For a No-Oil, Climate Stable Future, we must build 100% sustainable Linear Cities, where everyone can walk from home into open fields to grow food without petroleum! Built North to South, at right angles to the prevailing westerly winds in the Northern Hemisphere, 3 - 5 stories high topped by wind turbines, they are serviced by high, medium and low-speed rail, which uses only 1/3 of the energy/passenger mile that cars and aircraft use and can easily be directly powered by wind turbines. This will supply food to existing cities without oil-derived fuels, fertilizers and pesticides, and provides transportation and jobs without petroleum. Their shared walls also conserve heat very efficiently!
As a step-by-step solution, they will jump-start our moribund economy while providing both jobs and the foundation for an infrastructure that will work as long as the sun shines! Being built here, and as a replacement for cars, they will keep many more jobs here at home, while removing all uncertainty regarding the sources of energy, food and transportation supply as petroleum declines to nothing!
All, 100%, of our current infrastructure requires petroleum to make it work, which won't be there within 100 years, if not 20! It is freakishly irresponsible not to dedicate ourselves to providing the world's first 100% sustainable global infrastructure with the greatest possible speed, for once fossil fuels are gone, all possibilities for supporting the world's 7.2 billion people go with it!
The US has only 4.2% of global populations, and 2% of the world’s oil reserves, but consumes 22% of its annual supply, unsustainably, driving global economies into the dead end of eventual, and potentially catastrophic, economic depression and population reduction. There are ways to skate around this looming abyss, as described above and at www.greenmillennium.eu
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