If there is one bright spot in the midst of a perhaps fatal geopolitical tragedy, it is that the Green Party has had to eat crow on the outright delusion of the ludicrous premise of passive sustainability of so called clean energy. The great German scientific tradition of Gauss, Riemann, and Einstein, et al. may now perhaps yet be revived as the quackery of the neoMalthusian delusion ends in a well deserved good death to put a fine point on the matter.
While there are many things to find fault with in the political praxis of the movement that goes by his name, LaRouche’s concept of the necessity of the secular increase of the per capita energy density throughput per square kilometer is an instance of a solidly grounded scientific principle. It is the case that humanity could survive so far as energy is concerned with the resource base of thorium nuclear energy for some thousand years at the current energy diet that we exist on today. However, if we were to increase the general standard of living on the planet to what is considered an upper middle class condition, then that estimate would be seriously reduced. But even then, we would merely be treading water.
For a enduring prospect of society’s emergence from the current mutually assured destruction geopolitical doctrine we urgently require much much more than that. The only exit from this irrational dilemma is a conjoint series of agreements among nations to move to an entirely new domain in the arena of scientific breakthroughs in agriculture, water projects, transportation, space colonization, biophysics and a nuclear fusion/MHD technological Revolution. Any disagreement with this is prima facie of no merit if one comprehends the aforementioned principle of energy flux density. There is no room for caviling with the truthfulness of this overriding reality at this late date in human history. Either we progress at an ever increasing rate or we perish.
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