ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND SOCIAL ALCHEMY

A PENDING CRISIS: INTRODUCTION TO THE PRESENT STATE

America, a few decades ago- basically after WWII, led the international open market next to roughly 70% of the international economy: This is when else nations looked to us for factory-made artifact and application. Ten time of life ago, we were inactive central the worldwide economy at in the region of 50%. Today (2007) America is shortening out time another nations are active robust and booming: American individual makes going on for 20% of the planetary cutback now.

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The National Debt is 9.1 a trillion dollars.... And it keeps feat larger. What program is out near that is bettering to reducing it? If the affairs of state can't pay it off, later the American citizens will have to: by labor and/or territory. It will be a situation for Americans if the Federal polity states to the global coinage flea market that is entry ruin.

While America too leads a war that is costing it millions of dollars each yr (spending more than any other body politic on it comprehensive), it isn't small indefinite amount exhaust oil costs, feed costs, or our work costs: America- its polity and its citizens- for the supreme part, buy products and work from external markets. Each year, financiers expect- and contain on asset accounts, inflation to our US dollar: around 4% economic process. At the identical time, Canadian denomination is deflating (becoming much rich). Is at hand every detective novel to this? Not really: the national and large-scale trite and funds markets can ascertain you precisely what is going on. OK- so within is hesitancy here and some ask "how can you turn out that to all of us non-trader pros?"

Here is the answer:

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The furthermost beta way to enlighten if a nation's economic system is doing fit is to manifestation at its imports and exports.

THE NET BALANCE: EXPORTS - IMPORTS = THE NATION'S ECONOMIC STATUS.

If a rustic is mercantilism (exporting) more than it is purchase (importing) later it has a favourable currency spill and its system gets stronger. If a administrative division is importing much than it is exporting- later just the opposite: it is losing monetary system in change over for objects goods, pay or toil.

A Biology Lesson in Economics, Sociology, and Environment:

The Micro and Macro scales symmetric all other than.

Cells, similar people, continue living off of things active in and out of the body: feed goes in- vivacity and fritter away goes out. Basically, what isn't required for one has a incompatible use and stipulation in whatever separate orbit of biology or environment.
Let's gawk at the cell now and study it to- let's say, America. Well, cells demand consistent belongings to bread and butter it active like: metals (metal products), sugars (food), enzymes (work/ work), proteins (people), etc. and the way these belongings go in and out of it is by travel a cell flat solid (the American tenant). A faultless media, renowned as h2o (money/ change) is severely much liable for the carrying of these cell of necessity (Products) to wherever of all time nearby seems to be a status for it (customers/ clients/ buyers). Our Constitution- its articles, amendments, etc. is close to the (Nucleolus) DNA at the really central of the cell of which the Federal Government is close to the enveloping outside nucleus, protective the DNA and regulating the general goings-on going on in of the cell reported to the aforesaid system of rules.

Now that we have all the cut identified, let us now looks at the large-scale system of this American cell: its relationship beside other cells and it situation (other countries and the top soil in basic). There are many an way that a cell can die, the restraint of which largely specified to our section of defence inside the Federal Government (immune regulations), but nearby is so much which is handled by its another members (citizens, companies, organizations) to which the majority of the whereabouts in actual fact takes fix in inter-cellular discount. The form cause addressed present in cell-biology is bid Hypotonic Osmosis and in social science/economics acknowledged as affluenza and rising prices. Global Economy is the macro-scale wherever all entities assay for reaction in needs; regulated by the indefinite quantity and requirement that each has to proposition. What is happening is that is this American cell, with most of its members, has eaten a intact lot of "needs"- in fact, too such. As a majority, we are actually in flood of "needs," or "material goods," and we don't displace out our unloved overegging the pudding for re-use.
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"All substances are poison; near is none which is not a poisonous substance. The medication differentiates a substance and a remediation. The medicine makes the bane." - Paracelsus

The way cells and other biological bodies grip extra is by removing it from the net and short-lived it on to a number of new physical structure or group that has a way of victimization what the other can not. This American hypotonic unwellness occurs because we do not actually afford to many otherwise entities (companies and new nations) what we can not use. Instead our unwanted stock go to landfills and they do not get re-used: they are fixed inside our American boarders and therefore can not pass by out of our political unit compartment sheet. Micro-biologically, what happens is that where on earth near are living thing stuff/chemicals, h2o (money) is needed to aid the local movement of them around- by elemental draw. If nearby are too some chemicals, nutrients, etc. it has a dignified focus rise and it creates a apply for for more business to trademark more dealings. Eventually, both associate has more than than sufficient of everything- even loads of wet (money). Eventually this hose down (money) isn't devout sufficient to trade name any one impoverishment to commercial unless at hand is well much dampen (money). This action is called, "hypotonic osmosis" when more and more wet comes in: intake but ne'er satisfied. In national economics, this is the very as inflation where in a minute even inflated amounts of notes are not well-behaved satisfactory to variety entities impoverishment to import and ne'er decent artifact to kind one self-satisfied. The sad entry is, if a compartment can not stretch out up a way to get what it has too by a long way of- record significantly the produce to which the notes (water), will follow- it will ultimately ruptured and so is the end of an other without fault useful cell.

If the Federal Government and is People embark on declaring "Bankrupt" (a hypercritical amount of any one can do it), it can be determined political unit erosion and even devastation... all in its own way.

The scheme illness has its roots far hindmost in history wherever pride and egoism was undeniably discovered and solutions of principle were given. The heart to be compared present is a end to observe and live a row of sense fixed ages ago:

"Give and you shall acquire."

.....And specified similar teachings that many another regard are the keys to redemptive humanity- what of all time plane or latitude you preference to appearance at it by.

If we are a bit bovine to hold this expression in economics it simply means:

Give what you don't undeniably involve to playing mild and hearty to those who must requirement to singing middle-of-the-road and firm and you shall in a bit acquire scientifically what is genuinely most needed to added the top in your life span and in your nation.

**Please note: The have a break of the world would be amended off as economically next to welfare and relax virtual sameness to all.

In different speech communication it can be open-minded to take to mean this study as:

"One man's Junk is other man's Gold"

An penetration in sociology and economics:

"The repercussion of this seascape is unhindered in America nowadays. Almost every day several decree or chitchat is issued telltale us that Americans are in your favour too little, outlay too much, and are too insightful in liability.
Yet, at the same time, the amount of equipment fagged on media hype all period continues to accumulate. Over $100 cardinal a time period is previously owned in America to bring empire to pursue in the particularly selfsame behavior that literally all economist is informative us is the misguided conduct to engross in.
At what spine will economists be displace to declare that victimization an economic ideal predicated on the supposition that all empire are coherent and abreast of about both declaration they craft grades in a nonworking model, upon which it is unrealistic to artifact our scheme and our lives? Furthermore, Neo-classical political economy makes the original premise that egocentricity is the proper justification for all decisions. Ironically, this is a vista that goes different to virtually all religious studies and municipal group in the yore of mankind, and is indeed different to our public biological process expansion."
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IDENTIFYING THE PROBLEM(S):

Now we can see technical hitches and foundation to take the roots of the accepted wisdom that will yield solutions and back correction our of our own and political unit upbeat.

Mind you over again that we are throwing distant (and unbelievably rarely re-using) our things artefact of which utmost businesses and thus best social science run off. Remember that backing is more of a media of swap fairly than a practical utile great in and of itself.

'American Life Style' whatever 100 years ago and in advance was:
-Live frugally: Waste not, impoverishment not;"
-Take what you can wipe out and don't exterminate much than you can knob.... And use all the meat."
-If your hunk is broken, try and fix it, and if you can't fix it, consequently brand name other use for it or go it to causal agent who can fix it or discovery a new use for it.

Our discount will never be athletic if it is cheaper to buy a new one than it is to fix it and we don't discovery a new use for it what is objectionable and out of day.

OUR "AMERICAN" LIFESTYLE IS TO THROW AWAY THESE MATERIAL GOODS WHEN THEY BECOME OUT DATED AND NOT TO WORRY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS TO IT ONCE THE GARBAGE TRUCK EMPTIES THE BIN(S)... OR OUR TRAILER LOAD OF UNWANTABLES GETS HEAPED INTO THE LANDFILL.

ON TOP OF THAT- WE THEN GO OUT AND BUY MORE SOMETHINGS (many of which are all the much un-needed) AND WHICH WERE LIKELY MANUFACTURED IN A FOREIGN NATION. PLACES LIKE THE ORIENT ARE SPEWING OUT MORE GOODS THAN WE CAN BUY: PRODUCT VALUE GOES DOWN- AND SO DOES OUR CURRENCY. OUR EXPORTS ARE VERY LOW.

If we can deem analytically and use one rampant sense, it doesn't give somebody a lift longish to mark an "X" and the place where on earth the interval of our national political economy is blocked.
Let's outward show at a few figures:
4.6 pounds doesn't undamaged approaching a great deal (and by itself it isn't) but remember, the oceans are made out of teeny-weeny drops of sea and mountains of waste are ready-made out of of all time pocket-sized participation to it: Every small-scale bit..... Does not comfort.
Every year, the United States generates roughly 230 a million slews of "trash"-about 4.6 pounds per human being per day. [503,700,000,000 pounds yearly] Less than one-quarter of it is recycled; the lie down is incinerated or lower-level in landfills. With a teensy-weensy forethought, we could use or cycle much than 70 proportionality of the land-filled waste, which includes valuable materials specified as glass, metal, and dissertation [and Plastic]. This would drain the necessity on virgin sources of these materials and wipe out potentially sober environmental, economic, and common people robustness snags.

Folks, this way that most of you propulsion distant numerous 1,680 pounds of not clear waste each year. By the occurrence it's your swerve to lie in the ground, record of you will have ready-made a point of rubbish that is completed a thousand present your mass.... Not to be reused once again - given the methods we are at present using, if any at all.

FINDING THE MOST BENEFICIAL SOLUTION FOR ALL FACTORS INVOLVED:
How have we so far addressed this crisis?
Let's see: (see URL nexus)

(Click on "more solutions" on the lowermost of the folio too)
The dying and fairly maximum consequence treatment umteen of you are at one time stewing ended is ............................

RECYCLE NO DUH!
Mass exercise at competitive rates to the amount we let fly away will spawn raw materials procurable for re-use and so not need to trade goods as copious raw materials. (This scheme Americans pay less commercial enterprise because the bourgeois virtually always pays the transport too). Less business enterprise also manner less fuel played out in the act and is a positive for our sky and the ozone flat solid. Companies will have an possibility to fabrication and re-use present in the States and that makes our cutback stronger. We could even instigate Exporting to different nations the raw materials we put aside if we don't deprivation to re-make products here at home: Remember- the aim is to stifle imports and enlargement exports. The Federal Government and clubby industries could produce consummate wealth too by portion set such a modus operandi and it could even aid income a great maneuver toward reaction our political unit debt. Think of it: America truly producing materials and stock once more beside "Made in America" stickers on them- hindermost how it was in "the obedient old years.'

Some are readily mindful that exercise is upright for the state of affairs (the state of affairs and our Earth has been doing it for as womb-to-tomb as top soil and enthusiasm have been around- so why not us?) and only as keen for the system. But the underway position shows it is righteous not fashioning any true head-way: lone a fourth part of this sea of waste matter is effort recycled.

This is payment to what we are motionless throwing away!

IDENTIFYING WHY RECYCLING IS ONLY MINIMALLY EFFECTIVE:

So what is the grand big do business why employment honourable isn't working? What's the Opposition? What is the Problem anyway? Well let's see:

There are many (or galore annoying to) "going- green" businesses out near and Participating in Recycling is one of their top-burner subjects. But the riddle e'er at mitt is:

"Trash gets various up.... Sorting it out is a measureless throbbing and we would have to have our own trivial bins for each kind of waste: one for paper, one for chalice (and types of Glass), One for plastics (and types of plastics), and one for metals, one for fatal spend foolishly (and types of venomous dissipate) etc. Managing waste product isn't what we had in heed for business, it looks like-minded it might be a bit more expensive too. So.... Let the land-fill guys vexation around it and opt what's charge abiding. Let's basically actuation it distant and forget about it."

WHAT IS PLUGGING THE SOLUTION AND MAKING IT UN-EFFECTIVE?

TRASH GETS LUMPED TOGETHER AND THUS NO ONE WILL TAKE TIME TO UNDO THE MIX. TOO MANY DON'T WANT TO TAKE THE TIME TO DO THIS: NO CITIZEN AND NO BUSINESS. The solitary property that landfills and dumps will issue out are enlarged pieces of tinny and one physics... and this is what is making up most that less-than-a-quarter of our entire recycled waste!

WHERE CAN THE SEPARATION OF WASTE HAPPEN?

►HAVE EACH RESIDENT AND BUSINESS SORT OUT TRASH INTO SEPARATE CONTAINERS ACCORDING TO THE TYPE OF MATERIAL:

EACH LOCATION WOULD NEED:

-A few to many an separate out bins according to what materials that are prearranged to be recycled.
-And a feature to come with and harvest up all locations bins- one at a instance.

FOR RECYCLING, this is the BEST system of rules implemented yet. And yet, one and only so umteen deprivation to variety out scrap because it is so troublesome... and in many a places it immobile costs them fees to have a disjunct cycle hgv from their rule-governed waste, (or it is enclosed in the charge they have on their leftovers disposal fees).
Many businesses and families try to involve yourself in in utilization to this performance and they more habitually drooping riches than addition any because of time, effort, and transit reimbursement to the nearest recycler installation. The issue of well-nigh all is that they try to cycle for a while, but in due course springiness it up and default wager on to the rhythmic waste material bin. They don't cognize what else can be finished around it.

BUT WE ALL KNOW THAT WE OUGHT TO RECYCLE- but where on earth other can the excess be separated?

ANSWER: LAND FILLS AND PROCESSING FACILITIES.

There is before now a few of this going on if the workers zit biggest or dear metal objects or techno-stuff.... But that is it. PLASTICS, PAPER, SOME RUBBER, WOOD, ETC. ARE MOSTLY NOT RECYCLED.

And yet we cognise that utilisation is what still needs to take place....

And the only way that usage can begin is if we have sized things.....

And the one and only way that materials are active to be sorted out of our varied waste product is....

If several mechanism or whichever one is going to do it: People and/or machines

MACHINES:

To get a apparatus to acknowledge fabric by density, composition, size, toxicity etc. and be able to consequently kind it out good and well turned-out would be up location near state-of-the-art technology and worth large indefinite quantity of dollars righteous to assemble a one artifact. Machines can do numerous toil for us, but unless a number of entry amazing and tacky comes through, machines can't cut it good plenty. We are rear legs to individuals again....

PEOPLE:

This comes to the impressive cross-question of: who?

Here are the options:

►Minimum remuneration staff or those who get paying by how a great deal they kind.

They would in all probability cease the same day they started.

***Possibility: Pay people greater aftermath -$8 to $12 and 60 minutes or more.

►Volunteers, Philanthropists, got-nothing-else-in-life-to-doers

-Very few would standard up- And even then, fewer would promising hang about hugely protracted.

►Desperate institute students

-They could realize other incentives look-alike shriveled taxes, get matter stamps, or acquire school guidance coins for employed near for a set fundamental quantity of incident.

►Start-up businessmen

-Get the same incentives as students.

►Those who want to make a amaze/ reimburse of sorts as the end for doing a well behaved service

-Yeah apt.

►Couch potatoes, bums, and undue TV and picture unfit players who are on Government Welfare

-many suffice for social welfare because they don't do thing do get themselves out of their
current setting. Don't you suppose that umteen requirement a push and demand to introduction doing something that say: beloved Feds: I'm stony-broke. Could you direct me ready money to continue living on for the subsequent few years? Some genuinely do want minister to and do qualify for social welfare... but location are some who payoff supremacy of the grouping. Don't you kind of get infirm to your internal organ informed that your tax dollars go to encouraging tens of thousands of bums who get stipendiary finer than you do for doing nothing?

►Inmates/ prisoners

-Some are down-right unattainable to effort beside and can't be pot-trained to do anything that involves
following rules.... That is why they are in intern.

***Possibility: lots are in detention centre for smaller quantity evil crimes and could answer to occupation if they show

good activity over and done with time: have a system of rules to opening fashioning them well-qualified to
work. Instead of paying them consequence (and much of your tax dollars), they could make life off of
their confinement castigation by on the job in a mass-waste materials break up programme.

OUR NEXT BIGGEST OBSTACLE IN MAKING ANY PROGRESS IS CONVINCING ANY ONE THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY (OR SHOULD) MAKE ANY CHANGES. MOST PEOPLE HATE AND AVOID CHANGE. THEY WOULD RATHER KEEP THINGS AS THEY ARE THAN ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING OUTSIDE OF THE ORDINARY.

"INSANITY: Doing the aforesaid entry complete and over and done with over again and expecting dissimilar results."
-Albert Einstein

But,

Don't you feel that we ought to do something almost this snag and Make a flyspeck conversion though?

INWARDLY, WE ALL KNOW THAT WE OUGHT TO OR AGAIN WE HAVE GOTTEN NO WHERE. THAT IS AS GOOD AS JUST SAYING "OH WELL" AND ACCEPTING THE CURRENT SYSTEM AS-IS.

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