YIN
AND YANG
In Shanghai, they are replacing bicycles with cars. In New
York, they are replacing cars with bicycles.
BUY A CONDO IN DENVER?
BUFFALO? PITTSBURGH?
So
if Miami and Manhattan will be underwater (“Earth
2100”)
– New Orleans
is already eight feet below sea level – then truly long-range
planners may want to stake out vacation and retirement homes on higher ground.
Click here
for elevations.
TOO
MANY PEOPLE
What environmental problem
wouldn’t be made better with fewer
people? (“Yeah,” says
Jerry Seinfeld in that wonderful moment with George Costanza: “People.
They’re the worst.”)
The problem is, getting
from today’s 6.8 billion (up from 2.5 billion in just the few years I’ve
been breathing!) down to some more manageable number in any relevant time
period is – let’s hope – impossible.
I say “relevant time
period” meaning the crucial decades ahead, before we’ve learned to
produce nearly-free energy and (say) colonize space.
And I say
“let’s hope” because, of course, there are ways to
reduce population – four of them, to be precise – and each of them
rides a horse.
We don’t want that.
Indeed, world population is likely to hit at least 7.5
billion before turning down . . . and very possibly 9 billion or more.
It’s getting awfully crowded on this bus.
There are no attractive solutions. (Witness China’s
pragmatic yet troubling one-child
policy.) But what if you could find a group of people who frequently volunteered
to be childless uncles and aunts. Who frequently volunteered to be
adoptive parents.
Oh, wait! There are such people.
(I think you know where this is headed.)
BOREF
Why
do I always have to start with, “I know, I know. But still . . .”
Well, for obvious reasons. But still . . . here is
the latest WheelTug® press release. It even includes a photo of the motor.
(Meanwhile, the iron deposits at Roche Bay may yet have some value – here.)
ALTU
Craig
D.: “ALTU is back to
where you recommended
it, 50 cents. I hope we can make a little money on it.”
☞
It closed at 68 cents last night, and this could be a good time to call it
quits. My guru was initially bullish because of a specific drug in development
that a cash squeeze forced them to offload. The stock may do fine, but he
feels the compelling reason for owning it is gone. Nibble at INCY instead?