I'm pretty new to the blogging world but last week's furious debate over minimum wage that was initiated by Jason Churniak ("Say no to a $10 minimum wage") was what I expected to see more of when I started posting last month.
Personally, I found Mr. Churniak's reasoning to be flawed and lacking in any real evidence that increasing minimum wage to $10 a month would result in economic chaos. But that's not my point here. The really fantastic part of the post was that it got some pretty smart and passionate people talking about the issue (and some not so fantastic and a few just plain stupid). It's too bad that energy couldn't be harnessed to have real dialogue on other issues and make this medium a place from which real change could be initiated. I don't see enough of this in this forum.
Take the environment for example. Everyone agrees that there is an immediate need to solve the mess we've made of our environment. How about a sustained debate key environmental issues and immediate practical solutions that could be put in place to address these.
Here's a list of topics that could be debated:
1. Increasing clean energy production
2. Reducing the footprint of non-renewables
3. Reducing waste and pollution
4. Water conservation
5. Developing new models of wealth
6. The role of cities and regional development on the environment.
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