Great Book: "How to Fix the Future" by Andrew Keen. A Plan for Thriving in a Digital World.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Fix-Future-Andrew-Keen/dp/0802126642

There are five key tools that Keen identifies: regulation, competitive innovation, social responsibility, worker and consumer choice, and education. We also need to rethink our education systems to teach kids about the stuff that machines will never be able to do, and to start planning a new social security system that will provide a safety net for all the people whose lives will be disrupted by automation.

E.P.A. Moves to Rescind Contested Water Pollution Regulation. Trump supports more pollution of drinking water to boost corporate profits.

The Trump administration on Tuesday took a major legal step toward repealing a bitterly contested Obama-era regulation designed to limit pollution in about 60 percent of the nation’s bodies of water.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/climate/epa-rescind-water-pollution-regulation.html

EPA’s New Water Safety Official Is a Lobbyist With Deep Ties to the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Dennis Lee Forsgren, a former lobbyist recently tapped to lead the Environmental Protection Agency office in charge of water safety, has deep ties to a fossil fuel advocacy group engaged in the promotion of the Dakota Access Pipeline as well as controversial offshore drilling efforts.

https://theintercept.com/2017/06/28/epas-new-water-safety-official-is-a-lobbyist-with-deep-ties-to-the-dakota-access-pipeline/

Anti Environmental Protection Lobbyists now run the EPA