The Meat of the MatterUnquestionably global food prices are skyrocketing as worst-casescenarios are colliding simultaneously. Since WW II meat consumption by all socio-economicclasses entered America’s culinary DNA with steakhouses representing the apex redmeat temples, the literal “High-Table” where big business discusses big dealsover bigger steaks paid for by big expenses
Evermore people are enthusiasticallyembracing greater freedom of movement with the arrival of warm weather andnationwide loosening of restrictions in public venues due to increased vaccinationsand falling Covid positive rates. For these brief few blissful weeks it mightseem like the Old Normal good old days déjà vu even amongst the “rubble”
The dystopic perfect storm is unfolding in India withrecord-breaking daily new Covid cases and deaths that may continue unabated throughthe rest of 2021 buffeting the South Asian country of 1.4 billion inhabitants.A little over a year ago on 17 April 2020 I published anarticle entitled IndiaBracing for the Covid-19 Viral
Corporate Diversity Policies | The Illusion of Inclusion From:
Image from Time MagazineDemographics | Minorities Defined
For the purpose of this article on workforce diversityperspectives, the word âminorityâ will be used to describe any worker who is anon-Caucasian and/or female of any racial/ethnic background, non-heterosexual andhandicapped.
Workforce Diversity | Failure to Launch
Despite the ground-breaking 1960s legislation that legallyprovided greater opportunities for minorities to obtain higher education andconsideration for employment in private industry, the comparative present-day,21
st century figures are abysmal by any measure. If the governmentprovided an equally favorable financial or tax-based legislation for any otherreason and a private entity was unable to markedly increase profits and marketshare, the CEO and upper-management would have been fired.
Background
Recently an Ice Age-like storm consumed Texas and pushed itselectrical grid to the precipice. If not for the rapid reaction of energy operatorsto shut down these systems, Texans would have found themselves in a perilous MadMax landscape.
Despite this near miss, operationally Texas was transformedinto a temporary failed state leaving 14 million residents without safedrinking water whose source comes from 1,000 public water systems whilemillions more had no electricity. Shockingly with a bit of clever editing byeven rank video amateurs, one could swear the photos of suffering Texans were citizensin war-torn Syria.
Mother nature took down the grid more effectively than anyrogue or state sponsored hacker or terrorist. The destruction to infrastructurefar exceeded Hurricane Katrina (2005) and Hurricane Sandy (2012) which were impactedmore harshly because they were coastal communities from ocean-borne storms.