Published inTrends Visible Now·Aug 22Direct Air Capture of CO2 in All the Wrong WaysBy Peter Montague (pm8525@gmail.com) August 22, 2023 The Department of Energy (DOE) put on a webinar Aug. 11 2023 to provide some details about its new “direct air capture (DAC) hub” program. You can watch the video (and get the slides) here: https://bit.ly/3KRSLr0. …Dac4 min readDac4 min read
Dec 29, 2022Creating The FutureBy Peter Montague (pm8525@gmail.com) [An earlier version of this story appeared on CommonDreams.org Dec. 28, 2022 under the headline “‘The System’ is Ruining Our Present and Collective Future.”] Now is a time of unprecedented opportunity for progressive change. The reason is simple: “the system” is ruining the future for young…Young People9 min readYoung People9 min read
Nov 27, 2022Big Oil vs. The Future of Young PeopleBy Peter Montague (originally published on The Networker, Nov. 21, 2022 Big Oil, led by ExxonMobil, is engaged in a life-or-death battle for survival. Numerous authoritative studies have concluded that any new oil or gas projects will heat the planet beyond the so-called “safe” limit established by the Paris Agreement…Climate Change7 min readClimate Change7 min read
Nov 26, 2022Why Have We Failed to Engage the Public about Climate Change?By Peter Montague (pm8525@gmail.com) Why have we, so far, failed to sway the public sufficiently to overcome the power of Big Oil and reduce annual fossil fuel emissions. Here’s an explanation: In 2021, the New York Times ran an interview with the Israeli historian, Yuval Harari (author of Sapiens: A…Climate Change2 min readClimate Change2 min read
Published inThe Bold ReThink·Apr 12, 2021Has anything really changed?By Peter Montague Yes, it’s exciting to have fresh ideas in the White House and in Congress, but how much has changed, really? ** We are still a fundamentally and deeply racist nation in profound denial of our history and our current realities. Our racism is so deep that most…Government7 min readGovernment7 min read
Published inThe Bold ReThink·Apr 6, 2021What could we do to fix our broken system?By Peter Montague What is stopping us? Why can’t we give America a much-needed raise, provide all our kids a decent education, reverse climate change, make sure billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share of taxes, eliminate policies that sustain racial and gender discrimination, and finally assure simple, secure…Filibuster8 min readFilibuster8 min read
Published inThe Bold ReThink·Feb 26, 2021The Plan to Eliminate Majority Rule in the U.S. Has Succeeded (So Far)By Peter Montague Trumpist Republicans are on track to win back control of Congress in 2022 and perhaps the White House in 2024. Even if Trump is not the Republican presidential nominee in 2024, the next Republican nominee seems certain to be equally lacking in conscience and empathy and also…9 min read9 min read
Feb 20, 2021Black History: How Racists Control the U.S. SenateBy Peter Montague After the Civil War ended in 1865, white people conducted a public campaign of intimidation – torturing and murdering thousands of people in public (73% of them Black), a practice called lynching. Lynching was so common that we still have no accurate count of those public murders…Filibuster9 min readFilibuster9 min read
Published inThe Bold ReThink·Feb 9, 2021Progressives Infected by NeoliberalismBy Peter Montague In the U.S., a philosophy called “neoliberalism” began to dominate economic and political thinking when Ronald Reagan became president, in 1981. As Robert Kuttner puts it, “The basic argument of neoliberalism can fit on a bumper sticker. Markets work; governments don’t.” Neoliberalism vs. Progressivism Neoliberals and progressives…Neoliberalism7 min readNeoliberalism7 min read
Published inThe Bold ReThink·Jan 26, 2021What is neoliberalism and why should you care?By Peter Montague Neoliberalism is an economic and political philosophy that has dominated the U.S. since 1980 when Ronald Reagan won the presidency. In addition to being a set of policies, neoliberalism is an ideology that allows the super-rich to justify why they deserve to be super-rich. Neoliberalism says the…Neoliberalism8 min readNeoliberalism8 min read
