Bulletin Board 2020, #1.3

WordPress locked me out since November.

Why the lapse? I am still locked out of my original blog, with my dedicated server support team unable to remedy: lots of my writing has been lost. So, I have lost confidence in WordPress blogging. Here, I keep to work on the fly while I concentrate on HTML5 in my legacy ProfWork.org site, where I have published over a thousand pages without a server hitch, not so WordPress.

What’s on my mind now.

In this blog, I identify long-term, strategic cases and trends worth watching:

• Does the Aramco IPO provide a tell on energy future: Less than $2 trillion? See my Evernote. Key questions:
  • Will the shale fracking boom continue?
  • US oil demand through 2121: recession or growth slowdown?
• The World Economic Forum, about to convene at Davos, will focus on global cooperation about what has abruptly topped public opinion concern: climate.
• The recent media attention to population slowdown, with profound long-term consequences, such as to China and the USA.
• Will GDP growth slowdown in the USA in the 2020s? The Congressional Budget Office forecasts GDP deceleration and surging federal budgetary deficits. [I will dig out the source.]
• Attention to hotspots such as the burning alive of the Amazon and of Australia — while their respective governments persist in climate denial.
• I will not cover the upcoming Presidential election in the USA but comment only if warranted in covering the concerns above.

Enough substance to digest.

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Professor Emeritus of Sustainability Wayne Hayes retired from Ramapo College of New Jersey on July 1, 2015. Wayne’s concern merges two of his principle interests: first, capitalism’s drive for profit and growth; second, the consequences: inequality, fiscal crisis, exclusion, ecocide, and, looming on the horizon, catastrophic climate change. Capitalism has the upper hand and will not capitulate voluntarily: Aporia, no path through it — or might there be: Such speculation motivates my work. Join me!

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Professor Emeritus of Sustainability Wayne Hayes retired from Ramapo College of New Jersey on July 1, 2015. Wayne's concern merges two of his principle interests: first, capitalism's drive for profit and growth; second, the consequences: inequality, fiscal crisis, exclusion, ecocide, and, looming on the horizon, catastrophic climate change. Capitalism has the upper hand and will not capitulate voluntarily: Aporia, no path through it --- or might there be: Such speculation motivates my work. Join me! View all posts by Administrator