Regarding the movie, The Corporation, the second CD has 40 interviews on it. This makes the movie a great educational experience. The interviews cover a wide range of individuals. They range from reformers to revolutionaries and to those who are just in the thick of things. There are very familiar people like Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, and Michael Moore. But the interviews introduced me to many people and ideas that deserve serious attention. One such person seems to be Jeremy Rifkin (fellow at the Wharton School's Executive Education Program at the University of Pennsylvania and president of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, DC). He was a very articulate speaker in the movie and in his interview. His ideas were very thought provoking. So I looked him up, and he has about 16 books out, some of which are best sellers. One of his latest (international) best selling books is The European Dream. In it he gives a historical and philosophical account (but a very concrete account) of what he calls the "American dream" and how the "European dream" is slowly eclipsing it. I'm in the middle of reading that now. Anyway, Rifkin has good ideas, and he seems able to explain his thoughts in a commanding and straightforward way.
He seems to have some other informative books, especially one about the hydrogen economy called The Hydrogen Economy, which I have not read. Apparently, the US government is moving to help develop hydrogen power. I have to do more work on this one, but Bush has signed into law legislation putting billions of dollars into hydrogen development. The great thing about hydrogen power is that it does not pollute (because water is its side product). Activists are upset because Bush mainly is pursuing what they call "black hydrogen," which is hydrogen that is produced through dirty technologies, like through fossil fuels and nuclear power. Instead, activists like Rifkin want to pursue what they call "green hydrogen," which is hydrogen that is acquired through clean, non-polluting, non-nuclear, and non-fossil-fuel technologies (like biomass). Anyway, one should keep in mind this hydrogen revolution. I don't know much about it. I know that there is much going into the development of hydrogen fuel cells. Some buses in London (as an experiment) were run on hydrogen with great success. Also, there has been much talk (you have to look for it) about mining the moon because there is a tremendous amount (for an almost endless supply) of hydrogen on the moon (in the form of H3). Anyone who can get this hydrogen will be the next Saudi Arabia, I guess. When it comes to the moon, there is the problem of private property and ownership. There is talk about the moves that have to be made to undermine treaties so that massive private profits can be made off of the moon.
