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Sustainability, population growth, consumption growth, ocean colonization, urgent survival need, no space to develop on Land, mass extinction of species in progress, rivets popping out of "spaceship earth's" global life support system. Only exponential scientific progress, and fast application of new technology, can safe humanity and make the human project on earth sustainable. Only the ocean can supply the resources necessary. Land based "business as usual" is not feasible - it is a guaranteed way to stagnation - starvation, distribution conflict - and doomsday.
The madness is not in making a serios effort for ocean colonization the madness is thinking we can go on with "business as usual" in the next three decades...
The madness is not let science free and unrestricted - the madness is to believe a "restriction of scientific and technological development" will make us safer.
We might have reached the planetary maximum of sustainability 2-3 decades ago when the global population was half as it is now. We are currently at almost 7 billion humans on the planet, and the continents may only be able to bare with 3-4 billion humans sustained with normal agriculture as we know it. The overwork of agriculture land is pointing to a diminuishing food production (damage of fertilizer, erosion, desertification, plages, monoculture) rather than to a growth in food production to expect.
Fisheries are in free fall due to the near extinction of all species of wildstock.
The only resource left to tap into for supply of more humans is the vast space of the ocean and its giant housing squaremeter and food production capability if we domesticate oceanic food production ...
We are dealing with 2 exponential functions sitting on top of each other - "population growth per capita" AND "expansion of human needs and wish for a better life" even if population growth would stabilize (i doubt that it will) Chineese people stepping out of mao suit, one kid family, wanting a car, and Indian population stepping out of slum conditions will STILL create a exponential growth of "human needs for production and consumption".
Even worse the frequently mentioned "stabilization of population numbers in developed countries" are rendered insignificant by the still exponential expansion of GPD in fully industrialized countries driven by more and more demand for goods like consumer electronics that did not even exist in the "seventies" and now come "to market" in a ever faster rithm creating faster growing needs.
If we do rule out (and we should do that) that a global absolute regime puts any family on a "one child" politics with "food, mao suits, and bicicle" as only "consumer goods". There is just no way to anything near stabilization and sustainability on the planet - not even in the most optimistic dream scenario.
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If we accept this "no way to sustainability" beyond the next 2 decades, as a fact, the question arises what is the "technology" that will safe humanity from breakdown, global distribution conflicts, and can absorb the "gargantuan overflow of human needs".
The only answer that comes to mind is "massive ocean colonization for solving housing needs" and "massive ocean domestication for growing food" - the oceans are the "last massive resource on the planet" we can tap into.
99% of the space volume on the planet is in the waterbody of the oceans.
After the 3-5 decade of period of "additional unlimited expansion on the planet that the ocean can buy us, if we play our cards well, only space colonization is big enough to deal with exponential growing human needs.
All the said above places the topic of ocean colonization in the center of human survival on the planet. It stands out as the only means at hand that can bring the human race trough the 21st Century without perishing in distribution conflicts. A rocket fast cience and development boost bringing up new technologies is required. Sclerotic politics and redtaping can not longer be afforded. Free spirited floating city states are the correct ambient to host this boom.
- read more here about ocean and freedom of business: http://concretesubmarine.activeboard.com/t58935854/subdue-to-nobody/
- read more here about Venice as historic model of renaissance: http://concretesubmarine.activeboard.com/t56710025/venice-italy-how-to-do-instructions-for-seasteading-from-his/
Get a foothold in ocean colonization:
http://concretesubmarine.activeboard.com/t49529137/oceanic-frontier-develpment-investment-foothold-in-ocean-col/
The Captain Nemo Lifestyle:
http://concretesubmarine.activeboard.com/t43942461/the-captain-nemo-float-out-seasteading/
Why oceanic business is the next big thing to come:
http://concretesubmarine.activeboard.com/t56680633/the-reasons-why-oceanic-business-is-the-next-big-thing-to-co/
Ocean sphere fish farming:
http://concretesubmarine.activeboard.com/t55433095/ocean-sphere-the-next-wave-of-sustainable-fish-farming/
Ocean colonization gallery:
http://imulead.com/tolimared/concretesubmarine/picturegallery/concept/
The oceans supply every second breath we take... Richard Branson
