tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58362841964585558722024-03-13T09:43:45.558-07:00Jimi's Energy ChallengeThe Kardashev Theory, the Fermi Paradox and the next "big filters". Challenging our limits to save this paradise/prison called Earth, and escape from it... seriously!openmajichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05894610604890665819noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5836284196458555872.post-1537806679929680952020-11-07T17:46:00.008-08:002020-11-08T09:38:03.944-08:00Utopias on planet Earth<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Milky
Way Galaxy, Planet Earth, Year 2020 from the birth of Human
Civilization's Messiah Gesus Christ. An influenza pandemic is puzzling
the scientific community and damaging the planetary economics. Mankind
is facing one of its several challenges after the birth of human
civiliazion 12000 years earlier.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Just
few months earlier of this pandemic, as usual, the politics were discussing
about the necessity and opportunity of further global GDP growth,
without which the most advanced countries would be facing a dangerous
decline. They were not considering the depletion of planet Earth
resources and the planetary pollution doom as a consequence of infinite
growth expectations.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In
the meantime, the antagonists of infinite growth were arguing that the
only solution of such a resource exhaustion was a kind of "controlled
degrowth" to a poorer and simpler life style in which resources
consumpion would have been sustainable on the whole planet. Recyling,
resilience, renewable resource were among the most important concepts.
But they were not considering the fact that there were more than 7
billion inhabitants on Earth yet, and they were all people to feed,
somehow. All that people would never have been capable of growing
efficiently their own food in some contry house, without any diesel
powered machine.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Moreover
such a deindustrialized society would lead to the decline of scientific
knowledge and manufacturing infrastructures. So none of the approaches
could perform a consistent reorganization of society and industry. The
only solution could be to... find another America, maybe. They did not
consider tha the planet is finite, and on the other hand a peasants'
"sustainable" society simply makes no sense. Seven billion people means
millions of intensive farmings, millions of square miles for growing
wheat intensively by means of tractors, pesticides, chemical fertilizers
and so on. That means also non reversible depletion of minerals such as
potash for fertilizers, or aluminium for food preservation. Seriously. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In
short, we have nothing to lose, so why not considering the expansion in
the solar system? That's only a matter of technologic limit, and
physics allow it, as I will explain in a future post. That's an idea
quite close to the utopia of infinite growth, but such an utopia states
that economics <b>must</b> grow "by design"; how to do that in a finite
world is a mystery. However, if look uip and expand in our solar system,
then growth should become a mere consequence.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Se let's work on it.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /><br /></span></p>openmajichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05894610604890665819noreply@blogger.com0