Chapter 8
TELEGRAM TO SENATOR EDMUND MUSKIE
2There is dawning world-around comprehension Of the existence of a significant plurality Of alternative energy source options Available for all Earthians’ vital support, Which now intuitively fortifies Maine’s far-sighted citizens’ and friends’ Spontaneous expression of abhorrence For any petroleum refineries or storage Anywhere along its complexedly meandering Deep-tide coastline.
3 Because humanity is born helpless, ignorant and naked Nature must anticipatorily provide, Protect and nurture humanity’s regeneration By spontaneously assimilatible Environmental resource availabilities Under omni-favorable conditions.
4 But originally permitted ignorance No longer may be, self-excusingly, pleaded As justification for failure to employ
5 The now known to exist
6 Omni-self-supporting technical capabilities
7 To produce unprecedentedly advanced
8 Standards of living
9 And freedoms of thought and actions
10 For all humanity,
11 Without any individual
12 Being advantaged
13 At the expense of another,
14 All of which feasibilities
15 Are inanimately powerable
16 Well within our daily energy income
17 From extraterrestrial sources
18 And all accomplishable without pollution.
19 By tapping the billion years’ long
20 Safe-depositing of fossil fuel energies,---
21 As petroleum and coal, within the planetary crust Humanity was self-startered
22 Into inauguration of world-around
23 Electromagnetic energy resources integration,
24 Accomplished exclusively
25 By industrialization’s ever-evolving knowledge
26 Regarding ultimate feasibility
27 On non-biologically harvested
28 Metabolic support of all humanity.
29 Humanity had to be self-startered
30 Into bounteously underwritten
31 Trial and error gropings
32 From whence gradually emerged
33 Mind-discovered comprehension
34 Of some of the eternal principles
35 Governing the availability and feasible employment Of cosmically-constant, astronomical qualities Of inherently inexhaustible energies Of self-regenerative Universe.
36 Because humanity now has learned
3738How to gear directly into the inexhaustible energy Of the main engines of Universe It is no longer justified in attempting To accommodate its ever-expanding, Knowledgeable functioning in Universe By ignorantly keeping its foot on the self-starter To obtain its evolutionary propulsion Only from the swiftly exhaustible Fossil-fuel storage battery energies Or from its perishable, one-season crops.
39 Realistic accounting
4041Of the time and foot pounds Of energy-work, invested by nature, In the land-bom agriculture’s--- And seaborn algae’s Impoundment of Sun energy,--- Exclusively by photosynthesis,--- And its progressive conservation As dead organic residues progressively covered By wind and waterborne dustings Siftings and siltings buried and sunken To critical, gravitationally actuated, Pressure depths and temperatures Within which unique conditions The hydrocarbon residues are chemically converted Into coal and petroleum,
42 Discloses an overall time and pressure Energy accounting cost
43 Of one million dollars per gallon of petroleum (Or its energy equivalents in coal) As calculated at the present Lowest commercial rates
44 At which kilowatt hours of energy May be purchased from public utility systems.
45 Failure thus to reckon The fundamental metabolic costs, Is to be economically reckless. Further reckless expenditures
46 Of our fossil fuel energy savings account To which future generations Needs must have emergency access As a self-re-startering recourse, Is equivalent to drilling a hole From the sidewalk into a bank vault Pumping out money
47 And calling it free-enterprise discovery Of an energy wealth bonanza.
48 Physical energy convergent as matter Or divergent as radiation,
49 Compounded by weightless metaphysical know-how, Have altogether provided the means
50 For Earthians’ progressively greater participation In Universe’s inexorable evolutionary transformings, The participation being accomplished exclusively By Human-intellect directed ingenuities, In progressive rearranging Of the physical furnishings
51 Of our spherical, space-boat home,
5253In such a way as progressively to support Ever-more lives in ever-more ways- With ever-increasing health.
54Naught gets spent but human time As cosmically inexhaustible energy Is tapped exclusively
55By intellect-discovered and employed Cosmic principles
56Which to qualify as principles
57 Must be eternal.
58 Real wealth
5960Is Universally self-generative energy Harnessed by mind to regenerate Human lives around our Planet,--- Increasing wealth means
61 More regeneratively self-supporting days ahead
62 For more lives
63 Ranging first within Earth’s biosphere
6465And subsequently by ever-increasing exploration Within Earth’s extra-terrestrial Cosmic neighborhoods.
66 Such ever-evolving greater know-how wealth
67 Provides the means
6869With which specifically to augment The ever-expanding, anti-entropic Intellectual responsibilities of humanity As local Universe’s local problem solver Which problem solving is human intellect’s exclusive, Complementary and essential functioning, In support of total, scenario-Universe’s Self-regenerative integrity.
70 Physics shows
71 That universal energy is undiminishable.
72 Experience teaches
73 That every time humanity initiates Intelligibly logical experiments Human intellect always learns more. Intellect cannot learn less
74 Intellect is growthfully irreversible.
75 Both the physical and metaphysical advantage gains Of intelligently harvested know-how,---
76 Reinvested as competent energy-transforming,--- Always produces
77 Inherently irreversible wealth growth.
78 This is contrary to yesterday’s
79 Now scientifically and technically obsolete Concept of a self-exhausting,
80 Ergo, progressively expendable---
81 And ultimately spent Universe,
82 With assumedly progressive failure phases And their negative economic accountings Whose bankruptcies are as yet employed By all political economies,
83 Together with their depletion tax evasions Covering only physical property depletions
84 With no capitalization, nor depreciation allowances Of the metaphysical competence of humanity’s mind Without which there would be
85 Neither human life self-awareness
86 Nor its wealth
87 Of capable conceptioning.
88 Modem physics renders it incontrovertible
89 That celestial energy is nonexhaustible Only the fossil fuel savings account And perishable human muscles And the self-startering, but limited, Hydro-carbon impounded energies Are terrestrially exhaustible.
90 Humanity’s economics are as yet ignorantly geared Exclusively to the annual energy harvesting cycles And bankruptcy accounting
91 Of ignorance permeated yesteryear’s
92 Human brain reflexing
93 As conditioned, by floods, fires, droughts and pestilence,--- And frequently ruined crops,
94 Whereby millions of humans perished.
95 Brilliant and potentially effective
96 Managerial capabilities and leadership potentials
97 Are as yet diminishingly extruded
98 Through minuscule accounting and customs apertures, Which force those capabilities
99 To concentrate exclusively and myopically
100 Only upon this year’s production
101 This year’s election and
102 This year’s profit
103 While blindly overlooking
104 The infinitely reliable cyclic frequencies
105 Governing the 99 per cent of reality
106 Lying outside human sense apprehending And lying outside this year’s considerability Which vast, invisible reality
107 Is the great electromagnetic spectrum
108 And its astrophysical event recurrency rates,
109 Which range from split-second atomic frequencies To multi-billion year astro-physical lags All of which cyclic event reoccurrences Are guaranteed to humanity as absolutely reliable By the exclusively science-discovered Cosmic behaviors’ integrity.
110 Despite the industrial revolution’s Momentary fumbling and mess---• As occasioned uniquely by the myopia Generated by ‘‘this year’s accounting’’ limitations--- It now is discernible scientifically--- That unwitting Earthians Gradually are being shifted Over an epochal threshold, Successful crossing of which,---
111 If not totally frustrated by reflexive inertias,--- Will witness the successful gearing of all humanity Into the eternally inexhaustible, energy system Of omni-self-regenerative celestial mechanics.
112 Humanity is as yet acquiring
113 Its many human support increasing Techniques and practices For all the wrong reasons.
114 We only expand wealth production Under mass-fear mandates of war.
115 We could acquire, peacefully and directly A total humanity supporting productivity And comprehensive enjoyment of our whole planet By simply deciding to do so.
116 Whatever we need to do
117 And know how to do
118 We can afford to do!
119 This is the cosmic law
120 Now in clear scientific evidence,
121 And the more love,
122123The more satisfactory the wealth augmentations. Whether history entrusts you or others With progressively greater responsibilities At this crucial-to-Earthians’-survival moment Depends upon whether you, they, or both of you Comprehend these epochal transitional events.
124The State of Maine’s Bay-of-Fundy’s Twice-a-day, fifty-foot tides
125Are pulsated by Sun-compensated, Moon-pulls, Those tides will be pulsated twice daily
126As long as the Moon and Earth co-orbit the Sun, Fundy provides more economically harvestable, Foot-pounds of energy daily
127Than ever will be needed by all humanity While attaining and sustaining ever-higher Standards of living,
128Greater and more healthful longevity Than heretofore ever experienced.
129It is economic ignorance of the lowest order To persist in further surfacing and expenditure Of the Earth’s fossil fuels---
130It is even more ignorant and irresponsible To surface and transport oils
131Of Arabia, Venezuela, Africa and East Indies To refineries and storages on the coast of Maine Thus putting into ecological jeopardy One of the world’s
132 As yet most humanly cherished
133 Multi-islanded, sea coast wildernesses.
134 In view of Fundy’s tidal energy wealth
135 Such blindness is more preposterous
136 Than ‘‘carrying coals to Newcastle.’’
137 It is accelerated human suicide.
138 On the other hand we must recall
139 That Passamaquoddy’s semi-completed
140 Tidal generating system
141 Was abandoned on the officially stated, Ignorant, political-economics assumption That electricity could not be transmitted Beyond 350 miles
142 And therefore could not reach
143 Any important industrial centers.
144 It is known in political actuality
145 That Passamaquoddy was discontinued
146 Through the combined lobbying efforts
147 Of Maine’s paper pulping and electric power industries Whose political policy logic was persuasive
148 Despite that those two industries
149 Have together succeeded
150 In polluting Maine’s prime rivers
151 To kill all but a pittance
152 Of the Maine coast’s once vast fishing wealth.
153 Space-effort harvested
154 Scientific know-how and the computer capability
155 Have together made possible
156 The present inauguration
157 Of one million volt transmissions
158 And a 1,500 mile delivery range
159 Of underground, electric power network systems. Many Passamaquoddies could be plugged Into the invisible underground,
160 Transcontinental, time-zone spanning, Electric energy network integration And thence relayed to Alaska
161 While picking up Canadian Rockies water power Along the way.
162 The integrated North American network Could not only be trans-linked
163 Through Mexico and Central America Into an Amazon-to-be-powered South American network
164 But also across the Bering Straits
165 From Alaska to Russia
166 To join with their now completed
167 Eastern extension of Western Russia’s network Powered by northward flowing, into-the-Arctic Siberian river systems.
168 This now feasible, intercontinental network Would integrate America, Asia and Europe And integrate the night-and-day, spherically cycling Shadow-and-light zones of Planet Earth And this would occasion the 24-hour use Of the now only fifty per cent of the time used World-around standby generator capacity Whose fifty per cent unused capacities Heretofore were mandatorily required
169 Only for peakload servicing of local non-interconnected energy users.
170 Such intercontinental network integration
171 Would overnight double the already-installed and in-use, Electric power generating capacity of our Planet.
172 And lying well within
173 The progressive 1,500 mile hookup reachability
174 From an American-Russian power integration
175 Are the intercontinental networks of China, India and Africa.
176 It is everywhere around the world
177 Incontrovertibly documented
178 That as the local kilowatt hours
179 Of distributed electrical energy increase
180 The local birth rate
181 Is commensurably diminished and longevity increases.
182 In respect to any of its specific geographical areas,
183 The birth rate of that area
184 Trends in inverse proportion
185 To electrical energy generation and distribution
186 The sudden world population bulge
187 Which has occasioned
188 Dire population increase predictions
189 Was occasioned first by the failure to die
190 Of those who used to die
191 And secondly by the continued new birth acceleration
192 Only within the world’s
193 As yet non-industrialized countries.
194 As world industrialization will be completed
195 By twentieth-century’s end
196 The ever-diminishing birth rate
197 Of the industrial countries
198 Will bring about world population stabilization
199 By 2000 a.d.
200 Universe has no pollution.
201 All the chemistries of the Universe are essential
202 To its comprehensive self-regeneration.
203 The ninety-two regenerative chemical elements Associate, disassociate and intertransform In a wide range of time-lag rates.
204 All the dumped chemistries
205 Spoken of ignorantly as ‘‘pollution’’ or ‘‘waste’’ Are always needed elsewhere In the intelligent integration
206 Of world-around energy regenerating economics.
207 All the sulphur emitted annually
208 From the world’s industrial chimneys Exactly equal to the amount of sulphur Being taken annually to keep industry going.
209 And while the byproduct chemistries Are in high concentration
210 Before going out the stacks or nozzles They can be economically distributed To their elsewhere-needed functioning. After leaving the stacks or nozzles The byproduct chemicals are so diffuse As to be economically unrecoverable. In their diffuse state the byproducts Often become toxic
211 To various biological species,
212 The ultimate overall costs of which to humanity May easily be the cessation of terrestrial life.
213 Yesterday’s preoccupation with major energy harnessing Primarily for the killing of humans by humans Now can be comprehensively redirected To intelligent and responsible production Of a total-humanity sustaining system.
214 Swift realization of all the foregoingly considered Epochal transition of human affairs From a ‘‘might’’ to a ‘‘right’’ Accounted and inspired
215 World economics
216 Is now scheduled for swift realization
217 By inexorable evolutionary events
218 To be accompanied by maximum social stresses With only one alternative outcome To its total human advantaging--- The alternative is human extinction
219 Aboard our Planet.
220 All thinking humanity young or old Not only will condone
221 Reversal of public position taking When it is predicated upon
222 Better and more inclusive information
223 Than was at first available
224 In fact it will think even more favorably
225 Of the integrity
226 Of those who admit error for humanity’s sake At the risk of losing previous political support So well informed is the young society Which now is taking the world initiative That only such integrity of long distance thinking And unselfish preoccupation Can win its support.
227 I pray you will make your stand Swiftly and unambiguously clear As being against any further incursions Of petroleum into Maine
228 Or of pipelines in Alaska.
229 I pray that you will concurrently Initiate resumption of Passamaquoddy Together with initiation of a plurality Of such Fundy tidal energy convertors With combined capacities Sufficient for celestial-energy support Of all human life aboard our Planet To be maintained successfully Until Earth-based humanity Has successfully migrated Into larger cosmic neighborhood functioning.