Real Estate in the Face of Economic and Environmental Challenges: Inflation, Currency Devaluation, and Climate Change Impacts by Daniel Brouse February 16, 2025 Real estate has traditionally been viewed as a hedge against inflation and currency devaluation, often maintaining or increasing in value during such periods. However, the escalating impacts of climate change and shifting […]
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Real Estate in the Face of Economic and Environmental Challenges
Protectionism 101: Trump Economics
Most of Trump’s policies are based on common misconceptions and in fact contradict established economic principles. To begin with, the U.S. government often subsidizes companies to keep operations domestic. This can make our products more expensive and our businesses less efficient and competitive. A notable example is electric vehicles (EVs). The U.S. heavily subsidizes EVs, […]
Evangelical Christianity, Eschatology, and Political Influence
Background U.S. support for Israel is deeply intertwined with Evangelical Christian beliefs, particularly those concerning the end times. Many Evangelicals subscribe to the idea that they can hasten the “Second Coming of Christ” by setting the stage for an apocalyptic conflict. According to their interpretation of the Bible, this involves Israel reclaiming Jerusalem, Jesus returning, […]
Climate Change: Camelot’s Resurgence
Camelot’s Resurgence: A Musical Odyssey Through Mythical Metaphors of Climate Change at the Round Table The legend of King Arthur, the Round Table, and Camelot can be metaphorically related to human-induced climate change in various ways: Unified Effort and Global Cooperation: Metaphor: The Round Table represents equality and unity among Arthur’s knights, highlighting the idea […]
Climate Change: The End of Times
by Daniel Brouse July 21, 2023 What will the “End of Times” look like? In the 1990’s, we wrote a paper on the worst-case scenario entitled, “The Impact of Governance & Globalization on Forecasting (The Tunnel Under Thesis).” The theory predicted that forecasting would become increasing difficult. “The result — a figurative, as well as, […]
Daniel Brouse: About the Author
Q: Any background on membrane .com? A: In 1994, I started a publishing company with another scientist (low temperature physicist and co-builder of the Ohio States supercomputer). The name of the publishing company is The Philadelphia Spirit Experiment. As the name suggests, it is a scientific experiment in the publishing of arts and science. At […]
Need to Prepare for Millions of Climate Change Refugees
World needs to prepare for ‘millions’ of climate displaced: U.N. January 21, 2020 Reuters reported: DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – The world needs to prepare for millions of people being driven from their homes by the impact of climate change, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Speaking to Reuters at the World Economic Forum, Filippo […]
The Collapse Of Nature
Worldwide insect populations are in decline by as much as 80%. Insects are in a downward spiral threatening a “catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems”, as reported by a global scientific review. “Unless we change our ways of producing food, insects as a whole will go down the path of extinction in a few decades. The […]
Avoiding Racial Bias
Sidd said: This has relevance to the unified real estate database we are talking about and to a lot of other things. Quite high level, but it illustrates why, for example, chicago was sending black people to jail alla time, but not white folk. https://boingboing.net/2016/05/24/algorithmic-risk-assessment-h.html here is a some detail with programming on how to […]
9 Out of 10 People Breath Polluted Air
In a new release from the World Health Organization (WHO), “air pollution levels remain dangerously high.” Updated estimations reveal an alarming death toll of 7 million people every year caused by ambient (outdoor) and household air pollution. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO said, “It is unacceptable that over 3 billion people – most […]