Some good news about the bad news.

[NNadir]

2. I have felt that way ever since I started the weekly check of the data.

The scary thing is that the rate is accelerating and the rate of the rate of acceleration (the second and third derivatives) are positive. Things are getting worse faster.

For a long time I've been bursting with technical ideas about how to do something meaningful but lacked access to any avenue to get movement.

It is too late now for nuclear energy to do what it might have done but as a consolation, I had a nice chat with my son last night about the fact that we are now entering the third nuclear era, featuring creativity not seen since the first nuclear era, which ended in the early 1960s. I'll do my best to leave him with ideas so that he can help do his part, however small or large as is practical, for future generations sifting through the ashes to rebuild what is subject to rebuilding, if anything is or will be.

We live in horrible times, and aren't even paying attention to the things that really matter.