I want to thank the caller on Monday who talked about the election triggering past trauma flashbacks. I thought I was the only one. Thanks.

The elephant in the room, that seems to be avoided by everyone is too many people on the planet. That is the root cause to climate change and a multitude of other problems we face. Politically the subject has become a pariah so instead of attempting to address human population growth on a global and national scale we scurry about trying to figure out a cure for its individual consequences. The disease of overpopulation has symptoms of climate change, resource depletion and shortages, increased need for regulation, mass migration, wars over resources, and on and on. All of these symptoms are inevitable until we address the causal problem. How do we get the world to voluntarily and peacefully self-regulate our number of humans over the next century? If we don't, the symptoms of the disease eventually will regulate our numbers for us.

Tom

Some things you get right and on this subject you are partially correct. Your biggest mistake is listening to the government bought scientist and politicans. They have an adjenda and it's not to help mother earth. Is the weather changing,yes ; are we as a people polluting,yes ; however is the MAIN polluting coming the industry,Yes. Not all are, climate change, coming from pollutents, there are other factures that are out of mans control such as oceans warming from tectonic plate movement, under sea volcanos and many other natural occurances on this planet.

Stop taking in the garbage our government speaks through it's talking heads. Do so research out of political accepted channels. Learn, adapt and change.

Thanks Thom you should be advising the World Government on how to save Humanity from its own demise.

It takes around 300 years for a newly planted tree to grow to the size which will allow it to produce as much oxygen as many of the old growth trees in our rainforests that have been chopped down .We have cleared hundreds of thousands of acres and we are not stopping. To replace this loss would take thousands of years .

This is called eroding the life system .We are choosing to do this to satisfy the interests of the few .Intead of balancing our planets atmosphere so life can thrive.

To change all this we have to see the environment as part of ourselves and everything in it as well, only then will we begin to act differently towards her.This is a conscious choice we have to make .

To be or not to be .That is humanitys most vital question . It always has been ...

There's no revolution. We've been through another eight years of Dems and liberals calling on the public to Stand in Solidarity -- to maintain the status quo of the bourgeoisie, the middle class. Stay the course!

Unless you're using the word in the sense of a "revolutionary new breakfast cereal," revolutions are not driven by the better-off. They are waged by those who have been shut out, denied fundamental human rights, and no longer have anything left to lose.

Hello Thom,

I recently did a writing assignment for a college course with regards to Trees. And I also drew the conclusion that our Trees are dying, stating that "Trees are the Canary in the Coal Mine for Humankind",

I would like to share it with you........

The most surprising thing I learned about the

Hidden Life of Trees

by

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As far back as I can remember Trees have always been an important part of my life.

As a child, whenever my family moved to a new and unfamiliar neighborhood, remembering which trees lined the city blocks would always help me to find my way home after a long walk from my new school. As I grew up, many of those same trees provided more than just shade and recreation. They also provided safety and security from the occasional unleashed dog roaming the neighborhood. Now as an adult, one of the tallest Pine Trees in the Valley aides to keep my house cool in the summer, and provides ample lumber to burn in the winter.

While reading Brian Pickings: The Secret Life of Trees, a treatment of The Hidden life of Trees, written by Peter Wohlleben, I was reminded of the symbiotic relationship I shared with certain Trees in my old neighborhoods. I was also intrigued to learn more about the may ways trees affect almost every other species of life on the Planet as well.

Trees are not only part of our ecological system, cleaning and filtering the air we breath, but they are also part of a complex food chain within the wilderness. That if tampered with, may cause a ripple affect than can destroy an entire ecosystem.

The most surprising aspect of Wohllebens's observations of Trees, is that the Wolves of Yellowstone National Park serve as natural sheepherders of the Forest and protect the Trees. By controlling the balance of vegetation and not allowing nearby herbivores to over feed on the young trees and seedlings along the banks of various rivers, trees are able to flourish and maintain the balance of nature.

By taking note of this particular discovery, I have learned to draw yet another conclusion, among the many others I have come to know, and that is “Trees are the Canary in the Coalmine for Mankind”. Trees provide more than just shade on a summer day, or a something to decorate in the Winter, Trees are vulnerable, living creatures, that provide a great deal of life to our Planet. They ask for very little in return except to be left alone. They need our protection if Mankind wants to survive.

As I type this written assignment, vast areas of our Tropical Rain-forest in South America, as well as the mountaintops of North-America are being destroyed. They are being laid to waste in the name of profit, which in turn creates nothing more than pollution. The our great forests are responsible for the bulk of the clean air we breath. Without clean air, we die.

I hope someday soon, mankind will wake up from this veritable suicide pack. For I do not appreciate it at all.

I'm glad you mentioned slash-and-burn farming, but it's actually for livestock and their feedcrops. According to the facts in the movie "Cowspiracy," 136 million rainforest acres have been cleared for animal agriculture. By simply cutting back dramatically on our diet of cows alone we can regrow our forests, the lungs of the earth. This idea of creating a carbon-eating mechanism sounds pretty far-fetched, expensive, and pointless if we aren't cutting back on our consumption of this unsustainable, unhealthy, and planet-destroying practice.

A carbon tax will give incentive for companies to go green.

Hopefully the revenues will be directed at tech in these three areas:

Fusion (especially the smaller machines)

Aeroponics (grow food plants without soil, already a for profit business)

"Water from air" devices.

("The amount of water available in the air is for all forseeable practical purposes unlimited. The bottom 1 kilometre (in the atmosphere) alone contains about 1.000,000,000,000,000 litres of water and that is turned over every few hours}

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A vote for Bernie is a vote for Trump. Listen to Bernie, he is campaigning for Hilary. Vote blue no matter who. The Supreme Court, The Democratic Platform and keeping Trump out are to important.

The big deal is that we don't have national ID. We only have state ID's that cost money to get, which disenfranchises poor people. Not to mention that some states have divested in DMV's that do those ID's in some regions that are mostly minority and poor, which requires them to go out of town to get ID, and there is no public transportation to get there. So these voter ID laws are used strategically to disenfranchise people who are likely to vote democrat. This kind of voter disenfranchisement can turn an election. Something else you probably don't realize, we also have a lot of elderly people that don't have a valid birth certificate! That's because states didn't start requiring central filing of birth and death certificates at a state bureau of vital statistics until after WWII. My dad doesn't have a valid birth certificate. He was born at home. No birth certificate, no ID. You start to see the problem now?

The problem is that we think we are a Democracy but we arn't. We are an Oligarchy, controlled by the large money people who own the media and control how that media is being used to control, or negate the electorate.

How to change this?

My suggestion is to required all registered individuals be counted. Each slate of proposed electable officials would have to include "None of the above" and if that category was the greatest in count of registered voters, then none of the presented slate, including current holders of the office, would be elected and the next voting opportunity, preferable no more than 4 weeks later, would have to be an entirely new slate of candidates. If a person did not actively vote for one of the existing candidates, his/her vote wuld be counted in the "None of the above" slot. Existing candidates, now holding the office could be voted out. the candidates would be more interested in getting the registered voters opinion and satisfying their political needs than the moneyed interests.