The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

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That all sounds reasonable and consistent with my experience. I learned a lot - more from the bio/botany people involved than the earth science crowd. There were a couple of Stanford bio profs that really opened my eyes to many of the extremely naive views regarding climate change that are prevalent in the lay and Hollywood populations.

The unpleasant aspects had more to do with political and ethical aspects of how funding for programs was assigned (merit was definitely not always the governing consideration), operational aspects within SLB, and Stanford had the most uncomfortable chairs in their conference facility that I’ve ever had to sit on.

A big part of my problem with organizations like gcep is that they r largely wine and cheese gatherings for political and research program maneuvering and while they do contribute in ways u pointed out, that isn’t the ultimate goal.