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...healthy and robust space program generates not just national esteem and extraordinary people but other developments as well, including the discovery of global warming, smoke detectors, and bar codes. And if one takes a long-term view of civilization, human expansion in our solar system is as inevitable as the journeys made across the Atlantic Ocean that ended in the New World. The solar system as a whole has land and resources equivalent to millions of Earths—to simply ignore it would be unimaginably shortsighted. The Moon alone, for instance, has enough fusion fuel to provide totally clean...
Even if more students wanted to create the most efficient bio-fuel or found the hippest solar startup, it would not excuse the fact that Harvard has no specially designed educational programs to prepare them. While Harvard should be commended for establishing Environmental Science and Public Policy, the concentration is narrowly aimed at training the world’s future environmental policy makers and researchers, not the newest batch of renewable energy inventors, entrepreneurs, economists, and lawyers...
...could be predicted, Griffin's successor has been vague about where Americans will go once they do get back to space. Yes, there's the ISS. But after that? The best that Bolden could offer in his presentation Monday were vague promises of "people fanning out across the solar system," with the collaborative help of "nations around the world." Just which nations will join the U.S. and when we will all go Bolden didn't say. At several points, however, he did encourage his audience to "imagine" all of these things...
...highly developed local small-scale agriculture, its "locavore" farm exchanges, with a tax structure reformed to incentivize small business and industry (and to make life difficult for large out-of-state corporations). By 2020, they foresee Vermont producing at least 75% of its own electricity and heat, using wind-, solar-, biomass- and hydro-power. They want to establish a Bank of Vermont owned by the people of Vermont - freed from the arbitrary controls of central bankers - as well as a local alternative currency, with Vermont pension and operating funds invested not in Wall Street but in locally owned financial institutions...
...buildings should be constructed in adherence to strict building codes—resistance to hurricanes and earthquakes is a must. The creation of an extensive sanitation system, the implementation of an organized public transportation system, and investment in a reliable power grid that uses green energy sources like wind, solar, and geothermal will be crucial...