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色んな人と一緒に喋って、「仕方がない」を言わずに前向きに「社会善」を目指す番組です！

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Friday Oct 28, 2022

58: 怠けものは社会に大切な役割の理由/why slackers are important for society

Friday Oct 28, 2022

研究によると、働き蟻の労働者４０％は労働しない、ただの怠け者だ！でもそれも、巣には大事な役割も果たしているそうです！何でしょうか？人間の社会も蟻の社会から何を学べばいいでしょうか？

TRANSCRIPT:

40% of Worker Ants Are Actually Lazy Slackers, But They Have Their Reasons

Spend any amount of time gazing at an ant's nest (hey, what you do with your time is your business) and it's clear that the whirling mass of tiny bodies is an impenetrable, chaotic mess to the casual observer.

Researcher Daniel Charbonneau and his team wanted to understand what individual ants are doing, so

"We apply tiny dots of paint to them," he said,

“so we can track it in our video recordings."

And their analysis shows that some 40 percent of the workforce are actually inactive slackers: they either do nothing, or they do minor chores around the nest, like a bit of brood care or grooming other workers.

After discounting various other hypotheses – such as ants taking breaks, or seasons or circadian rhythms affecting their work ethic – the researchers simply concluded that some ants basically 'specialise' in being lazy layabouts.

They proved this because when the researchers removed inactive ants nothing really changed about the active ants (none of them became lazy) but when active ants were removed inactive ants started working.

This shows that the inactive ants really aren’t doing anything useful (they are not, for example, helping with colony-wide communication). They are just a reserve labour force that only gets called upon when they're needed.

So, while some of us might pine for the idyllic, leisure-filled life of the lazy ant, it's not an existence without its own compromises: chiefly, being aware that in the eyes of your well-regarded, go-getter colleagues, you're an anonymous, disposable unit of labour.

Hey Simon what do you think?

私に一コメントさせていただければ・・・

Let me get my tea...sound effect...so I can do some drinking with my thinking....

I think this might be true, or at least important, for human society. Right now we make everyone work, because that maximizes productivity (and therefore profit...for the rich) but

1) we are much too productive : we are destroying our environment

2) we are not ready for a crisis – everyone is already busy so there’s no slack in the system.

I also think human inactive workers usually find something to do, and those things often turn out to be useful in some way:

1) people who lay on the sofa reading books learn a lot,

2) people who do creative hobbies end up doing something new – they move human culture forward,

3) and people who play sports keep themselves fit and healthy - and inspire the rest of us to keep healthy too!

So I kind of think that we should leave lazy ants, and lazy people….ありのまま！少しも役に立ってないわけないわ・・・

That's what I think - thanks for letting me vent!

気持ちを吐き出させてくれて・・・ありがとうね❤

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Hey listeners what do you think?

Your turn to vent!

Would you like some tea?

1.Do you think we humans are doing to much work? Do you think this is part of the reason why we are destroying our environment?

2. Do you think it would be good for society to let lazy people be lazy?

どうぞ vent your thoughts and feelings on this issue - send me an email!

Thursday Oct 20, 2022

57.teens(13-19歳)睡眠不足まん延 teens

Thursday Oct 20, 2022

中高生年齢の子どもたちは自然的に生物時計は遅れていて、眠くなるのは２３，２４時になるなのに、朝一から授業があるから毎日睡眠不足で集中力は低下、不安、うつ病、自殺思考などの精神病はふえてつづ。

学校の始まる時間を彼らの生物時計に合わせて遅らせば？

今日の記事：
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2015/10/among-teens-sleep-deprivation-an-epidemic.html

Transcript:

Among teens, sleep deprivation is an epidemic

Sleep deprivation increases the likelihood teens will suffer from:

- an inability to concentrate,

- poor grades,

- drowsy-driving incidents,

- anxiety,

- depression,

- suicide

Carolyn Walworth, 17, often reaches a breaking point around 11 p.m: for 10 minutes or so, she just sits at her desk and cries. She is desperately tired and longs for sleep. The next morning, she fights to stay awake in her first-period U.S. history class, which begins at 8:15.

- more than 87 percent of high school students in the United States get far less than the recommended eight to 10 hours,

- In high school, US teens are sleeping an average of 6.9 hours a night, down from an average of 8.4 hours in the sixth grade.

“They say they are tired, but they don’t realize they are actually sleep-deprived.

But Sleep is believed to reinforce learning and memory, with studies showing that people perform better on mental tasks when they are well-rested.

“It’s an insane system. … The whole essence of learning is lost,” she said.

South Korean adolescents sleeping on average 4.9 hours a night...South Korean adolescents also have relatively high suicide rates - Research has shown that sleep problems among adolescents are a major risk factor for suicide

What’s causing this?

- Teens have a biologic tendency to go to sleep later — their internal biological clock shifts later, making it more difficult for them to fall asleep before 11 p.m.

- The pressure on teens to succeed academically is intense

- Some 92 percent of U.S. teens have smartphones, and 24 percent report being online “constantly,”

Some schools shift:

- Edina, Minnesota, the Board of Education shifted the high school’s start time from 7:20 a.m. to 8:30 a.m - students reported feeling less depressed, less sleepy during the day, and more empowered to succeed.

- In the town of Palo Alto, after a recent cluster of suicides, the school board eliminated “zero period”

Conclusion:

“For the health and well-being of the nation, we should all be taking better care of our sleep, and we certainly should be taking better care of the sleep of our youth.”

Changing school start times can help with this (we also need to address academic stress and online activity)

Questions:

Do you think students are sleep deprived?

Do you think changing the school times is a good idea?

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Tuesday Aug 02, 2022

56:地球研究者：温暖化阻止はもう手遅れ

Tuesday Aug 02, 2022

久しぶりに投稿！よろしくおねがいします!
５６：
イギリスのち旧研究者の新しい本によって、地球温暖化を阻止するのはもう手遅れ、崩れる環境に住むするために適応する必要がある。

LINKS:
https://www.businessinsider.com/climate-scientist-says-total-climate-breakdown-is-now-inevitable-2022-7
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/29/southern-water-announces-hosepipe-ban-amid-uk-drought-fears
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/28/us-pacific-north-west-may-see-triple-digit-temperatures-as-heatwave-continues
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/28/appalachia-flooding-kentucky-west-virginia

https://www.okiden.co.jp/active/supply/power_generation/

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%B3%E6%B2%B9%E7%B2%BE%E8%A3%BD
https://business-textbooks.com/yokeru-sakeru/

Monday Mar 14, 2022

55.非暴力的な抵抗 nonviolent resistance

Monday Mar 14, 2022

軍事的な侵略があるときに、軍事的に抵抗するより、非暴力的に抵抗した方がいいかもしれない。（ウクライナの勇敢的な人たちを批判せず）

今日の記事のLINK：

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2022/02/ukraine-doesnt-need-to-match-russias-military-might-to-defend-against-invasion/

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2022/02/the-dangerous-assumption-that-violence-keeps-us-safe/

単語LINKS:

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%88%A6%E5%A0%B4%E3%81%AE%E9%9C%A7

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/Shipyard

https://hinative.com/ja/questions/1468875

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/humble

https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/en/resistance/

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/rationing

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/warship

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%93%E3%82%A2#%E7%8B%AC%E7%AB%8B%E4%BB%A5%E9%99%8D

https://tr-ex.me/%E7%BF%BB%E8%A8%B3/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E-%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E/no-fly+zone

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/Leader+of+the+Opposition

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/diplomacy

https://www.ecosia.org/search?method=index&addon=firefox&q=czechoslovakia%20%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/blueprint

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/confiscate

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/shoot+down

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TRANSCRIPT:

Ukraine has defended against the Russian invasion with their military, which is very brave and understandable, but they probably can’t win, and even if they do win, right now Ukraine is being destroyed.

Today’s articles suggest that Ukraine could respond to Russian violence with non-violent resistance:

When the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968 the population held huge peaceful protests, and stopped work, and shouted at the invaders to go home.
When Hitler invaded Denmark and tried to use it’s shipyards 造船所to build warships, the Danish workers dropped tools in the harbor, made holes in the ships, left work early, and generally refused to cooperate.
By contrast, Norway resisted militarily, and their country was so badly destroyed that they still had rationing 配給 in 1959.
In the Iranian revolution in 1979 the whole country went on strike – even the worst government can’t force the whole population to go to work.
Serbia overthrew their dictatorship with civil resistance 市民抵抗？, using a lot of comedy.
Ukrainians have also used nonviolent resistance: standing in front of tanks, shouting at Russian soldiers, gathering in crowds.
UK port workers have refused to unload Russian oil from a German-owned tanker.
Gene Sharp wrote a book where he listed 198 methods of nonviolent action.
Other countries can’t intervene militarily because that will lead to WWIII. (In fact Russia losing might also lead to nuclear war….) so they are using sanctions (which are not great, but are a step towards nonviolence).
As the UK’s politician Jeremy Corbyn says: “all wars end with a political solution, so why don’t we cut out the fighting zone and go straight into the talking zone”

Hey Simon what do you think?

I watched the ordinary Ukrainian people queuing up to get guns as volunteer fighters, and I was humbled by their bravery. It forced me to think: what would I do, if Okinawa was under attack?
I don’t know if I would be that brave (hopefully I will never need to find out….). But I think I want to be brave nonviolently: stand in front of a tank, not fire guns at it.

Because I think violent resistance leads to more violence: it’s pretty difficult to kill a nonviolent protester - much easier to kill someone who is shooting at you.

(but yes, this is “easy for me to say” – I am not criticizing Ukraine’s very difficult decisions).

Hey Listeners what do you think?

1. Do you think nonviolence is a better answer to an attack?

2. What would you want to do, if your town was being invaded?

Monday Mar 07, 2022

54.ウクライナ侵攻・War in Ukraine

Monday Mar 07, 2022

ウクライナの戦争について、私たちはどうすればいいかについて、少し話させていただきます。

単語LINKS:

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/Hero

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/Money+laundering

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TRANSCRIPT:

おはようございます、サイモン天才モンの

ネット通訳担当tensaimon translates the internet へよこそう

塘路の斧ですが、英語圏のインターネットを日本語母国語のあなたにわかりやすくする番~で〜す！

テーマは：社会善！社会を改善して・・・世界を救おうことだね・・・

言葉の勉強、課題の勉強、社改善、世界を救うことを

一緒に頑張っていきましょうか？

This is monstrous. Putin is now up with Hitler (and perhaps: with the Japanese Imperial army in WWII….if we do not learn from history we are doomed to repeat it). He has to be stopped, though it’s not clear how:

The West can’t intervene directly, partly because Ukraine is not a member of NATO, but mainly because NATO vs Russia would be a world war, and Putin has nuclear weapons (which he appears ready to use)

So the best chance is internally: either a coup d’etat (or assassination), and/or a popular uprising within Russia...the war, and Putin, are deeply unpopular, and now with sanctions biting the economy is tanking…..

In the meantime the people of Ukraine are showing the entire world the meaning of the word bravery: a week ago they were just normal working people, now they are carrying guns, ready to fight and die. 18….my students are 18….And their president Zelenskiy is a hero, staying to fight when offered a flight out...THIS is a leader.

But this is not a “Putin evil Us good” situation. This is “Putin evil Us still very bad” situation:

The US dropped 7,000 bombs a year and has bases across the world (including in Okinawa). . The US and the UK invaded Iraq.

We in the West care about war when it’s in Europe but not in Africa: is this racism? It matters when it’s white people???

Europe has funded Putin’s Russia by buying its gas and oil….the UK Tory party is funded by Russian billionaires (brexit)

We in Japan and Okinawa have used the oil and gas that drives war across the world to fuel our consumer economies: Okinawa likes to think of itself as a victim (and it IS) but it is also a perpetrator: our car society runs on oil, our clothes and phones are made in sweatshops….we are not innocent.

And all of those fossil fuels are directly causing global warming, which is going to lead to MORE war as the climate collapses. Climate collapse will lead to social collapse. Look at Ukraine: this is the future of our world. At some point in the next decade or three YOU are going to be hungry, and exhausted, and perhaps holding a gun in fear of invaders….UNLESS we change our society into a sustainable one...

Monday Feb 28, 2022

53.現在の社会を再生可能エネルギーに切りわるのは物理的に無理 / Switching our current society to renewables is impossible

Monday Feb 28, 2022

グリーンニューディールが目指している再生可能エネルギーに切り替わって現在の産業社会を保つのは物理的に無理、と結論する科学記事をまとめて訳します。

今日の記事のLINK：

https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/15/4508/htm

単語LINKS:

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/Mechanical

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/Infrastructure

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/controversial

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/%E5%85%83%E9%87%91

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TRANSCRIPT:

The Green New Deal is a policy proposal where we use massive investment to build a zero-carbon renewable energy infrastructure.　インフラ、基盤、仕組み

But:

1) Renewables cannot make renewables (“renewables aren’t renewable”!!): making wind turbines, solar panels and batteries is very energy-intensive (mining, transport, manufacture, installation, maintenance, disposal in 30 years) – we can’t do this without the energy density of fossil fuels.

2) Only 19% of global energy consumption is electricity, the other 81% is liquid fuel, we can’t replace liquid fuel with renewables because both batteries and hydrogen take more energy to make, store and transport than they provide.

3) There are many social justice problems with our industrial civilization: mining destroys the environments of poor countries so that rich countries can live in luxury.

4) Global warming is only one part of our problem of ecological overshoot: we are using the earth’s resources faster than those resources regenerate (e.g. deforestation), so eventually those resources are going to run out. When they do, our civilization is going to crash. 地球の自然資源の消費は再生産量より大きい。利子のたとえ

Conclusion:

The Green New Deal is technically impossible, and ignores all the other ecological problems anyway.

The only logical conclusion is that “material life after fossil fuels will closely resemble life before fossil fuels.” : “biomass (especially wood), simple mechanical wind and water generation, passive solar, and animal and human labor”, which will mean “major reductions in energy supply”

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Hey listeners what do you think?

Your turn to vent! Would you like some tea?

1. Do you agree that the only way forward is a simple low energy society?

2. Do you see any way forward on this politically?

どうぞ vent your thoughts and feelings on this issue - send me an email!

Monday Feb 21, 2022

52.江戸時代=エコ時代 / Edo Japan=Eco Japan

Monday Feb 21, 2022

鎖国していた江戸時代の日本は、資源は限られていたから全てをreduce, reuse, recycleされていた循環型の持続可能な社会だった。

今日の記事のLINK：

https://www.japanfs.org/en/news/archives/news_id027759.html

単語LINKS:

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/rice+straw

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/mass+production

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TRANSCRIPT:

Japan’s sustainable society in the Edo period (1603-1867)

In the Edo period Japan was closed off from the world and had a peaceful period of economic and cultural development, including supporting the largest city in the world at the time (Edo had a population of around 1 million – London had 860,000).

Although modern Japan depends on imports for 78% of it’s energy, 60% of it’s food, and 82% of it’s timber, Edo period Japan was completely self-sufficient for 260 years – it was a sustainable society! Perhaps we can learn from Edo about how to live in the 21^st century…

Because Edo Japan had limited resources within the country and no imports, society became expert in the 3 R’s: reduce, reuse and recycle.

- books were used for years

- second hand clothes were repaired

- old cooking pots were re-welded

- old umbrella ribs were made like new again by sticking on new oil paper.

- Even toilet waste was important: the “night soil” was used as fertilizer on farms.

Similarly, all of Edo-period Japan’s energy came from plants and trees that had grown in the last 2-3 years – this was sustainable because Japan was (and is) heavily forested:

- Rice was an important food crop, and the rice straw was used extensively for making buildings, shoes, sacks, and cooking tools such as sieves.

- Most buildings were made from wood, and indeed Japan has some of the longest-standing wooden buildings in the world – Houryuji temple pagoda was built in 700AD.

- Firewood was used for heating homes and water, and seed oil was used in lanterns for house and street lighting. In fact Ishikawa (the author) calculates that even today Japan could sustainably get one quarter of it’s energy from firewood.

We can look at Japan in the Edo Period as one model of a sustainable society – the careful sustainable use of resources instead of mass production and consumption.

Hey listeners what do you think?

Your turn to vent!

Would you like some tea?

1. What do you think we can learn from Edo Japan?

2. I think a sustainable society would basically look a lot like Edo Japan, but with a bit of electricity and better medical treatment – what do you think?

どうぞ vent your thoughts and feelings on this issue - send me an email!

Monday Feb 14, 2022

51.お金持ちの国はアフリカの富を盗んでいる / rich nations are stealing Africa’s wealth

Monday Feb 14, 2022

アフリカというと、だいたい「貧しいところ」のイメージが浮かんでくるけど、本当は資源豊かだけどその富は国際会社や金融制度の動きによって盗まれている。

BLOG 投稿：

######tensaimondotcomLINK

今日の記事のLINK：

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2017/5/24/africa-is-not-poor-we-are-stealing-its-wealth/

単語LINKS:

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/logging

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/undermine

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/Extraction

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TRANSCRIPT:

おはようございます、サイモン天才モンの

ネット通訳担当tensaimon translates the internet へよこそう

塘路の斧ですが、英語圏のインターネットを日本語母国語のあなたにわかりやすくする番~で〜す！

テーマは：社会善！社会を改善して・・・世界を救おうことだね・・・

一緒に頑張っていきましょうか？

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OPENING:NET ARTICLE

今日はネット記事を紹介しますから、so let's fire up the interconnected network of computers, and see what we can find........oh wow this looks interesting

今日の記事はaljazeera.comからです

Africa is not poor, we are stealing its wealth, その訳,

By Nick Dearden, Global Justice Now,

May 2017

はい、読み上げながら、まとめながら、訳しましょう！

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"Africa is poor, but we can try to help its people.”

It’s a simple statement, repeated through a thousand images, newspaper stories and charity appeals each year, so that it takes on the weight of truth – it creates our image of Africa.

Try something different: Africa is rich, but we steal its wealth.

According to a report by campaigning groups, Africa loses $41bn ($410億) a year to the rest of the world – although $161bn ($1,610億) goes in, $203bn ($2,030億)flows out.

Multinational corporations “steal” around 6.1% of Africa’s GDP (3 times what it receives in aid) legally by pretending they are generating their wealth in tax havens (税金回避地)

Then there’s $30bn ($300億) in profits that corporations make in Africa but send back to their home countries.

Money also leaves more indirectly:

$29bn ($290億) is stolen in illegal logging, fishing, and trade in wildlife.
$36bn ($360億) is owed because of damage from climate change (Africa did not cause global warming, but is suffering the consequences) but rich nations are not paying.

In addition, a lot of money flowing in just generates debt:

Ghana is losing 30% of government tax revenue 税収 to debt repayments 債務返済.
An aluminum smelter (製錬所) in Mozambique costs £21 for every £1 that the government receives.

The money also undermines the creation of public services (in Uganda and Kenya schools set up with British aid are now being closed down to open publicly-owned schools)

Of course, some people are benefiting – there are now 165,000 very rich Africans, who own $860bn ($8,600億) but ordinary Africans never see this money ($500bn of this is being kept in tax havens.…)

So what’s the answer?

“The key task is to dismantle the system extracting wealth from Africa.” (quote from the .pdf)
Africans need to be able to control the way they let corporations invest
And they should be careful of resource extraction: countries with abundant mineral wealth (鉱物資源) experience poorer democracy, weaker economic growth, and worse development. However in principal Africa is rich in natural resources – see infographic.

And the world needs to create a true international aid system that is not based on voluntary donations
but on reparations for damages caused (BBC: COP26: Rich countries ‘pushing back’ on paying for climate loss)

Firstly though, we must change the way we talk and think about Africa.

We are not, currently, “helping” Africa.

Africa is rich.

We need to stop stealing its wealth.

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Ok that's all from today's article

今日の読み上げながら、まとめながら、訳しながら、ながらがらがらがら・・・以上ですね！

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Hey Simon what do you think?

私に一コメントさせていただければ・・・

Let me get my tea...sound effect...so I can do some drinking with my thinking....

#######mythoughts

That's what I think - thanks for letting me vent!

気持ちを吐き出させてくれて・・・ありがとうね❤

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Hey listeners what do you think?

Your turn to vent!

Would you like some tea?

1. Do you have an image of Africa as poor and needing our help? Where did this image come from?

2. How do you think we rich countries can best begin to create economic justice in Africa?

どうぞ vent your thoughts and feelings on this issue - send me an email!

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じゃあね / またや〜 / See ya!

Monday Feb 07, 2022

50.アメリカは独裁国へ？US Dictatorship?

Monday Feb 07, 2022

共和党はカルト集団になってしまっているからアメリカ合衆国に独裁者は政権を握る恐れはある、とカナダの政治研究者が注意する

BLOG 投稿：

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今日の記事のLINK：

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-american-polity-is-cracked-and-might-collapse-canada-must-prepare/

単語LINKS:

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/Nazi

https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=congressman+%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E&addon=firefox&addonversion=4.0.4

https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/en/spiral/

https://ja.ichacha.net/english/spiral%20out%20of%20control.html

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おはようございます、サイモン天才モンの

ネット通訳担当tensaimon translates the internet へよこそう

塘路の斧ですが、英語圏のインターネットを日本語母国語のあなたにわかりやすくする番~で〜す！

テーマは：社会善！社会を改善して・・・世界を救おうことだね・・・

一緒に頑張っていきましょうか？

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OPENING:NET ARTICLE

今日はネット記事を紹介しますから、so let's fire up the interconnected network of computers, and see what we can find........oh wow this looks interesting

はい、読み上げながら、まとめながら、訳しましょう！

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By 2025, American democracy could collapse - Canada must prepare

By 2030, if not sooner, the country could be governed by a right-wing dictatorship. This is a very real possibility - I’ve studied violent conflict (war, social breakdown, revolution) for more than 40 years – I now see signs of the same breakdown in the US. What should Canada do then?

The breakdown of democracy in the US is caused by 6 trends:

1. distrust of central government

- Right from the declaration of independence (from Great Britain) the US has had a distrust in government.

- The civil war was fought by the south against the government of the north.

- Broadcast media (Fox News) fans so much distrust of government that the country is becoming ungovernable (Tensakunaimon says: the US can’t even get people to wear masks!!!)

2. economic inequality

Inflation-adjusted wages for the average male worker are lower than in 1979, meanwhile CEO incomes are 271 times that.

And this rich elite don’t want to pay the taxes, so the government can’t invest in public services or lessen inequality – This contributes to (1) distrust of government: when the government can’t solve everyday problems, people give up on it.

3. Democraphic trends

White Christians are now a minority in America: right-wing ideologues have inflamed fears that traditional U.S. culture is being erased - Barack Obama’s election increased these anxieties. By weaponizing people’s fear and anger, right wing extremists have transformed the GOP into a near-fascist personality cult .

4. Distrust of democratic process

Mr. Trump’s “Big Lie” (that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him) is very dangerous because if enough people no longer believe in democracy then democracy can’t survive.

5. Political polarization

The political right and left both believe that the other is out to destroy the country they love. The GOP (and its supporters) is now devoted to victory at any cost: they are now defending the January 6^th attack on Capitol Hill as “patriotic” actions that were needed to save US democracy

6. Guns and violence The population is armed to the teeth, with somewhere around 400 million firearms in the hands of civilians, and many aspects of US culture glorify war and violence.

To summarize: the Republican party has become a combination of

(1)anti-government

(2)free-market plutocrats and

(3)racially anxious ethno-nationalist activists and voters

and is now using

(4) distrust of democratic process

and

(5) political polarization

to forment political instability, which because of the

(6)US acceptance of violence

could lead to something resembling civil war.

This situation increasingly resembles the rise of Nazism in 1930’s Germany :

a charismatic leader unifying right-wing extremists using
a lie about how internal enemies have betrayed the country – for the Nazis, the “stab in the back” lie that Germany lost WWI because of German socialists and Jews; for Trumpists, the Big Lie that the election was stolen
meanwhile conventional conservatives believe they can control the rising extremism, and opponents aren’t taking the threat seriously enough,
A move towards a radicalization of a society’s understandings of how to stay safe – this typically occurs in times of political and economic crisis. The United States today is in the midst of one crisis – the pandemic – but could soon experience worse: a war with Russia, Iran or China, or a financial crisis when economic bubbles burst.
These can move toward an irreversible tipping point.: democratic collapse followed by a dictatorship.

(tensakunaimon says: don’t forget: the US has the largest and most powerful military the world has ever known….)

What will happen next?

Maybe Republicans win the 2022 mid-term and then 2024 presidential elections: voters, ground down by the pandemic, angry about inflation, and tired of President Joe Biden bumbling from one crisis to another, will vote Republican. Or maybe the Republicans will win by cheating: voter repression and gerrymandering.

Maybe the Democrats will win when Republican mistakes accumulate, or when the radicalized Republican base – so fanatically loyal to Mr. Trump – can’t grow larger and will dissipate.

Perhaps another contested election: whether Democrats or Republicans win, the other side will claim foul play – the eventual result might depend on the military...

Maybe American federalism will mean an authoritarian president will never be able to achieve full authoritarian control.

Maybe the military will limit the formation or action of a dictatorship: during the first Trump administration the military repeatedly resisted the president’s authoritarian impulses.

However, maybe the enflamed tensions – both sides hate each other – will mean events spiral out of control: something resembling civil war is one possibility. A dictatorship is another.

Canada needs to get ready for these possibilities: What happens, for instance, if political refugees arrive in our country, and the U.S. regime demands them back? Do we comply?A terrible storm is coming from the south, and Canada is woefully unprepared.

Ok that's all from today's article/book/news
今日の読み上げながら、まとめながら、訳しながら、ながらがらがらがら・・・以上ですね！
はい、ちょっと関連リンクを紹介しましょう：

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Hey Simon what do you think?
私に一コメントさせていただければ・・・
Let me get my tea...sound effect...so I can do some drinking with my thinking....
Like a lot of people, I follow US politics even though I’m not a US citizen. And I have a lot of US friends on social media, and I’m in some US-based groups. And I find it pretty shocking how divided and angry the US is – people won’t even wear masks to control a pandemic, they turned even masks into a political conflict! So, yes, I do think there is the very real possibility that the US will fall into a dictatorship.
That's what I think - thanks for letting me vent!
気持ちを吐き出させてくれて・・・ありがとうね❤
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Hey listeners what do you think?
Your turn to vent!
Would you like some tea?
1.Do you think American is heading towards a dictatorship? Do you think it’s going to get there?
2.What do you think this means for Japan and Okinawa?
どうぞ vent your thoughts and feelings on this issue - send me an email!

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はい、じゃあ
おわりましょうね
メールは課題のコメントだけではなくて、
番組の感想や提案、
質問、　
文句など・・・
日本語の訂正も大歓迎ですよ！
母国語ではないんで・・・
連絡お待ちしてま〜す！

もちろんSNSもやっていますよ
SNSは依存的なもので長〜時間を過ごしていないけど
投稿したりするから
ぜひフォロー、いいね、シェア、よろしくお願いします！
ほとんどtensaimon、インスターkusaimon

紹介する記事のリンクはtensaimon.com、podcastの説明欄に貼りますので、
番組を聞いた後に
どうぞご参考になさって、
言葉の勉強、課題の勉強、社改善、世界を救うことを
一緒に頑張っていきましょうか？
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どうも今日も聞いてくださってまことにありがとうございました
私はサイモン・・・・・・・・もん・・・でした！
Thanks for listening everybody！
じゃあね / またや〜 / See ya!

Monday Jan 24, 2022

49.リべレルは信じている気候変動の勘違い６個 Six myths liberals believe about climate change

Monday Jan 24, 2022

気候変動が起きているってことが分かってても、多くのリべレル派は社会の変更の大きさは分かっていない・・・

(下にスクロールすると英語のセリフありますよ↓↓↓）

BLOG 投稿：

https://tensaimon.com/2022/01/24/podcast-tensaimon-translates-49-six-myths-liberals-believe-about-climate-change/

今日の記事のLINK：

ぜひリンク開いて当サイトを閲覧ください。 Please visit the links to support these sites.

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-11-26/six-myths-about-climate-change-that-liberals-rarely-question/#

https://www.resilience.org/about-resilience/

https://shinsho.shueisha.co.jp/kikan/1035-a/

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/

https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=the%20amish&addon=firefox&addonversion=4.0.4

https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=convert%20gallon%20to%20liter&addon=firefox&addonversion=4.0.4

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/biosphere

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TRANSCRIPT:

おはようございます、サイモン天才モンの

ネット通訳担当tensaimon translates the internet へよこそう

塘路の斧ですが、英語圏のインターネットを日本語母国語のあなたにわかりやすくする番~で〜す！

テーマは：社会善！社会を改善して・・・世界を救おうことだね・・・

一緒に頑張っていきましょうか？

今日はネット記事を紹介しますから、so let's fire up the interconnected network of computers, and see what we can find........oh wow this looks interesting

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-11-26/six-myths-about-climate-change-that-liberals-rarely-question/

Myth #1: Liberals Are Not In Denial

Liberals think we can avoid the most catastrophic levels of climate disruption without changing our fundamental way of life.

Conservative climate deniers understand that addressing climate change will force us to change our way of life; our way of life cannot be questioned; ergo, climate change cannot be happening…..

Myth #2: Republicans are Still More to Blame

the best predictor of someone’s carbon footprint is income….the American middle class, republican and democrat, have high income and therefore high carbon footprint...

Myth #3: Renewable Energy Can Replace Fossil Fuels

fossil fuels are energy dense in a way that renewables never can be: our current levels of consumption CANNOT be maintained by renewables.

Fossil fuels:

Fossil fuels formed over millions of years, but a single $3 gallon of gasoline provides the equivalent of about 80 days of hard manual labor.

We live at a level, that in previous days could have only been supported by about 150 slaves for every American

Renewables:

enough sun strikes the Earth every 104 minutes to power the entire world for a year...but...

the photovoltaic area [required] represents more than all the paved area in the world.

And... a battery capable of storing this electricity would require about three times as much lead as geologists estimate exists...

Myth 4: The Coming “Knowledge Economy” Will be a Low-Energy Economy

Your father worked in a high-energy smelting factory; you spend your day behind a low-energy laptop computer...

But the real global economy still requires container ships and trucks (burning fossil fuels), made of steel (made by burning fossil fuels), running on asphalt roads (made by burning fossil fuels)

each American consumer requires 362 pounds (164kg) a day of oil, sand, grain, iron ore, coal and wood” to maintain our current lifestyle each year.

if everyone lived like we do the world would use four times as much energy and emit nearly four times as much carbon dioxide as it does now.

decoupling – 斉藤幸平人新生

Myth 5: We can Reverse Global Warming Without Changing our Current Lifestyles

Global warming is not complicated: it is caused mainly by burning fossil fuels; in the greatest quantity by wealthy people and nations - to address climate change, people in rich industrial nations will have to reduce consumption...

Myth 6: There is Nothing I Can Do

you can’t not do anything: you are already doing things!

Either you will continue to buy, use, and consume “as if there is no tomorrow”; or you will make substantial changes to the way you live. Both choices are “doing something.”

Hey Simon what do you think? :

not just at an individual level, we also need to vote and campaign: we need to change society, to become more like low tech magazine, the Amish.

Hey Listeners what do you think?

Ok that's all from today's article

今日の読み上げながら、まとめながら、訳しながら、ながらがらがらがら・・・以上ですね！

はい、ちょっと関連リンクを紹介しましょう：

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Hey Simon what do you think?

私に一コメントさせていただければ・・・

Let me get my tea...sound effect...so I can do some drinking with my thinking....

[my thoughts]

That's what I think - thanks for letting me vent!

気持ちを吐き出させてくれて・・・ありがとうね❤

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Hey listeners what do you think?

Your turn to vent!

Would you like some tea?

1. Do you believe in these myths?

2. What do you think that change should look like?

どうぞ vent your thoughts and feelings on this issue - send me an email! to

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はい、じゃあ

おわりましょうね

メールは課題のコメントだけではなくて、

番組の感想や提案、

質問、　

文句など・・・

日本語の訂正も大歓迎ですよ！

母国語ではないんで・・・

メールは######@######！

連絡お待ちしてま〜す！

もちろんSNSもやっていますよ

SNSは依存的なもので長〜時間を過ごしていないけど

投稿したりするから

ぜひフォロー、いいね、シェア、よろしくお願いします！

ほとんどtensaimon、インスターkusaimon

紹介する記事のリンクはtensaimon.com、podcastの説明欄に貼りますので、

番組を聞いた後に

どうぞご参考になさって、

言葉の勉強、課題の勉強、社改善、世界を救うことを

一緒に頑張っていきましょうか？

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

どうも今日も聞いてくださってまことにありがとうございました

私はサイモン・・・・・・・・もん・・・でした！

Thanks for listening everybody！

じゃあね / またや〜 / See ya!

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40% of Worker Ants Are Actually Lazy Slackers, But They Have Their Reasons

Hey Simon what do you think?

Hey listeners what do you think?

今日の記事：https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2015/10/among-teens-sleep-deprivation-an-epidemic.htmlTranscript:

Among teens, sleep deprivation is an epidemic

What’s causing this?

Some schools shift:

Conclusion:

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By 2025, American democracy could collapse - Canada must prepare

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今日の記事のLINK：

ME:

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今日の記事：
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2015/10/among-teens-sleep-deprivation-an-epidemic.html

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