cycle been influenced by human activity.
If you're cursing me under your breath, listen to the science.
http://ruby.fgcu.edu/courses/twimberley/envirophilo/unstoppable.pdf
Science tries to report facts. Sometimes it fails. But the science is now telling us that climate change is happening. It is observed and observable worldwide and reported to be happening. What is happening is not propaganda. It is not a political ploy. It is really and truly happening. The consequences of our burning carbon fuels and ruminant digestion are creating an atmosphere that is heating the earth.
This heating of the atmosphere is changing the weather around the world. It is melting the ice caps.
We humans can change our way of doing things to reduce this heating. If we do nothing and continue on doing the things that are causing climate change, we will cause major human and other species die offs. The earth will continue, that is true. But we may not. That is the question before us. Can and should we change our habits so that we and other species may continue to live or should we turn our backs and hope for the best.
There is little doubt that we humans are already responsible for the extinction of many species. Not just through climate change, but also through pollution and destruction of habitats.
When human numbers were smaller, taking from nature did not jeopardize entire species so greatly. Now, we are so many that the oceans are nearly devoid of life and whole fisheries are destroyed.
We are headed for our own extinction. Before we kill ourselves by our destructive habits, we will destroy a large share of the earth's others species as well. Species, incidentally, that we depend on for our lives.
The leaders in Davos are charged with addressing these global problems. They pull the levers of industry and politics. It is not easy to change human actions so that we do not destroy ourselves and others species along with us. But that is the hope and the goal. It may be an impossible goal. But is worth addressing and attempting.
Personally, I have my doubts that the global leaders and we individuals are up to the task. Too many rich and powerful leaders have benefited by taking from nature and giving nothing back. Many, if not most, of them will not voluntarily divest or give up their comfort, power, and wealth.
Why would they? They will not die off en mass as the rest of humanity will as water and food become scarcer. They will become even more powerful and wealthy as humanity struggles to survive.
So, as things get worse and chaos reigns, billions of humans will die and species will become much less diverse. Ecosystems will collapse. They are already collapsing all around us. And the privileged will sit back and watch it all with a degree of detachment and aloofness content that they will not suffer a similar fate. In fact, the rich and powerful may even find it a boon for their bottom line.
Less people means more for the rich and powerful.
The Davos men and women are, as you keep pointing out, barely treading water in a flood that will drown most of humanity.
Telling us that Davos is a joke is spot on. It is a joke that has a very real punch line.
Talk. Talk. Talk. It is all bullshit. When these people return home and try to cause change they will be met with derision and outright blockage. Nothing will be done and more and more people will die in the wake of apathy and power brokering.
So, where does that leave us?
Make money at any cost and find a bolt hole.
We are not all in this together.
And billions will die.
That is the truth and the science is telling us so.
The elite will survive.
Adios to all the rest.
And the caption should read - " Now listen to me John,you have to stop being such a dick-head,or I will be forced to smite thee with great fury and vengence".
Bill, that may be the BEST article you have written ever. Loved it.
Delicious !
Should have checked with Boston radio host Howie Carr before you wrote the article...He could fill you in on John Kerry.
For example, John Kerry ported his yacht in Rhode Island to avoid paying $437,500 in sales tax (which, after it was exposed, he did pay).
And he paid to have a fire hydrant moved from the front of his house in Boston so he could park there.
Humanity is now challenged to prove that we have the will and intelligence to avoid extinction.
Do you think we have what it takes to survive?
My answer is a solid maybe.
The thing about the housing (investment) discussion that fascinates me is it is all relative to whether you are talking about leveraged or unleveraged ownership. If I'm leveraged on a property, then of course it makes a difference if house values goes down. If I save and own a property (that is not my primary) outright - and intend to stay in this arrangement for a long time - then why do i care whether it goes down in value ? All I care is that people will have to pay to rent there , no ? And if the world goes to shit, they may pay less in rent, but then things must cost less, right ? And if the world prospers, then they will pay more, but yes things may cost more too. I realize it's more complicated than this, and maybe I could have done better if I did some other investment strategy, but isn't this sort of inflation / deflation proof way to get income on your savings ? Not saying I'm all in on this strategy, but am I missing something here? Maybe this theory breaks down if you are talking about investing in areas that are not local to where you live, but let's keep it simple and say that the cost of living on investment property is comparible to where you live. Thoughts ?
No way does John Kerry's physique look anything like that picture.
Kerry and friends are really saying they want to keep their HVAC bills from going up long term. 😂
John Trudell on Becoming Human - YouTube!