Frederick Bott
2 min readJun 8, 2022

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I agree completely, thank for posting.

I hope it helps to know that this aligns perfectly with how we need to handle energy.

Nature uses energy derived from Earth to push up new shoots to the point where leaves are developed. In that time the energy flow from Earth to shoot is upwards, in the opposite direction of the energy flowing from the sun to Earth, so it is negative, relative to the energy of the sun, until the energy through the plant begins to flow from leaves to Earth, in the same direction as from sun to Earth. After that, the plant contributes energy positively to Earth from the sun for the remainder of its life. Obviously the net contribution of plants is positive.

Compare humanity. Almost all of the energy we've used to date is extracted from Earth, and of course those sources are finite. So our contribution to Earth energy so far in history is negative.

To change that, we need to move from having a mindset of taking and taking, to receiving and giving, it seems to me.

There is a discrepancy in economics, which might require some of this positive faith to put right.

We consider all things of value as only those things we can take from Earth.

We put no value on the energy of the sun which is donated to us for nothing.

Hence there is no component yet in formal economics which recognises the product added to Earth from solar energy.

But now that we are using it more and more, by necessity, it is something that has to eventually outweigh any capital component.

Which economists have faith like yours, to point this out to the formal economic community?

The implication of it all is that we must issue free money to all people, like trees issue free nutrients to all things in nature.

We have to let go of all of the concepts of scarcity enforcement as no longer necessary, in fact damaging.

Guns are something for killing, but killing, and proabably every other atrocity we can think of is something done in the interestst of enforcement of scarcity. Without the need to enforce scarcity, there becomes no need to kill, therefore no need for guns.

We might even see humanity is a shoot, of an infant species, which has reached the point where we are now sprouting artificial leaves and have started receiving the energy of the sun. Now we need to grow that contribution of all of our product, created from the energy of the sun to Earth, adding to what nature creates.

I have faith this is happening, and will continue to increase, given the positive faith encouraged by posts like yours.

At last perhaps science is aligning with positive spirituality, it seems to me.

https://eric-bott.medium.com/the-reason-why-degrowth-is-not-what-is-needed-4416025899a2

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Frederick Bott
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