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This book covers answers to seven major problems that effect millions of people around the world.

Each topic: Global Warming, High-Speed transit, Welfare poverty, Renewable Clean Energy, Coastline Stabilization, Taxing Calories, and Economic Democracy, is addressed separately.

Some of the issues will take years to fully implement the answers while some could be started right away with immediate results in any small endeavor.

It is not a full cookbook down to the final details but does give a broad approach to each topic with significant insights into what the problems are and how to go about making things better.

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Economic Policy

Public Policy

Political Science

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Publié par	eBookIt.com
Date de parution	26 janvier 2014
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781456621025
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	7 Mo

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Answers to World Problems
by Butch BiendaraCopyright 2014 Butch Biendara,
All rights reserved.
Published in eBook format by eBookIt.com
http://www.eBookIt.com
ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-2102-5
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including
information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only
exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE IN SEVERAL STEPS
This publication has discussions of seven different important topics that are not
closely related but all have the potential to make a huge impact by improving on some
of the problems facing the USA and the world today.
Some topics will take many years to implement and the cooperation of many
governments around the world and take a fair amount of research into making the
details work best. Other topics could be implemented in small stages in local areas and
be making changes in less than a year.
Some will be taking on established policies and industries needing a strong
effort to make changes.
My best hope is that the reader will keep an open mind to the potential for
changing the way things are done so that we as inhabitants of planet earth will all
enjoy a better life.Table of Contents
The titles of the included papers are:
REVERSING GLOBAL WARMING AND THIRD WORLD POVERTY
WORKING PEOPLE ADVANCE PLAN
TREMENDOUS HIGH-SPEED TRANSIT
THE GOAL OF UNLIMITED CLEAN ENERGY
SHORE STABILIZATION - HOLD BACK THE TIDE ?
TAXING CALORIES FOR HEALTH
ECONOMIC DEMOCRACYREVERSING GLOBAL WARMING AND THIRD WORLD POVERTY
FIXING WORLD PROBLEMS
Global warming and the related weather problems have long reaching effects on
nearly everyone worldwide that are hard to quantify. I’d like to challenge that old saying
that says “Everyone talks about the weather but no one does anything about it” with a
proposal for a cost effective, long range plan to work at reducing the effects of global
warming, at least on how it effects north America.
The shifting changes of greater winter snowstorms, more and bigger tornadoes
and hurricanes cause death and costly destruction across the Americas from the
northern parts of South America on up to the Atlantic Canada province of Labrador. It
is just the start of the powerful negative effects of weather going wilder and it will
likely continue to get worse if something isn’t done to change it.
The damages from severe storms might arguably be one of the largest financial
burdens facing the world. And it appears to be a continually growing problem each
year. Terms sometimes used in the past, speak of a 100-year storm, but the greater
concern now, might be the 1,000-year storm, something never before seen by modern
man and beyond the scale of any current measurements.
The January 2012 edition of TIME magazine reported on the growth of mega
storms costing a billion dollars or more in damage. It found that the US had just one
super storm per year in the 1980s. That grew to where the first decade of the new
century had an average of five per year, rising to 7.5 per year in 2009 & 2010 and the
2011 high of 12 storms costing over a billion dollars. The combined total cost of the
damage done by those mega storms is up to $54 billion and the total is not yet fully
counted.
In 2012 Super-storm Sandy, the largest Atlantic system on record, damaged or
destroyed at least 650,000 homes and 250,500 insured vehicles, killed 159 people and
caused $65 billion in damage.
It should be noted that 2013 was an unusually quiet year for big Atlantic
hurricanes. That topic and it’s related cause will be covered later in this paper.
Lets not waste time debating what might be the cause, natural or man made
changes, but rather recognize that it is happening and we can do something about it.
Trying to build “last-line” defenses against the unlimited power of storms that hit
the shores and inland areas is way too unreasonable for most people. A few wealthy
homeowners along the gulf coast have built homes of reinforced concrete hoping to
stand against the next big hurricane. But that’s not a likely reasonable plan for most
who are not so rich, so let’s take a different approach to see how we can stop the huge
storms from ever starting up in the first place.
Regardless of the source, the increase in carbon dioxide is considered to be a
major factor in the increase in worldwide temperature. The carbon dioxide that gets
absorbed into the oceans causes a change in the PH of water to the point of making
life difficult for some species of plants and animals. Various means have been tried to
reduce the output of carbon dioxide from power plants and some attempts have been
made to force the carbon dioxide into underground areas with only a little success. But
in late 2013 Norway has decided to scrap it’s multi-million dollar attempt to sequester
CO underground when the costs kept climbing and any chance of success seemed to 2
be far away. This paper provides a far better, more natural and effective means of
removing carbon dioxide form the atmosphere.
Another element of this paper is the potential to increase food production for the
millions of third world populations while increasing the arable land on what is now
barren desert.POWER SOURCE
First and foremost, we must acknowledge that the power behind all weather
patterns is the sun. In it’s simplest form, it is the nearly unlimited light and heat
directed at one half of the entire world 24 hours a day. The effects are less at the poles
where the sun shines on the earth in a flat angle coming through a lot of atmosphere
before striking the earth surface. And it is most intense near the equator where is
comes down nearly vertically to the earth surface through a minimal layer of
atmospheric cover.
Some preposterous ideas at trying to negate the energy falling on the earth’s
surface have suggested sending huge loads of shiny flakes of metal into the top levels
of the atmosphere to deflect incoming sunshine. Throwing more junk into space is too
huge of a risk to be of any effect. And the unknown consequences are how to fix that
cure if it doesn’t work out as planned.
THE SUN’S IMPACT ON EARTH
Other effects to be considered are how the sun’s energy effects the weather on
the different earth surfaces that it hits, water, land, wet, dry, forest, desert or some
combination of those.
Sunlight hitting a smooth water surface at a low angle can have most of the light
reflected by the shiny mirror-like surface. When it comes down almost vertical at the
equator, it can penetrate fairly deep into the water.
When the sun hits solid ground and there is no water to allow for any vegetation
growth, the sunshine falling on barren ground will heat the surface to some extreme
temperatures. Think of walking barefoot on asphalt pavement on a bright sunny
summer afternoon anywhere in the USA. Some soils will slowly transfer a small amount
of the sun’s energy deeper into the soil as spring warmth slowly warms farmland for
summer’s crops. But the ground temperature six to eight feet underground stays
approximately 55 degrees year round for most of the USA. The hard freezes of winter
never cool the ground any colder or deeper nor does the heat of summer warm it any
deeper or to a higher temperature. And if the soil is very dry, the small open voids
between the soil particles act as insulators and stop the temperature transfer at much
shallower depths. Walking barefoot on undisturbed, dry, beach sand at noon can be
extremely hot and quickly burn your feet, but if you shuffle your feet just a few inches
below the surface, it is much cooler.
Another factor on how the sun’s energy affects the earth is altitude with the
snow-covered peaks of the Himalayas near to the tropic of Cancer on the same
latitude of the Sahara Desert, south Texas or the tip of Florida. With the increase in
altitude air gets thinner and although mountaintops are closer to the sun, the warming
effect is far less. Low tropical areas get hot while high mountains are colder and at
very high altitudes it gets very cold.
The result of lots of sunshine on barren dry ground causes the earth’s surface to
heat up and then transfer that latent heat into the air above. Barren ground is an energy
transfer machine, far different than the case of water or “land covered with
vegetation”.
Sunshine that falls on vegetation with an adequate water supply will see the
sun’s energy used by the plants to grow and thus consume much of the sun’s energy in
the photosynthesis process to convert water and trace minerals from the soil along
with the carbon from atmospheric carbon dioxide into growing a crop or a forest,
weather it’s the stunted firs in the northern tundra, Iowa’s cornfields or the dense
tropical forests near the equator in Africa, South America and India.
SURFACE MODIFICATIONS