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2010, by Richard Lance Christie A Renewable Deal for the United States of America A Political Policy Program to Obtain a Sustainable, Ecologically Restorative, Just and Comfortable Future By Richard Lance Christie Copyright 2009, 2010, by Richard Lance Christie A creative commons copyright First complete digital publication, Earth Restoration Network, http://www.earthrestoration.net, April 22, 2009 Current Version Date: April 22, 2010 Cover photo: Grass Lake, proposed Aquarius Wilderness, Utah, C. 1994 by Ray Wheeler TABLE OF CONTENTS About the Author. 5 Introduction and Overview. 8 A Statement of the Problem. 18 Aspect 1: Ecological Restoration of Terrestrial Ecosystems. 29 Volume 1: Restoration and Conservation of Wildlands Networks: Core Habitats and Connectivity Corridors. 29 Volume 2: Restoration of Rangelands Using Domestic Livestock . 40 Volume 3: Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems. 42 Volume 4: Industrial Brownfield Restorations.. 44 Aspect 2: The Renewable Deal.. 45 Plank 1: Energy.. 45 Chapter 1: Renewable Energy Potential – Wind, Helical Turbine, Solar, Biofuel and Co-Generation. 45 Chapter 2: Wind Energy Capture. 79 Chapter 3: Electricity Generation from Open Water. 96 Chapter 4: Solar Energy Capture. 101 Chapter 5: Biofuels (Biomass). 117 Chapter 6: Geothermal Energy. 134 Chapter 7: “NEGAWATTS”. 140 Chapter 8: An Assessment of “Cleaner” Fossil Fuel Technology Developments. 161 Chapter 9: National Energy Security. 170 Chapter 10: Nuclear Power: Economic and Environmental Costs and Benefits.. 205 Plank 2: Agriculture. 237 Chapter 1: Organic Agriculture Productivity and Nutrition.. 237 Chapter 2: Environmentally Compatible Domestic Livestock Production .. 265 Chapter 3: Aquaculture. 266 Chapter 4: Plant Breeding, Biotechnology, and Genetic Modification Technology. 273 Plank 3: The Precautionary Principle. 277 Plank 4: Increase Fresh Water Supplies. 282 Plank 5: Ecological Integrity and Restoration. 307 Plank 6: Health Care.. 310 Chapter 1: A Prescription for a Cost-Effective National Health Care System.. 310 Chapter 2: The Causes of the U.S. Health Care System Crisis. 318 Chapter 3: The Crisis in Medicaid and Medicare. 368 Chapter 4: Pollution Health Costs. 380 Plank 7: Ecological Economics.. 394 Chapter 1: Attaining and Measuring Sustainability Through Ecological Economics.. 394 Chapter 2: Green Jobs. 409 Plank 8: Education. 412 Plank 9: Tax Policies.. 416 Plank 10: Election Financing. 427 Plank 11: Maximize Capital Productivity.. 431 Appendix A: Global Warming – Evidence and Implications. 435 About the Author Richard Lance Christie, known to his friends as "Lance", has spent much of his adult life working quietly, skillfully, and with astonishing proficiency, to protect the wildlands and living environment of the American Southwest. Lance joined the Sierra Club in 1973 and was a founding member of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He was one of the incorporators of the Earth First! Foundation, and served three terms as the Secretary of the Earth First! Board of Directors. He also served three terms as Secretary of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance Board during six years' Board service. Lance was one of the incorporators of the environmental nonprofit, Association for the Tree of Life in 1988, has served on its Board of Trustees to the current time, and is currently President. ATL pursues ecological preservation and restoration projects, and was one of the original member organizations of the Utah Wilderness Coalition. It is currently leading a project to develop a comprehensive ecological preservation plan for the entire Colorado Plateau region. Lance's academic training was in social psychology. He did psychoacoustical research for the U.S. Air Force, then psychopharmacological research at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute while doing doctoral work at UCLA. After graduate school he served as Planner Director with the New Mexico Health and Environment Department for nine years, then administered a $14 million annual budget as state alcoholism program director. Since 1985 Christie has done environmental and civic volunteer work from half to full time. He is a coauthor of Wilderness At the Edge, the Utah Wilderness Coalition's first published BLM wilderness proposal, the basis for H.R. 1500 "America's Redrock Wilderness Act." That original proposal has since been revised and greatly enlarged, but the 400-page document that presented the initial vision for wildlands preservation on BLM lands throughout Utah, continues to serve as a conceptual blueprint. In addition to his public service as an environmental advocate, Lance has extensive experience in local government. He served for 9 years on the Grand County Planning and Zoning Commission, on both the The Renewable Deal – Edition 2 – April 2010 Page 5 Grand County and Moab City Board of Adjustment, has directed several environmental and land use task forces for local and regional government in Southeast Utah, is currently Grand County Regional Water Planning Administrator, and represents the Colorado Plateau physiograpic province in the Spine of the Continent Collaboration's continental ecological restoration initiative. Lance has lived in or near Moab, Utah, for over 30 years. His commitment to the preservation of Utah's world-renowed natural wonders has been unflagging throughout three decades, and he has time and again shown himself to be a skilled diplomat and savvy negotiator in the labyrinthine world of local politics. Those who delve deeper into Lance's Renewable Deal proposal, will soon recognize that it is the product of an exceptionally fertile, powerful, agile, lucid and articulate mind. He is an archetypal Rennaissance man, but with an overlay of quintessentially American can-do optimism and ingenuity. He is as knowledgeable and skilled in home construction, home repair, electronics, plumbing and auto repair, as he is in thinking and writing prolifically on a vast range of subjects. He is a polymath, a sage, one of the very few people for whom wrestling with fantastically complex problems of global scale is as natural as breathing. In addition to all this, Lance is warm, kind, fun-loving teddy-bear of a guy, with a sparkling joie de vivre. While composing the first edition of The Renewable Deal, Lance was also coping, with extraordinary courage and grace, with great personal loss--the decline and 2008 death of his beloved wife LaRue, a victim of Alzheimer’s disease. Four days after his wife died Lance was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Imaging and surgery revealed a 1.5 cm tumor and the presence of cancer cells in several lymph nodes. Lance calmly reviewed the treatment options and the harrowing survival statistics: Lance and LaRue Christie The Renewable Deal – Edition 2 – April 2010 Page 6 “In the European study,” he reported to family and friends, the three-year survival rate for the Gemcitabine group was 36.5% versus 21% for the monitored group; the five-year survival rate for Gemcitabine Ss was 19.5% versus 9% for the monitored group. At three years 23.5% of the Gemcitabine group had had no recurrence of cancer; at five years 16% had had no recurrence of cancer. The average length of time Gemcitabine Ss remained cancer-free after surgery before a new cancer appeared was 13.4 months; for the monitored group it was only 6.9 months. These are not encouraging odds, but with my strong constitution and smarts I should be able to elbow my way into the top ten percent of patient outcomes. After choosing his dueling weapon from among the array offered by the U. S. medical establishment, Lance then did what any good polymath would do: he dove into his copious files on medical science and to his own “proto-book” about non-traditional cancer treatments—a treatise of about 60 pages in draft form. “As I understand it,” Lance explained on November 8, 2008, “the key with adenocarcinomas is to get to that five-year cancer-free survival benchmark. Adenocarcinomas are very aggressive about recurring. If you can thwart them from doing so for three years, then the probability of recurrence in the next two years drops to about 12% for the pancreatic cancer form I have, if I read the research literature right. If you can thwart them from recurring for five years, then the odds are overwhelmingly in your favor that you can continue to thwart them until you die of something else.” “From my research review,” he continued on December 8 2008, “it appears to me that I can increase my statistical probability of five-year survival to about 85% from 36% with chemotherapy only through use of the appropriate supplements (e.g., Avemar pulvis to prevent recurrence; Graviola to starve a recurrent tumor if one appears). Since I am in much better health (normal weight, no chronic diseases, unusually vigorous immune system) than most cancer patients whose average outcomes the statistics represent, I should be able to occupy the upper end of the statistical distribution of probable outcomes and achieve survival at five years. That’s my objective. I am not afraid of dying, but I have a gaes on me to pursue my “Great Work” body of writing and its dissemination, to which mission’s accomplishment death from cancer would be singularly inconvenient.” There is no telling what this gifted, prolific man may accomplish during the remainder of his life, however long it may be. What is certain is that his Renewable Deal is the masterwork of a lifetime and a major contribution to America and the world. With the help of many partners in the emergent Earth Restoration Community it will continue growing richer and deeper with each day, week, month and year. --Ray Wheeler The Renewable Deal – Edition 2 – April 2010 Page 7 Introduction and Overview (Revised 21 Nov 09) “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” -Buckminster Fuller “The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologican “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” -Horace Mann “We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time than to renew, restore, and sustain it.
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