Instead of War

We see life through moments rather than eons, leaving us unschooled if we do not possess an information storage system. Capitalizing on assets has led us to great heights in material civilization as the product of our amazing information and retrieval systems, the spectacular economic setups that enable the creation of architecture and distribution systems that will sustain an ever growing population….so what is wrong about this picture? It is that we have unprecedented control over our physical environment in a short term as we approach the end of the mining era and the beginning of the recycling era that will ensure the survivability of some portion of the population in this finite world.

Our current technology does not save us from being beholden to the same forces that have ruled last populations through potentially deadly climatic and resource availability changes. Our mining has exacerbated a climate shift towards the warmer in many areas of the world, such that permafrost is melting and the Antarctic is calving icebergs at a high rate as compared to other times. Listen that this climate change is not uniform throughout the Earth. We do have the ability to lessen our influence on the climate voluntarily or will eventually be forced to disengage this behavior when petroleum mining lacks success.

Let us hope the new energy technology will be less obtrusive to our environment by not poisoning us as well as continuing to bestow the wonderful benefits of cheap energy. It has been thus far easier to discover new mines than to reuse, but that has already been changing since the 1960s when scrapyards became respectable. The market for scrap steel is lucrative for somebody and cornering the market might make more money than the metal items produced. Saving on raw materials is the wave of the future and will be required when the population reaches saturation in terms of numbers related to the use of raw materials and produced food resources. It comes a time when impoverishment is related to the number of humans per unit of sustainability or societal adjustments will occur where a few control resources for the many while skimming a good living off the top for themselves.

A new source for energy must be developed or our civilization I hold in such high regard will perish. We cannot continue to see life in moments. We must do long term planning and immediate research. Government and private money must fund research and must not neglect researching social issues related to overpopulation and resource waste patterns and the avenues to the goal of less consumption per individual as the number of individuals rises.

So harvest with solar rolling threshers and plant with solar plows and utilize more hand labor, reversing a trend of fewer hands for more work begun in the machine age drawing to a close if alternative energy sources or locations are not successful. How cheap could items be made in free fall? Why should delivery be instant, instead drifting in a long spiron to Earth during a weeks long trip in a collapsible container that can be reorbited and reused? Just think of the raw materials, intense solar and plenty silica to build housing and hydroponics to feed the teeming Earth. How about small atomic power plants for launchers and personal transportation?

Why not fund research into atomic energy? Why not work together to achieve science and free fall business and an international city on the moon? Why all these wars instead of cooperation for the good of all? Remember Nero fiddling while Rome burned? Are we that foolish?

War Talk

Lame duck no war talk listen to. No grand finale grande. You are ruled by the people and we have spoken in the election. The legal right to escalate conflict is superseded by the moral commitment to serve the people made when you took office. Let your memory be that of one who ultimately sought peace.

Maybe I did not like all the election results but the world is not frozen in time. I look to a fruitful future and would humbly hope for peace as all combatants lay down arms.

No unilateral action is justified even if well supported ‘allies’ choose to preempt another delusion and make it into a very negative reality. If such pre-emptive foolishness occurs, then arms shipments must cease. Propping up warlike regimes is an unneeded expense that is proving unrewarding under deleterious circumstances created when we are having trying times elsewhere. A low return on the investment, I say.

Hold yer fire.

An Eye For An Eye

An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth. This has been declared your system of justice, but the abuse of even this harsh precept is apparently taking place. So how much damage has been inflicted on you? Are you not restricted to like amounts? The example was given twice, so as to not confuse the academic among you.

Punish and punish and soon you have a cycle of death, a blood feud flaring with an enemy underestimated and ultimately goaded to be very smart and powerful. Our people do not want war as evidenced by the recent election. More pre-emptive wars are not in the offing. The killing of innocents must cease, lest more resistance be necessary. Creating a problem through ineffective policy could be discontinued. Vengeance births vengeance. Nobody is going to make the world safe for anybody.

Forcing resistance through economic strangulation and physical destruction is a worn philosophy that is producing more strife. I make the assumption that less strife is wanted but this may startle the econo-military junta that runs your nation, if their main mission in life is fighting and strategy. Let your strategy makers concentrate on economic salvation and the eventual end of aid money so easy to sign for. Work for the betterment of both communities and control the militarists among you.

Call for elections and civil discourse. Walk the path to peace.

VOTE! VOTE OR LOSE YOUR VOICE!

Persia Or That Fair Land Beyond The River Valleys

Persia or that land beyond the river valleys
We meet again.

The last deep meeting of disparate cultures produced Damascus steel,
Hybrid technology derived from African iron
Eastern Mediterranean bronze,
Indian brass.
All brought together as a trade route in ancient times.

What hath we wrought with this steel
But used it to find more resources
That would shape this steel in more ways
As we use fossil fuels to further refine our toolkit
Until one person cannot hope to know it all
So each owns bits and pieces of the whole
O the written word will save it all
Computers will store and roughly sort
But the human mind must be applied
To this task
For that life spark of an idea
Brings a new future
Without fossil fuel rule
Beneficial to all in availability

Peace be to all
In the sea
And upon the land.

Exponential Population Growth

Oh Goody! We hit 300,000,000 in population and celebratory and congratulatory talking heads blatt for business expansion and a growing economy.

Let us look at the facts.

The world is a finite space.
All resources are finite.
Land to support sustainability is finite
The human population is growing.
When the growing population meets the finite, changes occur.
These changes are:
The population must use less of resources to survive.
The population decreases.
The population finds other resources only available through the space effort.
War decreases the population and thus the demand for resources.
Poverty increases.
Disease increases.
Regionalism appears.
Or we can continue rampant breeding
End up dividing the world’s resources by each individual
Or creating teeming poverty and mega rich
A portent for war
Why not fight when there’s nothing left to lose?
Empire building falls short of survival
When energy becomes scarce
Technology must bloom once again
Or we are all doomed.
Stabilize populations according to present percentages
In order to manage the problem
Of dwindling resource share.

Look for Peace in the World