Steel, And We, Going Green

"GREEN STEEL", the term, evokes images, it almost seems, of cannibus fiber, tightly wound into rope or bundles, replacing the metals of which steel is traditionally made. What are they? Nickel,copper, aluminum, iron? Well, whichever. Previously steel sturctures, even skyscrapers, made of cannibus, if I aint mistaken, is something being considered. Cannibus has a amillion uses, other than smoking, and is, it almost seems, a wonder plant, which can save the world, and which we can wear as clothing, replacing cootton, which depletes the soil, with cannibus, which nourishes and enriches it. But no, green steel, apparently, refers to the manufacture of steel by obtaining the necessary energy from hydrogen fusion, or some form of hydrogen processing, rather than from coal fired plants, as has traditionally been the case. Whether that energy source can also replace the fossil fuel consumption needed to extract the various and sundry metals from beneath surface of the Earth to make steel was not detailed in the sources I consulted. But the whole point is innovation, substitution, replacement of primtive, harmful manufacturing processes with safe, efficient, environmentally harmless ones. The possibilities are amazing, and seemingly endless. Cannibus for paper,clothing, and heaven only knows what else. Wind and solar energy replacing coal, oil, and natural gas. Hydrogen fusion replacing nuclear fisson, nuclear fission being deadly dangerous on account of the radiation released which must be strictly controlled and contained, and on account of the spent nuclear waste, which must be disposed of safely somehow, somehow better than merely burying it beneath a barren mountain in New Mexico. People, called "downwinders", are still getting cancer left over from the above ground atom bomb testing which went on during and after World War Two in that aprt of the country. Predictably, the U.S. federal governemnt is reluctant to make due compensation, and is dragging its feet, as it has for decades, denying, defending, and deposing, or something like that. One might easily imagine advanced beings from worlds far away, invisible in orbit above the Earth, their spaceships and bodies made of light,fascinated by us, looking, observing, wondering and asking, why on Earth are these primitive but potential laden creatures below seemimgly deliberatley destroying their planet's ecosystem and thus themselves through their use of primitive, inefficient manufacturing processes, when, not only are much better, cleaner methods available to them, but, when they seem to not only be talking about these better processes among themselves, and they actually seem to have the ability to switch to them? And really, that's a good question, if a rather lengthy one. There are other good questions, unanswered. Precisely why on Earth have we not long since changed form fossil fuels to sustainable energy sources? Why is the United States, at this very moment, drilling for and pumping out of the gorund more oil than any country ever, including iself, at any time in human history at precisely the time when climate change is becoming worse by the day, and threatnes to overwhelm us within a few short years? We are, to put it crudely, eating and defacating in the same place, which, as any intelligent animal, such as as your cat, knows, is a very bad idea. The answer, dear reader, is "conservatism". Conservative thinking resists change and innovation, and respects and supports entrenched, traditional holders of power, and institutions such as large corporations, which posssess and wield to their economic advantage wealth, power, and privilege. And the answer, of course, is revolution, change on a revolutionary scale. For as Goethe truthfully said: "The world advances only because of those who oppose it."