What we're achieving here in our discussions is a foundation which can be used by those necessary visionaries, that undergirds the courage needed to tell the truth and propose a way out.  This situation demands the equivalent to real entrepreneurship.  Many can write about or support innovation, but true entrepreneurship is very rare.  It demands the ability to stand up and say no, willing to walk away from a deal that does not really reflect what you seek... despite the deal being partly worthwhile.

So it is now.  The system is so broken, only those with the courage to actually say it can move us forward.  I too, like Grandpa, believe the global economic fundamentals are sound, only just not on this planet.

A National Investment Bank (internationally supported) has to be but a main gear in the drive train building a sustainable infrastructure.  Simple, except the dinosaur interests like the coal lobby are flailing with all their power to survive by crushing us.  An international Apollo program of sustainability, which begins with building insulation and the immediate re-channeling of industrial infrastructure towards wind and solar on a massive scale, is indeed our best hope.

But then there's GE's Wall STreet  darling, Jeffrey Immelt yesterday, calling on Congress to ratify the nuclear deal with India, and calling nuclear power " the safest, non-polluting energy generation technology."  I don't hear him pontificating about GE's wind turbines (decent but not particularly the heights of the industry), as they only make up some 3% of GE's gross.

But then i've been saying pretty much the same damn thing for decades now.  Sustainability is only tens of millions of purposeful jobs globally in an aggressive program to fix this civilization.  And windsmiths love their work, because it's satisfying working hard towards a dream.  "Hey man, i did 3 turbines yesterday, and climbed 5 times!"

/rant

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin