How to end crime and human suffering

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That is only one main contributing factor, and there are several others. Perhaps then your topic might be titled
"Energy" + Solution to Crime and Suffering.

My point would simply be that we could in theory go green in under 4 years by focusing on geothermal energy.
solar, tidal, and wind could also play a role. Such energy would be cheaper and this would certainly contribute to
social stability and thus lower crime and social stresses.

In theory we could convert over to geothermal for under 100 billion.

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first, there is no population problem, theres a per capita ecological footprint problem we could shrink from hundreds of acres to cubit yards.

Second, an increase in population does not necessarily mean an increase in knowledge esp given groupthink and propaganda. You have to have a society capable of acknowledging good and right ideas- or things stall- which is what is going on right now thanks to republicans and trolls.

The only way to increase technology is to increase the number of people actually competently working on the problem.
Merely increasing the number of people without increasing the number competently working on the problem is different.
And what we are doing right now.

I'm sure that having free energy would make this world a better place and it would help to minimize a lot of crime and suffering.

Id like to correct myself. I do not think it would be "easy" though I think it is possible. And though I do believe it would create a surplus, perhaps free is to general a word, as it would require some form of maintenance, though maintenance could be automated.

First of all, the lack of gravitation would gradually f... up one's heart. Secondly, even if we did convert the atmosphere into an earth-like atmosphere, radiation would still pose a major threat (due to the lack of a magnetosphere).

I agree with the thread maker strongly.. but this seems very close to the other thread about industrialization, and technology... its all relevant.

Gravitation can be induced by centrifufugal stabilizers. Radiation can be absorbed ionicaly and converted to useful energy.

Yeah too bad it's physically impossible and stuff

Indeed Magnus. Perhaps some day soon we can even harness the energy of planetary motion. We have a whole universe available to us. Though I think it quite probable that we may have to share it with other intelligences.

Have you heard about what an A**hole Edison was? Carnegie and Rockefeller were money hungry war mongers. Ok, that is a bit judgmental.

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No, it would be a terrible thing. People would be much more destructive than they currently are.

That's only true to a limited degree. Earth can support more people if they live with fewer resources, which could initially be accomplished by eliminating frivolity and waste. Technology can lower the impacts. But even at a very modest lifestyle, we may be near the carrying capacity. The oceans are being overharvested for most major species, agricultural nutrients are mucking up the water, lead and mercury are increasing in the food chain, species are disappearing, etc. etc. The best way to reverse these problems in the medium to long term is to reduce the human population.

What is a cubit yard? I don't think the human footprint can be reduced much below a half acre (at vegetarian subsistence levels). Assuming that we give up roads, stores, schools, office complexes and most industrial products.



Yes. I was dumbfounded once when talking with a student from an oil rich country. He saw population growth as the way to a better life - strange, but he thought that the shortage of doctors, engineers and other skilled workers was due to a shortage of people. I suggested that education was the best way to increase the proportion of skilled workers, but he didn't see it.

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The solution to crime and suffering is the realization that what you do to anyone or anything else you are doing to yourself. The truth is that nobody here has ever committed any crime towards anyone else, nor has anyone made anyone else suffer, it's not even possible. We do it to ourselves and knowledge of the actual mechanics of how it all works is the only thing that is going to end it. Along with that knowledge comes the knowledge of WHY we do it to ourselves, so you cannot even blame yourself for your own suffering as there is/was a very good reason for it. The time has come for the blame game to end so life can begin.

As of 2 years ago I had read every biography about Tesla that I was aware of at the time. He is by far one of my heroes.

I'm so glad someone brought Nikola Tesla up; he's one of my biggest heroes and it pains me so much how obscure he remains and how little people know of his work and his genius. Next to Leonardo da Vinci I consider him one of the two greatest minds to have have graced the Earth since classical times.

It saddens me, too, how the work he did for the good of mankind - he proved that yes, free global limitless energy IS possible - has been hijacked by some of the most evil (I don't use that word lightly) people imaginable to create some of the most deadly weapons possible.

Just look up HAARP and see what you find...