EH-51 : Energy

"Energy reserves are created by human minds out of the raw materials of nature."

Bill Walker discusses energy reserves and world energy policy. Given a few more years, nuclear energy will be a viable option elsewhere. Pocket fusion (cold) is also a possibility - but if we move away from the carbon cycle as the main producer of energy, then we will have to rely on restoring the eco-system to establish the holding for the reduced flux of the carbon cycle.

In fact - the carbon cycle which controls the earth could potentially be separated completely from human enterprise energy. But right now - not only is fossil fuel energy part of the consumptive problem - wood alternatives are desperately necessary for reducing pressure on overcut forests - the density patterns and fire regime mismanagement have really help shut down the replacement mechanism for the past 200 years of termite like overconsumption.

It is the form of the material that we choose to use that is misplaced, we need to look at form and function better and leave the necessary ecological function alone. Amphibians are disappearing, but not quite as fast as herpetologists that try to understand them - no money in that. money - a friend noted that all work for money is prostitution - i have to disagree. But if you work for the love of what you do, the money should follow the success - today we have rerouted the money into a separate stream of affairs and the concerns of the support system planet earth are not shared by the enlightened. Pity. didn't Shakespeare pen the line - tis a pity she's a whore. amazing. (i googled - seems so, but couldn't track the reference in the time allotted) - but John Ford has a contemporary play by the same name)

BTW - bonner's piece on friedman is so-o true. As is Vance on war-mongering christians. Anyone not tuning in to LRC on a regular basis is missing the major wave in the changing tide. Grab the surf and become Austrian educated and economically literate.