In the end, every little step becomes a economic unit. In practice it means, every step of, for instance, a nurse has a certain time limit. Every step too much would cost too much money and would not be economical viable. The crisis of the health system is a big part of the financial system. More and more people are getting older and become in old age nursing cases.
How can the nurses really care for the patients, if they have only 5 or 10 minutes allocated for the personal contact?
How can human contact and emotions be translated into money?
This is a chance to create sustainability in hospitals and nursing homes. Let’s cut of the work time of the workforce by the amount they have to work and pay for their old age and the time saved will be used for social tasks. Such as supporting the nurses in the nursing homes. The nurses can take care of their business and the people will take care of the social contact with the patients.
An other thought could be to involve handicapped people in public tasks. As it is usual today, handicapped people are being held away from the public. As though people are being disturbed by them. And perhaps it is so, but this is so because we let it happen. Handicapped people are part of society and should be in the center of society.They are part of live and to ban them from normal life is inhuman for them and a loss for the so called normal people.
This would save society a lot of money and the handicapped people would feel part of society. Something, which would help them to feel much better than to be living and working in the periphery of society.
The money saved with such measures would also mitigate the susceptibility of society for the omnipresent financial crisis.

The energy saving light bulbs are, after they have burnt out, special waste. Where is in your town the collecting points for this kind of garbage? In some towns recycling yards exist, where the citizens can get rid of such waste. In many cases, the recycling yards are so far away from the citizens, that the citizens have to drive their cars to get there. This is not the right way to save energy. Recycling points should be all over town. This would help the individual to save energy.

The problem is, that the private person is asked to save energy while the public sector, such as the municipalities are not contributing as much as they could. One way the municipalities are wasting energy are the Street Lights.

The task of the street lights is to grant the public safety on the streets. But as it is it seems that the municipalities are trying to turn the night into a artificial day, which is called Light Pollution.

Let’s assume that every 25 meters a street light pole stands, that would sum up to 40 poles every kilometer.  Some poles have two or even more lamps. In past Mercury-vapor lamps were used, now they are substituted by Sodium-vapor lamps. The power range of Low Pressure Sodium lamps range from 10W to 180 W. High Pressure Sodium lamps, as can be seen at the picture in the link, reach 600W.

The way for municipalities would be to put the street lights, not every 25 meter but every 30 meter. The saving would be considerable. Not only the electricity but also in resources. Instead of 40 street lights only 33! Without reducing the illumination of the streets in such a way that the safety of the car drivers or the pedestrians would be limited. Especially in the center of cities the distance of the street lights is not as important, since the lights of shop windows and advertisements are competing with the street lights.

Of course, in areas where there are no other light sources the street lights can be stay closer. This example is also an aspect of Inherent Energy in every city! To save energy is not just the task of every citizen but of every one, also of the public sector.

Despite all the water on earth, water fit for consumption by human beings is only about 1% of the fresh water and only 0.007% of all the water on earth. While world Population grows the amount of potable water remains the same or diminishes, because of pollution, Climate Change and the incisions of human beings in nature. The Water Peak will reach new heights!

One of the solutions offered by technology is to Desalinate water and so produce potable water. Contrary to what Nesseq suggests, the TOTEM System, the Reverse Osmosis technology is preferred. Although this technology demands a lot of energy and the potable water would be a by product of the TOTEM System.

All this is a matter for discussion. What is difficult to understand is, why water is becoming a economical commodity. Water is being sold in bottles in supermarkets. In the developed countries water from all over the world can be bought in bottles. Just like wine, which is produced in Chile and is sold in Europe. The problem is, that the Water Balance of the areas from which the water originates is getting disturbed. The water is being shipped off to far away countries. Water is added where it does not belong and this besides the fact that the whole process demands much energy. Not enough with this, all the plastic bottles are after their use just an addition to the garbage!

For such a banal product as potable water, which should be accessible in highest quality to every person in this world!

A after thought, could the next step be, that oxygen will be sold in bottles in supermarkets?

All others who deny such a possibility suffer from the Titanic Syndrome and might wake up on a gigantic Iceberg!

This is not true. The truth is, that I really try to answer all direct questions. Someone called Anna, probably the same Anna Brown, wrote me in the same post, that I sell propaganda. The Nasa couldn’t know the temperatures in the year 1860! All is a fake. What am I suppose to answer to this? It is a matter of believe. If a fervent believer in god is discussing god with a fervent non-believer, the discussion will be heated but pointless. If someone believes that the Climate Change will happen he will believe it and might be surprised to find out in the future that it didn’t happen. On the other hand, there are people who fervently deny Climate Change and might find out in the future that they were wrong. But since they deny Climate Change they did not get prepared for such a situation.

My stance is, and everyone can check it out, that there is a possibility of a Climate Change and the only responsible thing to do is to get prepared to a worst-case scenario if it happens. If the climate will not change after all nothing is lost.

So, I ask the reader, what should I answer someone who accuses me of selling propaganda. Or in other words, that I am lying. I leave it to the readers to make up their own mind to such accusations. Anyone can believe what s/he wants but to deny that everything is possible, that the climate can’t change is to live in an illusion. If we regard Earth history, we can see that the climate has been changing constantly and there is no reason to assume it has come to a point where it can’t change anymore.

The only responsible thing to do is to get prepared for such a situation! And this is what this website is all about. The task of Nesseq is not to discuss whether or not climate change is happening or not. The task is too find solutions in a global network for such a terrible eventuality.

Another point I want to make clear is, that  if I mention celebrities, like Paul McCartney and Chelsea Clinton, and get hateful comments I will not approve them anymore!

If someone is hateful of me I will publish the comment, no matter what. I leave it to my readers to agree or disagree with those comments.

Be it as it is. Either the climate is changing or not. The slim chance that it might happen should be reason enough to get prepared for a worst-case scenario. If the climate will not change after all, nothing will be lost. We will just have paid a kind of insurance fee, to be prepared for all eventualities.

But this should not concern us in this post. The topic is the behavior of us humans towards nature. This behavior can only be called a state of war against nature. Just look at the devastation of the forests. Although the so called illegal deforestation has declined in the past years the forest is still only regarded as a never ending supplier of timber for human beings. Regardless of the important role of the forest as a main source of Photosynthesis.

The other picture shows how a healthy forest has to look like!

The forest is only one example. The recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is another example. The list of devastation is endless. We only pay attention to the tip of the Iceberg of the ecological catastrophes. The little ones are not even noticed anymore, the media only reports the major incidents.

Still the destruction of nature is not to be overseen. Mankind regards nature just as something to be exploited. Nature is the modern time Proletariat! An entity without rights, which can be exploited without remorse.

This a very short sighted way of looking at nature. Nature, so the theory, strives for Balance. This tendency of nature is profoundly disturbed by human beings. First of all by the sheer size of world population, which will grow by 30%, from 7 billion to 9 billion in 2050, and the regardless behavior of mankind to this balance.

As human beings we are confronted with the unknown. How delicate this balance on earth is, is an unknown factor. It took earth about 4.5 billion years to achieve the balance in which humanity could blossom and reach this stage of existence. But now humanity is disturbing the balance of nature and a Climate Change becomes a distinct possibility. Professor Frank Fenner believes that humanity becomes extinct within the next 100 years. Perhaps this prognosis is too pessimistic but it is still a possibility. And why not? It has to be kept in mind, that if a dog bites the hand that feeds him, the dog will be put to sleep.

And if humanity bites the hand that feeds it, nature or evolution, just might get rid of us humans in order to reestablish the balance!

The interesting point is that preceding the crisis Oil Prices rose to 147 US-Dollar per barrel. As compared to 17 US-Dollars per barrel in 1999 and, and after some ups and downs to 70$ a barrel in 2009.

The high petroleum prices were actually a blessing for Alternative Energy. Which, of course, lost all appeal once oil prices fell again.

The aftermath of this crisis is not only limited to the United States but are felt all over the world, the article is just about an example. Municipalities are losing revenues and, as the magazine reports, Nebraska state senator Rich Pahls proposes to merge many of the state’s 93 counties. The idea was to centralize such diverse services such as boarding up courthouses, road maintenance, vehicle registration and even sheriffs’ offices.The bill died partly, so the Time, because it would seem too frank an acknowledgment of the passing of small-town America.

What the article did not mention, that it would have probably happened also  to the garbage collection and waste water treatment.

This means a waste of Inherent Energy! In regard of garbage collection, waste water treatment and power production the decentralized concept of the TOTEM System would be much more efficient then the conventional infrastructure. The cost of every single unit in the neighborhoods are manageable since every single unit is not built at the same time but successively. The TOTEM System can start to work in a short time and would return the investment would be almost immediately. This would help to finance the following TOTEM Systems. The initial investment would be much less then the investment for a conventional infrastructure which needs billions!

Side Remark!

The peculiar thing with the crisis of 2008 is, beside the fact that trillions of US-Dollars and Euro were used to stabilize banks, that even as the oil prices fell it did not help to push the economy forward. The crisis still prevails!

In the article in the Times, a young, 9 years old boy by the name of Campbell Jenkins of Charlotte, N.C., began writing letters of protest to the municipality, because the public libraries were to be closed for lack of funds. Not enough with this, he and his third-grade school mates  sold lemonade and donated their proceeds, $595 to the local library.

This is what we. at Nesseq, believe is Self-Help. Not in the sense of the Wikipedia link but more as a social movement, like the Loan Guaranty Fund. Don’t wait for politicians and businessmen to do something, do it yourself!

And if a 9year old boy can do it, we grown ups can do it too!

To deny the possibility of a Climate Change may be nice psychological mechanism to remain calm in a potentially dangerous situation, but it does not help if the danger really exist.

The question, whether the climate is changing because of the short sighted behavior of mankind or because of a natural cycle is not relevant. If it is a natural cycle might be even worse than if it is caused by mankind. The Climate throughout Geo-history is full of examples how the climate has been changing in every era of the earth.

Today humanity has come to a point where everyone of us has to decide if we let a possible possible Climate Change happen or not. And if we can’t stop the process of a changing climate, what can we do in order to mitigate it?

Except for the suggestions offered in Nesseq, like the TOTEM System, the Loan Guaranty Fund or the Ultra Light City Vehicles, where one is asked to act in a group, one can do a lot all by him/her self.

The key is to give up on the idea of abundance. The idea of abundance, on which our whole economic system relies, implies that there are no limits to growth. Economic growth that is. The underlying concept is, that the consumption of goods shouldn’t be tamed. This is in direct contradiction to the problem of the Climate Change. The production of every good needs energy, therefore every good which is consumed unnecessarily is a waste of energy.

The World Population Growth must also be taken into account. The more people will populate the earth the less resources the individual will have. Be it space or goods. The less every individual needs the more people can share the limited resources of earth!

The problem is whether society in a state of emergency will have the democratic freedoms we all strive to have! In a state of emergency it might be problematic.

Perhaps I am biased, but my personal gut feeling tells me the numbers of floods are accumulating and they are getting worse! Could this be the signs of Climate Change?

But not only floods are in the news lately. In Russia another incident of catastrophic proportions is happening – Wildfire.

Russia is known for its bitterly cold winters, but is now enduring its severest heatwave for decades. 48 people died. Russia is one of the major grain producer in the world and because of the dry summer and the wildfires the Grain Prices are soaring. What will a loaf of bread cost?

Every natural disaster jeopardizes the food supply. In the case of Russia it is felt globally, in the case of Pakistan it is only of local importance. Still people suffer!

Not just that, floods and earth quakes interrupt the supply of drink water and energy and the disposal of waste and sewage is usually impossible. Which is a possible source for diseases.

The problem lies in the system of centralization.  1 power plant, 1 water work, 1 sewage facility, 1 garbage disposal system service a whole area. And when the system breaks down, not just because of natural disasters, everything breaks down.

The solution would be to decentralize the system as it is shown by the TOTEM System.  With the decentralized system it is safe to assume, that in a case of natural disasters or by a belligerent attack not all the units will be affected. Because it is a network of cells, each cell could be build flood safe.

Because of  World Population Growth and in order to fight Climate Change, vast areas must be left to nature to revive itself, there is no alternative but to build the city of tomorrow vertically. As opposed to the present, where the city spreads out horizontally. Although in the center of the cities, where the prices for land is high sky scrapers are normal. Now the task is to provide all the people of the world with enough living space and this is the challenge of Urban Planning for the future.

A good example is the proposition of Farming in the Sky! But again it is only a proposition and except for the theory nothing exists yet. It is the same as with the TOTEM System. The difference being, that the TOTEM System is the proposition of one man, me Max Nadel of Nesseq, and the Farming in the Sky is the proposition of scientists from the Columbia University.

It is imperative to start building models now as long as  there is time to learn from the mistakes!

Instead I write a post about Meat Consumption as a reason for the Changing Climate and, at least partly, the answer to the Climate Change. The reason I write this post now is an answer to all the comments to the last post about the wedding of Chelsea Clinton. My hope was, that because Ms. Clinton serves Vegan food at her wedding it will find lots of people who will imitate her and that vegetarian and vegan diet becomes more accepted in society. But most of the comments did not relate to the intention but are rather hateful, as though the people writing about Ms. Clinton know her personally.

The facts why we should eat less meat are overwhelming. Besides the the Health reasons humanity must cut down on the meat consumption because of ecological reasons. The facts mentioned here are all taken from the German news magazine Sueddeutsche Zeitung – Wissen (South-German Newspaper – Knowledge) April 2009.  I found the article the most comprehensive compilation of fact to this topic.

Every year 40 billion animals are killed to feed humans. It is a fact, that the more wealthy a nation becomes the more meat is consumed.  But to keep this post short we will concentrate on Cattle.

Cattle provides Milk, Meat and Leather. The global population of cattle is an estimated 1.3 billion heads!

To get 1 kilogram of meat the cow has to eat 32 kilogram of fodder. At the age of 18 month the cow is slaughtered. It has used until then, 93 kg Milk Substitute, 5754 kg Maize Silage, 138 kg Hay, 1020 kg Soy/Crop, 31 kg Mineral Fodder. The animal consume 14.500 liter water, 24.45 liter Diesel fuel and 6-7 kWh of electricity. All this is needed to achieve a living weight of 580 kg!

In order to gain 1 kg of meat the cattle has to consume 7 kg of grain. For 1 metric ton of Protein of peas 1.3 hectare land is needed and 185 cubic meter of water. For the same amount of protein from pork 125 pigs have to consume 50 tons of plants, which are grown on 12.4 hectare land and need 11.421 cubic meter of water.

40% of the global crop production is eaten by cows. 18% of the Green house gases are produced by the animals. One fact I haven’t found yet is how much land all the animals, cattle, pork and poultry, demand for raising and feeding. Not to forget the fish farms!

The efficiency rate of the animals are estimated to be about 30%. Of 100% plant protein in the fodder only 30% become meat protein.

To raise all those animals a lot of forests is destroyed. Also the Global Population Growth has to be taken into account. The more people live, the more meat will be consumed. If every person on earth will consume as much meat as the people in the wealthy countries no forest will survive.

Therefore I, personally, am grateful for celebrities such as Chelsea Clinton or Paul McCartney who make vegetarian or vegan diet more acceptable to the public. And it is to be hoped that many people will follow and eat less meat and animal products. In the name of a healthy Climate!