New Energy Movement
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
http://www.newenergymovement.org/nem_platform.htm
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From: http://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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From: fuel-energy-oil-crisis@modoracle.com (Global Fuel Crisis - Energy Oil Gas Power Cut) Newsgroups: alt.liberty-vs.conspiracy
Date: 30 Jan 2004
SECRET GLOBAL FUEL CRISIS
The greatest crisis that civilization has ever faced is also one of the best-kept secrets of our time. The American, British, Russian, and various European governments, have consistently downplayed, concealed and lied about the global fuel crisis.
Put simply, it is now almost impossible to produce oil and gas at a rate that can meet the enormous and growing demands of major Western cities. Consumption of electricity and fossil fuel is higher than ever before and shows no sign of falling.
This may at first sound like an environmental problem, or a problem for big business. It is not. Neither is it a call for you to save energy: it probably wouldn't make any difference now. The fuel crisis is our problem: yours and mine. A global population of the present size cannot be sustained and drastic changes are inevitable.
POWER CUTS:
If you live in a city then you could find yourself without food, water, electricity, transport, heat, or light at any moment and for any length of time. (Could this be the real reason why Americans are being urged to stockpile water, food and batteries? Certainly it seems like a good idea given the uncertainty and the extent of the fuel crisis: it is far more likely to effect Americans than any terrorist attack, no matter how large.)
Western governments including the United States and Britain already have been forced to use fuel from huge emergency stockpiles held in secret locations. But they have been powerless to prevent the first huge city power outages which struck the New York; then London; followed by similar city power outages in Denmark and Sweden; and then Italy, Switzerland, Austria and France. The effects only lasted a few hours, but each case was the biggest power failure in the history of the affected country. These massive power cuts were separated by a matter of days. The governments were only practicing this time. This is just the beginning."
http://www.theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=0423
This is more serious than just a lack of light or TV for a couple of hours, or a few days with no fuel for your car in the pumps. The shock waves of the secret global fuel crisis could begin dismantling civilization as we know it not in 50 or 100 years but right now, long before fuel supplies actually start to run out. There is no quick fix, no solution, no viable alternative fuel that we can switch our cities on to. It is not that there is no fuel left: we may not face that problem for another few decades (although when it happens there will be little that we can do.) The problem today is that the rate at which we consume oil and gas threatens to exceed the available rate of supply. At peak times and under certain conditions the supply is already unable to meet the demand. This shocking fact is not publicly acknowledged by any major Western government. It is a very closely guarded secret indeed.
The effect of the supply-demand imbalance is the same as if the oil and gas reserves were actually running out: civilization as we know it cannot exist without fuel.
There are signs in abundance that something is seriously wrong. Various, often contradictory official reasons are being given. Is there more to the headlines than meets the eye?
INTERNATIONAL POWER CUTS CHAOS:
US & Canada Power Cut Chaos:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/3152903.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3152985.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3152687.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/3152591.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3162371.stm
Britain Power Cut Chaos:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3155081.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/3191761.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3199784.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/3154001.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3419771.stm
Northern Ireland Power Cut Chaos:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/3292763.stm
Italy & Switzerland Power Cut Chaos:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3147810.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3023908.stm
Denmark & Sweden Power Cut Chaos:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3132332.stm
Georgia Power Cut Chaos:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3413651.stm
CONTINUING FUEL AND ENERGY PRICE RISES:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2788139.stm
CALIFORNIAN ENERGY CRISIS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3133635.stm
NEW TRAFFIC CHARGES
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3317197.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3362683.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3401023.stm
(The UK is just the test-bed. The US & Europe are next.)
UK FUEL CRISIS:
http://theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=449
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3144368.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3238897.stm
UK FUEL PRICES:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3137132.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3125634.stm
VENEZUELA OIL EXPORT CRISIS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2693183.stm
OIL-PRICE RISES IN MAJOR OIL-COUNTRIES:
"Iraqis are suffering such a serious fuel shortage they will have to
get emergency imports, even though their country has the world's
second largest oil reserves."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3017277.stm
Nigeria: ""The government is just trying to trick us," a despondent
taxi driver told the BBC while standing in a one hour long queue for
fuel in Lagos."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3159584.stm
THE OIL WARS:
http://www.thedebate.org/
On their own these issues look suspicious at best. The official cover-stories just do not add up. Multiple explanations contradict each other. Together these problems raise the specter of a secret global energy crisis and this is just the beginning.
Warnings have been and will be found in the widespread power cuts that have already begun to plague Western cities. For many decades such large-scale power cuts have been unheard of. Now power cut after power cut has effected the West's most prolific users of electrical power, again and again and will continue to do so over the next decade.
Warnings were to be found in the Afghanistan oil war. They were to be found in the Iraq oil war. They will be found in the Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia oil wars to come:
[ http://www.thedebate.org/ ]
Oil: Thirty years of turmoil: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3202174.stm
Dwindling supplies of natural hydrocarbon fuels are forcing an acceleration in the process of globalizing oil-producing Middle-Eastern countries like Iraq, Syria and Iran. This forced globalization is being delivered by the use of military force. Military force has also been used to secure Afghanistan, which enabled the building of the vital Centgas Caspian Sea oil pipeline.
(Can UK participation in the oil-wars be explained by the hidden extent of the fuel crisis?)
http://theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=449
The latest report on Syria from the US Energy Information Administration states that Syria's oil production peaked in 1996, and that they could become a net importer by 2005. How many oil producing economies have a similar profile?
THEY ALL DO:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/syria.html
http://www.hubbertpeak.com/nations/
http://www.oilcrisis.com
At the very least the West should expect further restrictions & price increases for fuel and for activities which use fuel, such as motoring and the consumption of electricity:
"Is the UK about to run out of cheap natural gas supplies?"
"Gas is the UK's main source of electricity generation, with 39% of the market, compared to a share of less than 1% in 1990, according to official industry figures. The UK is now the world's third largest consumer of natural gas, after the US and Russia."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3401083.stm
"In a few years time, when the life blood of Western civilization is no longer readily available, it will be to late to adapt. The strong nations will take fuel from the weak nations in a futile final struggle for survival. But the writing is on the wall, and the collapse of civilization as we know it is inevitable. The oil wars have already begun." (Acheson Intelligence Group).
WHY NOT JUST CONVERT TO RENEWABLE ENERGY?
When oil and gas cease to be a feasible source of energy we cannot just convert to renewable fuels like wind and hydrogen. There is no converter-kit that would enable your car to run on hydrogen. There is no magic converter-kit for power stations either: if it was simple to convert then we would all have converted long ago. There are insurmountable obstacles to the widespread use of renewable energy as an alternative to oil and gas.
To produce sufficient wind or tidal-generated electricity to replace oil and gas fuel we would need to replace our cities, fields and planes with wind farms and our coastal towns and harbors with tidal power stations. We would need to pave the deserts with solar panels. Trillions upon trillions of new generation units would need to be built, installed and connected to power grids. This would be impossibly expensive and would take up too much room.
As supply increasingly outweighs demand, the price of oil rises, inflating the profits of those who hold and sell it. The oil companies whose income relies on the oil trade, the oil price and the global demand for oil, have prevented any real progress in the search for alternative fuels. They have blocked serious attempts to replace their product in both the political and the scientific arenas.
These are the organizations that fund Western leaders like President George W Bush. They command enormous wealth, power and influence.
Oil & The Bush Cabinet:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1138000/1138009.stm
Bush & Big Business
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1306000/1306777.stm
In addition to political funding the oil corporations also provide more funding (and hence control) of energy research, than anybody else could or would contemplate: they have no choice. Without total control over the alternatives to their core product they would go out of business. Currently no alternative power can be produced without impossible cost and effort. This is largely a result of the oil-corporations' monopoly, control and hidden restrictions on serious research.
THE SOLUTION:
There is no obvious solution. There are just too many people using too much power too fast and it may already be too late: we cannot be certain because of the secrecy that surrounds the global fuel crisis in most Western countries. The military takeover of oil countries may reduce the impact of the crisis in the medium-term, at the cost of increased violence and instability. But the inevitable damage to the oil-infrastructure of the countries we attack means that oil-war is no quick fix. The continuing growth of fuel consumption, compounded by the fact that fuel will one day run out, means that there can be no long-term solution. Other than a drastic cull of the population in the civilized world, shutting down the machinery of civilization and forcing the survivors to farm their own food, there is no sure way to preserve civilization as we know it. (These measures would be unlikely to go down well with voters. Perhaps such measures should be carried out by governments in secret, using a series of disease outbreaks for example. Perhaps governments have already considered such measures.)
Those within government and the fuel industry who are aware of the problem would only damage their own interests by addressing the problem and making a genuine attempt to reduce our dependance on fossil fuels. The oil companies cannot just stop their drive for profits: Shareholders would revolt; companies would collapse. Politicians cannot act either because they rely on the oil corporations for a very large portion of their funding. It is not just the oil industry that is forced to resist efforts to address the crisis. Many other industries - notably the energy and transport industries - could not survive emergency measures like massive price-increases, which could otherwise be our only hope of preventing the global fuel crisis. Now it is too late.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
Not much unfortunately. It may be prudent to stockpile bottled water, tinned foods, batteries, torches and blankets. But how much? Enough for a week or enough for your grandchildren? Nobody can be sure when or where the next power outages will occur, or how long they will last, because the truth is being distorted and concealed. (Perhaps this could be likened to wartime propaganda designed to prevent mass-hysteria.) Cutting our consumption of fuel and power may not now improve the fuel crisis. Unless you are interested in preserving the environment one could argue that you should enjoy the privilege of fuel and power consumption while you still can. Above all it is important that the world be made aware. Now you are aware and you can choose to make others aware. Be ready and help others to become ready. The secret global fuel crisis is a grave reality. Preparedness and the truth may be all we have.
ACHESON INTELLIGENCE GROUP
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