Our Enslavement To Oil Has Required The

This Same Economic System, Based On Short-term Growth And Endless Profits Is Also The Reason For Pretty Much Everything Else That Is Lousy In Our Society, From Private Prisons To Fox News. What I'm Arguing Is That, In Fact, What We've Been Told Is A Lie.

Our Problem Is That The Climate Crisis Hatched In Our Laps At A Moment In History When Political And Social Conditions Were Uniquely Hostile To A Problem Of This Nature And Magnitude-that Moment Being The Tail End Of The Go-go '80s, The Blastoff Point For The Crusade To Spread Deregulated Capitalism Around The World. Climate Change Is A Collective Problem Demanding Collective Action The Likes Of Which Humanity Has Never Actually Accomplished. Yet It Entered Mainstream Consciousness In The Midst Of An Ideological War Being Waged On The Very Idea Of The Collective Sphere.

Protected Businesses Never, Never Become Competitive ... Halliburton, Bechtel, Parsons, Kpmg, Rti, Blackwater And All Other U.s. Corporations That Were In Iraq To Take Advantage Of The Reconstruction Were Part Of A Vast Protectionist Racket Whereby The U.s. Government Had Created Their Markets With War, Barred Their Competitors From Even Entering The Race, Then Paid Them To Do The Work, While Guaranteeing Them A Profit To Boot - All At Taxpayer Expense.

That Is The Meaning Of The Trump Brand - Being The Boss Who Is So Rich And So Powerful He Can Do Whatever He Wants. So The Way In Which He Ran For President Was To Embody That Idea As Fully As He Possibly Could With His Outrageousness. I Don't Think He Actually Thought He Would Win. I Think The Original Idea Was Purely A Marketing Idea. It Seemed A No-lose Situation, Because He Would Get So Much Free Publicity. And This Has Always Been His Genius - I Shouldn't Use The Word "genius" When Talking About Trump - But He's Always Understood The Value Of Free Publicity.

Why Would We Build As Unequal A Renewable Energy Sector As We Have Built A Fossil Fuel Sector? The Nice Thing About Renewables Is They're Everywhere, So You Don't Have To Have Monopoly Control In The Same Way.