Life in the garage

So the way I see it is this.
There is a bad guy (country, group, movement,) that is threatening the way it is in this world, make no mistake the way it is, is the way it is, because the people who are in positions of leadership( all heads of state, and their handlers, [the corporations]) wish it to remain so.

The problem with the corporation is that it has no moral compass, in other words we have abdicated our moral compass to the corporation which does not know what a moral compass is because it is not human! and that is the crux of the matter.

Let us imagine for a moment that the planet is reduced in size to the size of your average garage in the western world , well North American western world for starters.

The garage door is shut and we have a device that can emit CO2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide
it does not matter what the device is!

It is cold so we fire up the device The existing balance of the atmosphere in the garage lets us keep this device running for a while, it uses a very small amount of oxygen and converts it to CO2, no problem the plants in the windowsill like the CO2 and return the oxygen to the air. A very simplistic view of what is happening I will admit. But let us move beyond the simplistic a bit.

This is a big garage, and we need to get to the other side to pick up the food to keep the plants growing, so we fire up a pretty clever bit of machinery that will move across the garage to pick up the food, this machine however uses some special fuel that is stored in the corner in a limited number of tanks (barrels)they take up a bit of room in the garage but not too much room.

Unfortunately this fuel when burned in the device produces a rather obnoxious gas called Carbon monoxide CO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_monoxide which is problematic for us in large quantities in the long run. But it is not a problem in the short term if there is enough fresh air.

Over time the fuel in the tanks is beginning to run low, but because there are no visual gauges on the tanks it is difficult to say how much is left. Also the food for the plants is beginning to show declining levels.

A side to this issue is that the people who are looking after the plants need to eat in order to keep up their energy, which they get from a different set of plants in another windowsill, this little garage is getting complicated isn’t it!

A couple of very simple questions

1 what happens when the food runs out for the plants converting the CO2?

2 What happens when the fuel that is used to move the food for the plants runs out? which means that the food for the people runs out.

Remember this is the planet reduced to the size of a large garage, This is a serious predicament because all the time this is happening the people keep multiplying, and there are no other inputs into the garage.

How do we solve this problem?
We don’t seem to be able to see that this will be very serious to our well being if we don’t recognize that we cannot grow our way out of this predicament.




Oh yes there are other garages but they are light years away!!!!

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