This phrase popped into my head a week ago when I heard that the tallest volcano in Indonesia had a massive eruption. This on the heels of the volcano in the Canary Islands, the on-going eruption and lava flow in Hawaii. A search provided the fact that there have been 70 eruptions from 69 volcanos […]
The Shift Age is the transition from the reality of the past and the emerging reality that will be in dominance in the 2030s. The 2020s may well be the last full decade of the Shift Age and is likely to be the single most disruptive decade in history. The Agricultural Age, from roughly 8000 […]
One of the late announcements from the COP26 conference comes from China and the United States who jointly announced an agreement to “enhance ambition”. Huh? Enhance Ambition. Anyone know what that means? Let’s go to the dictionary, the first place to go when one is not sure of the meaning of words: Enhance: “to raise […]
This is a topic that needs to be addressed urgently, but is not even on the agenda at COP26. So far, the agenda has been about groups of countries making grand statements concerning reducing carbon emissions sometime in the future. As stated in my prior column, humanity emits 100 million tons of CO2 into the […]
*Greta Thunberg at a recent climate conference Greta Thunberg has become the leading voice of her generation globally on the climate crisis. The Swedish teenager simply cuts through the double talk of government and business leaders on the urgency of what humanity faces Here is the link to one of the many news reports […]
We are all aware of the current inflation situation. The financial press has spent months wondering if the inflation we are experiencing is short-term or a more insidious longer-term trend. I have been, and still am, of the opinion that it is short-term and will ease in 2022, significantly. We are in a perfect […]
The three-word sentence that is everywhere in the United States In September I made a short trip to Chicago and this sentence was everywhere. I stayed in a hotel in the River North neighborhood, a short walk from Michigan Avenue and the surrounding shopping district. [For those that don’t know Chicago, Michigan Avenue is Chicago’s […]
In a recent column I wrote that we have left the time of denial and entered the time of disconnection. It is completely clear to anyone who is aware that something has changed with the climate. As someone who has, through writings and speeches, been a target of climate change deniers, this year has been […]
Readers know that I am involved with The Sarasota Institute – A 21st Century Think Tank. Along with Philip Kotler, Jason Apollo Voss I co-founded the Institute back in 2017 with a vision of creating something new, exciting, and influential by 2020. Last year I became the Managing Director. The Sarasota Institute is not a […]
If you have consumed any news media in the past few weeks, you know we have entered a climate crisis that is deadly real. It can no longer be denied. Here are just a few of the stories of this summer: the IPCC of the UN have issued the most comprehensive report on climate change […]
