“There is really good news: Man is capable of reason and therefore limitless intellectual and moral perfectibility! We can do something that neither the donkeys nor the monkeys can do: we can discover new scientific principles of the universe in which we live, without limits! And these qualitative discoveries mean that, unlike donkeys and monkeys, we can constantly redefine what resources are, therefore making them unlimited, and that we can continue to improve the livelihoods of humanity!”
International Call to Youth: “The Age of Reason Is in the Stars!”
Helga Zepp-LaRouche
The Feature this week is the full statement from Helga Zepp-LaRouche you see in the above quotation. Yes, mankind, as Dr. Krafft Ehricke, one of the great space pioneers, said, mankind is only limited by himself.
And included it the Feature are a couple of items expressing a different idea, if we are generous in calling such, an idea. That is, that environmentalist hysteria has reached such a point that an entire industry has emerged in the psychology profession to treat “eco-anxiety.”
One more word on the general topic so far. Helga Zepp-LaRouche commented a few days ago that,
“The alternative, obviously, is that we have to have a New Paradigm where the future of mankind has to be organized by scientists and Classical artists; because these are the only two essential groups of people who believe in verifiable universal principles. And Lyn has been stressing [Lyndon LaRouche, that is] all the time that you have to have politics based on the physical laws of the universe. The only people who know that are people who believe in discovery, which is universal. Because you can replicate it through experiments around the world. That is the question of science; it’s not a question of opinion. So, the application of science and Classical art principles as in the great Classical compositions, that has to become the basis for politics.”
Otherwise, as admitted now by the financial press, the government’s own statistics released a few days ago, and virtually anyone who is sentient, knows this economy and financial system is sitting on the edge of a new collapse. That will make things very difficult (to understate it) to do much of anything to actually address long-term infrastructure requirements of water, energy, transportation and the fact that half of the people in our nation live under, or just above, the official poverty level.
A word on where we will be in 50 to 100 years should spark some serious thinking. The nation now has a population of just over 320 million people (California is at 40 million). By 2100, unless we submit to collapse and war, the U.S. population should be 600-700 million and California will be at about 80 million. I will leave that comment to be addressed more directly in next week’s report.
In the rest of this week’s report:
The U.S. Drought Monitor returns to this report this week, for a touch of drought has emerged in the state. Just a touch, but, as the man said, you have to start somewhere.
We are now in the peak fire season of September and October and still have been blessed with no major fires. A couple of articles discuss why and what to expect.
This is followed by a report that while the headlines may blare out that the Amazon is burning down, and Alaska and Siberia are burning, the reality is that “Fires Globally Have Declined 25% Since 2003 Thanks To Economic Growth.” An article with that title by Michael Shellenberger is excerpted.
Arguments about water and water infrastructure in California are, of course, a never-ending normal par for the course. If fact, it gets boring, since what is never addressed, at least by the major contestants in the arguments, is how the state will provide water for another ten million people expected to live here over the next 30 years. So, we shall ignore this week those arguments and return to some of them next week.
The broader question of infrastructure must always be in the context of the state of the economy, the nation’s economic policy, and the necessity of giving the nation a mission that excites people to want to be part of.
So, the rest of the report this week begins with the federal government announcing that we are returning to building nuclear power plants and they will be done with the next generation of nuclear technology. This on top of the Artemis Project of landing the first woman and another man on the Moon in 2024, demonstrates that President Trump is moving forward on his intent to revive the nation’s future, despite the fact that he has virtually no support in Washington, D.C., either from both parties or the Wall Street scum in his administration.
Then some items on the economy follow, including excerpts from a report (actually an editorial) on the necessary package of measures to avoid a new collapse and return the nation, and the world, to real growth and development.
The report concludes with the Feature.
