snobelen: making good use of the crisis du jour - home energy storage
Winston Churchill is often quoted as saying "never let a good crisis be wasted.
Decades later, the United StatesS.
President Barack Obama's chief of staff, Ram Emanuel, also made a similar comment, saying, "You never want a serious crisis to be wasted. ”Smart folks.
Both Churchill and Emanuel believe that new and better things are possible only when the status quo is interrupted and a new path must be found.
It is good advice for any government to make the most of the current crisis.
The problem is that politicians are allergic to the crisis.
The government is starting over, apart from everything else. elected.
This is not a business that celebrates the crisis, especially when solutions are at risk.
By default, the government's business philosophy will never leave a good crisis unmanageable.
Witness the political response to the crisis surrounding climate change (
Or politically incorrect twins, global warming).
Canada is about to fall into a federal election in which all political parties agree that there is a crisis and no one knows how to resolve it.
The Trudeau government has promised to tax carbon emissions, which will not affect climate change unless the tax levels are surprisingly high.
In other words, the touchstone of the current climate change policy is a project that will not address climate change.
This is a long way from making the most of the crisis.
In Ontario, the crisis of public debt and the resulting interest payments is intensifying.
The government has solved the debt problem for 15 years (
See mcgindy Wien, wait. ).
But the problem of paying interest has become so big (
Debt interest is the fourth largest item in the Ontario budget)
It is no longer manageable.
It is commendable that the Ford government is taking seriously the task of stopping the flow of red ink.
Finance Minister Vic feidley put forward a plan in his first budget to reduce spending growth and balance the budget over five years.
All in all, it's a small measure.
C. Conservative plan
However, from the actual situation, the reduction of personal expenditure has hindered various problems such as public health and tree planting.
It could be a decisive crisis, reshaping the delivery of government services, and it could now evolve into a heated debate about downloads.
This debate, like the debate on the carbon tax, will miss a more important point: what is the best use of the crisis?
Governments across the political spectrum like to talk about change.
But in a build on 4-year re-Election cycle.
The best use of the crisis is almost always too far.
By improving the efficiency of green energy
Venture capital in energy storage technologies may be the "best use" for tackling climate change ".
It is easier to tax traditional energy.
Bending the cost curve in provincial budgets may include a revolution in the use of information technology in classrooms, introducing truly competitive health --care services (
Privatization! )
Replace all social service support with guaranteed minimum income.
But these are all super high.
Risk Plan.
A very good crisis will waste all the time and be suffocated by half the time
Step improvement and management-
Because the government thinks you and I can't accept change.
Maybe they're right.
I hope they are wrong.