Dr. Ed in America

This is REALLY easy. Environmentalists are do-gooders and small potatoes!! Not good. Wrong way to handle it. Always remember the fundamental question: What's in it for me? Well, right now, precious little. All that money involved in clean energy goes to nice people who want to save the planet. We need to get the money to masters of the universe who really don't give a crap about much of anything except profit. How do we do this? Corporate welfare Exorbitant profits Sweet deal government contracts The other thing to consider, a bit more seriously, is to subsidize the cost of change. That is, pay fossil fuel companies to NOT dig for coal and drill for oil, and pay them to convert the current energy infrastructure to a clean (or cleaner) paradigm. After all, we've been paying farmers for decades not to farm...

Making large amounts of money in real estate is a zero sum game. Even the most neophyte real estate agent will tell you, location, location, location. Well, two different companies can't own the same piece of land. I win, you lose. I own it, you don't. Your distress is my opportunity. This is really different from business , where win-win is real. I make widget A for a profit, you take widget A and incorporate it into widget B, You sell widget B for a profit, and we walk arm in arm to the bank. Really, it's a big deal. Foreign policy has to be win-win. Effective diplomacy successfully answers the other side's question, "What's in it for me?" If the answer is, "absolutely nothing, because I win and you lose," it will be tough going. The next major shakeout of nasty negotiation is an explanation of why no one knows exactly what is going to happen next. If your plan is to take as much advantage of the next guy as possible, well yeah, keep the ot...