My Journey From Traditional Environmentalism to a People First Environmental Perspective By: Mike Gemmell I have written this memoir of my early professional life to help individuals and groups working in what I refer to as “the cultural persuasion business.” In the context of this memoir thatRead more →
Climate Change and the Larger Cultural Picture Round IV: What it will Take to Win “Climate Change and the Larger Cultural Picture Round II” outlined the existence of an ever-intensifying conflict the likes of which few of us in today’s world have ever witnessed—and the events that
Read more →Climate Change and the Larger Cultural Picture – Round III The following essay is a follow-up to “Climate Change and the Larger Cultural Picture – Round II”. In that essay I noted the efforts by a number of groups around the world seeking to de-stabilize the
Read more →Several weeks ago I wrote an email to a number of individuals in my personal and professional networks titled: “Climate Change and the Larger Cultural Picture.” In that correspondence I indicated that—in my judgement—events are taking place across the world that must be understood by
Read more →For the better part of a decade I have been sounding the alarm concerning how misuse of the public interest principle has caused, and continues to cause, immense damage to the world’s first republic. Previously I have shown how the misuse of this principle helped
Read more →Since the early days of America, a conflict of visions has torn at the fabric of American society. Its foundational ideas of liberty and the right of an individual to pursue his own life’s purpose has co-existed with an idea completely antithetical to it: that individuals are
Read more →The signs that America is in need of a cultural renaissance (“rebirth”) are all around us. Astonishing rates of illiteracy, out of control political correctness especially in institutions of higher learning, and large percentages of America’s youth favoring socialism in the land founded on the principle of
Read more →The inability to grasp and defend the values underlying the individual rights foundation of the U.S. has been the Achilles heel of the Republican Party leadership for over 100 years. Time and again they have failed to understand that political rights require a moral foundation so
Read more →This is the first in a series of essays looking at the implications of a sweeping new policy proposal in the U.S. known as The “Green New Deal.” The program, unveiled in January 2019 by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, proposes to replace fossil fuels by renewable sources of energy
Read more →America’s Founding Fathers understood the importance of defending free speech as a fundamental principle for the world’s first republic including it as the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Without the right to speak freely and debate ideas publicly, freedom in any society-including America-will die. It happened
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