Restoring Executive Order

My thoughts have veered away from things musical today, and I feel the need to share them.

After exploring a personal "cone of uncertainty" concerning how large and powerful the hurricanes that will hit the Caribbean and the Eastern United States NEXT September will be, I hope that the powers that have the means to control decisions about preserving what we can of our fragile planet do something soon. Our projected cone of uncertainty concerning the influence of our current US administration (on the whole world) might indeed end on January 21, 2020.

Here are examples of executive orders I'm hoping for that day:

Have a mandatory buy-back of all assault weapons, and make it illegal to own, sell, buy, or store them. Do the same with ammunition. Create an industry to safely repurpose the materials (you know, like plowshares). That creates lots of jobs.

Expand climate change research exponentially. Hire experienced scientists to investigate science fairs, "go fund me" and "kickstarter" applications of technology that wish to study ways of getting extra carbon out of the atmosphere. Put organizations in competition with one another. Give the initiative a date and a mandate, like we had for the genome project.

Mandate that corporations that make over a certain amount of money (you know, in the multi-billions and multi-trillions) to direct a significant portion of their profit (in the way of a tax) to the (above mentioned) effort to find solutions. Join the rest of the world in this effort, and get every corporation in the world to participate.

Mandate investment in renewable energy.
Reward investment in renewable energy.