Agreeing To Save Ourselves

THERE ARE SEVERAL BASIC PROBLEMS, man made, threatening human survival, all interrelated. Rising sea level, insufficient food and water resources, global warming, all have the same cause; the use of fossil fuels and the misuse of chemicals. they all have the same solution; solar energy. The solution is at hand, available. Turing sea water into fresh water through desalination has long been possible and implemented, but at much too great a cost. The cost of solar energy is rapidly declining, as production efficiency increases, and will soon price coal, oil, and natural gas out of the market. We will have the luxury of saving ourselves and the planet, without upsetting the sacred capitalistic applecart, evidently the prime consideration. Our dire agricultural and water circumstances are precipitated by overpopulation and the fossil fuels needed to sustain it, leading to vast abuses of agricultural land, over farming, chemicals, and so forth. All this leads to eventual food and water depletion, as we see now. So, we need to get rid of fossil fuels, we need to leave them in the ground, where they belong. The generation of huge amounts of solar energy, now possible with solar energy collectors in space and better technology and economic models on earth, is imminent. We can convert billions of metric tons of sea water to fresh water, solving the fresh water shortage and mitigating sea level rise simultaneously. Using nano technology, scientists have recently developed an inexpensive way to desalinate, using solar energy, which involves evaporating sea water through a thin membrane, and collecting it in tanks for transport and use. Pipelines of the sort previously used to transport oil will suffice nicely. This method is simple, and fool proof, making it suitable for human use. This means we can now begin converting enormous quantities of sea water, reclaiming desertified regions, grow crops and plant trillions of trees economically, and save ourselves and our environment. The depleted sol will recover, and as human population growth levels off, prosperity can be guaranteed for all. This will required more cooperation than competition, and a lessening of the incentive for individual profit and wealth. the only problem will be convincing republicans to assist us in the task of saving our species, all other species, and the ecosystem in general.