How We Think & What It Means for the Future, Part 6

In previous articles the topics have briefly focused on the disparity between our desire for positive results and the negative thinking that has hindered achievement of those results.

When it comes to the subject of man-made climate change, we could bring up an endless number of finer points regarding this and debate them endlessly. This does not serve us very well, since time and energy are limited resources (we could debate that, too, but the given conditions of how we perceive and utilize the Quantum Field, this is off the subject).

We could also discuss more climate change data and what it means or might mean. We should not be “starting to decide” what needs to be done or debating on “what needs to be done”. We need to decide what needs to be done and take action.

Our current ways of doing things are very wasteful. The internal combustion engine is over 100 years old and even modern engines have an efficiency of 20% at best. Feeding our power plants and vehicles with hydrocarbons (“fossil” fuels) requires a tremendous amount of energy. It does not make sense to search form of energy that you need just run the machines that extract the source in the first place.

Under current production methods. over half of the clean water in America is used to generate electricity!

Using one of those “green recycle bags” at the grocery store or department store will also save one tank of gas in a year. Recycling one aluminum can is the same amount of energy it takes to power your television for three hours. The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours. If you recycle one plastic bottle you create an energy savings 50% because another bottle does not need to be created and the old one does not need to be thrown away.

Now multiply this by the population of the United States. This is for just one item.

Now think about the number of aluminum cans, plastic bottles, and paper bags that are used by each individual in the United States in one year. What happens if these items are thrown away? How can these resources possibly be replenished in time?

Learn more about energy used in transportation:

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/FEG/atv.shtml

Learn more about conservation through recycling (figures from the University of Utah):

http://www.usu.edu/recycle/factsFigures.htm

An article on the energy needed to grow beef cattle:

http://www.whiteoakpastures.com/article-mideastoil.html

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