Keep in mind there is a top 3% and a bottom 3% . . .

Ben, here is what you are missing and it explains all in great detail. It is how PRAVDA/MSM easily mind fucks the populace and yourself apparently ? Wake up man and I agree water is more important although water and soil are the only solutions going forward.

http://www.downtoearththinking.com/cogdis-and-normalcy-bias.html

Ben,
Why are we worried about Trump supposedly being endorsed by some klan members and were not worried about Robert Byrd being Hillary’s “friend and mentor.”

Don’t worry about global whatevering because it will be over soon. The only reason this has lasted as long as it has is because Gore and his buddies saw that their carbon credit bank could provide them with wealth that could put them on the top of the Forbes list. We will soon have another “cause” to worry about. So far I have seen starvation in Bangladesh, global cooling, starvation in Ethiopia and now global whatevering. So the cycle will have us worrying about some starving children in BFE and the sun and weather can go back to their natural cycles.

My problems with it are the motivations and that that “they” don’t really get into the effects that global whatevering will have. Yea, the sea levels will rise and wash away Florida and the east coast a couple years ago. Hurricanes, tornadoes, locust plagues and every other calamity they can think of is what they say, but they never talk about anything but doom and gloom. They never stopped to think that when water warms it evaporates and rises. When it rises to the cooler air and makes clouds which reflect some of the suns heat away and block even more from reaching the ground. Then when the ground cools in the shade, the air stops rising and starts falling, down comes the cooling rain. So warming makes cooling. They also don’t get into the fact that temps have lead CO2 emissions and have not looked to see if the higher CO2 levels are actually the result of lower plant mass levels in the waters and on the land due to real pollutants and conventional agricultural processes. Freeing this sequestered carbon and making it available should make the plant life levels rise and following that, animal life levels.

The vast majority of our acclaimed scientists have so narrowed their studies and experiences that they can’t look at a problem from any other angle other than from that which they have been taught. They don’t even consider simple solutions because all their studies have been geared towards finding complex solutions to complex problems. I have several of these people in my family and have worked with some of the top microwave engineers in the world. It has always amazed me how stupid these geniuses are when you get them out of their narrow field. They know a lot of facts and the accepted processes of how they are supposed to combine them but it is extremely rare to find one that can figure out how to get piss out of a boot without telling them that the instructions are on the heal.

When you get down to it they lack REAL critical thinking. They lack the ability to find solutions to problems in areas where they have no education or experience by combining pieces of seemingly unrelated knowledge. They, as kids, were never told by their father to “figure it out.” They were either told the answer or told to “look it up” or had the problem solved for them.

Or, maybe they’re just educated far above and beyond their intelligence.

I get really sick of the claims that GMO increases yields. In 1994 my dad was an active farmer and had been for 20+ years. He heard all the hype for Roundup Ready soybeans so he bought enough for one field because the price was about the same as just about every other soybean see he could purchase at the time. He found that right out of the chute, Monsanto’s claims of increased yields were absolute BS and in fact saw a significant yield loss. In an adjoining field he raised soybeans conventionally and saw a yield around 58-60 bushels per acre. The roundup beans raised a paltry 35 bushels per acre. He tried this three years in a row, and would have sworn off the Roundup ready stuff altogether except for one small issue… His seed dealer quit handling conventional beans. Only within the last 4 or years has it been feasible to locate a source of conventionally grown, open pollinated soybean seed at scale. And at this point he’s in that 60 year old range, so why bother changing… But only now, after 20+ years have the roundup genetics improved in yield enough to break the 5 bushels per acre mark in our area on average.

In the Mike Rowe segment, you talked about mortgages and that you think it’s smart to keep a mortgage if you can make better money via investments. I’m curious about this because a big part of my financial preparedness strategy is to try to pay off the rest of our mortgage (about $85k). In the event of a financial collapse, death, disability, or job loss, our living expenses will be so much lower. Financial markets are unpredictable (and I read that you sold stock before the election, I’d love to know more about that too). Are you saying that this preparedness tactic of paying off the mortgage is not a good idea? Thanks.