1.Young versus old: Green New Deal advances without old Democrat or Republican support.
While young people advance new inventions and rail against climate change, it has become clear this is not a political fight but young versus old. Old Republicans say it is not cost effective to save the planet. Old Democrats argue it is not politically feasible to save the planet.
2.Flat Earth Faculty Start to Lose
Scientists are tired of debating the climate change deniers. They, along with gender equity advocates, are also starting to get tired of debating the Flat Earth Faculty who also deny science, the science of gender. The scientists, most of whom actually work on the university campus, are now moving fast with brain scans to show the differences in the brain between females and males. The faculty across campus remain stuck in a science-denying belief system, but will soon lose way to the fast moving new discoveries.
3.Disney Heiress says More Taxes, Less CEO Pay
Abigail Disney, an heiress to the Disney fortune created by her grandfather father Roy and great uncle Walt, came out with 200 other millionaires this month and said the rich should pay more taxes, and CEOs should make less money. She made headlines suggesting, “Jesus Christ himself isn't worth 500 times the median worker pay in companies.”
4.European Union sets tough new online copyright rules over objections by the tech industry.
Europe again demonstrates its leadership of the western or ‘free’ world by creating yet another regulation for the 21st century.
5.America plunges further behind, democracy gets another blow.
With other countries grounding the Boeing 737 Max airplane, the United States was the last to ground the planes, another example of the U.S. failing to lead.
We continue our monthly countdown to the NineShift Grand Finale in San Diego November 21 as we conclude our 2000-2020 story of societal transformation into the new century. Photo: NineShift lead researcher and co-author Julie Coates gets a free dessert tray from the bartender at the big Senior LERN Leader retreat in Chicago this month.