The Ancient Chinese Sages used to state that if The Leader is corrupt, Nature and Society follows.
Withh no national agenda beyond George W. Bushes own self interests, we have witnessed 6 years of fatal mistakes in foreign affairs, national affairs and a lack of a direct theme for the USA.
Wars in the Middle East tend break out frequently, yet the decline of petroleum has increased the current American administration's interst in the region, due to substantial energy infrastructure built and financed by the USA.
In other words, the American Military is not defending democracy, but rather, defending infrastructure whose economically viable profictability spans decades, both overseas and Stateside of a Self Interests, the Energy Industry.
This is why the current administration has little interest in alternative, clean and nearly viable energy sources such as wind, hydo and solar power, all of which are capable of making leaps and bounds into economic viability if investment is made in them
In a word, President Bush utters a "line" about peace and self defence, however, it is more about his and the circle of friend's of his, peace and personal defence of mutally held petrochemical assetts.
That is not the President's job, he is a Civil Servant whom was voted into office to effect positve, growing themes and policies for the USA. To Lead All.
With what is a definite pattern of Global Climate change, whatever side of blame you take, human or nature, the nation is going to have to address,now, alternative and varied resources for power.
I suspect we will be successful at this. Various times in history, Western European cultures have been threatened by dwindling power resources.
16th Century England faced it when there were no more forest left to supply firewood, turned to peat, then coal reserves to supply power. Coal mines, which flooded with water, were made economically viable by the reworking of
the steam engine, an ancient toy the Greeks had invented. They had a metal globe, with two spigots on the equatorial hemisphere that would spit steam and cause the globe to spin when stem was introduced via a fire heated water
boiler.
The Greeks just did not know what to do with it.
The English, or rather, Scottish, did.
Later, oil replaced Coal steam driven engines and the great race to profit from this resource ran nearly a century, and continues to this very day.
We have economically viable solar panels that power up toys and landscaping lighting, batteries that are increasingly able to store energy, digital chips that can direct the processes of new energy resources to the maximum.
Then there are still the mysteries of hydrogen, and I believe, ultimately, the possibility of auto and transport industries to modify the version of the "motor carriage" into maybe something more efficient, less fast, lighter in weight, etc.
Magnetism isn't my field, but there is another one. There are no lacks of ideas, just a lack in the USA to invest and moved forward, tacking it's natural population's prowess to succeed into the next dimension of travel, living concepts and Gaia (Earth Science).
It takes Leadership to invest and create interest in new technology. Already, one popular Leader, Al Gore has taken the initiative. Other business leaders have followed.
In 1996 I participated in Environmental Creativity and Alternative marketing geared to preserving and improving the Earth under Ray Anderson, CEO of the company I then worked for. We experimented, turning a/c's off and reusing
bathroom towels in out hotel. When 1,400 people do this simultaneously, you get results. I often felt it was wacky, but I did learn the lesson that individual creativity and "nickel and dime" savings to achieve results often lead to new discoveries, also communicating them leads to the power of the 6th degree of separation- eventually, anyone can reach anybody via
networking.
It was basic business/sales application taken into a new dimension.
I use all LED lighting in this house now, with compact fluorescents to "warm up" various spaces behind couches and things. Both are cheap to run and last virtually forever, the LED light bulbs generating almost no heat.
I wrapped an insulation blanket around my water heater, and blanketed the top also, noticing heat seepage from that source, and placed the unit on a digital timer.
I upped the interior a/c to 78 degrees and am not using the ceiling fans, they bring hot air down into living space, and are therefore wasting energy.
Floor fans do work to push cold ar around where the cold air has sank.
I dissed the car, now sitting in my backyard driveway, my low mileage/no milage 2005 Toyota Tacoma, my pride and joy, which is a toy, not a mode of transport. I cycle. I feel better physically, mentally and spend a whole lot less, beyond the gas savings, but also in the "wander around from store to store" arena, only buying what I need.
Let me tell you, my garbage is a lot more "wet and smelly" than the typical American garbage which is full of packaging.
Yes, I also do not buy inefficient junk from China, using the local Goodwill to source out genuine American quality cooking items like Faberware and other quality brands. They are as clean and sparkling as the boxed, store bought kind, and a lot cheaper.
And non of this takes any more time that the usual shopping, probably even less time. People in this region of Florida like to throw things out. A few even laugh at me, The Teacher who uses the bicycle.
I am a History Teacher, therefore a community leader. I have to live it to talk about it. And boy do I ever.
My retort is to account for how many miles a week I cycle (50+) and what good physical shape I am in. They then rethink their comments.
I planted, now numbered 40 trees on my property to suck the carbon I produce annually, based on the electricity consumption from the house. I need only to have planted 28, and exceeded my capacity for the two years I lived here. Annually, I need to plant 14 trees to balance off my carbon production.
I figure, why be one of those people that talk about doing things
differently and don't. Take the dip, experiment (there will be failures you learn from) and then talk about what you really are doing. I am not a nut, I am a guy that made it work instead of talking about it.
And, to add to the get-go, it is fun!
If a plain old Teacher could do all this, slowly over the course of a year, how much more effective would it be if a Nationally Elected Leader would take the initiative to create viable themes for America?
Not much.
Leading me to ask the retorical question, "What exactly is our President doing in Office?". You answer the question for yourself.
It's always the groups that proclaim religion ("Armageddon") or technology to be fringe (conservative non creative ideology) that prove to be the big losers.
I see the face of the loser today on MSNBC.
His name is George W. Bush, poster child of the anachronism of Leadership..
All is Well,
manekineo
2006-07-24 14:53:26
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