A Research Opportunity
An analysis reveals the lack of an idea
To halt the conflict between Israel and Palestine
I will address this need to negotiate
But data must be gathered
In order to understand the faceted universe
Of conflict.
This data must be assembled and fashioned
Into a short report understandable
To the entire body.
An open forum add to the categories
Avoiding emotional involvement
Cater to facts.
Each forum must be composed of members
Representing all parties
All religions
Literate learned individuals
Scientists and scholars
Fair individuals who sign an oath
To report unbiased
Data categories to research:
Ancient history
History 20th century to present
The original establishment of Israel document
Palestinian representation in legal decisions concerning them
United Nations Actions
Present human conditions in Palestine and Israel
Palestinian refugees costs and reparations to host countries
Open ended list…..
Friday, December 01, 2006
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Tech Power
Out of study of the past
A future emerges
A vision for the Earth
Nationalism component parts
Contributing creativity
All we have
Is our raw brainpower
And experiments begun
45,000 years past
Built up our population
Rich energy source
And our intelligence
Created technology
That now must transcend
Known applications
And terran environments
To utilize a new source
Of elements
To make what we need.
The tech is to make energy
Rather than just collect
We mine elements instead
Let us work together
To achieve rather than destroy.
A future emerges
A vision for the Earth
Nationalism component parts
Contributing creativity
All we have
Is our raw brainpower
And experiments begun
45,000 years past
Built up our population
Rich energy source
And our intelligence
Created technology
That now must transcend
Known applications
And terran environments
To utilize a new source
Of elements
To make what we need.
The tech is to make energy
Rather than just collect
We mine elements instead
Let us work together
To achieve rather than destroy.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
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?
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?
Saturday, November 11, 2006
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.
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