We often discuss the World Happiness Rankings, and how the Scandinavian countries are consistently at the top.
It’s interesting, as I learned when I visited a customer’s home in Denmark, that kids don’t start school until they’re seven years old. Does this contribute to happiness?
As my friend told me, “The rat-race starts soon enough. Yes, the French and the Germans are ahead of us academically for a while, but by the time our kids are in high school, we’ve completely caught up. Why not let them be kids?”
Yet there must be some who admonish that children’s minds are like sponges, soaking up whatever’s in the vicinity. Would you rather it be cartoons or arithmetic/reading?
Also, there is the subject of socialization, which is why common wisdom would suggest that there is value in having four- and five-year-olds growing up surrounded by the peers.
I honestly don’t know.
https://www.2greenenergy.com/2026/04/01/the-scandinavians-are-quite-different-from-us-americans/
I would say that it’s corruption.
Yes, there are more corrupt countries overall, e.g., Russia and the other 53 dictatorships around the world. But none is our size, and few are pretending to be democracies.
Here’s a reminder that renewable energy resources are not distributed equally around the globe.
Decarbonizing the energy and transportation sectors in a place like Iceland, which has geothermal energy in amazing abundance, is like falling off a log.
In other places it requires political will, which is sadly lacking in the United States. Here, the petroleum industry is fighting with endless propaganda to convince scientifically illiterate Americans that we need to “drill, baby, drill” while it makes huge contributions to corrupt politicians in return for favorable legislation.
Obviously, it’s impossible to predict the future based on the past, and China is brandishing weapons. Moreover, it’s been trying to take over the world for the last 6000 years.
That said, the culture of China is built around patience, and the country appears to be conducting this crusade with commerce, rather than bombs.
Where the U.S. invests in blowing things (and people) to bits, China puts its resources on dominating global trade.
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