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And here’s the other example…
Today, in The Guardian newspaper:
“Three Americans create enough carbon emissions to kill one person, study finds”
From,
“The mortality cost of carbon”
R. Daniel Bressler
Nature Communications volume 12, Article number: 4467 (2021)
Today, in The Guardian newspaper:
“Three Americans create enough carbon emissions to kill one person, study finds”
From,
“The mortality cost of carbon”
R. Daniel Bressler
Nature Communications volume 12, Article number: 4467 (2021)
It's sad (but true) that public health is a political hot potato in the US.
If you would have told me in 1980 where this show was heading, I wouldn't have believed you. The stupid hurts.
I think part of the issues in the US is that they only have two parties. That forces people to one of two positions, there's no room for nuances.
In my native country, The Netherlands, we currently have 16 (or 17) parties in the parliament (equivalent to US congress, roughly). Several have only one vote. But it forces the government to wheel and deal and try to form a coalition government between 3, 4 or even 5 parties. That process waters down extreme positions, otherwise you'll never be able to get government power. And people have real choices from extreme right to extreme left and every nuance in between.
The big disadvantage is of course that things move very slowly because any lawmaking needs supports from multiple often opposite parties. Then again, a government that moves very slowly is maybe not a real problem.
Hope this wasn't too political 😎
Jan
In my native country, The Netherlands, we currently have 16 (or 17) parties in the parliament (equivalent to US congress, roughly). Several have only one vote. But it forces the government to wheel and deal and try to form a coalition government between 3, 4 or even 5 parties. That process waters down extreme positions, otherwise you'll never be able to get government power. And people have real choices from extreme right to extreme left and every nuance in between.
The big disadvantage is of course that things move very slowly because any lawmaking needs supports from multiple often opposite parties. Then again, a government that moves very slowly is maybe not a real problem.
Hope this wasn't too political 😎
Jan
BTW My current resident country Belgium has 5 governments: Flemish, Wallon, the German speaking part, Brussels and Federal. I think there's another one, can't remember.
Imagine a 15 million people country with 6 prime ministers ;-)
I love Belgium!
Jan
Imagine a 15 million people country with 6 prime ministers ;-)
I love Belgium!
Jan
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Kerry Packer had some things to say to the Australian government along similar lines of - you sit around making up new laws, thousands of them, why don’t you adopt the practice of not introducing any new laws without deleting an old one. Kerry was quite a character, you should check out his Youtube stuff.
Guys of belgium are cool guys. Although I wisch they offer rheir royal family to a safari for starving lions...they usually often hunted with the public money in the most expensive killing safaris one can dream...elephant, lion, rhino... If they were the only one sadly.
Ideas eventually last 3000 years...some species...no more...
Woul we be able of human organisation progress in 3000 years....it becomes not rulable and many do not want it is.... I m not sure our civilisations are able of something else than money to exchange and create social organisations. It came at one cost too despite knowledge is persistant. Jan question is a question for the richest...most stuggle for life everyday in a perpetual day . But I can not imagine 3000 years without a sweat... pain and pleasure are tye two side of a same basic system. In front of each carot a donkey drops something else. 3000 years...what is the bill?
That's an understatement!
Must be nice. Our "choices" here are extreme and more extreme.
It's the end of the empire.
Wow, so sensitive! 😱 Supporting an idea of leaving earth because of suppressed speech...
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^ Surely, that can be done in 3 years, not 3000. 
But that's up against stiff competition in the nearby regions so it may not hold up as well.
That has been discussed here too, but never got implemented.
There is one other big disadvantage though of a multi-party political landscape. Every law that passes, like a change in the tax code, has a few main pages and then hundreds of pages of exceptions and special cases, because each party wants to make sure their voter group is not disadvantaged.
Then all this has, in the example of tax code, to be implemented in the huge, archaic tax IT systems. Those are major IT projects, and we know how major government IT projects fare!
Many years ago in NL they made a small error in the IT code, and 10's of 1000's of people got a monthly subsidy that, after many years, was found they were not entitled to.
Imagine a single mom struggling to make ends meet, getting a letter from the IRS telling her she needs to pay back € 100,000. Thousands of people lost their home, their job, marriage broke down, and they ended up sleeping under the bridge. That's an unintended side-effect of socialism and government ineptitude.
Jan
You know what's great about American nation?
It has got enough of the people with the right talents for the whole nation to succeed in any thinkable way, yet many seem to be making the wrong choices. To pick death over life, is the wrong choice. Moral degradation has terminated Roman empire, so it will any other as well. Only moral people have a bright future.
The Empire is spread pretty thin. Uncle Sam has been laser focused on Afghanistan and Iraq for 20 years now. The whole war effort and mission creep have cost Uncle Sam dearly. The whole infrastructure is crumbling and the debt is high.
The situation at home has been neglected. Now there's more debt to fix the home front. All I can say is I hope it works.
Afghanistan has been called the graveyard of empires. Afghanistan contributed greatly to the demise of the USSR in my opinion. Now history repeats itself?
The situation at home has been neglected. Now there's more debt to fix the home front. All I can say is I hope it works.
Afghanistan has been called the graveyard of empires. Afghanistan contributed greatly to the demise of the USSR in my opinion. Now history repeats itself?