The planet of seas

One thing to notice about the world, or nature , is abundance.

Though I once in derision called our home planet, blighted as it is by our human mass stupidities of choice , the planet of apes, in more general terms one might as well call our planet (by which I include its different superposing spheres: the biosphere , the culturesphere , the cybersphere and so on) the planet of seas, or an ocean planet.

In any domain be it natural or speculative, one is confronted with an abundance of detail and of substance.

Every taxonomy, and every subject catalog contains more than we can incorporate. In every field is more information and discourse than one could ever want to learn. The phrase that often comes to mind when exposed to the vastness of information in any given field of human interest , is (at least in arabic parlance) "it is a wide sea".

These figurative seas, our world overflows with them.

Even for collectors, usually of artisanal objects from tin cans or stamps to exclusive artwork, paucity is an issue only in the artificial terms of economics and collectors price markets. But taken globally, there is an abundance in these items too.

This all contrasts with the voices that sound the call on "scarcity". Those voices happen to come, nearly ironically, from the richest corners of the earth. They are our self-appointed experts (perhaps by virtue of their accumulated wealth) on matters of quantity abundance and scarcity. Yet they also appoint themselves regents on the wealth of the world, never allowing too much of it to escape being at least partly under their control.

Those bugle calls of "scarcity" ring hollower than empty oil drums, however.

For in this world of immense material abundance , after the most rudimentary of physical surveys one scarcely finds anything more abundant and more ubiquitous in nature than energy. Right down to the nittiest grittiest littlest confines of nature , there appears nearly a limitless flow of energy.

Indeed it should strike us as an astounding shortcoming and failure on our part that we have so far found no better way to convert or redirect the abundance of energy surrounding us, than to burn fossil fuel.

So there are two possibilities here. Either it is the case that we , while we like to prize ourselves on our "technological achievements", are in fact monumentally stupid. Or, alternatively, our technological shortcoming when it comes to energy is willful, in the sense that it may be a symptom of a sort of generational hegemonic agenda that seeks to spread the notion of scarcity as a means of controlling the flow of the world's resources - in the process sustaining self-enrichment while needlessly and stupidly impoverishing the vast majority of the world's population.

If this were the case, then the false prophets of "scarcity" are not only fear-mongering and disinformationists but also war-mongerers.

Getting over those morons (or bastards) for now, what need concern us more , however , is that in the innocuous observation of abundance of things in our world, we find an overwhelming abundance of energy.

I am (not almost but fully) certain we can tap into it without recourse to the traditional methods of "dirty" energy.

I'd like to take advantage of the present ephemereal zeitgeist in the cybersphere of "yes we can", to sound a consonant note regarding our potential to cleanly tap unprecedented amounts of energy (i don't know how (;;) but what is clear is that there are tons of it lying all around us in the form of various potential fields).