Thank you, Jeff. Your sense of overload with articles and books -- I won't number the books to read behind me and you're suggesting another I would like to read!
Thank you, Jeff. Your sense of overload with articles and books -- I won't number the books to read behind me and you're suggesting another I would like to read!
The book analyzes successive world orders, and establishes the timelines, up through the British Empire, then the American-led hegemony, and now it’s eclipse by what he sees will be run by the Chinese. But even in that eclipse, America will try to keep asserting its former position of sole super-power, and that’s where things can go off the rails.
In his final analysis, the Climate Crisis will change the game so that only a true unity of world powers will be able to take control.
Jeff, You are the perfect co-subscriber. Of course, I have to read it now - not now but in a couple of months. I think Russia and the U.S. have to be allied to balance against China. Can you imagine that alliance, Jeff? Your opinion about the U.S. is the same as mine, unless there is a big change. The trend is not good. Unity of the world, that is a very difficult one to imagine. Does the book supply any good ideas about that?
The Ministry and its allies fight for a new international bit-coin currency backed by the major central banks, issued to those who forgo carbon emissions and, instead, invest in its sequestration. In effect, it’s a scheme to buy out the petro-states and fossil fuel conglomerates with a modest yet secure compensation for their troubles, amortized over the remainder of the century. They also exploit blockchain technology to create a worldwide credit union that, as a happy corollary, abolishes tax havens. They sneak their way into a meeting with the heads of all the central banks in the world, and precipitate a financial crisis that only that group can address, and only by shifting the world economy from that based on the dollar to the new currency. And it's described so convincingly, almost like you're reading history.
Your are a splendid and perfect torturer, Jeff. When Trump or DeSantis becomes the president in 2025, your talents will be sought after and the pay, just fabulous.
Thank you, Jeff. Your sense of overload with articles and books -- I won't number the books to read behind me and you're suggesting another I would like to read!
The book analyzes successive world orders, and establishes the timelines, up through the British Empire, then the American-led hegemony, and now it’s eclipse by what he sees will be run by the Chinese. But even in that eclipse, America will try to keep asserting its former position of sole super-power, and that’s where things can go off the rails.
In his final analysis, the Climate Crisis will change the game so that only a true unity of world powers will be able to take control.
If we can survive that long. (my opinion)
Jeff, You are the perfect co-subscriber. Of course, I have to read it now - not now but in a couple of months. I think Russia and the U.S. have to be allied to balance against China. Can you imagine that alliance, Jeff? Your opinion about the U.S. is the same as mine, unless there is a big change. The trend is not good. Unity of the world, that is a very difficult one to imagine. Does the book supply any good ideas about that?
No one has any good ideas about that, except some novelists. Although I am reluctant to read futuristic novels about the Climate Crisis, there are some great ideas about a clever underground economic revolution in the second half of "Ministry for the Future" https://www.amazon.com/Ministry-Future-Kim-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0316300144/ref=asc_df_0316300144/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=459638379039&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13971699850612043723&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007303&hvtargid=pla-986809498480&psc=1
Jeff, We are approaching friendship. If you recommend one more book, however, our future together may be in jeopardy.
The Ministry and its allies fight for a new international bit-coin currency backed by the major central banks, issued to those who forgo carbon emissions and, instead, invest in its sequestration. In effect, it’s a scheme to buy out the petro-states and fossil fuel conglomerates with a modest yet secure compensation for their troubles, amortized over the remainder of the century. They also exploit blockchain technology to create a worldwide credit union that, as a happy corollary, abolishes tax havens. They sneak their way into a meeting with the heads of all the central banks in the world, and precipitate a financial crisis that only that group can address, and only by shifting the world economy from that based on the dollar to the new currency. And it's described so convincingly, almost like you're reading history.
Your are a splendid and perfect torturer, Jeff. When Trump or DeSantis becomes the president in 2025, your talents will be sought after and the pay, just fabulous.
I'll take your friendship, instead.
It's a deal, Jeff! I'm relieved, Wouldn't want see you hanging out with the wrong people!