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What many people do not understand about clean energy is that it is a
major economic boon to any country that would embrace it. The clean
energy technologies - wind power, solar power, coal sequestration,
hydrogen engines, sun-beam technology - are all brain-intensive,
technology-intensive industries. Which means that they will directly
create millions of jobs - engineering and technology jobs to develop
the technologies, and manufacturing and construction jobs to put them
in place. And that will be an effective way to put back to work the
parts of America that have taken a hit from displacement of industry
to other countries.
It is also a way to wrest the world free of the stranglehold exercised
by oil-funded fundamentalists in Texas, Oklahoma, Iran and Saudi
Arabia, as well as dictators in Venezuela, Lybia and Kazakhstan. With
energy production no longer under control of oppressors, there are
stronger economical foundations for liberty in all of the world,
including in what is known as the free world. With vital resources not
under control of despots and fundamentalists, there is less change of
free world being sabotaged, as it has been sabotaged by Texas Oil's
puppet regime. A regime which not only has stolen an election but has
since then ran roughshod over the Constitution, ladened America with
trillions in debt, sabotaged worldwide efforts to end global warming,
and deceived the nation into one quagmire after another.
Clean energy is also a way to extend humanity's lease on the planet.
It is true progress: Affectuating greater utility with higher
technology and less waste. The prosperous lifestyle can be maintained,
while significantly reducing its negative effects, simply by changing
the sources of energy to ones that are non-polluting and by removing
the polluting elements from existing sources. The economic growth in
China, India and elsewhere can be accommodated - by applying
intelligence to use clean energy and to reduce carbon dioxide
emissions from current sources.
Clean energy is also a boon for character and thought habits that it
fosters. Instead of seeing world as one in which it is jobs against
the environment or civilization against nature, choose one or the
other, the thinking turns to jobs and environment, civilization and
nature, together: Accommodate both at once by creating jobs that
produce wealth in a more prudent and more responsible way. Instead of
people having to be fragmented between social responsibility and
wealth, nature and civilization, feeling and intellect, ideal and
reality, instead they become beings of both, and making the most of
the aspects of human beingness that are in false dualistic thinking
seen to be irrevocably at war. And this serves both the integration of
human character as much as it serves longevity and economic well-being
of humankind.
Clean energy is a solution that uses the best of civilization - its
intelligence, its foresight, its knowledge, its inventive pioneering
thinking - to minimize negative impact of economic activity on nature
and on the future generations, while providing through ingenuity and
constructive endeavor a lifestyle as good as or better than one that
they've had before. Man stops being an agent of destruction of nature
and becomes an agent of coexistence with nature, both in the short and
the long term. The people who for idealistic reasons are loathe to
participate in oil-run economy, have an economic pursuit in which they
can work and be true to ideals. And intelligence becomes source not
merely of wealth, but of lasting wealth that works with nature rather
than against nature - and that as such benefits both nature and
mankind.
The mentality fostered is one of considering all aspects of one's
activity - and building a civilization that not only minimizes
negative impact on nature, but also applies the best of intelligence
and the best of innovation and the best of productive activity to
provide more for people while minimizing impact on what one has not
created and cannot recreate. From modes of cognition that constantly
create hostile dualities which necessitate constant destruction, human
understanding reaches to see components working together and put into
place a lifestyle that makes the most of all the components and makes
the most as such of life. And the character created is a life-
supporting integrative character: A character that quantifies all
aspects of life and works to make the most of them - to make the most
as such of life that is a function of all of the aspects working
together. Intellect and feeling, civilization and nature, ideal and
reality, prosperity and social responsibility, work together and
create people of true integrity - integrity that is result of
integration of components required for life, and that as such is
supportive of life rather than life-destructive. Which character, by
building a synergy of components, attains to the most of human
beingness; and which character, due to its very nature as a combiner
and unifier, is also the character that seeks and actualizes lasting
existence and lasting peace.
All of which is a matter of all components of life working together to
create and perpetuate life, both in its natural and its man-made
aspects, and allowing them to operate with each other at basic and all
other levels, rather than being, as in all separationist dogmas,
inherently and pointlessly at war.
Clean energy is good all around. It is good economically, it is good
politically, it is good and it is good for the character and mentality
that it fosters, and it is good in its effects on the world. The
extent to which clean energy is embraced, will determine who lives and
for how long. In 200 AD, a Roman named Hero of Alexandria invented the
steam engine. The Romans refused to use it because they thought the
slave labor was cheap enough for their purposes. This oversight led
Roman Empire to decline and eventually to fall to Vandals. If the
Romans had realized what they had, they would have industrialized 1700
years before the Industrial Revolution and would have been completely
invulnerable, and most likely the world would be speaking Latin even
to this day.
In choosing whether to embrace clean energy, the world at this time
faces an analogous choice.
Ilya Shambat
June 2008
http://www.myspace.com/ibshambat
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| BlackWolf (Adrian)... |
| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:01 pm |
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The greatest challenge facing those who advocate clean energy is fear
on the part of the companies and people who currently control the
world's big energy sources. One of the facts of clean energy is its
freedom from connection to a finite source of energy. The wind will
always blow, where it wants to blow, and there is no way to control
it. The only way to control energy from wind is to control the
technology used to harness that wind and put it to use for human
purposes. Those who control energy production today fear the day when
energy is available to anyone with little or no need to purchase its
availability for use. They see their monopoly on the world's wealth
disappearing, and no way of recapturing it. People will have real
freedom available to them. They will be able to sustain their own
lives without paying for the privilege. The differences between the
"first world" who are the haves, will fade away as the peoples of the
"third" and "second worlds" find they can have the same privileges and
become "haves" too. The world's economy and "civilizations" will have
to change to allow for a place where people are much freer, where
people are more able to do as they wish as long as they harm no
others, where there is no more slavery to work in order to have safe
food, clothing and housing. Those who are in power see this and are
afraid, very afraid, of what the world can become. I believe you are
going to see them fighting clean, safe, renewable energy production
until the "little people" of the world revolt and begin producing the
energy themselves - whether legal or not. |
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| Keynes... |
| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:08 am |
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On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:01:52 -0700 (PDT), "BlackWolf (Adrian)"
<AdrianTremayne at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Quote: The greatest challenge facing those who advocate clean energy is fear
on the part of the companies and people who currently control the
world's big energy sources. One of the facts of clean energy is its
freedom from connection to a finite source of energy. The wind will
always blow, where it wants to blow, and there is no way to control
it. The only way to control energy from wind is to control the
technology used to harness that wind and put it to use for human
purposes. Those who control energy production today fear the day when
energy is available to anyone with little or no need to purchase its
availability for use. They see their monopoly on the world's wealth
disappearing, and no way of recapturing it. People will have real
freedom available to them. They will be able to sustain their own
lives without paying for the privilege. The differences between the
"first world" who are the haves, will fade away as the peoples of the
"third" and "second worlds" find they can have the same privileges and
become "haves" too. The world's economy and "civilizations" will have
to change to allow for a place where people are much freer, where
people are more able to do as they wish as long as they harm no
others, where there is no more slavery to work in order to have safe
food, clothing and housing. Those who are in power see this and are
afraid, very afraid, of what the world can become. I believe you are
going to see them fighting clean, safe, renewable energy production
until the "little people" of the world revolt and begin producing the
energy themselves - whether legal or not.
The problem with alternative energy is that it's not
been competitive in price. Solar or wind energy at
the point of use is very competitive, but it requires
a big up front capital expense, and few can afford it.
Working people are kept working by subsistence
wages (or less, with the difference paid by subsidy).
Living from hand to mouth, buying a few watts of
power is almost more than they can manage. |
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