#Green Deals Just Another #Hoax or #Myths

 

Avoiding Real Change: The Myth of Green Capitalism

Heat waves, floods, droughts, and wildfires are devastating communities around the world, and they will only grow more severe. While climate-change deniers remain powerful, the need for urgent action is now recognized well beyond activist circles. Governments, international organizations, and even business and finance are bowing to the inevitable—or so it seems.

In fact, the world has wasted decades tinkering with carbon trading and “green” financial labeling schemes, and the current vogue is merely to devise fancy hedging strategies (“carbon offsets”) in defiance of the simple fact that humanity is sitting in the same boat. “Offsetting” may serve individual asset holders, but it will do little to avert the climate disaster that awaits us all.

The private sector’s embrace of “green capitalism” appears to be yet another gimmick to avoid a real reckoning. If business and finance leaders were serious, they would recognize the need to change course drastically to ensure that this planet remains hospitable for all of humanity now and in the future. This is not about substituting brown assets for green ones, but about sharing the losses that brown capitalism has imposed on millions and ensuring a future even for the most vulnerable.

The notion of green capitalism implies that the costs of addressing climate change are too high for governments to shoulder on their own, and that the private sector always has better answers. So, for advocates of green capitalism, public-private partnership will ensure that the transition from brown to green capitalism will be cost-neutral. Efficiently priced investments in new technologies supposedly will prevent humanity from stepping over into the abyss.

But this sounds too good to be true, because it is. Capitalism’s DNA makes it unfit to cope with the fallout from climate change, which in no small part is the product of capitalism itself. The entire capitalist system is premised on the privatization of gains and the socialization of losses—not in any nefarious fashion, but with the blessing of the law.

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CAN GREEN CAPITALISM SAVE US

#Storytelling's Mystical #Powers - #Stanford U

 

Good Afternoon;

The Mystical Powers of Storytelling

Being an active online professional education student at Stanford U; I am routinely invited to their newest and greatest - FREE Learning Webinars; similar to the Storytelling Course linked below. Who amongst us could not be better at storytelling? 

For starters, it is a key skill that can be practically applied to help get ordinary folks, political/legal charlatans, and corrupt crony governments - out of or into a lot of jams, such as; the US Dollar Reserve Currency Hoax, BlockChain Lies, AI Fraud, Worthless Bitcoin Bubbles, and other contemporary, global Ponzi-based schemes that insanely grow by leaps and bounds daily. Seemingly, caused by a more desperate and disillusioned world impossibly clinging to its fading economic stability and last remaining supplies of non-renewable natural resources. Hmm...

The Negative-Sum Games We Play - Economics 101

However, there is still nothing like a profound, motivating, creative story that inspires perspiration from the masses or individuals  - remember those big ole fish stories, or when and how we fought that Grizzly bear with our bear (sic) hands in the Alberta Rockies?

Key Takeaway:  Don't ever underestimate powerful storytelling talents, spin-doctor applications, and their contagious fire-side chat results - for as long as there are still bigger fools out there to convince, the right stories - will always foolishly move vulnerable nations and people; and thereby their real concrete resources and trillions in fiat currencies...

https://learn.stanford.edu/storytelling-webinar-thank-you.html

The Power of Stories to Fuel Innovation

Self-Paced Professional Education Course

Learn how to craft compelling stories that take listeners on a journey that changes how they think, feel, or act. Through the power of story, you’ll discover how to inspire transformational change and spark innovation in your company.

Good Tidings,

Terry

P.S. - Never forget that old adage that stems from the dawn of time - 'B\S Baffles Brains' - now we even teach it at the professional level at our top schools - what next? 

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T. A McNeil

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