It’s no secret America’s dependency on cheap fossil fuel resources, an abundance of other non-renewables, and an enormous agricultural hearth. The economic activities associated with these have made America undisputably the major economic player in the world… in a historical context they’ve spurred on trade surpluses and major industry… nowadays I would argue you see it’s spinoffs with a nation that has the majority of the world’s purchasing power.
What do you think America should do to conserve this? Western agricultural lands will (if they haven’t already) start drying up… underground aquifers are running low, cheap irrigation water is stretching thin. Non-renewable fossil fuels are far past their peack domestically, with world peak supply coming soon…. they will inevitably grow too expensive to have cheap transportation to market, thereby increasing prices for common consumer goods. American industries are moving to other nations to exploit cheap labour to reduce marginal costs… this is obviously hurting secondary industries at home.
This train wreck is coming in one form or another so long as America’s economy continues it’s reliance on this. What would you propose the American peopel do about the following:
1) Industrial dismantling in the US
2) Water shortages threatening agricultural lands
3) Dependence on non-native monoculture crops that ruin ecologies of certain areas.
4) Dependence on non-renewable fossil fuels (the majority coming from foreign supplies).
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Do You Think It’s Difficult Not To See The Train Wreck?
Posted on October 24, 2010.
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I saw this train wreck coming in the mid 80’s. Now it is too late to prevent the wreck.
The sky is falling! We have more oil in reserve within our borders to last 200 years and by then you will have your alternative fuel and sources. I take it you walk or ride a bicycle everywhere or bum a ride from Mommy and Daddy!
As far as the rest of your rant, tell the EPA or PETA organizations your problem and maybe they won’t worry about a little fish or bird existing! Birds can migrate and the fish will survive also. They have for millions of years!
I would like to see some serious investment in photovoltaic and battery technologies, along with the tech necessary to recycle them here in North America. Then I would like to see all the rooftops from California to Florida sprout solar arrays and gardens growing oil crops like soy, corn, canola, hemp, whatever. People who wanted to grow vegetables would be encouraged to do so, but the point would be to harvest biofuels without using up farmland currently used to feed people. Water would be provided in part by catchment systems that store rainwater in underground cisterns. Any surplus electricity generated could be easily fed into the grid. Charging stations could be installed in parking lots, making electric vehicles easier to recharge during work or shopping hours. The oil crops would generate biomass that would either yield methane which works like natural gas for cooking or motor vehicle fuel, or which could be fed to livestock or used in incinerators to recover stored solar energy. They would generate seed from which useful oils could be pressed to fire the diesel engines of trucks and trains that are the lifeblood of America’s distribution of goods. Detroit could ramp up production of high-efficiency diesel and electric cars and trucks to run on our new domestic fuels, and a whole new set of industries would arise to build the new infrastructure that would serve this shift to a dispersed locally based water/electric/agricultural model.
To sum up:
1) New industry aimed at shifting towards the harvest and storage of solar energy, directly by pv cells and indirectly through second use agriculture atop existing commercial structures (heating and ac bills would fall in the process)
2) Catchment systems and cisterns would harvest rainwater and be a source of high level employment at the start, tapering to maintenance/repair levels over time.
3) Agriculture would be encouraged atop shopping malls, factories, car dealerships, and office parks leading to an abundance of vegetable oils and biomass for feed/food/energy purposes, while removing vast amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere and creating the oxygen that humans like to breathe.
4) Solar cells distributed over a wide enough area to supplement the grid that is currently fed only by a few isolated power stations, and high-efficiency diesel and electric vehicles would reduce dependence on dirty fossil fuels. A few nuclear power plants would help as well, though some would (perhaps correctly) squawk.
What do you think?