World Transformation ... to what?

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years ago

   The war in Ukraine is causing countries to overreact and side with Ukraine.
   The war needs to end or the world will end, it seems.
   Repeating:
   The war needs to end.
   I do not think the Founding Fathers would advocate what Biden is doing:
   Taking a side and fighting against Russia.
   
   To what good end?
   Russia has lots of energy and is burning excess natural gas. Meanwhile, the European nations are burning up their wood since they don't want to buy Russian oil.
   We are dependent on Middle Eastern Oil.
   
   All Good?

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years ago

   "...the Biden administration considers smoothing rocky relations with Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela in the hope that those countries will supply more oil. Senior U.S. officials travel to Caracas for the first time since 2019, and the Biden administration pushes to finalize negotiations on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement and lifting U.S. sanctions on Tehran."
   From:
   https://www.cfr.org/timeline/oil-depend … ign-policy

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years ago

   Interesting over-view:
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-nHs-89PNA

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years ago

   Hey, Yay India!
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJR98R3xAgA

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years ago

   It turns out that  p r e v e n t I n g  climate change is dangerous to human existence.

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years ago

   To stop climate change we should:
   
   Keep fossil coal, oil and gas in the ground.   
   
   Invest in solar, wind, wave, tidal and geothermal power.
   
   Switch to electric vehicles.
   
   Reduce the marketing and transporting of fashion goods and food in wealthier countries.
   
   Minimize plane travel.
   
   Insulate walls and roofs.
   
   Switch out gas boilers with heat pumps.
   
   Go vegan by eating more plant-based products.
   
   Stop the the clearing of giant trees/forests to create animal farms and soya or palm-oil plantations so that trees can absorb carbon from the atmosphere.
   
   Stop overfishing, deep sea mining and drilling for oil and gas in oceans.   
   
   Stop producing so much plastic since it is made from extracting and refining oil which is carbon-intense. Additionally, as plastic breaks down, it causes emissions. Keep it out of our landfills.
   
   Extracted From:
   https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/challenge … te-change/

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      AliciaCposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      I notice that you’ve forgotten to give credit to the Greenpeace writer who created this list. Here’s the link.
      
      https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/challenge … te-change/

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      AliciaCposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks for adding the link, Kathryn.

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      MizBejabbersposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      I can't argue with this. But I do wonder why so many people are against solar power and wind generation. By "so many people" I'm not including those in the oil, gas and coal industries. It is obvious that they don't want to kill the goose that laid the golden egg, but they should realize that the goose grows old and dies, and a new gosling must take its place.

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         Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         I'm thinking of an ostrich right about now.

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years ago

   Back to coal it is.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaLuayIjg6Y

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   Stephen Tomkinsonposted 2 years ago

   I suspect that we're too late. I'm glad that I don't have kids.

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      Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      We can't afford to think like that. Somehow, the people will come out on top.
      The people have the power if they just USE IT!
      
      Good example:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHUMJQAbZpY

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         Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         "But let me end on a note of hope. Because the goals of the Great Reset depend on the obliteration not only of free markets, but of individual liberty and free will, it is, perhaps ironically, unsustainable. Like earlier attempts at totalitarianism, the Great Reset is doomed to ultimate failure. That doesn’t mean, however, that it won’t, again like those earlier attempts, leave a lot of destruction in its wake­—which is all the more reason to oppose it now and with all our might."
         FROM
         https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/what-is-the-great-reset/

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            MizBejabbersposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            This thing reads like a boring outside reading assignment in an economics class. But from what I gather, the "Great Reset" to which you refer is a leftist extremist effort opposite to the Communist reset of the late 19th--early 20th Century. I don't believe extremist revolutions or resets of any kind are beneficial to humankind. However, I don't think we have to hold extremist beliefs to see what our overuse of the planet's natural resources is doing to the planet, and to seek out alternatives. But I think, depending on how it is handled, that these alternatives can be just as corrupting and corrupted as the original technology industry of the early to mid-20th Century, or to go back even farther, the late 19th Century? (the Morgans, Carnegies, Rockefellers and other moguls of that time) Is that the warning this article is giving us?

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               Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years agoin reply to this

               - sorry it was so boring to you.

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years ago

   What if we stopped all air travel and went back to horse drawn buggies?
   What if we only used wool and cotton for clothing?
   What if we went back to sewing clothes by hand and stopped the production of clothing and goods for the masses? We want back to community living and candle light at night?
   
   Some might be happy, but only a few. Many would simply not be able to survive. Survival for the many is what the industrial revolution brought forth. The benefits of the industrial revolution should not be over-looked, as they seem to be.

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    Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years ago

    "On July 1, 2021, President Xi Jinping declared that China had realized the First Centenary Goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects."
    FROM
    https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjb_66 … 46883.html
    
    "In Xi’s China, however, where the Party and the state reign supreme, it has become virtually impossible to stand up for one’s own rights and interests—to assert one’s personal needs and desires over the grandiose ambitions of the national self. “Lying flat” is an answer, passive and desperate, to the dehumanizing nature of the struggle, both national and personal. Why should one stand for self-reliance, only to be cut down and harvested?"
    FROM
    https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/th … ion-drive/
    
    "The Great Reset represents the development of the Chinese system in the West, but in reverse. Whereas the Chinese political class began with a socialist political system and then introduced privately held for-profit production, the West began with capitalism and is now implementing a Chinese-style political system. This Chinese-style system includes vastly increased state intervention in the economy, on the one hand, and on the other, the kind of authoritarian measures that the Chinese government uses to control its population."
    FROM
    https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/what-is-the-great-reset/

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    Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years ago

    Another concern: Should we allow non-citizens and foreigners to buy property/land in the US?
    China does not.
    
    China
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_law_in_China
    
    America
    https://www.greenbacktaxservices.com/bl … cts-taxes/

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       MizBejabbersposted 2 years agoin reply to this

       I wish that we did not allow foreign entities to buy up our property. Some European countries don't allow non-citizens to buy property in their countries. I believe that Iceland is one of them.

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          Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years agoin reply to this

          In China even their own people cannot own property.

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             Stephen Tomkinsonposted 2 years agoin reply to this

             As I understand it, 90% 0f Chinese citizens own their homes, compared to around 66 % of Americans.

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                CHRIS57posted 2 years agoin reply to this

                After 70 years all property falls back to the state, no matter how low or high the assets are.
                
                Has a history in China. Officals and clergy ranks in imperial China could also not be inherited to following generations. Sort of the same kind of thinking driven by confucian philosophy. All goes back to "papa" head of family, head of state.

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    Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years ago

    What is the antidote to war, I wonder? If the people of the world could find that antidote
    we would transform ... to what?

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    Miebakagh57posted 2 years ago

    Whenever fossil fuel, or alternatives are burn, energy plus carbon dioxide (Co2) is released.                                        Although nature designed vegetations to absorb most of the Co2, the heat from combustion is essential for man, animals, and plants for  energy and growth. Excess went up into the atmospher, and we're to conform to that. All this is basic science.                                    Seriously, combustion in any form that release energy also emits  Co2 at some degree. Think of it.

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    Stephen Tomkinsonposted 2 years ago

    I should say families, of course.

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       Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years agoin reply to this

       ... where are your facts-proofs?

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    Stephen Tomkinsonposted 2 years ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c … rship_rate
    For example. There are a lot of sources that quote roughly the same percentage

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       MizBejabbersposted 2 years agoin reply to this

       What surprises me is the number of countries that have 80 or 90 percent or more. It doesn't surprise me that the U.S. has a 65% ownership rate because we are such a mobile society. In fact, I am surprised at the number of people who are transferred frequently by their work and yet they still buy houses.
       
       There were some news articles before covid that said millennials were choosing not to be burdened by home ownership. Of my millennial grandchildren, one married a man who already owned a home, and the other and his fiancee met as college students and still live in an apartment. Whether they will buy a home when they marry remains to be seen.

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          Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years agoin reply to this

          Owning home is great if it can be done within one's means.
          
          If the means are not there, heaven help them.
          It's okay if you don't want to raise children. Owning a home and all that goes with it, back yards, garages, schools, neighbors, communities, libraries, bowling alleys, movie theaters, YMCAs, kids' sports teams, community colleges, state colleges, etc. is the ideal way to go. As in, the best way to live in the modern age.

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       Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years agoin reply to this

       "Land in China is state-owned or collectively owned. Enterprises, farmers, and householders lease land from the state using long-term leases of 20 to 70 years.[7] Foreign investors are not allowed to buy or own land in China."
       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_tenure#China

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    Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years ago

    FYI
    
    Land tenure:
    "Private: The assignment of rights to a private party who may be an individual, a married couple, a group of people, or a corporate body such as a commercial entity or non-profit organization.
    
    For example, within a community, individual families may have exclusive rights to residential parcels, agricultural parcels and certain trees. Other members of the community can be excluded from using these resources without the consent of those who hold the rights."
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_tenure#China
    
    Versus
    
    "In principle, municipal land is subject to government ownership and land outside cities is subject to collective ownership. However, one can obtain the right to use the land. There are two types of land-use rights, the "granted land-use right" and the "allocated land-use right".
    http://www.lehmanlaw.com/resource-centr … perty.html

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    Stephen Tomkinsonposted 2 years ago

    I certainly agree but the most important thing is to feel that you belong to a community - homeowner or not.

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       Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years agoin reply to this

       Home owning is the highest way to go: private, calm, secure, independent,
       safe and sound. Did I mention secure?

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    Stephen Tomkinsonposted 2 years ago

    Yes, indeed. But only if it's fully yours. These days, nobody can be sure of future income and run the risk of losing a mortgaged property.

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       Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years agoin reply to this

       This is what must be addressed!
       and CORRECTED!

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          Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years agoin reply to this

          "these days ...?"
          Since Clinton destroyed the Glass-Steagal act?
          Since Obama encouraged us to deteriorate into a service-only country?
          Since Biden got into office?
          
          "President Bill Clinton's signing statement for the GLBA summarized the established argument for repealing Glass–Steagall Section's 20 and 32 in stating that this change, and the GLBA's amendments to the Bank Holding Company Act, would "enhance the stability of our financial services system" by permitting financial firms to "diversify their product offerings and thus their sources of revenue" and make financial firms "better equipped to compete in global financial markets."[1][2]: 223" 

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    Stephen Tomkinsonposted 2 years ago

    Agreed. But how?

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    Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years ago

    Amazon, Google and Facebook, Apple should not have so much influence and power,
    China should not have so much influence and power,
    The Middle East should not have so much influence and power,
    Illegal aliens should not have so much influence and power
    Corrupt DAs    ''         "     "      "    "          "             "      "
    
    OVER US!

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    Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years ago

    Presidents signing executive orders willy nilly should be stopped.
    
    Wars being fought and taking sides wherever and whenever the president so chooses should cease!
    
    Changing the Constitution whenever and wherever some see fit should be curtailed.
    
    .... why even have a constitution if changing it is what they want more than anything?

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