It seems that the Rockefellers are finally stepping in to save the day. According to this article, they are raising flags of war to fight global warming and encouraging the company to invest in renewable energy -- let's hope that they are wise enough not to get lead around with boondoggles such as ethanol. More can be read here.

I have been troubled recently with the potential environmental crisis that awaits us. However, I think that there is hope, even if it pervades in term of greed. The hope is that the rich, looking out for their own personal self-interest, will invest enough money to save the planet. The ultimate problem is that many of the rich wish only to get richer. Those who do not, the few that exist, tend to invest in saving the world from problems of yesteryear, that is starvation, medication, and the like; i.e. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

i was thinking today about economics in general. If you think about economics, you understand that there is regardless of any economic system an implicit base assumption that people are to work. There is in fact no question whatsoever as to why people should work, what is the direction of their work, or anything as such. There is just this concern that people should work, meaning expend time producing some sort of product or service that others will trade for this artificial donation of value called money, because each party is better off.