2011-06-02

Outlaw Junction News-Chop - Day Two

Outlaw Junction News-Chop
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Day 2 for Outlaw Junction, with a charged lappy battery, and, initial scans of the ABC news items saying there's not a lot to 'ave-a-go-at.

Ziggy Switkowsky (?) is on ABC1 Breakfast at the mo', commenting on our energy needs and the questions around nuclear power versus coal and others.

As he was CEO of Telstra in recent years, and as I have been at war with the fascists within Telstra, specifically the ASIO/MI6 agents posited in the Telstra offices who play with the wires, I find it hard to accept the general tenor of his pro-'big energy' arguments. I might be a little biased, for, like the federal Opposition, opposition's sake?

Nevertheless, it seems to me that most all media commentators and so-called experts on Humanity's energy-needs are determined to go the 'big-energy-corp' or centralised energy provision route.

Whether I'm being anti-for-anti's sake or not, on related issues of establishing a culture where individuals are able to exist in the wider Community functionally, productively, sustainably, economically and of course, happily, we have to work toward being less dependent and less addicted on things like big-energy, which always tend to become owned by the huge multinational demon corporations, and with that, local, personal, social, Community and economic needs are disregarded.

But perhaps the nastiest factor of big-energy, is they deem it necessary to have huge factories, which are themselves huge emitters of pollution. Added to them, are the extras needed to transmit the energy from the factory or production site to the end-user - transmission cables, towers and sub-stations, etc., the fabrication of them, transport, of fuels, and products surrounding the whole 'enterprise'. I'm sure, all added-up, these make big-energy, both uneconomical and unsustainable ecologically.

'Economies of Scale' (EoS) do apply to larger conglomerates centralising things like utilities, and EoS is essentially the foundation of a healthy Socialist world, so there are good arguments for EoS.

But, that may be applicable more in 'the perfect world' of Global Socialism, and not in the current, seriously imperfect culture we fight within?

If so, then I reckon that the more local approach has to be sought after, where individuals are able to access power free of the ever-rising costs of mainstream, large corporate energy providers.

So to me, Szxcvwitkosky's words focusing on big-energy are 'old school' old, anachronistic paradigms, and that we need to Green-Up and Go Local, even to the point of being enabled to produce our own power, in our own homes, as-it-were.

However, I do have reservations about power-producing hardware, perhaps firstly of 'solar panels'.

As a bloke pointed out to me years ago, 'solar panels cost more to make than can be recuperated even over their lifetime' (paraphrased).

This I can't confirm, but it seems to probably be correct, if we weigh the factors and intense industry needed to make them, not dissimilar to the above-mentioned big-energy production factors.

Or, how much does the manufacture of solar panels on a commercial, industrial scale emit pollution? Hmmmm....?

I might throw the argument therefore, that if we cannot produce it ourselves, or in our own shed, then it is probably (environmentally) uneconomical on the larger scale.

So, EoS enters as the way to go, and thus, big industry has a place in making the panels etc, but not without heavy attempts to keep pollution outputs to a minimum.

That minimising itself creates more effort, which is more energy output, which usually has a 'footprint' on the environment in one way or another....

So, what other factors need to be addressed in order to minimise our personal and community pollution?

Reduce, Recycle and Re-use, put simply.

Getting underneath all the shenanigans we call modern life, we find that were the land more Equitably distributed, such that we did not have to even go off to the 'mill' factory or slaughterhouse to earn enough for the biggest out-going for all of us - rent or home loan - enormous amounts of our 'output' translated as pollution is reduced, and if Economic Science is applied, we would find that this is the greatest, most effective way to minimise all the negative outputs.

'Work' as we have come to accept it, is but a hugely inefficient 'middleman' standing between the individual and their needs.

Work has been altered to being something we must transport ourselves to-and-from daily, adding enormously to unsustainable polluting behaviour, be-that from commuting, the manufacture of the commuting machinery, through the energy required to power the office, factory, tractor, jet plane, government administration, and, AND... all the provisions needed to upkeep us and the arseholes who fabricate the spin to keep us fooled, convinced that this is the best way for a species, and an individual to exist.

SHEEEE-ITT!

So, next time you hear a politician or so-called 'economist' spruke the line that 'jobs-jobs-jobs are our highest priority', and/or the Johnette Howardian line that 'we must be more competitive!', I advise that you should put a brick through your tele!

Almost everything that's actually GOOD for us and for everything else, mainly for the planet, has been denigrated in the extreme, to the point where we, more often than we realise, automatically rebel when Good Ideas, Practices and Cultural Ways are mentioned.

This kinda explains why we are so addicted to junk foods, crap cultural habits, like smoking tobacco, driving fast cars, watching utter junk on tele, 'partying' in subhuman dives, working in shithole industries, lusting after junk products and pastimes, and are so easily seduced by the advertising and marketing industry.

Whereas, if we had Proper access to enough land, in an Extended Family scenario, where we all lived in 'huddles' of smallish villages, in Communities of, say, 50-to-500 people, and organised, put-in, to nurture and teach the young, educate ourselves on the necessities, grow small-scale the foods, and natural fibres for housing, paints, medicines, imbibing, etc etc., firstly, we'd not have to fight the traffic to get to work, secondly, we'd not have to fight to get work to afford a home, and the levels of tension and stress from unmet demands would evaporate.

I bet you we'd drop most all the unhealthy addictions we currently have sending us to hospital, and to early graves!

HUPP! Time to hammer the hut!




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