Saturday, January 15, 2011
Understanding Creation versus Welfare
Today I want to briefly explain how mankind’s misconception of creational economics has led to entirely unrealistic promises in our welfare program.
(i) CREATIONAL ECONOMICS
(ii) GOD’S LOVE IS NOT BOUNDLESS
(iii) GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO SET LIMITS
Creational Economics :
I wrote a story, “A Christmas Carol for 2009” to try to explain how God utilized the waste product of star formation (radiation energy) to recover O2 from CO2, itself the waste product of combustion or respiration which had produced useful work. I used the format of science fiction in the hope that eight year olds can find it interesting and understandable. This story is online at my website.
There’s more. Clean water, which is essential to life, is also recycled from waste water through sun light. Surplus life in the vegetable and animal kingdom are prematurely destroyed through complex bio-engineering pathways to become fossil fuels, suitable for extremely long term storage. A flow-diagram of the Jehovah Cycle is also on my website.
God’s Love is NOT boundless :
The gift of life on planet Earth is tied to numerous constraints of engineering feasibility. Religious concepts of boundless love may sound good, but not possible when equating activities (including procreation) to the energy source. The Roman Catholic doctrine of endless conversion to the Christian Faith cannot survive reality.
Government Needs to set Limits :
The current copy of Newsweek has an editorial on “WELFARE 2.0 FOR THE POOR”. I like it. Governments are making promises to their people beyond what God could make to his own creation. Are humans more powerful than God? The union delegates who negotiate with management (companies or public sector officials) never consider reality, just opponents to be crushed with threats of strikes. I believe God gave us a mind smart enough to determine what is negotiable and what is not. We cannot work at a level below rationality.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Comments on WSJ headlines
1/13/2011
Today's WSJ page A1 shows two mid-page headlines side by side:
1) Tuna Fight Muddies Waters Over Damage From BP Spill
2) Crop Prices Soar on Supply Warnings
My interest here is not to report in detail WSJ's findings in these matters, but to try to relate by association how these events strengthen the theme of my book "reflections..."
Headline "1" demonstrates how globally we're mired in a state of an 'activities’ bubble. Japan is known to be in financial difficulties for the past two decades, but last week a bluefin tuna caught off Japan sold in Tokyo for ¥396,000, to be eaten as sushi. And the US is trying to soak BP with additional billions of dollars for damage. My book recommended a 5000 year margin of safety in fossil fuel usage. We simply cannot afford to burn oil, a free gift from God, at the rate we're doing it.
Headline "2" has to do with the class struggle that I described in my book. The big surprise is that it's happening now, instead of when the supply of fossil fuel shall begin to decline severely. China is buying US soybeans to fatten livestock. The ethanol industry is buying corn to feed their machines to increase production. Some analysts say US farmers need to plant an additional eight million acres; but where is the land? How many billions of people need to vanish from planet Earth in this Century?
Today's WSJ page A1 shows two mid-page headlines side by side:
1) Tuna Fight Muddies Waters Over Damage From BP Spill
2) Crop Prices Soar on Supply Warnings
My interest here is not to report in detail WSJ's findings in these matters, but to try to relate by association how these events strengthen the theme of my book "reflections..."
Headline "1" demonstrates how globally we're mired in a state of an 'activities’ bubble. Japan is known to be in financial difficulties for the past two decades, but last week a bluefin tuna caught off Japan sold in Tokyo for ¥396,000, to be eaten as sushi. And the US is trying to soak BP with additional billions of dollars for damage. My book recommended a 5000 year margin of safety in fossil fuel usage. We simply cannot afford to burn oil, a free gift from God, at the rate we're doing it.
Headline "2" has to do with the class struggle that I described in my book. The big surprise is that it's happening now, instead of when the supply of fossil fuel shall begin to decline severely. China is buying US soybeans to fatten livestock. The ethanol industry is buying corn to feed their machines to increase production. Some analysts say US farmers need to plant an additional eight million acres; but where is the land? How many billions of people need to vanish from planet Earth in this Century?
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
My Farewell Gesture
My farewell gesture to a world in crisis: there are so many interesting developments around the world that the temptation is great to wait and observe how things work out--how well they fit my predictions in the book. But reality intervenes; I am rapidly getting too old to have the luxury of watching events as they unfold. I must stop being a perfectionist and get my thoughts down quickly on the internet in some fashion while my brain still functions.
With this in mind then I will selectively re-examine some of the big problems in human misbehavior which I enumerated (perhaps not in great enough detail). This approach will allow me to take up any related topic in random order and gradually build up a collection of meaningful epiphanies.
Topic (I) Understanding the gift of life
The flow of energy from sun light to a living cell, and thence to work or activities performed by various life entities is graphically expressed in a flow diagram in my Blog dated July 24,2010. This “diamond” version of the J-cycle should, in time, become as familiar and globally accepted as the solar system diagram of Copernicus. This free gift of life, however, has constraints and limits not negotiable by human authorities. The most essential limit is the time rate of conversion of sun light to activities-giving energy through photosynthesis. This is accomplished by using a weak source of radiation energy, eight light-minutes away, so that water based cell life would not be destroyed. Needless to say, a hydrogen bomb detonated on earth can only destroy life, not hasten the conversion rate. Therefore, for a very short time, mankind may exceed this limit by burning fossil fuel to create additional energy. The lifestyle and population count so happily enjoyed by developed and developing nations of the world will collapse disastrously with the approaching exhaustion of FF.
***to be continued
With this in mind then I will selectively re-examine some of the big problems in human misbehavior which I enumerated (perhaps not in great enough detail). This approach will allow me to take up any related topic in random order and gradually build up a collection of meaningful epiphanies.
Topic (I) Understanding the gift of life
The flow of energy from sun light to a living cell, and thence to work or activities performed by various life entities is graphically expressed in a flow diagram in my Blog dated July 24,2010. This “diamond” version of the J-cycle should, in time, become as familiar and globally accepted as the solar system diagram of Copernicus. This free gift of life, however, has constraints and limits not negotiable by human authorities. The most essential limit is the time rate of conversion of sun light to activities-giving energy through photosynthesis. This is accomplished by using a weak source of radiation energy, eight light-minutes away, so that water based cell life would not be destroyed. Needless to say, a hydrogen bomb detonated on earth can only destroy life, not hasten the conversion rate. Therefore, for a very short time, mankind may exceed this limit by burning fossil fuel to create additional energy. The lifestyle and population count so happily enjoyed by developed and developing nations of the world will collapse disastrously with the approaching exhaustion of FF.
***to be continued
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