As we continue to throw our poor and our grannies under the bus, America is still coddling and protecting its corporations as if they were essential to our future, even though the reverse is true.
We have known for over 50 years that fossil fuels must be phased out to ensure the future of our species.
Our will is lacking, because there is a perception that the sacrifice will be too gerat, that we will have to return to pre-industrial lifestyles in order to reduce our carbon footprints and restore balance to our natural world.
This is (denier think-tank concocted) utter crap. All we have to do is muster the will to insist that our government (and its cozy corporate partners) move quickly, now, to support full-scale development of already known and readily available clean energy technologies.
The time is now. Even climate change deniers agree that viable alternatives exist. But because America and other capitalists economies continue to insist on corporate socialism we just can’t seem to make it happen.
Not only are corporations not “people” as our ridiculous courts have ruled, but (in Bucky’s words): “Corporations are socioeconomic ploys — legally enacted game-playing — agreed upon only between overwhelmingly powerful individuals and then imposed upon human society and its unwitting members.”
Today, not only are the sun, wind and waves standing idle and ready to help, but Nobel Prize winning scientists have also proven that every nanoparticle of our entire universe contains energy waiting to be harvested. In the form of geothermal, electromagnetic or plain old “zero point” energy, the technology now exists to harvest and use this energy. Check out the recent Ted Talk from Justin Hall on this. As Hall puts it, “The energy of future is free energy. The grid of the future is no grid.”
Bucky wrote in 1982: “A vast overabundance of Earthian cosmic energy income (electromagnetic, geothermal, wind, sun, wave, water) is now technically impoundable and distributable to humanity by presently proven technology. We are not allowed to enjoy this primarily because tax-hungry government and money-drunk big business can’t figure a way of putting meters between those cosmic energy sources and the Earthian passengers, so nothing is done about it.”
So when climate deniers demand to know why you still drive a car if you believe that fossil fuels are ruining the Earth, ask “Why are you demanding we retreat as a species to solve problems that are clearly solvable by moving forward – to clean, renewable energy sources?”
If we simply do this, we can begin to live as nature intended. Just as the grass pays nothing for sun and rain, Humans too should expect to live in a free energy world. No more absurdity of driving a car to get to work in order to earn enough money to drive a car to get to work!
Doing this would, as Bucky said, “elevate all of humanity to realization of an inherently sustainable higher standard of living.”
And if we don’t? Again in Bucky’s words: “Whether or not it will be Utopia or Oblivion is our choice. It will be a touch and go relay race up to the final moment. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance.”
Let’s call upon all the fine people of United Spaceship Planet Earth, and especially all Americans who have fallen for corporate socialism: It’s crunch time. Let’s do this.
All we have to do is loosen the noose around our necks and step out of it. Support carbon taxes, green incentives, and global partnerships with countries that are way ahead of us. All of the above.
Yes, there will be some economic costs to this, and some sacrifices. But economies come and go. The environment is forever.
By speaking up, writing often and continuing to demand that our government turn its full attention to making this absolutely critical transformation happen, we can accomplish the true and nature-intended evolution of our amazing species of “United Space Planet People.”
The alternative is unthinkable.
Simply put, and well said.
BUCKYIDEAS 