“There are 750 million adults in the world who are currently illiterate. There are 785 million people without clean water. Every year, 2 million people die of diarrhea. You can die of diarrhea, in case you didn’t know that. Some 40% of people in the world don’t have running water and soap; a place to wash their hands at home, a basic effort of sanitation. Almost 700 million people on the planet, as they put it, technically practice open defecation. Anyone know what that means? It means you poop on the ground; no toilet. Some 3 billion people lack access to clean cooking fuel. That means burning dung or wood or something like in your home to cook your food. That is serious air pollution right there. There is such a lack of infrastructure that in many African nations, productivity is less than half of what it could be, due to a lack of infrastructure. I think that’s too low a value. There are 2 billion people without trash collection; 9 out of 10 live in areas with polluted air. So, there are a lot of things where progress is needed.”
Jason Ross to the LaRouche PAC Manhattan meeting, September 14, 2019
A second excerpt from Jason Ross underlines why we must not just dismiss the entire narrative that human progress must be stopped because of “climate change,” but directly takes on the fraud of so-called limited resources and its companion slogan “sustainable development.”
“We should encourage consumption standards that are within the bounds of the ecologically possible, they say. What determines what is ecologically possible? There you go. There was a worry in the 1980s that we were going to run out of various resources: oil; certain kinds of metals were going to be too hard to get; etc. These predictions did not come to pass. So what's happening essentially is that developing countries are being told that what the U.S. and Western Europe have done and so on, simply cannot be replicated today; because it carries too great an ecological cost and you should just stay sustainably poor. Your poverty should be sustained. “What we need to do is recognize that in order to have sustainable development-- what makes development a sustained, long-term process isn't using less to accommodate to current resources, but developing new ones. If you want to sustain development, the way LaRouche poses this in terms of the durable survival of a nation, it can only be secured through a commitment to developing new technologies, new scientific breakthroughs. Today that would mean fusion, that would mean the development of the Moon, it would mean going on to Mars with nuclear rockets. That's sustainable development, or sustained development; it's development.” This idea is fully developed in this article by Jason Ross and Hussein Askary and published in the Executive Intelligence Review on September 13, 2019: ‘Sustainable Development’ Must Be Redefined as ‘Sustained Development’!-- The Belt & Road and the Apollo Program: Sources of Inspiration
by Hussein Askary and Jason Ross
https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2019/2019_30-39/2019-36/27-43_4636.pdf
In This Week’s Report
The Congress says it does not want to allocate a mere $2 billion for the Artemis Project for returning to the Moon in 2024. Yet, over the past three days the Federal Reserve has pumped more than $200 billion into the banks (a bailout) due to a lack of liquidity for banks to do the overnight lending required to keep balances in order. This is the first time in ten years that the Fed has resorted to these measures. Some may remember that it was ten years ago that the financial bubble blew up, and while the banks got $800 billion from Congress, six million people lost their homes and eight million people lost their jobs.
Two hundred billion dollars in three days! President Trump has proposed $200 billion per year for building infrastructure.
This system is broken.
More on this under the section below headlined “The Economy– Real and Unreal.”
What More?
The drought is slowly developing in California, as seen in this week’s U.S. Drought Monitor.
And as usual, the California “Water Wars” featured a scuffle that finds Governor Newsom pissing off the environmentalists and apparently siding with the state’s farmers and, get this, President Trump.
The Walker Fire, the largest thus far this year at 54,000 acres has been fully contained now. And still we are blessed with the extraordinary year of fires that are just 20 percent of what recent years have been. But, the fire season is not over yet.
The section on nuclear power features three articles, on small nuclear reactors, China re-instituting a vigorous nuclear power building program, and why the last nuclear plant in California, the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, must not be shut down.
The Feature this week is: “JFK and the Apollo Project, the Artemis Project, and Nuclear Propulsion.” It includes a dialogue between NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstein and LaRouche PAC leader Kesha Rogers on the topic of nuclear propulsion for space craft and President John Kennedy’s speech at Rice University in 1962 how we will get to the Moon with the Apollo Project.