14 octobre 2007
NEW IDEAS FOR A NEW WORLD
THE FINAL GOAL OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT : SPACE CONQUEST .
A brief reminder is necessary: black holes, the cooling of the universe, the extinction of the sun, asteroids and comets seriously compromise planet earth. Paradise on earth is not within sight so humanity must leave the earth. The conquest of space is therefore man’s future. A modern socialist must always remember this principal. Furthermore, the rise of extremism threatens the peace and stability necessary for the development of space exploration.
The New Society
Spatial conquest pre-supposes:
The development of a massive technical infrastructure on earth, under the sea and in space.
This development will take a long time.
The infrastructure will need to be sheltered against the catastrophes that threaten the earth (asteroids, comets etc.) during this period.
The only shelter that is easy to access is the ocean depths. Therefore, undersea conquest is a prerequisite to spatial conquest.
The New Industry
-The conquest of the oceans requires putting the means of production in sub-marines, some of which may shelter space ships that will later be launch. These factory-submarines will be entirely automated and remote-controlled, which will as a result, accelerate the disappearance of paid work and provoke mass unemployment, as well as a drop in tax revenue.
-Sustainable developement would provide the opportunity to promote a social revolution: the shift in the tax base from salaries to turnover, the recognition of voluntary work so that all those on benefits who volunteer in a nationally recognised charity, political party, trade union, or cultural association, would see the level of their benefits increase to that of the minimum wage. Putting capital at the service of man is the real revolution, the real progress. The more people volunteer around their neighbourhood, the less people will have to go daily to work in remote factories and shops, the less they need energy for daily transport.
-The less people go work to factories and shops, the more factories and shops need cheap robots and cheap machines to replace their employees.The economical policy for sustainable development is based on the rationalisation and the automation of the making of robots and machines, the only way to make them really cheaper.
-Really cheaper robots and machines will permit to build really cheaper automated factories and shops.
-Really cheaper factories and shops could be smaller and more numerous, and so finally closer to final consumer. Producing and consuming locally is the key of sustainable development. A lot of oil and energy, and capital, and natural resources, will be saved that way.
The New Finance
The conquest of the ocean depths will need a lot of capital. The richest families would not be able to supply all the capital necessary. Sustainable development could therefore create a system of mass shareholding.
-Creation of an obligatory universal savings account. From the birth of each individual, and during his/her whole life, a percentage of the social benefits paid in his name, and later salaries and other revenue, would be paid into a savings account reserved exclusively for the financing of submarine and spatial construction.
-The rent paid by companies using the submarines and space ships for industrial and commercial use will constitute the interest of the fore-mentioned account. The compound interest will be added to the capital until the holder of the account retires at which time the retiree will receive the sum of the interest as a pension bonus.
-The capital, however, will remain UN-TRANSFERABLE, in order to guarantee the collective character of the property of the submarines and space ships. The capital will be transmissible to the inheritors, who will receive the life-interest, while the capital remains un-transferable.
In conclusion, sustainable development goals could be:
-The development and recognition by society of voluntary work, and its compensation.
-The conquest of the deep ocean and outer space, and the resulting automation of the economy.
-Mass shareholding, necessary as the only way to make from each generation, the extra capital needed for sub-marine and spatial exploration. (snowball effect)
-The inability to transfer the shares in companies constructing and renting space ships and sub-marines, in order to guarantee the universal character of sub-marine and spatial conquest.
-The creation of a Trust grouping all public and private companies involved in the production, transport and distribution of energy. This will give alternative technologies the means for research, development and marketing, and stop them being suffocated by the powerful petrol lobby.
-The transferral of the tax base from salaries to the turnover.
-The creation of a minimum parental income (possible for one of the two parents to receive the equivalent of the minimum wage).
The premises of this text has been wrote in 2003. It was one of my first work around sustainable development. And probably the best.
GLOBAL WARMING, AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AS A WHOLE
Humanity is about to discover the worst agricultural catastrophe of its history:
GLOBAL WARMING
The capitalist nations are in debt and overtaken by climatic events
with dramatic consequences for agriculture. There will be famine if
nothing is done… but what are they doing?
Having long been on the defensive, the agricultural world and the working-class can be united at last, go into attack and overthrow the thieves who rule the world.
The revolution come...and then what to do ?
Global warming is a planetary catastrophe. For many densely
populated countries (England, Japan, Holland, Germany etc.) sub-marine
agriculture and industry will bring a better standard of living by
liberating industrial and agricultural sites to build housing, for
example.
Only sub-marine agriculture lets us hope for a future for human kind:
seaweed, lichens, mushrooms, yeasts and insects will constitute our
intake of proteins one day; for animals as well as for man; on earth as
well as in space.
On the Normandy coast lie ships made of reinforced concrete dating from the Second World War; they are the proof that this ecological and cheap material resists time and the sea.
It’s in these deep-sea farms made of concrete that under-water agriculture could start: the only form of mass agriculture without using GM technology and pesticides. Also another form of producing seaweed for food, could be in pipelines made of glass .No transport of food. No need for truck, nor road, nor oil ! Just pump it from the pipe !
Sub-marine agriculture also involves the mastery of remote controlled and autonomous systems; these will allow man to be freed from the modern slavery of paid work.
And what about industry ?
Sub-marine industry, entirely automated, will be able to supply the essential human needs (food, medicines, shoes, medical materials, means of transport and energy) and will waste much less energy and resources than our present industries, which are out-of-date!!
Events will show we are right, and we will win.
Various problems , demands and proposals.
Immigration: Asylum seekers can make UNIONS progress.
Mass immigration is not a fatality: it is a transitory phenomena linked to the collapse of communism in -Eastern Europe among other things. This phenomenon will end once the spectacular progress in sub-marine agriculture and industry will have reduced the wealth gap between the north and the south, the east and the west.
-Meanwhile, all political, economic or humanitarian asylum seekers not in possession of a European employment contract should work voluntarily in an association working to solve the economic, political and humanitarian problems in the immigrant’s country of origin. One can only cut his benefits, reject his demand for asylum or deport him if he refuses.
-In this way, Europe will actively contribute in pushing back the anti-Western feelings in the world, inherited from de-colonisation and Nazism; and put out the fire that it recklessly started.
- A family group is limited to those holding a UNION'S work contract (and partners and dependents under 21 years).
- Everyone holding a UNION'S employment contract should be allowed to stay.
- Treat human traffickers as enemy agents and fight them with military means (use of information services)
UNIONS: What could UNIONS bring forth?
These UNIONS are both the springboard and stage of national genius!
- Free movement of goods and people around the planet by 2050.
- Harmonisation of EVERY UNION social rights.
- Social recognition of voluntary work.
- Prevalence of each UNION's social rights in all companies working in this UNION or with a majority of capital from this UNION.
CONTINENTAL UNION:
- Free movement of goods and people within continent by 2030 (Europe, Russia, India, China, Middle East). European diplomacy has a lot to do, to create CONTINENTAL UNION, on the base of EUROPEAN UNION.
AFRICAN UNION:
- All African states will unite one day in AFRICAN UNION, by 2030, and maybe before that.
AMERICAN UNION:
- All American states will unite one day in AMERICAN UNION, by 2030, and certainly before that.
Justice: a fairer justice system.
- Fines should be strictly proportional to the revenues and wealth of the guilty party
- Control of the electoral lists by the citizens; abolition of unfair electoral exclusion.
- Recognition of neutral votes. I they exceed a certain percentage, then election should be cancelled.
Finance: Elitist capitalism should give way to popular capitalism; sub-marine success depends on it.
- Creation of a compulsory, universal savings account which, better than taxes, will finance and underwrite sub-marine agriculture. Due to its universal and compulsory character, this new financial infrastructure will remain the property of the good people. The traditional capital will no longer have a dominant role.
Environment: The end of automobile supremacy.
- Freedom of movement for bicycles on pavements and in one-way streets.
- Reduce the needs for personnel of companies through full or partial automation; this will limit professional commuting.
- Develop distance working and work at home.
- Encourage voluntary work for the unemployed near their homes, guaranteeing an income above the poverty threshold, so as to limit travel as well as giving each person a useful role in his neighbourhood.
Agriculture:
- Total ban on pesticides, fungicides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers by 2050.
Environment: Renewable technologies from 2025.
- By 2025, all companies selling goods to individuals or to other companies should be able to recycle the entirety of the goods for up to ten years after production has ceased. The primary resources should entirely be re-usable to reproduce the same product.
This is the only way to preserve natural resources especially certain rare minerals, while continuing to improve living standards of humans. (Needless to say that living standards don’t necessarily mean driving one’s car to get bread, or changing one’s mobile phone every week!)
Each new product launched on the market after 2020 should comply with these new norms; the company should prove its capacity to recuperate the product, and its packaging, from its clients and recycle it fully. Also, its harmlessness to human health should be proven.
If this is the case, the good or product will receive authorisation to be put on the market.
- Only 100% biodegradable goods and products should be exonerated from this obligation. No product could be put on the market without meeting these conditions.
Automobiles: Electric vehicles by 2030.
- Totally re-think the transport system by 2030. In any case, the petrol reserves would be exhausted by then!
- Do everything possible to limit commuting.
Energy: Renewable energy from 2030.
- Resolve the energy crisis before 2030. On this crucial point there are many questions in the air:
- Is nuclear fusion the only possible way? What are the dangers? Are we sure of its operational profitability? Will it be operational before 2030? And if “yes”, at what cost?
- Are not wind farms on the high seas or hydrogen plants more reliable?
DID YOU LIKE IT ?
Print, photocopy it and distribute it among those who do not have
computers nor internet. Have it translated when you go abroad.
We will certainly be heard…
Francois Joseph Joinneau
Premises of this text has been written 31st may of 2004.
26 octobre 2010
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