Dr. Paul Comet
Comet Environmental Consulting, USA
Title: An Integrated Model of Sustainability and Emission Control: The Concept of Society as a Super Organism that Lives by Consuming its Own Waste Using Alternative Energy as Currency
Biography
Biography: Dr. Paul Comet
Abstract
The observation of the NASA “ecosphere†allows one to mentally model a carbon – neutral, sustainable society, that uses all its waste as a source of stored energy (where city & state replace the algae & shrimps!) as well as sunlight, wind etc. The creation of an alternative energy – based currency “photonic dollar†is suggested that would gradually outcompete the petrodollar as domestic waste to energy, & other alternative energy devices are attached to a communal electric grid (that also functions as a bank) that gradually replace fossil fuel energy. “Superorganism†theory is advocated as a way of distributing resources in an effective manner & as a way of understanding the complexities of how human society functions in a holistic manner. Societal ills then become diagnosable in terms of a malfunction of the entire social & economic system. The interposing of a separate economic “tier†specifically for alternative resources & energy is suggested as a non – revolutionary way of creating sustainable employment, if successful. These ideas are proposed because neither the theories of Adam Smith nor Karl Marx address the waste problem, nor clearly identify the “energy nature†of capital. If this new combination of models is successful in solving climate change problems, then economic philosophical differences between competing nation states might prove to be resolvable.