A leading scientist just broke down in tears during an interview on carbon pollution, describing a dark future where the oceans are ruined. Whether her nightmare comes true depends on us. The biggest climate summit of the decade is just four months away, and our leaders could agree to a revolutionary target to get the…
Month: July 2015
Cooperation is our evolutionary advantage
Collaboration is a must. Humanity's competitive advantage over the other animal species is if we maximize our ability to cooperate with each other, the animals, the earth and the universe. The severely disabled person we care for today may give birth to the next generation's Einstein.
It must pay to work
I got a right-wing man to agree that private property rights are a social construct. My view is that this justifies sufficient taxation to keep welfare going. However, he thought that you had the right not to have to share your hard work that you did yourself. But we live…
Smart and convenient solutions
Environmentalists understand the challenge the world faces from all emissions. But sometimes I think that the environmental movement is dominated by people who want to return to a hard and barren pre-technological existence. Believe me that existence was so harsh that we got robber barons to get people to go to their hard, physical jobs on the farms, in the mines,…
Grexit: Northern Europe needs a purchasing power Southern Europe
Southern Europe has a lighter industry than Northern Europe. At the same time, they have been an important importer of Northern European products. As such, they have sustained employment and profits in Northern Europe. However, light industry is not as valuable as our heavy industry. This has meant that we in Northern Europe have had to give them consumer loans in order to continue to…
Immigration gives Sweden 65 billion a year
The profit was of course greater in the 1940-60s with all the labor immigrants who made the expansion of Swedish industry possible. But immigration still generates an extra profit for society. Among other things because the majority of immigrants are of working age. Then the modern economies need immigration to expand. In Japan, which has almost zero immigration, the Japanese have to work much harder…