Is the Muse running on empty?

We're running out of gas, oil and stretching the limits of the Earth to support us. You may think of the Muse 'running on empty' being a matter of few ideas popping to the front of the queue. In truth, we are all running on empty, and a poverty of ideas and new technologies to allow us to go forward with less harm to our home, this wonderful planet, is what is bringing us to the brink.

Sure we have some sort of Dueling Muses now. Those that scoff "Global Warming" is a hoax, and those that say the science is solid. But in truth, the warming matter is only part of the problem.

We are growing exponentially, we humans. And if we want to avoid watching up to 80 percent of the current population dying off in the near future, we should pay ever greater heed to the need for a cleaner Earth with fewer impacts from population. Technology that lessens our reliance on carbon based fuels, including coal and oil is part of it. The other part is the opportunities these new technologies present.

New technologies mean new profit sources, and will result in less cost of clean-up of pollution, and greater good for all peoples. Nature, when overstressed, jettisons the organisms that cannot be supported through disease and death. Nature also doesn't seem to care if you are a Republican or a Democrat. Stress the ecosystem too much, and off the planet you shall go. That is, the collective 'you'.

Humans in ever growing numbers are having an ever greater impact on the Earth. Either we lessen that impact or the Earth shall no longer support our numbers.

Ask this question: If we reduce our pollution, how much more clean water, air and land will be available to support life? You may be surprised. It is not the "ecoradicals" against the "present greater good". It is profligacy leading to death caused by our pollution, versus life based on helping Ecosystem Earth to continue support for human life.

If we all agree that pollution is bad, then there should be no question that we ought to seek every opportunity to reduce pollution, whether or not the reduction is related to Global Warming. Carbon waste, heat, undrinkable water, resource depletion, and all the other stressors on the Earth can be remedied through conservation and finding better ways to avoid use of carbon based fuels.

We all agree that improved and new technology, will be necessary for the sustainability of industrialized societies, currently reliant upon the current relative abundance of a limited resource. But those carbon based fuels pollute, and we ought to plan for and act quickly to prevent crisis caused by scarcity of, or pollution from carbon based fuels from being our impetus to act.

Crisis is never a good state from which to make wise choices.

Much of our energy use can be obtained from renewable, and non-fuel based energy currently available to us.

The Sun can provide, on a given day, energy, to remove our need for much of the oil/gas/or carbon based fuels we use for heating, cooking, cooling, and much of the energy we waste.

Wind can provide much energy that we currently use carbon based fuels for today.

If we simply improved the technology and availability of those "free" energy sources, we would cut our impact upon the world, and increase the ability of human life to survive in increasing numbers on a somewhat small planet.

We humans forget we are biological creatures, animals with good, even designer clothes. We must very soon, lessen our impact upon the planet. Or, we shall find ourselves dying off as the ecosystem, our Mother Earth, can no longer support our profligate lifestyle. That result is the way to massive human deaths.

When the ecosystem, Earth, can't support a certain life form, that life form goes extinct.

For a culture of life, encouraging ways that make the Earth less able to support humans, is neither economically desirable nor is it wise.

Ignoring the economic opportunities in creating and implementing new technologies is also ignoring a massive opportunity that will, whether it affects Global Warming or not, will result in much new wealth in a world needing more fuel, food and energy to support our every growing numbers.

That is, we must impact the planet less if we value human life at all. Perhaps we don't need to fill that tank at all. Perhaps we need to cooperate with our Mother, and the Muse will no longer be gasping for air, starving, or choking on dirty water. To say nothing of a Muse no longer baking past well done in triple digit temperatures.