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Democracy at the Crossroads     I want to be candid about this, increasingly large segments of the so-called  Republican party are no longer supporters of democracy. Stridently anti-democratic factions hold sway from the WH on down into the ranks and base of the party today. They are supported by a deeply anti-democratic segment of the right-wing media. A form of right-wing Populism - Nationalism has married itself to the Corp. wing of the party, add the these folks the right-wing religious factions and white supremacists and what you end up with is a deeply reactionary and fiercely anti-democratic movement looking to replace our present Constitutional order with something that looks more like today's Russian kleptocracy/autocracy  with a supreme leader or quasi-Dictator like Putin and a weak fig democracy ( the DUMA.) Sadly, I don't see this getting any better in the years ahead. The party is now reaching for Authoritarian leaders like Trump and ...

   If we are to ever slow down the accelerating negative effects of climate change / global warming most scientists of good faith believe Carbon Capture technologies are going to have to be developed and deployed to reabsorb and reprocess much of the present CO2 overhang. The average amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere are known to have been between 190 ppm to 280 ppm ( approx.) over at least the last 4-6 mil. years. The low pts. being in the middle of Ice Ages and the high levels of concentrations in inter-glacial warm periods like the one we're in now ( the Holocene epoch.) The problem now of course is we've added over 135 ppm above the 280 high average and considering that the Atmosphere and Climate system is known to be extraordinarily sensitive to these limits we are now on track for radical change to these systems.                          A REVOLUTIONARY NEW METHOD OF CARBON CAPTURE I've linked here to a ...