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</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.54; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Comedians are contrarians by nature. Many claim that "nothing is off limits" and refuse to follow dictates of the so-called "PC Culture," i.e. the idea that some words are off limits because people find them offensive.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.54; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan doesn't buy this idea at all. He doesn’t think of being politically correct as being censored. Instead, being politically correct is about being respectful, or even just watching your tongue once in a while. There’s no doubt that some words hurt. Some words have a history connected to them that shouldn’t be ignored just because someone thinks it makes them seem daring.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.54; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Society is changing, and it has always been changing. Just a few decades ago, wearing a seatbelt wasn’t a necessary thing, and kids were known to play in the trunks of cars while their parents sped around corner. Now we know better. In the same vein, many of us have grown up a little, and know the world is a better place when we demonstrate respect by by making sacrifices for one another.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.54; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Perhaps some people find such language funny. Everyone has their own sense of humor<b>. From a comedian’s stand point, such as Jim Gaffigan’s, there are plenty of other jokes that can be made. Why waste time on jokes that deliberately hurt others?</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.54; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is a new generation with a new moral standing. Every previous generation has had its changes, causing elders to chant about how things worked in "their day." And every generation has looked at those from the previous generation, and rolled their eyes at how backwards those seemed.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.54; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This doesn’t seem like the worst change from generation to generation. The PC Culture isn’t asking for a lot. It asks for a bit of respect, to acknowledge the pain linked to some words, and give that language some distance. All in all, it’s being sensitive to the people listening.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Opponent: How Bill McKibben Changed Environmental Politics and Took on the Oil Patch</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by MATTHEW C. NISBET</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For the May/June issue of Canada’s Policy Options magazine, I contributed an article adapted from my Spring 2013 Shorenstein Center paper examining the career of environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben....</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Having spent months studying McKibben’s books, writing and career, I hold a deep admiration for his ability to convey the urgency of climate change and to articulate a better approach to life that includes more time for family, reflection and nature. His work as an activist is equally impressive. From his start in 2006, working with a handful of college students, to his leadership today of 350. org, McKibben has helped shift the US environmental movement from an almost exclusive focus on insider lobbying, legal strategies and think-tank-style influence to focus greater resources on grassroots organizing and mobilization.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yet as a public intellectual, McKibben has failed to offer pragmatic and achievable policy ideas. Instead, reflecting his intellectual roots in the deep ecology movement, McKibben’s goal has been to generate a mass consciousness in support of limiting economic growth and consumption, with the hope of shifting the United States toward localized economies, food systems and “soft” energy sources. I wonder how many of the people turning out to protest the Keystone XL pipeline, working on behalf of divestment, or following along on Twitter and Facebook are aware of McKibben’s long standing vision of societal change, detailed first in The End of Nature and most recently in Deep Economy and Eaarth.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In this pastoral future free of consumerism or material ambition, Americans would rarely travel and experience the world instead via the Internet; grow much of their own food; power their communities through solar and wind; and divert their wealth to developing countries. McKibben’s romantic vision of a New-England-style utopia seems to have blinded him to alternative approaches that may be not only more effective at curbing greenhouse gas emissions and providing for the material needs of large, diverse populations, but also more politically probable.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McKibben is perhaps at even greater fault for downplaying the need for “hard” technological approaches like nuclear energy or carbon capture and storage, and focusing instead on “soft” technologies like solar, wind and efficiency. His favoured technologies are unlikely to alter the dynamics of fossil-fuel energy use and dependency worldwide. Consider that globally, an estimated 1,200 coal power plants are scheduled for construction, three-quarters of them in China and India. Compounding the challenge, according to University of Manitoba energy analyst Vaclav Smil in his 2010 book, solar and wind energy sources are unlikely to be able to overcome the problems of intermittency, storage capacity and cost, and to be scalable in time to compete with coal power worldwide.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In other words, innovative technologies are needed that can not only power the mega-cities of Asia but also limit emissions from the thousands of coal plants already in place and scheduled to be built around the world. In advocating for nuclear energy, even McKibben’s long-time inspiration Hansen is blunt, saying on his Web site in 2011: “Suggesting that renewables will let us phase rapidly off fossil fuels in the United States, China, India, or the world as a whole is almost the equivalent of believing in the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In this case, it is useful to see the contrast between McKibben and evironmentalists like Stewart Brand and Mark Lynas, who have urged their peers to adopt a new outlook on technological innovation. Sharing many of the same political aims as McKibben over the course of his career, Lynas has developed a very different perspective about technology and humans’ relation to nature. In his most recent book, The God Species: How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans, Lynas argues that “we cannot afford to foreclose powerful technological options like nuclear, synthetic biology and [genetic engineering] because of Luddite prejudice and ideological inertia.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a recent essay titled “Wicked Polarization,” Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus describe progress on climate change and similarly complex social problems as obstructed by experts and public intellectuals who have “come to frame virtually every national problem as a consequence of the irrationality, ignorance, and immorality of the political Other.” In this light, arguments for action on climate change that evoke idealized visions of small-scale, hyperefficient agrarian communities powered by wind and solar reflect the priorities and values of environmentalists like McKibben, rather than a pragmatic set of choices designed to effectively manage the problem and align a diversity of political interests in support of compromise.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The problem is not that we are in a post-truth age but rather that we have not learned to adapt to it,” Shellenberger and Nordhaus write. “Perhaps a good place to begin is by recognizing our own biases, perspectives, and agendas and attempting to hold them more lightly. Bringing an end to our ideological arms race will ultimately require that we force partisans out of their comfort zone by redefining those problems in ways to which partisans do not already know the answers.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As a complement to activists like McKibben — and to the powerful voice of his oil patch opponents — we urgently need to bridge these polarized narratives around climate change. In our digital, algorithmic media culture we must find ways to hear each other, to listen as well as test our assumptions. And that begins by accepting that total victory for a single point of view is unachievable. “There is no kumbaya moment,” argued New York University’s Jay Rosen in a 2012 speech outlining ways to improve media coverage of wicked problems like climate change. “You never get everyone on the same page. What’s possible is a world where different stakeholders ‘get’ that the world looks different to people who hold different stakes.” The question that the Bill McKibbens pose to us, then, is not whether our fate lies in a choice between a mythologized pastoral past and apocalyptic visions of the future. It is whether our new media culture can be a path to the understanding of others, or force us even deeper into our ideological bunkers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>CSF is the largest trade organization dedicated to promoting the development of commercial spaceflight, pursuing ever-higher levels of safety and sharing best practices and expertise throughout the industry. CSF worked tirelessly to craft the modern Commercial Space Launch Act, as well as to promote innovation as a national policy to spur the economy and create high technology jobs. In addition, CSF works to develop industry standards and encourages further growth in the commercial spaceflight…</div><div>
</div><div>Show more&nbsp;</div><div>TIGER 21 Graphic</div><div>Member</div><div>TIGER 21</div><div>Oct 2015 - Present6 years 2 months</div><div>
</div><div>www.tiger21.com</div><div>
</div><div>The world's leading peer membership learning group for UHNW investors.</div><div>
</div><div>World Economic Forum Graphic</div><div>Young Global Leader</div><div>World Economic Forum</div><div>Jan 2011 - Present10 years 11 months</div><div>
</div><div>Geneva Area, Switzerland</div><div>
</div><div>Morgan Brook Capital Graphic</div><div>Managing Partner</div><div>Morgan Brook Capital</div><div>Jan 2014 - Present7 years 11 months</div><div>
</div><div>Greater Denver Area</div><div>
</div><div>Family office based in Denver focusing on early stage technology investments with a focus on Space and BioTech.</div><div>
</div><div>Techstars Graphic</div><div>Mentor</div><div>Techstars</div><div>Jan 2018 - Present3 years 11 months</div><div>
</div><div>Mentor to various TechStars programs including NASA JPL, Starburst and Allied Space.</div><div>
</div><div>Big Think Graphic</div><div>Delphi Fellow</div><div>Big Think</div><div>Jan 2012 - Present9 years 11 months</div><div>
</div><div>Greater New York City Area</div><div>
</div><div>Front Range Airport/Spaceport Colorado Graphic</div><div>Advisor</div><div>Front Range Airport/Spaceport Colorado</div><div>Jan 2017 - Present4 years 11 months</div><div>
</div><div>Denver, Colorado, United States</div><div>
</div><div>Serve on advisory board looking to expand economic opportunity for the Colorado Spaceport.</div><div>
</div><div>Education</div><div><b>Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government</b>&nbsp; Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government Graphic</div><div>Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government</div><div>Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century</div><div>2013 - 2013</div><div>
</div><div>Program sponsored by the World Economic Forum and is open to Young Global Leader honorees only.</div><div>
</div><div><b>University of Chicago</b>University of Chicago Graphic</div><div>University of Chicago</div><div>MBAFinance & Strategy</div><div>1997 - 1998</div><div>
</div><div>Studied emerging markets under Dr. Marvin Zonis and finance under three Nobel Prize winners.</div><div>
</div><div>University of ArizonaUniversity of Arizona Graphic</div><div>University of Arizona</div><div>BSEngineering</div><div>1988 - 1993</div><div>
</div><div>Activities and Societies: President Engineering Student Council, Tau Beta Pi, Mortar Board</div><div>
</div><div>Graduate of the Honors College</div><div>Alumnus of the Year (2018)</div><div>
</div><div>Volunteer Experience</div><div>FounderSpace for Humanity Graphic</div><div>Founder</div><div>Space for Humanity</div><div>Jul 2017 - Present4 years 5 months</div><div>
</div><div>The world's leading social movement focused on democratizing access to space.</div><div>
</div><div>AdvisorArch Mission Foundation Graphic</div><div>Advisor</div><div>Arch Mission Foundation</div><div>Jul 2019 - Present2 years 5 months</div><div>
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</div><div>Co-FounderDGBM Taylor Family Foundation Graphic</div><div>Co-Founder</div><div>DGBM Taylor Family Foundation</div><div>Jan 2016 - Present5 years 11 months</div><div>
</div><div>www.dylantaylorfoundation.org</div><div>
</div><div>Board MemberThe Kempe Foundation Graphic</div><div>Board Member</div><div>The Kempe Foundation</div><div>Jan 2010 - Jan 20133 years 1 month</div><div>
</div><div>Children</div><div>
</div><div>Leading organization for child abuse and neglect.</div><div>
</div><div>Board Member, Vice Chairman and Chairman of the BoardMarch of Dimes Graphic</div><div>Board Member, Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Board</div><div>March of Dimes</div><div>Jan 2005 - Dec 20139 years</div><div>
</div><div>Children</div><div>
</div><div>Projects</div><div>First Manufactured Item in Space by a Private Citizen</div><div>Apr 2017 - Present</div><div>Manufactured the first item in space by a private citizen when a gravity meter that I commissioned and co-designed was printed on the international space station.</div><div>
</div><div>See projectExternal link</div><div>Honors & Awards</div><div>30 Voices for 2030</div><div>KPMG</div><div>Apr 2020</div><div>Selected as on of the top 30 global leader's in the space industry for the KPMG 30 voices for 2030 report.</div><div>
</div><div>Business and Finance Award</div><div>Commercial Spaceflight Award</div><div>Jan 2020</div><div>2020 Winner of the top award for business and finance in the space industry.</div><div>
</div><div>www.commercialspaceflight.org</div><div>
</div><div>Alumnus of the Year</div><div>University of Arizona</div><div>Oct 2018</div><div>2018 Winner</div><div>https://youtu.be/KWOwaDcSXbw</div><div>
</div><div>Languages</div><div>English</div><div>Native or bilingual proficiency</div><div>Spanish</div><div>Professional working proficiency</div><div>German</div><div>Limited working proficiency</div><div>Organizations</div><div>Colorado Concern</div><div>Member</div><div>Jan 2020 - Present</div><div>www.coloradoconcern.com</div><div>
</div><div>The Explorers Club</div><div>-</div><div>Jan 2018 - Present</div><div>https://www.explorers.org</div><div>
</div><div>New York Angels</div><div>Member</div><div>May 2016 - Present</div><div>www.newyorkangels.com</div><div>
</div><div>TED</div><div>Tedster</div><div>Apr 2013 - Present</div><div>www.ted.com</div><div>
</div><div>Annual attendee of TED conference.</div><div>
</div><div>G100</div><div>Member</div><div>Jan 2013 - Present</div><div>www.G100.com</div><div>
</div><div>World Economic Forum</div><div>Full Member</div><div>Mar 2010 - Present</div><div>www.weforum.org</div><div>
</div><div>YPO</div><div>Member</div><div>Jan 2008 - Present</div><div>www.ypo.org</div><div>
</div><div>Glia Society</div><div>-</div><div>Jan 2005 - Present</div><div>www.gliasociety.org</div><div>
</div><div>Mensa</div><div>-</div><div>2000 - Present</div><div>Council on Foreign Relations</div><div>Corporate Member</div><div>Jan 1998 - Present</div><div>Leadership Denver</div><div>-</div><div>Jan 2007 - Dec 2007</div><div>2007 Graduate of Leadership Denver.</div><div>
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