The quadrennial presidential nomination propaganda fest indoctrinates and revives the naive, lazy person's self-delusion that all they have to do politically is get enough people to vote for the right candidates and the problems of the nation and world will be solved. Buzz-word copycatting “Change!

Recently I read “Twilight in the Desert,” a book about the advent of peak oil production in Saudi Arabia and watched two good documentaries from Netflix, “The End of Suburbia,” and “A Crude Awakening.” I'm persuaded in part by these items that nothing effective is going to be done to even slow down global warming. It's human nature to want a less laborious life and use our big brains to release chemical energy to produce products to make life “easier.” Neither China, nor India with their coal reserves, nor the U.S. will seriously slow use of these resources.