Rivier University Institute for Senior Education (RISE) Course A series of 6 PowerPoint Talks How did we maintain meaning, purpose, and even happiness during the COVID19 lockdown? It lowered the CO2 emissions that are warming our planet, but increased income inequality. Will new technologies lower our carbon dioxide emissions to stop global warming by 2050?

1. Rivier University Institute for Senior Education (RISE) Course
POST COVID ECONOMY, AS CLIMATE CHANGES
Paul H Carr, PhD, Facilitator
Thursdays 9:30 – 10:30, starting October 7 – November 11, 2021. Zoom Sessions.
How did we maintain meaning, purpose, and even happiness during the COVID19 lockdown?
It lowered the CO2 emissions that are warming our planet, but increased income inequality.
I gave 6 PowerPoint talks to stimulate discussions class discussions.
Oct 7
COVID & CLIMATE
BOTH GLOBAL, TEMPERATURE INCREASE
 If we wait for a crisis, it’s too late.
Time after drastic action: COVID, months;
CLIMATE, decades, centuries.
COVID. The delta variant serge has peaked in the US
How do NH cases compare with other states?
October 14
COVID's Impact on Inflation and Income Equality.
Will inflation from the COVID recovery be permanent?
What does the Federal Reserve Predict?
Has the COVID recovery increased income equality?
Why do job openings now outnumber job seekers?
October 21
IS GDP MORE IMPORTANT THAN HAPPINESS?
OUTLINE
• How much money does it take to make one happy?
• The Wealth of Nations (GDP) versus the UN Happiness Index
• Nations with more income equality (GINI Index) are happier.
• Income inequality contributes to political polarization.
• What we can do.
Thankfulness helps with happiness
Oct 28
EVs: Fun Saving our Planet
 Electric Vehicles (EV) are fun to drive:
0 to 60 mhr in 3 to 6 seconds
 Electric vehicles are doubly green,
Saving our planet and the green in your pocketboo (4GETGAS)
 Electric motors: 119 MPGal equivalent
 More than twice as efficient as gas powered
1/10 number of moving parts.

2. Lower maintenance: No oil and filter changes
 Lower total cost of ownership.
November 4
NUCLEAR, HYDROGEN, & GEOTHERMAL FOR NET-ZERO CO2
• Wind and solar (W S) are the cheapest sources electricity 33% of the time.
• -Add some green Hydrogen into natural gas infrastructure.
• Cold nuclear fusion has fizzled: We need nuclear fission
• 2030 Cheaper and safer Small Modular FISSION Reactors using
Uranium & Thorium.
• 2030 - 2050 Green hydrogen storage and economy.
• 2030 – 2040. Advances in vertical drilling could make enhanced geothermal systems
(EGS) the cheapest source of electricity.
---Also a way of sequestering CO2 captured from burning fossil fuels.
• 2030 – 2050. FUSION Nuclear Reactors generate electricity
November 11, 2021
GREEN ENERGY’S ECONOMIC PROGRESS
 Environmental, social, and governance funds have more than tripled to reach
$2 Trillion.
 Three new “Mean Green” board members are forcing Exxon to clean up its
act.
 GM is betting big on batteries with a new $2.3 billion plant in Ohio. Ford also.
 Advances in electric vehicles and next-generation nuclear reactors are
helping the US achieve its goal of reducing carbon emissions to net zero by
2050
Paul H. Carr, BS, MS, MIT; Ph.D., Brandeis U, IEEE Life Fellow, led a branch of the AF Research
Lab that developed the SAW components used in cell phones and radar. He taught philosophy
courses at U Mass Lowell that inspired his book "Beauty in Science and Spirit." He taught at
RISE, 2010, 2014-2020. His web page is www.MirrorOfNature.org
UN IPCC Report. Climate change extremes: Dry areas, drier; Wet areas wetter.

3. Dry areas get drier because of more evaporation.
Wet areas get wetter, because the atmosphere holds more moisture at higher
temperature
NH has had the wettest summer on record (since 1859)
Our Western states have had the worst draught in 500 years with increased forest fires,
water rationing, and reduced crop yields.
Wildfires in Russia’s Siberia are larger (about the size of FL) than all the world’s other
fires combined.
What we can do to slow climate change?
Is the COVID recovery increasing income equality?
Will economic inflation from the COVID recovery be permanent?
UN IPCC Report. Climate change extremes: Dry areas, drier; Wet areas wetter.
Dry areas get drier because of more evaporation.
Wet areas get wetter, because the atmosphere holds more moisture at higher temperature
NH has had the wettest summer on record (since 1859)
Our Western states have had the worst draught in 500 yr with increased forest fires.
Wildfires in Russia’s Siberia are larger (about the size of FL) than all the world’s other fires
combined.
What we can do to slow climate change.
Politization of issues affecting our COVID public health.
Individual Freedom trumping responsibility for the common good.
Tribe trumping truth
Tribal abandonment of truth can be fatal.
We are born into a family-tribe.
States with low vaccination rates having a COVID variant surge
What is truth?
Dealing with COVID isolation.
Loneliness versus solitude
Were we happy most days?
What makes us happy?
The courage to be
Courage is self-affirmation in spite of threats to:
1. Our physical being: sickness, hunger, shelter, death
2. Meaningless, lack of purpose and the ultimate concern of religion, government
policies.
3. Guilt and condemnation (moral affirmation), lack of forgiveness
“We rejoice in our suffering: suffering produces endurance, and endurance character, and
character, hope” ( Romans 5:3-4).

4. Hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up.