Glimpse a crude animation of an important environmental project we've filed patents on: http://TrueDemocracy.ca/awe.html
(The refusal of government funding to help facilitate this $trillion market for Canadian industry was shocking. And the continuing organized intrigue designed to sabotage the project is simply criminal.)
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Politics and the Environment
(brief overview)
The significant decline of oil production in most of the world basins these past decades, combined with the glaring absence of new discoveries, bodes ominous for humanity. Consumption downsizing has already begun worldwide. And there's evidence that the US led economic crash was engineered, in order to prevent world demand for oil from exceeding supply. And though natural gas production is on the rise -- from the environmentally risky process of “fracking” to release the last dregs of natural gas trapped in North America rock formations – which will ease the pain of oil decline for the next few decades, world economic downsizing will continue regardless, and is expected to increase significantly into the future.
Food and energy supplies are often intricately linked. And the decline of the conventional oil era means global food shortages too, as hydrocarbon inputs decline and the grain crops of industrialized nations are increasingly used for bio fuels. A ground breaking article by Dale Allen Pfeiffer in 2003 first sounded the pending energy crisis alarm (from Mike Rupert's website "From The Wilderness Publications" http://copVcia.com ) and is a must read to gain better understanding: http://TrueDemocracy.ca/eating-fossil-fuels.htm
Of course the issue is only further exacerbated by politics. Creation itself is made of pure energy in fact, so obviously there is no shortage. The deficiency is simply human knowledge, and how to extract the unlimited clean energy of the quark. But with the current power structure and depletion of conventional oil stocks, massive consumption downsizing will inevitably result. And whether the world slides into the avoidable tragedy of food scarcity or not, is largely a political issue for now, that industrial nations will have to wrestle with. For if developed nations became vegetarian it would increase the human food supply by many fold while fossil fuels last, and reduce energy consumption accordingly.
It takes seven pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat in developed nations. Thus if the grain were fed directly to people it could feed seven times the population. As well, it takes 5 acres of roughage to raise one cow, which could otherwise grow 100,000lbs of potatoes in the West for human food, instead of just enough hay for a 1000 lb cow.
And talk about real life politics? With Health Canada promoting legumes as an alternative meat source they're actually promoting the meat industry, because legumes are clearly unfit as human food. The trypsin inhibitor they contain must be cooked out or it's toxic. And still; beans aren't digested well, causing stomach discomfort and gas. No wonder vegetarianism isn't popular. But flax and hemp seeds are not only temptingly succulent, and by far nutritionally superior (more omega 3 fatty acids than fish, with no mercury or heavy metal pollution) they're also a perfect protein for people, and thus provide an important solution for dietary well-being planet wide. You simply must try flax soups, stews and gravies to understand the wholesome goodness.
So! There are ways to postpone the crisis that humanity faces until solutions can be found, that don't involve gangsterism, war or the lawless seizing of other nation's resources. In fact, the UN have formulated 3 future population projections, and since the 80's we've been on track for the 2nd most favourable. Accordingly, humanity will peak at just over 9billion people by about 2050, and then begin to decline naturally -- as Planned Parenthood and social development programs progress. And that's without the century of warfare that Bush predicted, or the man-made famine that now looms.
Surely, if knowledge is the sole missing element, a principled and enlightened people have the best proven course of action. And this decision must be made by the collective conscience of humanity, and not solely by the conventional powers. For it's the turning point of human existence.