Killing Off The Planet

11. Towards The Future 1

This chapter is to suggest some of the things that it might be necessary for an independent to consider as social and economic reforms to supply strategy. It is by no means a declaration of independent policy, but just represents some ideas of the direction that could be undertaken. It is felt that what is needed is two dear programmes, one social, one economic, the basis of both being to stem wealth creation and growth of trades and industries that are ecologically and environmentally unsound. In order to achieve this it will be necessary to "classify" trade and industry upon a scale of acceptability, and those trades and industries of lower acceptability would be higher up the scale, and lower in social value.

However it is thought that first a social programme should be considered, the aim of which is to apply capital to the true asset values of the country, namely its people. Capital accounts should be set up to cover areas of human essentiality, namely food and its distribution, housing, and private energy needs including water. The aim should be to build an infrastructure of capital investment in people with purchasing in key areas national assets that can be passed between generations as a kind of "life bank". The aim would be either to subsidise by key subsidy or flatten out profitability and prices in areas which can be regarded as necessities.

The purpose of the above is not only to give the nation something of "wealth" which has a tangible value for future governments, but to act as a leveller on prices and supply and demand.

If it is possible to keep suppressed prices on key human essentials, then this becomes reflected in wage rates and industry finds the pressure taken off for wage claims which means that they are more inclined to stablise production and less inclined to have a need for rising prices to cope with wages demands.

For the private citizen it would, however, mean that the elements of essentiality being a suppressed amount of wage, would lead to a greater percentage of income being true disposable income. This could be seen as a double-edged sword, i.e. more disposable income means more ability to buy, means even greater industrial activity; however it could also be viewed as the ability to buy-better, not necessarily more units. However it is not possible to view a social programme in isolation from an economic programme. See below.

These are some suggestions of what could happen in social and economic programme:

1. Food - Investment in the capital infrastructure of food distribution and creation. Distribution could be more greatly controlled and the probably relieving of major capital cost in food distribution will leave private companies only needing to generate profit on activity rather than capital.

2. Housing - More council housing and more direct funding of private house purchase up to a specific grade of house. Capital investment in property can only be beneficial for the country and population.

3. Private energy costs - Significant reductions in the cost of private energy, with most costs limited to an annual premium based upon ability to pay.

ECONOMIC REFORMS

1. Energy costs - Energy to be metered and costs graded as to type of commercial or industrial enterprise. Energy costs to act as a combined energy cost and production tax.

2. Fuel costs - A fuel premium payable by both private and industrial user, a fuel premium to be paid along with vehicle licence according to the type and engine capacity of vehicle. Off road vehicles to become registered and to qualify for fuel premium.

3. Capital capping - By some means of regulation capital appreciation in ecologically threatening industries to be taxed to prevent appreciation leading to greater creation of high energy consumption/high pollution-creating goods and services, the means for doing above to be open to negotiation.

4. Capital provision - More use to be made of the National Bank for funding commercial and industrial trade innovation that is ecologically and environmentally sound.

5. Enterprise shop - The creation of High Street shops for ecologically friendly goods to find an outlet.

The whole problem with any kind of social and economical reform which is geared to specifically stabilise or reduce or change the mix of commerce, trade and industry, has to affect capital structure.

As our free economy is the holder of major capital in the UK, any attempts at reform could well be met with investors voting with their pockets and referring money elsewhere.

The whole effect could be a reduction in share values leading to a reduction in the pound sterling, leading to higher interest rates, i.e. to make changes to the economy may lead to a slump.

But it may well be that in order to rebuild a wall it is necessary to knock the old wall down first, i.e. slump is unavoidable.

Which is why any changes to the economy have to be slow and well thought out, whilst any social changes need to be quick and well thought out. it is necessary to have a social barrier to resist economic change.

Economic change is essential and this will become clear in the next chapter, i.e. it is not a matter of choice, it is only a matter of when and how.

Traditional economics revolves around the relationships of factors making price

Earlier in the book I wrote about "force of reality" which we -measure in terms of time. The effect of this is to state that earth is not separable from its force, consequently no matter how you look at the tangibility of the earth you cannot do so in isolation of the time factor. Most sciences owe their development to consideration of the earth as a static and everything to do with the earth was, and it was only the sun and the planets that moved.

We now know that is not so. So we must consider the earth as comprising finite existence and infinite energy due to regeneratables. One cannot be considered without taking into consideration the other, i.e. one way is only taking account of finiteness, the other way only taking account of infinity and so on.

Economics of production take into account land, capital, labour and enterprise, all finite factors upon the earth, but economics does not take time into consideration. However we could safely say that the above finite factors are taken into consideration at a point in time which is now, i.e. a finite static notion of NOW, now in relation to existence.

Further delving into economics looks at the phenomenon of supply and demand which tend towards a notion of infinity, ie providing there are goods there is infinite supply and demand.

We then realise that what we are doing is making the four factors of production seem infinite.

What has been created is a notion of infinite finity coupled with a notion of finite infinity, i.e. the earth and its resources become notionally regarded as infinite, and the earth's infinite force has become notionally regarded as finite.

What has been constructed is an inside-out world operating on the earth. If economics works in such a truly artificial way then its product must be artificial, i.e. wealth.

We can then understand why "economics" has been so successful in the last 100 years or so; it is because it has inverted the laws of nature and produced artificiality in real terms that has revolutionised life.

Revolution is the key word because activity and life on the planet was given an injection ‘ of "mirror" energy that opposes true energy. The realities of course are that the earth is not infinite and time is not finite. Consequently it is only a matter of time before the earth and nature catches up with us. We will either run out of resources and/or time and this will re-regulate human activity.

The Green problem that people now perceive is the tip of the iceberg as the earth is telling us that we have barked up the wrong tree and either earth will give or we will give, or both.

We cannot carry on with an economic management system that is directly opposed to the natural order of the earth. We have to try to learn how to make our economics match the actualities that exist.

Our "fortunes" are a blip as far as the earth is concerned, and will be met with "a counter blip" when the earth's finity and infinity of force catch up.

The only winner out of artificial economic science is the artificiality of wealth, but this will be of little use on an earth of no artificial resources.

This all serves to throw back to the last chapter where it was stated that there is an essential to re-order the economy. The only thing we have in our favour is time but we must use that time to get out of trouble, rather than fall deeper into it.