I am glad you highlighted this. My daughter is gen Z, we talk about this stuff a lot, you are right, they feel wronged, because they have been wronged, really wronged. The truth is us boomers took the cream of the energy of Earth, and squandered it. The trouble is not many of the boomer generation seem ready to agree yet, that we all played a part in it, and we are still playing, as long as we participate in the for-profit economy. Profit, is systemically linked to, and fully dependent on energy extracted from Earth.
The only energy that can get us out of that hole is solar, but we still seem so caught up trying to make profit, that we don't value solar correctly at all.
Tens of gigajoules per second of solar energy go into the economies of every developed country, building up since 2005.
That is an awful lot of unmonetised product, whcih not a penny or cent has officially been issued upon.
So it is not true that there is no money to fund putting pretty much all problems right, including installing the remaining 80% or so of domestic and community, backed up by hydrogen, in a way that would turn around all the damage done, from destruction, to creation.
But it will have to be done whilst there is still enough power in money “From the old world”, to do it. In other words, before inflation comes to remove all value from money which is after all, representing only the dying world of extraction. By issuing it for new energy, its value can be recovered.
In fact it isn't that too much free money has been issued at all, but the opposite. The same devaluation of money happens if issue of money lags creation of product, as the other way round, as was seen in the Weimar. This might be the first time we've seen it the other way round. I don't believe we will see ever this more than once, because the only remedy, issue of massive stimulus is irreversible, like breaking open a dam, once it is broken, the wealth flooding in will be unstoppable. This is a unique time in history, however things turn out, whether we survive or not.
I've shown how to do with data backed proof in some of my stories. I've been working on this as a long practicing systems Engineer, for more than six years, since coming across the energy problem after starting PhD candidate research in 2017.
The trouble is no-one wishes to fund it, because it means the end of profit, so I've had to do on own funds.
It doesn't get promoted much on this platform either for similar reason.
Hey-ho, common sense will come around eventually, when folk realise this is the only way out.
To me it is kind of poetic, we might see it similar to the reparations owed to folks of countries ravaged by colonialism. What happened, was a transfer of resources out of their countries resulting in poverty in those places, which can only be put right by putting back what was taken.
The domain of Gen Z is the future. We transferred wealth that should have been for the future, their future, and spent it in the present, on.... not a lot, amassing piles of fake capital.
Maybe we should recognise that as temporal colonialism.
Now since we squandered a lot of of what was taken by both geographic and temporal colonisalism, we can't just hand it back, it doesn't exist, we spent it. However, there is the phenomenon of solar stimulus, as mentioned, which will produce money at the same rate as currently is exchanged for energy, or even for hydrogen fuel created by that energy which could be done in excess of our requirements to back everything up 24/7.
I know a lot of folk will say impossible, money doesn't grow on trees. But actually it does, the money-fuel tree really does exist, there is no reason we could not create enough of these to fix all problems, in only a year or two, with instant relief, the instant the free money begins to be issued, in advance of the work, so as to enable the work to be done.
There is also proof of feasibility, backed by analysis on actual data. Maybe not easy to interpret, but it looks pretty obvious to me.
The case for US is not as advanced as applies to Europe. However I think you good folks in US can more than make up for the reluctance there seems to be in Europe, to grab the initiative.
It is here, for anyone to comment on, and to use however they see fit:
