The problem with the infrastructure in this country is the same one with our education system. Corruption is causing large amounts of money to be diverted from their goals. Look at the construction bidding system in this country and you will find a broken pattern of rules designed to give people like Soros financial padding.

Obama's orignal stimulus bill is a perfect example of this. Soros benefitted from both the Education and Construction contracts that were handed out during that time.

AS far as stem degrees go... those are what make the money and turn the economy over. OF course they mean nothing if you don't give those young scientists money to do research with.

The problem is the military absorbing a ridiculous amount of money from education and infrastructure in this country. We have more air craft carriers than our biggest thirteen military competitors combined...

Telling people not to study science is absurd. We are still making money off the education investments of the 80's and 90's. It used to be that the Department of Energy had the biggest chunk of the world's best scientists and they drove american business to the top.

The parasite that has absorbed all money in this country is war. Nothing else. Stop beating on education and pretending that is the unsustainable bit. I just see this argument as ludicrous.

biochar could help with this immensely. of course cutting trees down to make it won't help, but we could start harvesting bamboo for this purpose and it might really help give those trees the advantage at the edge of the arable zone. i've always been partial to the theory that with enough biochar the sahara could be another amazon.