At this point I reach for that line from Goethe: “I thank God that I am not young in so thoroughly ruined a world.” Usefully it offers a choice: take it at face value, or consider that he wrote it early in the nineteenth century and yet humanity is still—just about—clinging on.
I don't think 'unfettered internationalism' describes anyone in the US with any sort of power or influence at all.
It is hard not to be pessimistic about climate change, especially as it affects places like South Asia. It's already very bad and only going to get worse. Conversion away from fossil fuels has been accelerating, I think, and there's still much to be done on that. Conversion costs money, yes, but if our government stopped going out of its way to subsidize fossil fuels, that wouldn't be a bad step here.
In the US, the need for more immigration becomes ever more apparent. There are help wanted signs everywhere, and unemployment is at all time lows. It's not internationalism to say that to maintain the proper ratio of employed people to retirees to keep the retirement system afloat, we're going to need more young people than our nation is producing. And look, there are a bunch of young people willing to brave a dangerous and stealthy trip across our southern desert for a shot at one of those jobs with a help-wanted sign. We need to build more housing, which means we need more construction workers, and on it goes.
At this point I reach for that line from Goethe: “I thank God that I am not young in so thoroughly ruined a world.” Usefully it offers a choice: take it at face value, or consider that he wrote it early in the nineteenth century and yet humanity is still—just about—clinging on.
I don't think 'unfettered internationalism' describes anyone in the US with any sort of power or influence at all.
It is hard not to be pessimistic about climate change, especially as it affects places like South Asia. It's already very bad and only going to get worse. Conversion away from fossil fuels has been accelerating, I think, and there's still much to be done on that. Conversion costs money, yes, but if our government stopped going out of its way to subsidize fossil fuels, that wouldn't be a bad step here.
In the US, the need for more immigration becomes ever more apparent. There are help wanted signs everywhere, and unemployment is at all time lows. It's not internationalism to say that to maintain the proper ratio of employed people to retirees to keep the retirement system afloat, we're going to need more young people than our nation is producing. And look, there are a bunch of young people willing to brave a dangerous and stealthy trip across our southern desert for a shot at one of those jobs with a help-wanted sign. We need to build more housing, which means we need more construction workers, and on it goes.