| The day after I completed my novel, Roses as
Dawn, before I had a chance to submit the completed files to
the printer, the computer crashed, and in spite of backup
copies, two months of work was lost. It seemed as if a teacher
had looked at the work said, that's nice dear, but you can do
better, and then ripped the work up. The idea came that
something was missing, but what? Then as someone had spoken
the words, the Ice Age came to mind. I was shocked. Weren't we
threatened by global warming? We were all told to conserve
energy in order to save the planet from becoming too hot. Dire
prediction were made if we didn't follow through with curbing
greenhouse gases. We were told by the world's scientists to
shut down our industries, drive less, heat our homes less, and
so on, all to protect the climate of our planet.
I made some inquiries. It turned out that a huge worldwide opposition
exists in the scientific community to the entire global
warming dogma in the range of 17,000 to 20,000 scientists,
including over 100 actual climate specialists and close to 40
Nobel Price winners (See: Global
Warming). Another thing
seemed equally as surprising, namely that this huge opposition
is rarely ever mentioned. Instead the impression is conveyed
that manmade global warming is unassailable fact, supported by
a universal consensus in the scientific community. The
opposite appears to be true, suggesting that the dogma is a
carefully crafted lie with imperial Malthusian motives, if not
outright genocidal objectives, standing behind the lie. The
evidence is found in the timing. The dogma of manmade global
warming was conjured up in the mid-1970s, which happens to be
the same timeframe in which several other genocidal dogmas
were also put on the table of mankind against scientific
opposition, such as the dogma that "man is cancer on the
earth" resulting in the DDT ban; and the NSSM-200 policy
that was promptly followed with the emergence of AIDS; and the
start of the ozone hole hoax that eventually resulted in the
banning of the CFC refrigerant.
The only scientific consensus that seems to exist on the
global climate issue seems to be centered on the cyclical
return of the Ice Age. Anybody seems to agree that the earth
has gone though many Ice Age cycles during the last two
million years, interspersed with interglacial warm periods,
like the present one, which is coming to an end. (See: The
Coming Ice Age) A second consensus
appears to exist in which the scientists generally agree that
no one can predict with any degree of certainty when the
coming transition to the next glaciation cycle will take
place. Suggestions have been made that might happen in 10,000
years, or 1000 years, or 100 years, or that the transition
might have already begun. However, hardly anyone is concerned
anymore as to what the potential return of the Ice Age in the
near future means in terms of present policies to prepare
ourselves for the impending possibility of radically colder
global climates, especially consider the impact of global
cooling on the world food supply. A strong concern of this
type had existed in the mid 1970s. This concern seems to have
evaporated in the shadow of the global warming dogma as if
mankind had been gently put to sleep.
So
where does this leave us?
The Ice Age is coming.
Our food
supply might be in danger.
What can we do?
There are certain things we
can't do. We can't prevent the next Ice Age cycle. We simply don't have the means to
negate the cosmic rays that trigger cloud formation on earth.
Nor do we have the means to effect the cycles of the Sun,
which moderate the cosmic radiation to which the earth is
exposed. The bottom line is, we simply don't have
the means to hold back the return of the Ice Age.
However, we do
have a lot of control over ourselves in how we respond in
preparing our world for the coming climate change. The Ice
Age is coming. We can't hold it back. That much is certain. It could begin next
year, or in twenty years, on in a hundred years, or in a thousand
years; and the
transition could be as quick as a single year, or it might take
fifty years. But it's coming. Many researchers suggest that
the transition is likely "near," meaning that it
might happen within the next 100-150 years or sooner. So, how
should we respond to that? How
must we change our world in order that our food supply would be
assured regardless of when the
catastrophic changes in climate might begin?
The one thing that we can
reasonably do, would be to
put as much as possible of our current agriculture into
controlled indoor facilities. This would involve a project on a
truly gigantic scale that would dwarf anything that has ever been
attempted, that would goes beyond even the scope of science fiction
dreams. It would be hard to accomplish, to be sure, but it
could be done. In fact it must be done if we value human
existence. If we were to fail, most of humanity would not survive.
Considering the current wars that are fought over oil and
imperial power, which might seem puny in the face of the
potentially ensuing food wars, it is quite possible that no
one would likely survive long enough to even get into the next Ice
Age.
All
considered, we face an enormous challenge, technologically,
economically, politically, and socially.
Can we meet
the technological challenge? It seems the the answer is, YES! We
do have the
resources available to carry out such a massive project. We
have the energy resources available on our planet, and enough
on the moon for an interim step that could last us 100,000 years.
Of course with large scale nuclear power, we would also have the necessary
building materials available. This means that the technological
challenge can be met. Nuclear fusion power is
achievable. We have come a long way already during the few
years in which research had been pursued. A great deal of
progress has been made in spite of the constant
sabotaging by budget restraints and other undercutting. With a proper crash program
in education, funding, and global cooperation, the development
of nuclear fusion power is virtually assured. It will all
happen. If fact it would happen rapidly if society was
recognize itself being in a war-situation right now, fighting to
save its existence. If this 'war' to save our existence was implemented,
it would be the most crucial and the most
massive war that mankind would ever be fighting. This would
also be a 'war' in which not a single person would die of the
billions of people that
would otherwise die if mankind did nothing to save its
existence, or did too little to win the fight.
And
as for the building materials that we would need, we would have
more than enough of them, more than we could possibly want.
One of the
finest building materials on the planet is basalt. It is a stone
that melts like glass at 1400 degrees; it's so finely grained that
can be extruded into micro-fibers; it's almost as hard as
diamonds; stronger than steel by weight; non-corrosive;
non-abrasive; more insulating than asbestos; and is so widely
available that it could be cast in great quantities to form
industrially produced building modules, houses, or structures of
any kind. There exist app. 700,000 cubic kilometers of it in
above-surface deposits, enough to cover the entire land-surface of
the planet several feet deep.
So, why do we fight wars over shortages
of raw
materials? Sure, we have shortages already in many areas, but
only because we starve ourselves
voluntarily on a sea of abundance. Fossil fuel power is
archaic. It should have been replaced with nuclear power and
hydrogen fuels ages ago. But this didn't happen, because the
endless wars of empire versus civilization have repeatedly disabled
this vitally necessary development.
The same holds true about metals. Right now we dig metallic
ore out of the ground that rarely gives us more than a five-percent yield. We
celebrate when the yield goes as high as ten-percent. And even
then we have to do a lot of digging to find the ore in the
first place. How much more would we celebrate if we could find
ore that gives us a full hundred-percent yield in usable products
and could be found consistently right around the world? Well, that's what
we've actually got available! We've got a layer of this ore extending right
around the Earth, several thousand kilometers thick. The entire mantle of the Earth is a
homogenous high-grade ore of orthosilicates of magnesium,
nickel, iron, and possibly some other metals as well. With the
availability of infinite energy and high fusion temperatures
in nuclear reactors,
these vast material resources can be readily developed. This means that it
is really up to us as human beings to get the ball rolling. Our future existence
actually depends on us creating the capacity for this kind of development. This
means that if we were to care about the future of our children and
mankind, this work would be done and would be on the
'front-burner' right now.
So, what would we have on hand
then when this
initial development of the needed material and energy
resources was completed? We would have infinitely available energy resources.
And we would have infinitely
available high grade building materials of the most useful
types, from magnesium, to stone, to glass. We would also have high temperature
plasma technology available to disassemble the most ordinary rocks of the earth into
whatever other minerals we need. There is simply nothing lacking on this planet
that we would need to build the structures with which we could
save our
existence. This means that it is physically possible without
the slightest miracle to shift
most of the food production of the world into efficient,
self-contained indoor facilities that would likely be build fifty
stories high and thousands of acres wide in base area. With a bit
of extra effort we could easily get this job done before the next
hundred-thousand-year Ice Age begins.
Of course, nothing
will ever get
done if we don't start
Right now, none of the above will be possible,
even to start the project, if we don't stop the imperial'
genocidal plans, the globalized looting for profit, the
violence for power, and the wars that are intentionally staged
the destroy nations and disable the normal development of
mankind, including the modern environmental wars centered on poison viruses,
uranium bombs, and nuclear bombs. The combined forces of the whole of
mankind are required to make its survival in an Ice Age possible.
Ten billion people would likely be needed to develop the
technologies, build the infrastructures, provide the needed
educational and cultural platforms, efficient transportation,
health care, and widely available relaxation. Ten
billion people are needed, because there is a lot
of work to be done in what will have to become the largest
education, research, development, and construction project in
all of human history. We will need far-reaching education
system, vast research infrastructures, and all of that just to develop the fusion
technologies that are presently within reach.
So far, we have only tinkered around a bit, with
just a few serious efforts to our credit, and even those
projects always had their funding pulled out from under them.
Thus, in order to survive, the whole notion of private
for-profit financier funding will have to be abandoned and be
replaced with national financial credits. Likewise globalized threats
and looting will have to be replaced with global cooperation.
Nothing less would be sufficient to get the
work done that needs to be done.
I am confident that all of
this will be done, because people want to survive, and want to see their children and grandchildren survive. People
have accomplished far more heroic acts fighting in the world
wars in the past, than this little bit of heroism that would
be required for the few bold initiatives to succeed that must
succeed for us to rebuild our world into an Ice Age
Renaissance. The project would create a kid of paradise that
would outshine the petty little things the imperials of the world
presently dream of, and would bring them into the project. I am certain, the imperials too, have no
interest in descending into the kind of hell that a new Ice
Age would bring if the needed Ice Age Renaissance project
would fail.
Of course, once nuclear fusion
becomes established as a technology, we need to build the
electric energy industry up, which is presently so vastly underdeveloped
that it practically doesn't exist in comparison with the real
need. The same must also be said about the current transportation infrastructures,
mining
infrastructures, materials processing infrastructures, and the necessary manufacturing industries, and health
care institutions, and research institutions for
indoor farming. In all of these areas we are 'miles' away from
where we should be, as if we had stood still for a century, which
in a way he have by having set a century aside for war.
Fortunately we appear to have
enough time left to make up for missed efforts in the past. With a
serious hundred-years global
crash-program, starting immediately, it appears that it is possible for
the currently large and still growing world population to
survive the coming transition into a new Ice Age,
and all the way through the coming 100,000 year Ice Age
itself. Also let's
pray that the recurring Ice Age will no come upon us until we are ready,
because it will likely take us a hundred years to get this
point.
With all this considered, there
is only one luxury that we cannot afford to wallow in, which
is indifference and apathy. We simply cannot afford to delay the start of
this effort, maybe not even one single day.
Nor would this project ever
really end. Knowing us as human
beings, we wouldn't actually stop once the project is completed.
We wouldn't be satisfied with just finding a way to survive in
a potential Ice Age environment.
The ensuing dynamism that would grip us along the way would uplift our civilization in all
respects, beyond anything we can even dream about now. We
would just create an Ice Age Renaissance, but one with the kind of
sensitivity to life and culture as we have never seen before.
We would for instance create vast indoor zoos and botanical
reserves to perpetuate otherwise endangered species.
It is also not unreasonable to assume that
at some point in the far future, perhaps even before the end of the
coming Ice Age
cycle, mankind will yet learn to control the earth's climate and make
our planet Ice-Age free for all times to come.
This ice-free world might be achieved no matter what the long-term cycles of
the Sun have in store for us, which is presently far beyond
our reach. When this point will be reached in the far future the
zoological and botanical reserves that would likely be created
before the coming Ice Age begins, would then be utilized to
repopulate the newly restored habitats.
Am I
dreaming too tall a dream? Is such an Ice Age Renaissance
truly a vain utopian hope?
Maybe so. To be realistic in
terms of what is happening on the planet today none of the
above appears to be within reach. The war of empire versus
civilization that has been ravishing mankind for more than
four millennia is still intensifying rather than diminishing,
without as much as even a hint of an end in sight. The talk is
now about genocide in the order of billions of lives to be eradicated
for imperial objectives. As Bertrand Russell had pointed out,
wars, even big wars, are disappointing to empire in that they don't kill
enough people. He suggested that biological warfare, a new
black plaque in every century, would be more efficient. Some
imperial circles want the planet depopulated down to two
billion people, or to even below the one-billion mark. And we
do have the atomic bombs to do it, and bio-weapons. It is
reported that the USA has all by
itself well over 200 biological labs engaged in developing new
biological warfare agents, like highly infectious diseases for
which no cure exists or is possible. On the financial front
the empire-for-profit has been looting the world and wrecking
the economies of almost all the nation on the planet, and has reviled
the very notion of technological progress, while it destroyed
viable industries with the pen and entire countries more
powerfully than Hitler ever dared to dream of at the very height of
his war. Education is being also being wrecked. It is being
wrecked with empiricism, and with fascism tearing the cultural
fabric with brutality, the politics with insanity, the sciences with lies,
the entertainment with
violence, the morality with depravity. How is one to build a
renaissance on that kind of foundation? Right now, food has
been added as a weapon for genocide. Food is being turned into
a motor fuel and being burned in cars as a weapon to inflict
genocide by starvation, Everything possible is being done to
destroy civilization and kill mankind in an ever-widening
scene of horror, as if the Ice Age Challenge wasn't series
enough. We are in an Ice Age already in this sense, a mental
Ice Age in which every normal aspect of humanity appears to be
frozen solid.
Considering that this train will
likely continue on its present course since the empire
controls all the money in the world and with it owns all the
politicians, governments and institutions, the present rush to
hell effectively disables any chance for creating an Ice Age
Renaissance. In this case when, when the Ice Age resumes the
seven to ten billion of the human world population (provided that no nuclear war has occurred)
will likely collapse back to the 1-10 million mark, according
to the world population that had come out of the last 100,000 year long Ice Age.
This minuscule population is evidently all that the earth by itself can carry in an Ice Age world.
In this
case, assuming that anyone services that kind of collapse, after a hundred millennia
when the Ice Age ends a new civilization might arise
and fulfill the promise that we have before us today, but
which we turn
our back against. So, who is the big looser on the present
course? It won't be the universe.
In that respect the universe is patient.
After twenty ice ages in mankind's past, what is one more? It
is but
a moment? The universe won't be cheated by mankind's present
insanity, and its indifference, apathy, and stubbornness. However, it
will make a great deal of difference to us as to how we
respond to the challenge before us at the present time.
Of course, we could also have a nuclear war happening, which
almost nobody is making any serious effort to prevent. Such a
war, in the worst case, might wipe out mankind completely. And
even then, the universe wouldn't be cheated by us out of its
ultimate success in the development of life on this planet.
Out of the 2.5 billion years of the development of life on
this planet the journey of mankind from start to the present
was accomplished in but a flicker (the equivalent of a few
seconds out of a day). Considering that the
earth will likely remain inhabitable for quite a few billion
years yet to come, the entire process of the development
of mankind could be repeated hundreds of times, with time to
spare. So, in the
universal context it makes very little difference as to what we do
today or not do. It only makes a huge difference to us. Our
future could be the hell indeed, which we are presently
determined to create. The earth could also become a place for
us with a
culture so brilliant that it outshines the heavens. Which it
shall be is really up to us. No one outside this planet
is forcing our hand.
In this context the Principle of
Universal Love suddenly comes to light as a vital factor,
doesn't it?
See: The
Electric Climate
See: The
Coming Ice Age
See: No
Manmade Global Warming
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