A Pocket Manual to Save the Planet

A POCKET MANUAL TO SAVE THE PLANET offers a series of specific and practical proposals for dealing with the three most important issues that threaten to destroy our national and inter-national societies to one extent or another: GLOBAL DEPRESSION: This possibility will be triggered if and when our government defaults on its mountain of debts and essentially declares bankruptcy, which will be followed by a global depression. This is predicted by many of our best economists to happen sometime between roughly 2014 and 2016.GLOBAL WARMING: This peril is presently melting our ice caps and mountain glaciers, slowly raising the level of our oceans until they potentially flood the low-lying areas of our global civilization; that is where about 50% of our global population lives within about 50 miles of our coast lines. This is variously predicted by our best environmental scientists to happen by about the end of the 21st century with about 3-6 feet of water, so it requires action now to prevent it because it is already set in place to happen; and many scientists say we have already passed the point where we can prevent it from happening.GLOBAL ARMAMENTS: We now spend, as a planet, approximately $1.75 trillion a year on armaments and wars of one kind or another. If we continue to spend our scarce resources on killing each other rather than preventing global depressions and defeating global warming, we will be hopelessly unable to create peace on our planet, and therefore we may allow the destruction of our global civilization at the hands of global warming. This inability to live in peace rather than war already resulted in our killing 300 million human beings during the 20th century. That figure is about equal to the total population of the United States.GLOBAL PEACE. So we are…