by Patrick Ruckert
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20211223-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1640373628
“Today, Abraham Lincoln is generally revered as the man who freed the slaves. As true as that is, Lincoln’s intentions were actually much broader. He represented a continuum of Americans before and after, who sought to raise the condition of all people to a level which would better align with their actual human character, as creative beings made in the image of God. Remember that at the time of Abraham Lincoln’s young manhood, power came from animals, human muscle, a few waterwheels, wind, fire, and rarely, a steam engine–which at the time was as other-worldly as a nuclear reactor might appear to be today. Even after the commercial success of Robert Fulton’s first 1807 steamboat, mules pulled the canal boats on the Erie Canal and the other canals which began to be built–especially in Pennsylvania. Even the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad started out in 1830 with horse-drawn cars running on primitive iron-topped wooden rails. Steam engines were esoteric, expensive, troublesome, heavy, noisy, dangerous and rare.”
From: “The Third Wave of Electrification has Begun.” See page 8.
A Note to Readers
Holiday greetings to you all.
This week’s report is simple. To begin there are a few items on the status of the drought in California, which, while no where near ending soon, has been gifted with a succession of atmospheric rivers, which definitely puts a big dent in it. We could have eight more feet in the Sierras over Christmas.
That is California, but for the rest of the southwest states along the Colorado River, the Rocky Mountains have, as yet, to receive such snow storms.
As I have made the point often, there will be no aggressive building of water infrastructure in California, or anywhere else in the nation, unless we first begin by ending the casino economy and returning to the American System of physical economy. That means fully re-industrializing the United States and unleashing very large infrastructure projects in energy, transportation and water. Two articles from LaRouche PAC, in full, make up the rest of this week’s report.
They are:
“The Third Wave of Electrification has Begun.”
“Why Credit Can Be Greatly Expanded Without Adding to Inflation.”
I hope you will find time over Christmas to read them. If you have comments on the articles, they can be posted on my face book page or the “California Drought Update” face book page.
I will skip next week’s report and the next report will be dated January 7, 2022.
