[As mentioned in the last column, this column was first published in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. While it is about Sarasota and the Gulf Coast of Florida, the issues are national in scope. The climate crisis, generational issues and the legacy thinking and legacy economics are relevant in the country and the world. Sea […]
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 […]
*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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Last fall I was having a couple of Zoom calls with two futurists for whom I have a great deal of respect. We were talking about what we saw going on in the world, what the lasting effect of the global pandemic might be and what is ahead for this decade. We all came to […]
NOTE: 11 years ago I wrote the column below. I did it because I was getting pitched about Earth Day ideas I should write about. As in people wanted to tout what they were going to do for Earth Day. I simply lost it. Don’t talk to me about Earth Day, Earth Month, Earth Year […]
Last week I wrote about the climate change conference that The Sarasota Institute – A 21st Century Think Tank was presenting. Called “A Leap Year Look at Climate Change” it was unique in the sense that in the morning was the 2020 updated reality of what the climate crisis now looks like. In the afternoon […]
[ a significant percentage of this column was first published in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune] As a futurist, the most important thing to me is to be as right as I can be in my forecasts. Otherwise I have no value to you my readers, or to anyone in my audiences around the world, or readers […]
