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Dear Mr Hartmann and Dr Mann, Thank you Mr Hartmann for tackling subjects on your program that are not discussed on a lot of mainstream media outlets. To be fair, tipping points are not exactly the news you want to read about every day in the news. Thank you Dr Mann, for dedicating your time to solving this problem. May I offer another “solution” to the tipping points’ problem of global climate change? Could it be possible to use genetics i.e. genetic engineering on a massive, global scale to address the problem? What do I mean by genetic engineering? First of all, we can see that the faun and fauna on planet earth are incredibly fragile. Imagine a 1° degree increase in temperature and all the coral start dying because the amoeba inside of them cannot tolerate a 1° degree temperature rise in the seas! Insects cannot reproduce as Mr Hartmann pointed out with a 1°degree rise in temperature that destabilizes the male insect reproductive system. What is obvious is that humanity cannot turn off the tap on fossil fuels in the blink of an eye no matter how passionately David Attenborough pleads to the world’s leaders. No; gentlemen, I propose using our latest technical achievements in genetic manipulation and focus on tweaking the genetic DNA of all species to increase their tolerance to rising temperatures etc. If we can adjust the tolerance level via altering the genetic codes of the insects, plants, fish etc., affected by climate change, we just might be able to stabilize the faun and fauna to a respectable level. And I might add, we can continue by all means to decrease green-house gas levels. But we must be realistic, this cannot change for a generation or more and all of us know it. Let’s try the science approach? What have we got to lose?
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Dear Mr Hartmann, One can only imagine what your country would be if you were running for office and make it the presidency. You have a way of dealing with social issues that make President Trump look like a mob boss. Then again, maybe he is… Seriously, your comments about Reagan have to include his and Margaret Thatcher’s undoing of the failsafe mechanisms put in place after WWII i.e. deregulating the markets. According to economists like Krugman, this is what led to the 2008 GR. I’m not an economist, but it seems that wonderful man, Ronald Reagan was a Donald J. Trump in disguise. When we hear a worker of a couple of decades ago could take care of all the bills in 28 weeks for a family of four and now his salary needs 53 weeks to break even, your analysis about the 74% tax rate dropped to 28% by Reagan holds water. How about the fact that Bloomberg was worth 3 billion in 2008 and 60 billion in 2020. It’s not Bloomberg’s fault, or Reagan’s or any president or the Fed Chairman’s fault. In my opinion, and this is thanks to learning about economics from such distinguished guests as professor Richard D. Wolff. No; in my lay person’s opinion, it’s nobody’s fault the economy of the entire world is running on empty: it’s the capitalist system. Like an inner tube that has been fixed so many times it leaks everytime you fix it, capitalism is no more.
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Dear Mr Hartmann, Thank you for your great questions that provoke us to think about things that a lot of time we take for granted. The retail stores that are closing is really a photo of the wild west coming to an end. All the Indian tribes were finally put on reservations, a train could cross the country from east to west. The wide-open spaces suddenly filled up with cattle and sheep and so on. The retail stores were a vibrant reflection of ourselves. We saw neighbors shopping for presents, people were walking to the corner store. The streets were alive. Everybody saw a lot of everybody else. Then something stronger than our minds this way comes. Our gadgets have done us a real number and the thing is no one is complaining. Suddenly it isn’t necessary to be out on the town and hanging out doing stuff. The thing is that it shows us that we are willing to do just about anything as long as we feel we are getting something out of it even though when you roll down your eyelids for some sleepy-time recharging, and you look back on the day, all you can see are groups of minutes where you were lost in some sound bite. The TV, internet, phone screen time has most people convinced they put in a good day on the planet. The trouble is, we’ve been duped into letting go of relationships. We are willing to trash having fun with others, just so we can hog the screen and get lost in cyber-land for another evening of me, myself and I. The retail stores are the end of the way we used to was. What is behind the curtain is going to wake us up, because we have painted ourselves into a corner of an empty house that used to have people living in it. Keep up the good work!
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My guess is that Vice-President Cheney and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld were really the architects of the Iraqi and Afghanistan invasions, wars or whatever you want to call it. President George W. Bush may have been the poster boy who called the shots publicly, but behind closed doors, I would bet cash money that Cheney was pulling the strings. Thom, now that I have you on line, isn't the Wuhan lab leak theory of Covid-19 probably true and if so, does it not seem odd to you today that your county's banking sector, financial sector i.e., economy is tanking? There may be one very good reason. The line of thinking I have is that is that the whole idea behind creating the virus wreaking havoc across the world was really to be just a smokescreen for the imbedded goal in it. The plan was to use a pandemic to destroy the capitalist system and especially the American economy. It doesn't make sense that China would unleash a man-made virus just to cause misery, where is the pay back? No; the aim had to be to bring down the American and in turn western economy because they knew the American system's key weakness: to spend its way to oblivion when a national emergency occured. Covid-19 torpedoed the banking sector by over-loading the health care system and bringing the economy to a halt by choking it off with soaring unemployment and all that goes bust when a major recession kicks in. The banking sector is going through the roof because the FED has got no option but to try to stem the inflation that all those trillions released into the economy during the pandemic made possible. Fill in the blanks any way you want, but I think there was a much more sinister underlying reason why the alleged lab-leaked Covid-19 was released across the world.
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Watching and listening to Thom Hartmann's excellent interview with Dr Mann, can we ask Dr Mann what he thinks they should do about Lade Meade being at 35% capacity. Isn't this a turning point, more exactly a tipping point event? Isn't the lake level going to now descend more quickly as apparently with the heatwave 20,000 olympic size swimming pools are evaporating each day from the reservoir? Dr Mann, is it time to think about water displacement from water-rich areas to water-poor areas like in your nation's west? Lastly, San Diego has the most up-to-date desalination plant on the planet, couldn't they pump seawater to Arizona and water-poor states and desalinate it, and then send back the salty extract by rail? I'm on the other side of the world with more rain than we need, so everything is out of kilter, but the tipping point at Lake Meade has been reached. Something must be done immediately. Heatwaves the Pacific NorthWest are difficult to navigate through, but what we've got to do is come up with the solution to have every region on Earth with water.
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After listening to many videocasts from the excellent interviewer Mr Hartmann, and listening to one of America's finest voices of reason on how an economy should be run, it is with deep sadness to hear that the people in charge of the American political system have failed in every way to make running the economy a conservative effort with a balanced budget and ingenious fiscal planning. When Professor Wolff talks about the private capilalist system on life support, it only reinforces the idea that capitalism has outlived its usefulness. Former disgraced President Richard Nixon pulled the plug in decoupling redeeming dollars for gold in 1971. American citizens couldn't own gold in 1971, but foreign traders could redeem dollars for gold. Briefly, people are walking around thinking their money is worth gold. In the 1930s the commercial banks took the gold from the people in exchange for dollars. The central banks then took the gold from the commercial banks. Most of it went to the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. Then, in 1934, the United States Treasury siezed the gold from the Federal Reserve System, bearing in mind it is privately owned, and gave them a gold certificate. The Treasury owns the gold, the Federal Reserve has the gold certificates. Today, your gold, America's gold, is kept in Fort Knox and West Point. Jim Rikards, who provided this information says he believes the US Army owns the gold in 2021 in America. What am I getting at? Isn't the fix you and every country in the world that uses fiat money in, is that without having a nation's money linked to gold, the destruction of the global financial system is all but certain? My question is this: Why wouldn't the authorities have revoked Nixon's perilous decision, and reinstated the gold standard? The fiat system is like Monopoly money. They're printing trillions and it's not linked to anything of value. Professor Wolff, could you please tell us how this makes sense in an economist's view?
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