Journal Genda's Journal: Response to pie in the sky...
Seems I struck a nerve with my post about creating a sustainable world. I enjoyed the countercomments (that actually had something interesting to say), and would love to talk to those folks at length. The whole point to engineering a space is to prevent it from suffering the kind of problems our existing civic centers face. Automated recycling including tertiary water recycling, cogeneration, cameras every 20 feet to record and track criminal activity, the list of things one could do, if one built a city from the ground up today, is mind boggling. One might start with a city core, housing maybe 50,000 people, and hosting several thousand business' ranging from small sales and service to large technological service providers and manufacturing. The infrastructure would obsolete most of the overwhelmingly expensive problems facing our current civilization.
Once the core was transformed and fully operational, it would prove to be the economic engine, to sustain further growth. Modular additions would spread out from the core, like growing pie slices, until the entire population for the region could be held in the bounds of a super city less than 20 miles in diameter. No poverty, no starvation, almost nonexistent crime... certainly no violent crime, and a bustling economy would be the hallmarks of this place. The surrounding land cleaned and put back to it's prestine state for access and recreation by people, and free use by wildlife. Millions of people in a small space being productive, producing value and service, creates a tremendously powerful financial engine (look at the economies of major cities around the world and multiply times 10.)
Certainly this will be an expensive endeavor. Going to the moon was an expensive endeavor. Building the Panama Canal was an astronomically expensive endeavor... it was however, necessary and it altered the way the world did business forever. We need to take that kind of leap, that kind of reach to make possible, a life worth living for all people everywhere.
Genda
"To live in a brave new world, some poor brave bastard has to be the one to make the new world real." -me
Once the core was transformed and fully operational, it would prove to be the economic engine, to sustain further growth. Modular additions would spread out from the core, like growing pie slices, until the entire population for the region could be held in the bounds of a super city less than 20 miles in diameter. No poverty, no starvation, almost nonexistent crime... certainly no violent crime, and a bustling economy would be the hallmarks of this place. The surrounding land cleaned and put back to it's prestine state for access and recreation by people, and free use by wildlife. Millions of people in a small space being productive, producing value and service, creates a tremendously powerful financial engine (look at the economies of major cities around the world and multiply times 10.)
Certainly this will be an expensive endeavor. Going to the moon was an expensive endeavor. Building the Panama Canal was an astronomically expensive endeavor... it was however, necessary and it altered the way the world did business forever. We need to take that kind of leap, that kind of reach to make possible, a life worth living for all people everywhere.
Genda
"To live in a brave new world, some poor brave bastard has to be the one to make the new world real." -me
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