Dealing, PART II: Going Solar, Saving Ourselves

SOLAR ENERGY is free and unimited, which is exactly what we need. Humanity is steadily increasing its use of solar enrgy, but must increase it much faster, as fast as humanly possible. Imagine a perfetly shaped piece of aluminum foil in orbit, maybe a mile in diameter, collecting sunlight constantly and turning it into electricity for our use. It might not take too many of these to supply all the energy needs for the entire planet, including desalinating and redistributing billions of tons of sea water turned into fresh water, and removing billions of tons of carbon from the ateosphere, our two greatest needs. What is needed is the political will, which means enormous public pressure, especially in the United States, but everywhere else as well. There is no reason why people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, among others, can't get involved and lead the way. Cooperation between the U.S. governments, federal, state, and local, the business community, large and small, and us the American people, plus the same groups, governmental, business, and public, from every other country in the world, and all three can be accomplished. Solar energy replacing fossil fuels, desalination, and sequestration of atmospheric carbon. The technologies for all three are availaible, and the industrial processes needed to build the infrastructure need not be more harmful, will not be more harmful than helpful to the environment. It could all begin with an inspired speech by some powerful, dynamic leader, say, Joe Biden. The proclamation of "Project Sunbeam", the restoration of planetary health. Hell, who cares who gets the ball rolling? Donald Trump or Greta Thunberg would be fine. Good leadership and organization are essential, or course. Where are General Leslie Groves and Robert J. Oppenheimer when you need them? And, unlike, say, The "Manhatten Project", "Project Sunbeam" doesn't have to be top secret, because the purpose isn't to produce a miracle weapon to win a war, but rather, to save the planet's biosphere, its eosytem, and all life on Earth, which icludes us all, on the same team. We are in a war against ourselves, a war between our bad past behavior and our good future behavior, between our worst and our best selves, and we're all on the same side, for once. Spread the word. Do something. What're we waiting for? '