Politics and Science

While I did not read much from books that directly regarded politics, philosophy, or international relations, the study of insurance brought a different perspective to understanding the climate crisis and war. The climate crisis, war, civil resistance, and repeating patterns, all have costs and benefits. First, the climate crisis is expected to increase costs from weather events in the United States and internationally, at this time, according to an internet search, the losses from weather events is of the same order of magnitude to costs from smoking cigarettes in the United States. Damage and harm from weather events is expected to increase in the future, and policies or technology might decrease harm from future weather events. The political values of places that profit from the export of carbon-based fuels sometimes conflict with the historical political values of the United States, so political values-based reasons might exist to move from carbon-based fuels. If the total costs ...

             In the past, people who are politically liberal have moved from rural areas to cities, and then from smaller cities to larger cities, or perhaps as people move from rural areas to cities to larger cities, people become more politically liberal. Since the House of Representatives is apportioned by population, and the Senate is apportioned with two senators per state, then polarization between the House of Representatives and Senate might occur. Economic opportunities exist for living in large cities, and millions of people who vote for Democrats live in states that often vote for Republicans at the state and federal level, and millions of people who vote for Republicans live in states that often vote for Democrats at the state and federal level. I am not suggesting changes, however, a possibility of polarization between the House of Representatives and Senate might occur.