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AMERICA 2.0
ABSTRACT The “bad news” is that “peak oil” marks the beginning of the end of capitalism and
market politics because many decades of declining “net energy” [1] will result in many decades of declining economic activity. And since
capitalism can’t run backwards, a new method of distributing goods and
services must be found. The
“good news” is that our “market system” is fantastically inefficient!
Americans could be wasting something like two billion tonnes of oil
equivalent per year!!
In order to avoid anarchy, rebellion, civil war and global
nuclear conflict, Americans must force a fundamental change in our political environment.
We can keep the same political structures and people, but must totally
eliminate special interests from our political environment. A careful
review of the progressive assault on laissez faire constitutionalism and
neoclassical economics, from the 1880s through the 1930s, explains how this can
be done legally and without violence. These early progressives showed how we
can save our country. All that is lacking now is the political will. I call
this adjustment of our political environment “America 2.0.”
The reason that America 2.0 is so important and should be implemented first is because it’s “meta politics” (politics about politics). The modification that I am proposing would fundamentally alter the nature of politics in America.
To achieve America 2.0, we must first separate and
isolate our political system from our economic system so that
government can begin to actually address and solve societal problems rather
than merely catering to corporate interests. The second step is to retire most working
American citizens with an annuity sufficient for health and happiness, as government
begins to eliminate the current enormous waste of vital resources by delivering
goods and services directly . This would allow most adults to stay at home
with their families but still receive the goods and services they need to enjoy
life.
After
America 2.0 has been implemented, all the choices made by elected
officials will be, by best calculations, “good” for the public.
Officials will decide among a selection of public “goods.” Corporations will become the public servants that they were before 1860. AMERICA 2.0
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"Industry
deregulation of electric utilities in the U.S. has cut utility
investment in energy saving programmes by 45 percent." [Reuters,
10/02/98] METHANE MADNESS: A NATURAL GAS PRIMER Analysis of the IEO2001 Non-OPEC Supply Projections , by Roger D. Blanchard, Northern Kentucky University, 4/9/2001 Emergy Accounting, mailto:htoeco@aol.com "Oceanic Hydrates: more questions than answers" by Jean Laherrere e-mail: jean.laherrere@wanadoo.fr for Energy Exploration and Exploitation date May 3, 2000THE PEAK OF WORLD OIL PRODUCTION AND THE ROAD TO THE OLDUVAI GORGE, by Richard C. Duncan, Ph.D.,ENERGETIC LIMITS TO GROWTH, THE BEST-KEPT SECRET IN WASHINGTON ,ENERGY AND RESOURCE QUALITY, by Charles A.S. Hall, et al. (1992)Is USGS 2000 assessment reliable ? ,
by Jean Laherrere; e-mail: jean.laherrere@wanadoo.fr; May 2, 2000;
published on the cyberconference of the WEC on May 19, 2000 NOT ALL FIRST WORLD ECONOMIES DEPEND ON POPULATION GROWTH: IMMIGRATION SINCE THE OIL SHOCK IN FRANCE AND EUROPE, By Sheila Newman; mailto:smnaesp@alphalink.com.au Oceanic Hydrates: an elusive resource, by e-mail: jean.laherrere@wanadoo.fr THE HUBBERT CURVE : ITS STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES; j.h.laherrere@infonie.fr An Analysis of U.S. and World Oil Production Patterns Using Hubbert-Style Curves, Albert.Bartlett@Colorado.EDU "Quels sont les problèmes quand on parle de réserves? ", Jean Laherrère e-mail: jean.laherrere@wanadoo.fr site: http://www.oilcrisis.com/laherrere
; Conférence AFTP du 31 Mars 1999 "Estimation des réserves et réduction
de l'incertitude"; Pétrole et Techniques n°423 Nov./Dec. 1999 p37-47NEVER PUBLISHED ANYWHERE BEFORE! Oil Production Curves for all 42 Countries, by Richard Duncan. THE IMMINENT PEAK OF WORLD OIL PRODUCTION, THE WORLD PETROLEUM LIFE-CYCLE: The Post-Petroleum Paradigm -- and Population ,The Olduvai Theory: The End of Cheap Oil, THE COMING OIL CRISIS ,Energy and Human Evolution ,Complexity, Problem Solving, and Sustainable Societies ,Evolution of "development lag" and "development ratio" ,jean.laherrere@wanadoo.fr , site: http://www.hubbertpeak.com/laherrere .Distribution and evolution of "recovery factor" ,jean.laherrere@wanadoo.fr , site: http://www.hubbertpeak.com/laherrere The Impact of Declining Major North Sea Oil Fields Upon Future North Sea Production, THE EVOLUTION OF THE WORLD'S HYDROCARBON RESERVES ,jean.laherrere@wanadoo.fr , lecture given in French on June 17, 1998 in Paris to SPE FranceAssessing Oil and Gas Future Production, and the end of Cheap Oil? ,jean.laherrere@wanadoo.fr , site: http://www.oilcrisis.com/laherrere , for Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists in Calgary April 6, 1999Reserve Growth: What goes up must come down: when will it peak? jean.laherrere@wanadoo.fr site: http://www.oilcrisis.com/laherrere Titanic Sinks ,GeoDestinies ,Renewable Energy: eMergy Evaluation ,Scientists sense urgency to find future energy sources, Here We Go Again: The Oil Surplus Won't Last as Long as we Might Wish, Joy Ride to Global Collapse, Life-Expectancy of Industrial Civilization, WHEN WILL THE JOY RIDE END? ENERGY AND THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABILITY BEYOND OIL: The Threat to Food and Fuel in the Coming DecadesSome fear the world may be running out of oil .SPENDING OUR GREAT INHERITANCE -- THEN WHAT? Energy apocalypse looms as the world runs out of oil .Forget the Caspian bonanza! Peter Beaumont and John Hooper in Rome report that producers misled everybody, Sunday July 26, 1998, Observer (london)June 15 issue of Forbes! CHEAP OIL: enjoy it while it lasts. A Peak Under the Covers ,The Death of the Oil Economy ,Get Ready for Another Oil Shock ,Future world oil supplies:
FIVE FUNDAMENTAL ERRORS: The Short Version FIVE FUNDAMENTAL ERRORS: The Long Version ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY A SECT WITH A CREED AND A POLITICAL PROGRAM REACHING FOR HEAVEN ON EARTH by Robert H. Nelson A MEANS OF CONTROL, The Last Scheduled BRAIN FOOD, by Jay Hanson, 01/01/00 "The Foulest of Them All" ,MAXIMUM POWER, by Jay Hanson The need to reintegrate the natural sciences into economics, by By Charles Hall 1 , Dietmar Lindenberger 2 , Reiner Kümmel 3 , Timm Kroeger 1 , and Wolfgang Eichhorn 4, 3/31/2001 Is the Argentine National Economy being destroyed by the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago? FAITH AND CREDIT : The World Bank's Secular EmpireNEOLIBERAL NOSTRUMS THIS WAY FOR THE GAS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, Los Sangre Es en Tus Manos, Dangerous Currents, "The Market" is simply "Too Cheap to Meter" ,It's the Money, Stupid! , by Jay Hanson, August 10, 1998Energy and Economic Myths ,What is Life? , by Erwin Shrödinger. First published in 1944Lunatic Politics ,THE ECONOMICS OF THE COMING SPACESHIP EARTH ,Decision Making and Problem Solving, Opposing Globalization Could Justify Resource-Based Basic Income ,FREE TRADE - NAFTA - WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING MYTHS OF THE POLITICAL-ECONOMIC WORLD VIEW Energy, Entropy, Economics, and Ecology SUSTAINABLE GROWTH: A Systems Perspective on the Interrelations Between Natural, human-made, and cultural capital, by Fikret Berkes & Carl Folke, Oct. 1991THE 4P APPROACH TO DEALING WITH SCIENTIFIC UNCERTAINTY , by Robert Costanza and Laura Cornwell (1992)THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE , is an alternative to cost/benefit analysisTOO MANY RICH PEOPLE: WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE GDP STEADY-STATE ECONOMICS: TOWARDS A NEW ECONOMICS: MONEY AND MAGIC SUGARSCAPE SCIENCE NEWS .OUR PERPETUAL GROWTH UTOPIA FAREWELL LECTURE TO WORLD BANK,
RS AND NAS STATEMENT WORLD SCIENTISTS' WARNING TO HUMANITY WORLD SCIENTISTS' CALL FOR ACTION AT THE KYOTO CLIMATE SUMMIT Science Summit" on World Population: ESA Passes Resolution on Human Population ECONOMIST'S STATEMENT ON GLOBAL WARMING ECOLOGIST'S STATEMENT ON GLOBAL WARMING link to TROUBLED WATERS: A CALL FOR ACTION
Humans have destroyed more than 30 per cent of
the natural world since 1970 with serious depletion of the forest,
freshwater and marine systems on which life depends. [Guardian, 10/2/98]
Age-adjusted
mortality in Russia rose by almost 33% between 1990 and 1994.... Russia
is not alone in experiencing drops in life expectancy; all the nations
created from the break-up of the Soviet Union have reported a decline
in life expectancy since 1990, although none has been as large as in
Russia. [JAMA. 1998;279:793-800]
Africa is beginning of a full-on Malthusian dieoff. See "Worldwatch Briefing: Sixteen Dimensions of the Population Problem" at http://www.worldwatch.org/alerts/pr98924.html and "Life on Earth is Killing Us" press release at http://www.enn.com/news/enn-stories/1998/10/100298/killingus.asp and study itself is here.
"To
put this in context, you must remember that estimates of the long-term
carrying capacity of Earth with relatively optimistic assumptions about
consumption, technologies, and equity (A x T), are in the vicinity of
two billion people. Today's population cannot be sustained on the
'interest' generated by natural ecosystems, but is consuming its vast
supply of natural capital -- especially deep, rich agricultural soils,
'fossil' groundwater, and biodiversity -- accumulated over centuries to
eons. In some places soils, which are generated on a time scale of
centimeters per century are disappearing at rates of centimeters per
year. Some aquifers are being depleted at dozens of times their
recharge rates, and we have embarked on the greatest extinction episode
in 65 million years." Paul Ehrlich (Sept. 25, 1998)
As
capitalism fails in more-and-more countries, these countries will
disintegrate too. Ultimately of course, this will lead to world wars
over natural resources. See Homer-Dixon's work at http://utl2.library.utoronto.ca/www/pcs/tad.htm
BIODIVERSITY DECAY Recent Developments in Environmental Sciences ,Revisiting Carrying Capacity, WILL LIMITS OF THE EARTH'S RESOURCES CONTROL HUMAN NUMBERS? , by David Pimentel, O. Bailey, P. Kim, E. Mullaney, J. Calabrese, L. Walman, F. Nelson, and X. Yao; February 25, 1999Ecology of Increasing Disease ,THE MASSIVE MOVEMENT TO MARGINALIZE THE MODERN MALTHUSIAN MESSAGE , by Albert A. Bartlett. This is a revised version of an article that was published in The Social Contract Vol. 8, No. 3, Spring 1998, Pgs. 239 - 251LAND, ENERGY AND WATER: THE CONSTRAINTS GOVERNING IDEAL U.S. POPULATION SIZE , by David Pimentel and Marcia Pimentel (1991)link to U.S. FOOD PRODUCTION THREATENED BY RAPID POPULATION GROWTH , the Pimentels (1997)link to Food Security for a Growing World Population 200 Years After Malthus, Still an Unsolved Problem Optimum Human Population Size ,Restoring Value to the WorId's Degraded Lands ,An exploratory model of the impact of rapid climate change on the world food situation ,FOOD, LAND, POPULATION and the U.S. ECONOMY-FULL REPORT , by David Pimentel of Cornell University and Mario Giampietro Istituto of Nazionale della Nutrizione, Rome. November 21, 1994CONSTRAINTS ON THE EXPANSION OF THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY , by Henery W Kindall and David Pimentel (1994)Response to Bartlett and Lytwak (1995) :Chronic Famine and the Immorality of Food Aid THE CORNUCOPIAN FALLACIES , by Lindsey Grant (1992)IMPACT OF POPULATION GROWTH ON FOOD SUPPLIES AND ENVIRONMENT, KERMIT OLSON MEMORIAL LECTURE: Putting the Bite on Planet Earth, by Don Hinrichson, Oct. 1994ENERGY AND POPULATION: FOOD, LAND, POPULATION and the U.S. ECONOMY-EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ,
by David Pimentel of Cornell University and Mario Giampietro Istituto
of Nazionale della Nutrizione, Rome. Executive Summary Released
November 21, 1994IMMIGRATION: NO. 1 IN U.S. GROWTH THE POPULATION EXPLOSION JULIAN SIMON'S BET and HIS ULTIMATE RESOURCE How and Why Journalists Avoid the Population-Environment Connection, by T. Michael Maher, March 1997Negative Population Growth, by John B. Hall, Sept. 1996The Food "Surplus": a Staple Illusion of Economics; a Cruel Illusion for Populations, by Jim C. Fandrem, Winter, 1988Rethinking the Environmental Impacts of Population, Affluence and Technology ,WHY DO WOMEN HAVE BABIES? HOW TO INFLUENCE FERTILITY: THE TIGHTENING CONFLICT: LIVING WITHIN OUR ENVIRONMENTAL MEANS: National Security Study Memorandum 200 The 1972 Rockefeller Commission Report on U. S. Population ,WHY EXCESS IMMIGRATION DAMAGES THE ENVIRONMENT IMMIGRATION, JOBS & WAGES: IMMIGRATION AND THE U.S. ENERGY SHORTAGE , by Donald Mann, President Negative Population Growth, Inc. (May 1988)FULL HOUSE THE LAST OASIS NET LOSS TOP OF THE NINTH ,
James
White, co-author of a study published in the journal Science, said that
the Antarctica ice cores show a temperature increase of about 20
degrees F within a very short time about 12,500 years ago. .. Ice cores
from Greenland, near the Arctic, show that at the same time there was a temperature increase of almost 59 degrees in the north polar region within a 50-year period, White said. [AP, 10/1/98]
The
National Climatic Data Center has just announced that last month was
the warmest September on record - almost a degree F above the previous
record and nearly 4 degrees F above the average. It is the 9th
consecutive month to break the previous all-time record. ... there
are areas of the Earth, such as the Arctic, where the temperature
increase is 3 to 4 degrees Fahrenheit. This is enough to melt
permafrost, the permanently frozen ground that characterizes northern
tundra bogs. And melting bogs release methane, a greenhouse gas. [UPI, 10/8/98]
U.S.
government scientists said this year's “ozone hole” over Antarctica was
the largest ever observed, leaving an atmospheric depletion area
greater than the size of North America over the southern land mass.
[Nando, 10/7/98]
THE CLIMATE BOMB SUDDEN CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH HUMAN HISTORY , by Jonathan Adams and Randy FooteDead on Arrival: positive feedback in the climate systemBP STATEMENT ON GLOBAL WARMING ,THE HEAT IS ON: DEAD. WRONG. OZONE DEPLETION and GLOBAL WARMING .link to Changes in Time in the Temperature of the Earth link to Globally-Averaged Atmospheric Temperatures
link to Questions and Answers On Bio-Warfare/Bio-Terrorism (Q & A) with Dr. Ken Alibek http://www.emergency.com/1999/alibek99.htm link to "The Bioweaponeers" at http://cryptome.org/bioweap.htm HEALTH IN THE HOT ZONE DEVELOPMENT, GLOBAL CHANGE, AND THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT ,link to The Challenge of Antibiotic Resistance
Certain bacterial infections now defy all antibiotics. The resistance
problem may be reversible, but only if society begins to consider how
the drugs affect "good" bacteria as well as "bad", by Stuart B. Levy
(Scientific American, 03/98)link to Drugged Waters Does it matter that pharmaceuticals are turning up in water supplies? by Janet Raloff (Science News 3/21/98)
MORAL THEORY A General Statement of the Tragedy of the Commons, by Herschel Elliott, Feb. 1997Christianity and Evolutionary Ethics THE NEED FOR TRANSCENDENCE IN THE POSTMODERN WORLD
OVERSHOOT ,Ethical Implications of Carrying Capacity ,CULTURAL CARRYING CAPACITY: THE WORLD'S MOST POLYMORPHIC SPECIES: THE INTRODUCTION, INCREASE, AND CRASH OF REINDEER ON ST. MATTHEW ISLAND POPULATION POLITICS: HUMAN CARRYING CAPACITY DEFINED
West Africa is becoming the
symbol of worldwide demographic, environmental, and societal stress, in
which criminal anarchy emerges as the real "strategic" danger. Disease,
overpopulation, unprovoked crime, scarcity of resources, refugee
migrations, the increasing erosion of nation-states and international
borders, and the empowerment of private armies, security firms, and
international drug cartels are now most tellingly demonstrated through
a West African prism. West Africa provides an appropriate introduction
to the issues, often extremely unpleasant to discuss, that will soon
confront our civilization. ... -- Robert D. Kaplan
Tragedy of the Commons Re-stated ,THE FATAL FREEDOM (the Tragedy of the Commons)The Tragedy of the Commons (the original)EASTER's END, by Jared Diamond THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS, By Gary W. Harding http://oto.wustl.edu/bbears/trajcom/trajcom.htm
REFLECTIONS ON SUSTAINABILITY, POPULATION GROWTH, AND THE ENVIRONMENT - REVISITED , LAWS, HYPOTHESES, OBSERVATIONS AND PREDICTIONS RELATING TO SUSTAINABILITY The Meaning of Sustainability: Biogeophysical AspectsPopulation, Sustainability, and Earth's Carrying Capacity: A framework for estimating population sizes and lifestyles that could be sustained without undermining future generations Three General Policies to Achieve Sustainability Sustainable Development. SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING: Socioeconomic Equity :Foreclosing the future ,UNSUSTAINABILITY: A CONSENSUS CREATING JOBS IN A SUSTAINABLE WORLD , by Nadia Steinzor - ZPG Reporter (Sept/Oct, 1996)GREENING THE CORPORATION , by Ward Morehouse. Address to the Greens Gathering, Los Angeles, August 16, 1996
THE LANGUAGE OF ECOLOGY HUMAN APPROPRIATION OF THE PRODUCTS OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS ,The Patch Disturbance Species ,AMERICA'S TREES ARE DYING , by Charles E. Little (1995)WHAT DANGERS LIE AHEAD? RETURN OF THE GROUP:
POSITIVE FEEDBACK URBAN DYNAMICS Rewards of Pejoristic Thinking WHO BENEFITS? WHO PAYS? . by Garrett Hardin (1985)An Ecolate View of the Human Predicament. The Problem of Induction, URBAN DYNAMICS LIMITS TO GROWTH Club of Rome's seminal work.
"a kind of Pontius Pilate feeling" -- by Jay Hanson, 04/01/97
ABSTRACT:
Phillip Morris: "Smoking is a personal choice, and so is quitting."
But
modern cognitive science has shown that people do not make decisions by
calculating the utility of each decision. Thus, economic "rational man"
is a fraud that leaves the public exposed to ongoing economic and
political exploitation by corporate media experts .
Moreover, this fraud provides economists and political leaders with
effective "moral cover", or in the words of Adolph Eichmann, "a kind of
Pontius Pilate feeling" that leaves them free of all guilt for their
dirty deeds.
KNOW THYSELF -- A Report of the Dominant Animal Life on the Third Planet: Executive Summary, by Yaj, January 24, 1997.Requiem ,THE INDUSTRIAL RELIGION THERMODYNAMICS AND THE SUSTAINABILITY OF FOOD PRODUCTION ,WHERE WILL IT END? SYSTEMS CRASH WHO WILL FEED CHINA , a press THE COLLAPSE OF THE WORLD'S FISHERIES , an article on FISH FARMING , a short release on THE EARTH'S CARRYING CAPACITY , a clip from THE COMING ANARCHY , and a discussion of NPP .CORPORATE RULE WHEN CORPORATIONS RULE THE WORLD ENDING CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: THE COMING ANARCHY, Quicktime Movie of Dead Babies Being Thrown Into a Dump Truck CNN, November 1996 [ Download the Quicktime Movie Player from Apple ] Rural Rwanda Faces Uneasy Balance of Fear as Refugees Return New York Times, December 26, 1996.ELEVEN INHERENT RULES OF CORPORATE BEHAVIOR ELECTRONIC HEROIN TV MUTANTS BRAINWASHING WARREN CHRISTOPHER ON U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL DIPLOMACY UNDERWEIGHTING OF BASE-RATE INFORMATION REFLECTS IMPORTANT DIFFICULTIES PEOPLE HAVE WITH PROBABILISTIC INFERENCE VICE PRESIDENT GORE CALLS FOR "ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT CARD"
