Post by Mech on Feb 12, 2004 17:12:15 GMT -5
> From: www.newenergymovement.org/
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> "We who do not want to become extinct"
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> New Energy Movement Motto: Zero Emissions by 2020!
The New Energy Movement is a broad-based public movement dedicated to the study and promotion of peaceful and sustainable solutions for an imperiled planet. We believe the solutions exist and can be implemented if we adopt sensible public policies. Examples include the support of clean and renewable energy of all kinds, and the conservation and recycling of energy, hydrocarbons, carbohydrates, water, soil, wood and minerals.
We recognize that non-sustainable practices and their negative effects are physical problems demanding physical solutions. Corrective actions need to be implemented within realistic target timelines in order to avert catastrophe. We believe that toxic and greenhouse emissions should and could be reduced to zero by 2020.
We seek to work in concert with existing environmental, educational, business, and governmental groups, other progressive movements, and individuals who agree with these goals, without prejudice or vested interest as to the best means of accomplishing them.
We seek public jurisdiction over questions of peace and sustainability. We support a massive shift of federal priorities away from weapons programs to an Apollo-type research and deployment initiative which would identify and implement sustainable solutions to our pressing environmental, socioeconomic, and geopolitical problems. In the short term, this would mean a shifting of federal subsidies and research programs from polluting fossil and nuclear fuels to clean and renewable energy.
We support conversion of most military personnel into an Earth Corps, in addition to the Peace Corps, to carry out the job of restoring our planet's biosphere.
We seek lasting public policy measures which would ensure sustainable practices and the end of pollution.
Our first project is to research and educate about the potential of new energy sources such as zero-point energy, cold fusion, and advanced hydrogen technologies which could provide us with a quantum leap in having cheap and clean energy for all.
Read New Energy Movement Platform
www.newenergymovement.org/nem_platform.htm
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From: www.newenergymovement.org/ecological_disaster.htm
The Challenge: Avoid Ecological Disaster
We are surely heading for ecological disaster if we do not make radical changes in energy and environmental policy. Here are some of the most salient aspects of our unsustainability dilemma which cries out for solutions such as new energy:
WHY WE CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS--BETWEEN 1950 AND 2000:
* Population up 2x
* Energy use up 4x (U.S. now = world in 1950)
* No. of automobiles up 10x
* Paper use up 7x
* Wood use up 3x
* Water use up 3x
* Fish catch up 5x
* Rangeland production up 3x
DURING THE DECADE 2000-2010 WE ARE EXPERIENCING
"BIG ROLLOVERS" OR PEAK PRODUCTION IN OIL, NATURAL
GAS, WATER, WOOD, TOPSOIL, FISH AND OTHER FOODS.
THE IMPLICATIONS:
* Demand outstrips the capacity to produce;
* Sellers market: prices skyrocket;
* Resource becomes more than half-depleted and quality decreases;
* Exponential increase in consumption is insensitive to underestimates in supply;
* We are "hitting the wall" in supply: at current rates of consumption, most of these resources will be gone from the Earth by 2050;
* We must radically change our policies by developing new energy sources and recycling our basic raw materials.
HUMAN IMPACT ON EARTH
* Biggest mass extinction in 65 million years;
* Toxic pollution kills 100s of millions;
* More carbon dioxide than in 160 million years;
* Disaster relief budgets are up 10x in twenty years because of global climate change and warming mostly attributable to the routine burning of fossil fuels;
* Global warming is exacerbated by ozone depletion, deforestation, melting of ice caps and glaciers;
* Depletion or scarcity in major natural resources;
* Dependence on fossil fuels, nuclear energy and weapons production comprise about 80% of the world economy directly or indirectly;
* Dependence on Mideast oil is ecologically, economically and militarily unsustainable.
* Increased outgassing of greenhouse gas methane
Main reference for these statistics: State of the World, annual volumes issued by the Worldwatch Institute, Washington, D.C
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> "We who do not want to become extinct"
>
> New Energy Movement Motto: Zero Emissions by 2020!
The New Energy Movement is a broad-based public movement dedicated to the study and promotion of peaceful and sustainable solutions for an imperiled planet. We believe the solutions exist and can be implemented if we adopt sensible public policies. Examples include the support of clean and renewable energy of all kinds, and the conservation and recycling of energy, hydrocarbons, carbohydrates, water, soil, wood and minerals.
We recognize that non-sustainable practices and their negative effects are physical problems demanding physical solutions. Corrective actions need to be implemented within realistic target timelines in order to avert catastrophe. We believe that toxic and greenhouse emissions should and could be reduced to zero by 2020.
We seek to work in concert with existing environmental, educational, business, and governmental groups, other progressive movements, and individuals who agree with these goals, without prejudice or vested interest as to the best means of accomplishing them.
We seek public jurisdiction over questions of peace and sustainability. We support a massive shift of federal priorities away from weapons programs to an Apollo-type research and deployment initiative which would identify and implement sustainable solutions to our pressing environmental, socioeconomic, and geopolitical problems. In the short term, this would mean a shifting of federal subsidies and research programs from polluting fossil and nuclear fuels to clean and renewable energy.
We support conversion of most military personnel into an Earth Corps, in addition to the Peace Corps, to carry out the job of restoring our planet's biosphere.
We seek lasting public policy measures which would ensure sustainable practices and the end of pollution.
Our first project is to research and educate about the potential of new energy sources such as zero-point energy, cold fusion, and advanced hydrogen technologies which could provide us with a quantum leap in having cheap and clean energy for all.
Read New Energy Movement Platform
www.newenergymovement.org/nem_platform.htm
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From: www.newenergymovement.org/ecological_disaster.htm
The Challenge: Avoid Ecological Disaster
We are surely heading for ecological disaster if we do not make radical changes in energy and environmental policy. Here are some of the most salient aspects of our unsustainability dilemma which cries out for solutions such as new energy:
WHY WE CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS--BETWEEN 1950 AND 2000:
* Population up 2x
* Energy use up 4x (U.S. now = world in 1950)
* No. of automobiles up 10x
* Paper use up 7x
* Wood use up 3x
* Water use up 3x
* Fish catch up 5x
* Rangeland production up 3x
DURING THE DECADE 2000-2010 WE ARE EXPERIENCING
"BIG ROLLOVERS" OR PEAK PRODUCTION IN OIL, NATURAL
GAS, WATER, WOOD, TOPSOIL, FISH AND OTHER FOODS.
THE IMPLICATIONS:
* Demand outstrips the capacity to produce;
* Sellers market: prices skyrocket;
* Resource becomes more than half-depleted and quality decreases;
* Exponential increase in consumption is insensitive to underestimates in supply;
* We are "hitting the wall" in supply: at current rates of consumption, most of these resources will be gone from the Earth by 2050;
* We must radically change our policies by developing new energy sources and recycling our basic raw materials.
HUMAN IMPACT ON EARTH
* Biggest mass extinction in 65 million years;
* Toxic pollution kills 100s of millions;
* More carbon dioxide than in 160 million years;
* Disaster relief budgets are up 10x in twenty years because of global climate change and warming mostly attributable to the routine burning of fossil fuels;
* Global warming is exacerbated by ozone depletion, deforestation, melting of ice caps and glaciers;
* Depletion or scarcity in major natural resources;
* Dependence on fossil fuels, nuclear energy and weapons production comprise about 80% of the world economy directly or indirectly;
* Dependence on Mideast oil is ecologically, economically and militarily unsustainable.
* Increased outgassing of greenhouse gas methane
Main reference for these statistics: State of the World, annual volumes issued by the Worldwatch Institute, Washington, D.C