Has anyone else considered the unspoken but undeniable truth that cleantech will be the first technological revolution in history driven by constraints rather than opportunities? (Read full article here.)
John P.,
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My Response:
Thank you for the thought-provoking question. My answer is: Yes, it crossed my mind. But I contemplated it in another way. The agrarian model favored by Jefferson flashed through my recollection and I chuckled a bit. He was too old-fashioned for the people of the Industrial Revolution. There is something akin to irony flowing from the green movement. It seems we must endure high prices and long hours to geo-clean what has required high prices and long hours to create. Feels a lot like digging a hole with a shovel and then being told to fill it in again. Yep, it’s just plain stupid. Family farms and Tesla’s electricity machines would have prevented the existing predicament – but, as there’s no money or monopoly on such things, they don’t come to pass. I’m partial to reopening the Homestead Act for the purpose of “green living.” At the same time, I’m afraid that over 90% of this generation would fail to “prove” 160 acres and many would die of exposure or starvation.
Because of convenient consumption,we are an extremely vulnerable people. The bulk retailers (like Costco, Walmart, etc.) that thrive on thin margins, high volumes and variety are collapsing under reduced volumes and specific staple choices. We’re hardly the rugged individuals that persevered through the previous depression. Our commercialized food sickens and weakens us.
It’s all very sad, but I suspect that a portion of the population will, due to conspicuous corruption, summarily reject all corporate and government programs. Call it a vote of no confidence. This small group of fundamentalists, reformers, etc., will return to a life of virtue and trust in the land and hand of Providence. Every other institution will be reduced by civil war, self-cannibalization and raiding robbery unseen since Atilla the Hun (p.s. the future raiding robbers of the U.S. currently reside south of the border).
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Where do those people who turn to virtuous lives go to get away from those who would be barbarians?
Iver: Think Rome. First came global domination. Then came opulence. Then came internal conflicts and external power concessions and collapses. Then came the barbarians to glut themselves on the spoils. Who dodged the barbarians? The earthly poor and worldly wise. Monks, nomads, nobodies (like John Galt). It’s the easy but non-glamorous life. First step: get free land (like the Homestead Act). It must be gifted to the poor because the prices today are too high for an agrarian community. This project is a noble cause, surely someone will donate a section or two of tundra or desert. Don’t you think?
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