1. Gradual Subsidy Phase-Out for Fossil Fuels and Agribusiness Year 1–3: Begin by identifying all direct and indirect subsidies to fossil fuel producers and large-scale agribusinesses reliant on synthetic inputs. Start with a gradual reduction of 10–20% per year to avoid economic shock waves, giving businesses time to adjust. Reinvest...
Four Things and the Fourth Turning: Education Environment, Economy and Equity.
Four Things and the Fourth Turning: Education Environment Economy, Equity. In the book The Fourth Turning by William Strauss, Neil Howe, They talk about What the Cycles of History Tell Us. About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny. The theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach...
Climate Solutions, Rough Cut.
I've been watching the climate disaster that we have created gain momentum for about thirty years. I was from New Mexico and lived most of my younger years in the Southwest. I saw the lake at Elephant Butte, a twenty-mile-long lake dry up to a small pond in the early...
How to restore our ecosystems, and save our planet.
How to restore our ecosystems, and save our planet. A compilation of Ideas. WE HAVE NOT COME TO CURSE THE DARKNESS, WE HAVE COME TO LIGHT A CANDLE. Bobby Kennedy Forward. Intro. Imagine this; We are at a time in history, the fork in the road. The road less traveled;...
Platform 2024 Bill Bradshaw District #86 Arkansas
Migration Reform Fairness and equality for all. We are working with our allies in the forefront of the fight for justice and human rights for the millions of our immigrant neighbors and friends. I strongly support federal legislation that will give legal status and a path to citizenship for all...
More Atmospheric Rivers in the West
I did some commercial fishing in California back in the late 1970s. Back when there were still large orchards full of oranges in Orange County. The boat I worked on went back and forth between San Diego and Terminal Island in Los Angeles. I got to explore many of the...
Platform and Progressive Principles 2024
20 Platform 24 Statement of Progressive Principles and Platform. The Revolutionary War was the first American war against the corporation. The British East India Company. The perception of monopoly and unfair trade practices drove the normally peaceful colonists to take action against The British East India Company, and eventually the...
Why We Can Not Stop Using Fossil Fuels Too Fast!
Why We Can Not Stop Using Fossil Fuels Too Fast! I do think we must reduce the amount of fossil fuel-related aerosols going into the air quickly, I do think doing it too fast will be a disaster. There was a study I saw a few years back. Not sure...
How Mushrooms and Permaculture can save the world.
The recent floods in Vermont and the northeast are just the beginning of our problems and are why we must totally rethink our ideas about Water and Landscaping, Land use. Just like the floods in California last winter show, we do not have any lack of water. We lack an...
Methane and the Climate Change Problem. Can We Capture and Use it? Moving Away from Fossil Fuels?
Methane clathrates (Think of Dry Ice made from Methane) are common constituents of the shallow marine geosphere. Methane hydrate is a problem for the climate change problem and heating of the atmosphere when it comes out into the atmosphere. What kinds of plans can you devise that could capture methane...