I like to open new doors and blaze new trails through the jungle and all that whatnot. What keeps me goin all these years is changin it up.
Obama's record on climate issues is not all bad.
In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.
So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.
One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.
But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.
From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and polluting the air and releasing toxic chemical into what's left of the local streams and aquifers. It's that the people who live near the mines are too cozy with their cousins.
It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation.
I immediately split the crowd. I thought about coming on every night and shouting, Gay pride, white power! just to confuse people.
Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly. " But the word "silly" comes from the old English word "selig," and its literal definition is "to be blessed, happy, healthy and prosperous. "
The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about; the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.