We make up 5% of the world population but pretend that if we go green here that we will solve the global climate problem.  Nope.  China and India will have hundreds if not thousands of coal plants over the next ten years.  I plan for going green does not address the 95% of the world population then the prognostics for success are not good. 

Hill Top School, now George Wilson Center is the center of a black neighborhood near Newark, DE.  Remember what a community looks and sounds like.   Hard to find in America these days .... and we have not been kind to this one for decades.   What's new you might ask.

The challenge with global warming in the long haul is not the U.S.   India and China with the billions seeking a higher standard of living and all the energy demands that entails is where the real challenge lies.  And guess what, if 2030 and 1.5 C is a real deadline, then we aren't going to make it. Sorry.  I don't think of this as pessimistic, just realistic.  If I am right, what is Plan B?

Human, all human

Skin brown and burnt

Seeking asylum

Two months walking to the Promised Land.

At our border now

A week turned away

Holding a child

Leading one more.

Dead in the desert

Beside empty water jugs

illegal to fill

Cause its aiding and abetting

A human, all human.

Skin brown and burnt

Safe in the arms of our American Religion.

Roe

December 2018

Fits of passion

Limbs reaching wrapping around

Two, three hold as it were

Each other as lovers

Through decades of growth

And change of girth

As we walk below

Two earthly lovers year upon year

Our time and affections shared

Mirrors revealing as our faces drift

As songbirds live and die

As we play in bed

Evolving to quiet affection

Hand holding our new passion

Beneath the two trees

Now in the shadow of the others

With new lovers walking by

Looking up and seeing themselves

Wrapped in aging arms

Swaying in the wind

Leaves falling in a colored rain

Before the winter and the leaving

of lovers too old to return.

Roe

August 2019

Envision the future, for yourself, for your country.  What do we need to be aware of now to make that future vision possible?  What could derail us?

Sometimes America's view of itself and its righteous has a long term negative impact on itself and the planet.  

How did getting rid of dirty industries like copper mining and smelting affect America?  Jobs? Environment here and abroad?

How does the Return on Investment mentality impact survivability of companies, people, and countries?

How does short-term thinking compete with longer term thinking?

How does standing up to China on unfair competition impact your children's future?