Chapter 8
TELEGRAM TO SENATOR EDMUND MUSKIE
1There 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.
2 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.
3 But originally permitted ignorance No longer may be, self-excusingly, pleaded As justification for failure to employ
4 The now known to exist
5 Omni-self-supporting technical capabilities
6 To produce unprecedentedly advanced
7 Standards of living
8 And freedoms of thought and actions
9 For all humanity,
10 Without any individual
11 Being advantaged
12 At the expense of another,
13 All of which feasibilities
14 Are inanimately powerable
15 Well within our daily energy income
16 From extraterrestrial sources
17 And all accomplishable without pollution.
18 By tapping the billion years’ long
19 Safe-depositing of fossil fuel energies,---
20 As petroleum and coal, within the planetary crust Humanity was self-startered
21 Into inauguration of world-around
22 Electromagnetic energy resources integration,
23 Accomplished exclusively
24 By industrialization’s ever-evolving knowledge
25 Regarding ultimate feasibility
26 On non-biologically harvested
27 Metabolic support of all humanity.
28 Humanity had to be self-startered
29 Into bounteously underwritten
30 Trial and error gropings
31 From whence gradually emerged
32 Mind-discovered comprehension
33 Of some of the eternal principles
34 Governing the availability and feasible employment Of cosmically-constant, astronomical qualities Of inherently inexhaustible energies Of self-regenerative Universe.
35 Because humanity now has learned
3637How 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.
38 Realistic accounting
3940Of 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,
41 Discloses an overall time and pressure Energy accounting cost
42 Of one million dollars per gallon of petroleum (Or its energy equivalents in coal) As calculated at the present Lowest commercial rates
43 At which kilowatt hours of energy May be purchased from public utility systems.
44 Failure thus to reckon The fundamental metabolic costs, Is to be economically reckless. Further reckless expenditures
45 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
46 And calling it free-enterprise discovery Of an energy wealth bonanza.
47 Physical energy convergent as matter Or divergent as radiation,
48 Compounded by weightless metaphysical know-how, Have altogether provided the means
49 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
50 Of our spherical, space-boat home,
5152In such a way as progressively to support Ever-more lives in ever-more ways- With ever-increasing health.
53Naught gets spent but human time As cosmically inexhaustible energy Is tapped exclusively
54By intellect-discovered and employed Cosmic principles
55Which to qualify as principles
56 Must be eternal.
57 Real wealth
5859Is Universally self-generative energy Harnessed by mind to regenerate Human lives around our Planet,--- Increasing wealth means
60 More regeneratively self-supporting days ahead
61 For more lives
62 Ranging first within Earth’s biosphere
6364And subsequently by ever-increasing exploration Within Earth’s extra-terrestrial Cosmic neighborhoods.
65 Such ever-evolving greater know-how wealth
66 Provides the means
6768With 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.
69 Physics shows
70 That universal energy is undiminishable.
71 Experience teaches
72 That every time humanity initiates Intelligibly logical experiments Human intellect always learns more. Intellect cannot learn less
73 Intellect is growthfully irreversible.
74 Both the physical and metaphysical advantage gains Of intelligently harvested know-how,---
75 Reinvested as competent energy-transforming,--- Always produces
76 Inherently irreversible wealth growth.
77 This is contrary to yesterday’s
78 Now scientifically and technically obsolete Concept of a self-exhausting,
79 Ergo, progressively expendable---
80 And ultimately spent Universe,
81 With assumedly progressive failure phases And their negative economic accountings Whose bankruptcies are as yet employed By all political economies,
82 Together with their depletion tax evasions Covering only physical property depletions
83 With no capitalization, nor depreciation allowances Of the metaphysical competence of humanity’s mind Without which there would be
84 Neither human life self-awareness
85 Nor its wealth
86 Of capable conceptioning.
87 Modem physics renders it incontrovertible
88 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.
89 Humanity’s economics are as yet ignorantly geared Exclusively to the annual energy harvesting cycles And bankruptcy accounting
90 Of ignorance permeated yesteryear’s
91 Human brain reflexing
92 As conditioned, by floods, fires, droughts and pestilence,--- And frequently ruined crops,
93 Whereby millions of humans perished.
94 Brilliant and potentially effective
95 Managerial capabilities and leadership potentials
96 Are as yet diminishingly extruded
97 Through minuscule accounting and customs apertures, Which force those capabilities
98 To concentrate exclusively and myopically
99 Only upon this year’s production
100 This year’s election and
101 This year’s profit
102 While blindly overlooking
103 The infinitely reliable cyclic frequencies
104 Governing the 99 per cent of reality
105 Lying outside human sense apprehending And lying outside this year’s considerability Which vast, invisible reality
106 Is the great electromagnetic spectrum
107 And its astrophysical event recurrency rates,
108 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.
109 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,---
110 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.
111 Humanity is as yet acquiring
112 Its many human support increasing Techniques and practices For all the wrong reasons.
113 We only expand wealth production Under mass-fear mandates of war.
114 We could acquire, peacefully and directly A total humanity supporting productivity And comprehensive enjoyment of our whole planet By simply deciding to do so.
115 Whatever we need to do
116 And know how to do
117 We can afford to do!
118 This is the cosmic law
119 Now in clear scientific evidence,
120 And the more love,
121122The 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.
123The State of Maine’s Bay-of-Fundy’s Twice-a-day, fifty-foot tides
124Are pulsated by Sun-compensated, Moon-pulls, Those tides will be pulsated twice daily
125As long as the Moon and Earth co-orbit the Sun, Fundy provides more economically harvestable, Foot-pounds of energy daily
126Than ever will be needed by all humanity While attaining and sustaining ever-higher Standards of living,
127Greater and more healthful longevity Than heretofore ever experienced.
128It is economic ignorance of the lowest order To persist in further surfacing and expenditure Of the Earth’s fossil fuels---
129It is even more ignorant and irresponsible To surface and transport oils
130Of 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
131 As yet most humanly cherished
132 Multi-islanded, sea coast wildernesses.
133 In view of Fundy’s tidal energy wealth
134 Such blindness is more preposterous
135 Than ‘‘carrying coals to Newcastle.’’
136 It is accelerated human suicide.
137 On the other hand we must recall
138 That Passamaquoddy’s semi-completed
139 Tidal generating system
140 Was abandoned on the officially stated, Ignorant, political-economics assumption That electricity could not be transmitted Beyond 350 miles
141 And therefore could not reach
142 Any important industrial centers.
143 It is known in political actuality
144 That Passamaquoddy was discontinued
145 Through the combined lobbying efforts
146 Of Maine’s paper pulping and electric power industries Whose political policy logic was persuasive
147 Despite that those two industries
148 Have together succeeded
149 In polluting Maine’s prime rivers
150 To kill all but a pittance
151 Of the Maine coast’s once vast fishing wealth.
152 Space-effort harvested
153 Scientific know-how and the computer capability
154 Have together made possible
155 The present inauguration
156 Of one million volt transmissions
157 And a 1,500 mile delivery range
158 Of underground, electric power network systems. Many Passamaquoddies could be plugged Into the invisible underground,
159 Transcontinental, time-zone spanning, Electric energy network integration And thence relayed to Alaska
160 While picking up Canadian Rockies water power Along the way.
161 The integrated North American network Could not only be trans-linked
162 Through Mexico and Central America Into an Amazon-to-be-powered South American network
163 But also across the Bering Straits
164 From Alaska to Russia
165 To join with their now completed
166 Eastern extension of Western Russia’s network Powered by northward flowing, into-the-Arctic Siberian river systems.
167 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
168 Only for peakload servicing of local non-interconnected energy users.
169 Such intercontinental network integration
170 Would overnight double the already-installed and in-use, Electric power generating capacity of our Planet.
171 And lying well within
172 The progressive 1,500 mile hookup reachability
173 From an American-Russian power integration
174 Are the intercontinental networks of China, India and Africa.
175 It is everywhere around the world
176 Incontrovertibly documented
177 That as the local kilowatt hours
178 Of distributed electrical energy increase
179 The local birth rate
180 Is commensurably diminished and longevity increases.
181 In respect to any of its specific geographical areas,
182 The birth rate of that area
183 Trends in inverse proportion
184 To electrical energy generation and distribution
185 The sudden world population bulge
186 Which has occasioned
187 Dire population increase predictions
188 Was occasioned first by the failure to die
189 Of those who used to die
190 And secondly by the continued new birth acceleration
191 Only within the world’s
192 As yet non-industrialized countries.
193 As world industrialization will be completed
194 By twentieth-century’s end
195 The ever-diminishing birth rate
196 Of the industrial countries
197 Will bring about world population stabilization
198 By 2000 a.d.
199 Universe has no pollution.
200 All the chemistries of the Universe are essential
201 To its comprehensive self-regeneration.
202 The ninety-two regenerative chemical elements Associate, disassociate and intertransform In a wide range of time-lag rates.
203 All the dumped chemistries
204 Spoken of ignorantly as ‘‘pollution’’ or ‘‘waste’’ Are always needed elsewhere In the intelligent integration
205 Of world-around energy regenerating economics.
206 All the sulphur emitted annually
207 From the world’s industrial chimneys Exactly equal to the amount of sulphur Being taken annually to keep industry going.
208 And while the byproduct chemistries Are in high concentration
209 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
210 To various biological species,
211 The ultimate overall costs of which to humanity May easily be the cessation of terrestrial life.
212 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.
213 Swift realization of all the foregoingly considered Epochal transition of human affairs From a ‘‘might’’ to a ‘‘right’’ Accounted and inspired
214 World economics
215 Is now scheduled for swift realization
216 By inexorable evolutionary events
217 To be accompanied by maximum social stresses With only one alternative outcome To its total human advantaging--- The alternative is human extinction
218 Aboard our Planet.
219 All thinking humanity young or old Not only will condone
220 Reversal of public position taking When it is predicated upon
221 Better and more inclusive information
222 Than was at first available
223 In fact it will think even more favorably
224 Of the integrity
225 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.
226 I pray you will make your stand Swiftly and unambiguously clear As being against any further incursions Of petroleum into Maine
227 Or of pipelines in Alaska.
228 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.