Bill Huston

I enjoy your work immensely, Peter.

However, beginning w/Zeitgeist 2 I noticed what I consider an over-reliance upon technological solutions to maintain our current population and rates of energy consumption.

Thom Hartmann in Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight made a brilliant connection between cheap carbon-based energy and human population. As long as cheap energy is available, the food supplies increase, and the human population rises to meet the food supply.

You mention a goal of global abundance and eliminating global hunger. While this is theoretically possible, unless we create a social system which demands ZPG, or most likely NPG, then as hunger is eliminated, population increases until hunger again becomes a problem. It's a never-ending problem.

Also, everything I've read says that there is no single or combination of alternative energy sources (wind, solar, biofuels, etc) which can come online fast enough to maintain our current energy demands. Sure, it is ideal that we should be pursuing these vis. carbon exploration, but as Richard Heinberg says, it looks like we need to "power down". And since high-technological development is fueled by energy, we should look towards the lowest-energy-footprint, lowest-tech possible solution for any given problem.

Now I will say that I am very encouraged by the work of Nassim Haramein, who shows quite clearly that there is near infinite-potential "dark energy" in every square centimeter of the universe, which powers the spinning of electrons and galaxies. And there are people working in the area of "free energy", "feminine physics", "perpetual motion", eg. the Keely Motor, etc. and I believe this should be explored with as much vigor as the development of existing "alternative" sources.

Thanks for sharing your work and ideas with us!