Forums for a Future: Audio Edward Renner, PhD

After taking one year off to teach “Forums for a Future” as a university
honors course, I have resumed the series. The continuation applies the
concepts developed in the first 16 episodes to an open-end list of contemporary social
issues. As a way to get started, I created a three-part “Review and Transition”
(Podcasts 17-19) to provide a brief summary and introduction for those new to the series.
Podcast #34 marks the beginning of a new series (Part VIII) on "Living in the Future Tense."

Today’s podcast (#38) concerns our inability to speak the truth about our $14 trillion
national debt. The national debt as a percentage of GDP has historically risen during times
of war and depression while being offset by increases in the highest marginal tax rate.
Since 1981 the relative debt has increased due to internal policy decisions, rather than
external events as before, while the highest marginal tax rate has been reduced.

After taking one year off to teach “Forums for a Future” as a university
honors course, I have resumed the series. The continuation applies the
concepts developed in the first 16 episodes to an open-end list of contemporary social
issues. As a way to get started, I created a three-part “Review and Transition”
(Podcasts 17-19) to provide a brief summary and introduction for those new to the series.
Podcast #34 marks the beginning of a new series (Part VIII) on "Living in the Future Tense."

Today’s podcast is part of a three part series on the world summit negotiations to combat
climate change. Part 1 in this series, Podcast 35, explains why the proposals of both the
US and China at Copenhagen and Cancun were self-serving and why neither could expect the
other to agree with them. Part 2 in the series, Podcast 36 provides a rationale for an
alternative world standard that is equally fair to both countries. And, Part 3 in the series,
Podcast 37, explains why neither the US nor China have been able politically to reach an
agreement, and it will provide a means for achieving mutual cooperation.

After taking one year off to teach “Forums for a Future” as a university
honors course, I have resumed the series. The continuation applies the
concepts developed in the first 16 episodes to an open-end list of contemporary social
issues. As a way to get started, I created a three-part “Review and Transition”
(Podcasts 17-19) to provide a brief summary and introduction for those new to the series.
Podcast #34 marks the beginning of a new series (Part VIII) on "Living in the Future Tense."

Today’s podcast is part of a three part series on the world summit negotiations to combat
climate change. Part 1 in this series, Podcast 35, explains why the proposals of both the
US and China at Copenhagen and Cancun were self-serving and why neither could expect the
other to agree with them. Part 2 in the series, Podcast 36 provides a rationale for an
alternative world standard that is equally fair to both countries. And, Part 3 in the series,
Podcast 37, explains why neither the US nor China have been able politically to reach an
agreement, and it will provide a means for achieving mutual cooperation.

After taking one year off to teach “Forums for a Future” as a university
honors course, I have resumed the series. The continuation applies the
concepts developed in the first 16 episodes to an open-end list of contemporary social
issues. As a way to get started, I created a three-part “Review and Transition”
(Podcasts 17-19) to provide a brief summary and introduction for those new to the series.
Podcast #34 marks the beginning of a new series (Part VIII) on "Living in the Future Tense."

Today’s podcast is part of a three part series on the world summit negotiations to combat
climate change. Part 1 in this series, Podcast 35, explains why the proposals of both the
US and China at Copenhagen and Cancun were self-serving and why neither could expect the
other to agree with them. Part 2 in the series, Podcast 36 provides a rationale for an
alternative world standard that is equally fair to both countries. And, Part 3 in the series,
Podcast 37, explains why neither the US nor China have been able politically to reach an
agreement, and it will provide a means for achieving mutual cooperation.

After taking one year off to teach “Forums for a Future” as a university
honors course, I have resumed the series. The continuation applies the
concepts developed in the first 16 episodes to an open-end list of contemporary social
issues. As a way to get started, I created a three-part “Review and Transition”
(Podcasts 17-19) to provide a brief summary and introduction for those new to the series.
Podcast #34 marks the beginning of a new series (Part VIII) on "Living in the Future Tense."

Today’s episode, Podcast # 34, is the first in the series on: Living in the Future Tense.
This series will look at specific examples of exponential changes that are taking life in the
Post-Modern Era to the limit. These will be the defining moments for taking America forward
(not back). The key concept in today’s podcast is to understand that today is tomorrow: the
choices we make to day will be our own future.

After taking one year off to teach “Forums for a Future” as a university
honors course, I have resumed the series. The continuation applies the
concepts developed in the first 16 episodes to an open-end list of contemporary social
issues. As a way to get started, I created a three-part “Review and Transition”
(Podcasts 17-19) to provide a brief summary and introduction for those new to the series,
and a quick review for the original subscribers.

Today’s episode, Podcast # 33, is the fourteenth in the open-ended series of positive approaches
for addressing the many specific contemporary economic, social and political issues that
challenge our capacity for having a future in the 21st Century. The key concept in today’s
podcast is that the dominate cultural beliefs of the Modern Era have led to economic and
political policies that have produced climate change, threatening the capacity of the planet
to sustain human life. Immediate fundamental changes in the civic control of the institutions
of wealth and power are essential. But, there is a trans-generational communications gap between
the new Millennials and the Boomers who form a demographic wall between the Millennials and their
future. A joint effort is required between the current Establishment and the youth of today who
share a single future. This is the Millennial Challenge.