Dr. Stuart A. Blair

Hope at last!

Revisado: 06-02-24

It's so refreshing to come across a work such as this that doesn't shy away from the serious challenge that climate change presents, yet frames a solution in response that makes sense from a business investment perspective rather than a purely ethical one.

With the exception of the IRA, climate change has not been a bipartisan issue up to this point. What this book effortlessly presents is the use of capitalism as the means to get where we need to be by providing a better, cheaper products and consumer experiences that generates generous investment returns.

The exciting piece is that due to improvements in technology, we're now past the early adoption phase of the secular shit to a decarbonized economy. This book outlines how we can each play our part as voters, consumers, activists, and importantly investors.

Reading it provides hope and inspires action.

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Thoughtful, alarming, provoking

Revisado: 10-29-23

This book recast our present cultural, racial, religious, political, and class differences as the petty bickering of creatures in the same rock pool as the tide advances. Once you read this book, you stop being interested in the near-term historical reasons for things like war in the middle east and start noticing the catalytic effects of climate change that will drive everything from global migration, resource shortage, and famine until we are able to come to a global settlement on the nature of our planetary predicament. If we emerge from this, it'll be as a civilization that's on a healthier trajectory, though quite how far we'll fall first is up to us and our choices as investors, voters, and consumers.

In summary this is not a fun read, but you owe it to yourself and your kids to read it.

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Where we're headed

Revisado: 03-09-23

This isn't a feelgood kind of read. That said, it presents the untold stories of those in the US who have been affected by climate change through both the acute events like flood and fire but also the more gradual events like desertification and rising sea levels. It shows the weaknesses in our emergency funding approaches and the difficulty and expense of resilience measures which can at most only buy time. Managed retreat and the migration that results is going to carry a huge impact.

On a personal note, while it made me feel like my investments were well positioned for the future, I would not be looking to invest in mortgage backed securities or state/municipal bonds for fear of what's presented in this book.

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Loved it. An entire family history of a character.

Revisado: 03-08-22

I'd been a fan of the earlier series and was expecting for of the same, but this departure from the formula built the disjoint family history of a regular character from earlier series. Scene by scene, the threads were woven together after the initial confusion. It left me with such warm feelings toward the characters in the same way I had with Cabin Pressure.

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Hilariously blinkered with some points at the end

Revisado: 01-25-22

Straw-manning his way through much of the book, the author finally managed to bring it round at the end.

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A Real Eye-Opener

Revisado: 05-30-19

As a US citizen who was born and raised in secular western Europe, I'd always wondered how a country with an explicitly godless constitution became so mired in religion.

For years, I accepted the shorthand most do that the references to god in the pledge and the national motto came in the red state of the cold war around the mid 1950s.

This book documents the real origins of the movement as a reaction of a business class anxious to roll back the new deal. It details their purchase of religious favor from church leaders to selectively align Christianity with libertarian and capitalist principals, and ignore the social elements of Christianity.

The book answered so many of my questions about the rather strange rendition of Christianity in the US and why it so often comes glued to the side of overt displays of patriotism and reactionary politics.

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Wow.

Revisado: 06-21-18

This is a genuinely challenging and thought-provoking work. Even movements that I took to be beneficial progressive are recast in this book as examples of superficial tokenism that allows us to ignore the structural inequalities affecting so many more lives than affirmative action does.

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Come for the dirt, stay for leadership insights

Revisado: 05-07-18

While I'll admit I bought this to learn more about the background in Trump, Russia, obstruction and the FBI, this book delivers way more than confirmation of all you've heard in the press.

What emerges is the autobiography of a man of principles delivering a treatise on leadership through his experiences. I didn't expect this book to deliver in the same way as books like "7 Habits" or "Turn the ship around" but it did none the less.

I honestly had reservations in buying the book. It's often hard to contemplate the world we'd be living in had Comey not reinstated the Clinton investigation so close to election day. Buying a book from the man who, as many see it, put Trump in the Whitehouse left me more than a little torn. However, through the lense of America's institutions and their importance in maintaining the confidence of the people, the reasons for the timings become obvious. Putting yourself in Comey's shoes, it's difficult to imagine making different decisions than the ones he made. As a left-leaning person, that's an astonishing outcome. It leaves you shaken, but with hope that through a commitment to principles over partisanship, faith in public institutions can overcome this questionable president and largely complicit and ineffective congress.

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You couldn't make this up, and Wolff likely didn't

Revisado: 01-09-18

Takes the things we already knew and goes deeper into the dynamics of the tribes.

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