So, what’s the bottom line? We need jobs. Not just more jobs to keep us busy, but jobs that us help create worldwide prosperity. We need jobs to create a solar hydrogen economy.

Click on this link and watch the video. Then come back to my blog to discuss what I think it all means.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY

What does it mean?

Initially, the numbers blew me away. If we want to talk about numbers, though, how about these numbers … The Wall Street Journal notes that the U.S. economy has lost 3.6 million jobs since the recession officially began in Dec. 2007.

It’s been hard watching the news. Lately, I am afraid to read the newspaper because it’s too much bad news. More homes are going into foreclosure. Stocks are plummeting and our retirement portfolios are disappearing. All that hard work that we did to create retirement portfolios, poof! Why did we work so hard only to end up in this mess? Why did we sock away all that money in 401K’s and 529’s for our kids, just to have it robbed?

Yes, you read the word right …ROBBED.

We live in an economy of thieves. What does that mean?  It starts with our collective refusal to provide for the replacement cost of what we use.  It is stealing from the Earth and then it works its way up the ladder through our corporations and then to our governments.  Much of what we think of as a sign of wealth is energy intensive.  To have energy-intensive housing, manufactured goods, food in the supermarkets, gasoline for our cars, and jet-set travels we now burn over one million years of fossil accumulations each year.   Like a thief, our collective belief is that we should have more … so we kept stealing until we got ourselves into real predicaments.

So, banks had been giving loans and extending credit cards to folks who simply don’t make enough money to keep up with the payments.  But we charge more and more just to get by, and dig ourselves ever deeper into debt. We were all spending more than we could afford.  Not just individuals, but corporations …and our nation.

How did we get into this vicious cycle? We repeatedly developed technology advances to burn fossil fuels faster to produce an economy of consumers that populated past the ability of the natural resources to sustain our needs. We distributed wealth we didn’t actually have by buying goods produced by low cost labor in places that would import our scrap metals and plastics to manufacture consumer goods we demanded.  In response to hardships that developed we went to WWI, WWII, and the lesser wars that followed over the remaining finite resources.

The Fossil Fuel Age allowed us to create an amazing amount of goods and our population grew. Now that we have stolen all that fuel and our demand for energy exceeds production, what are we going to do? This is the root of our current economic crisis.

The housing bubble, the stock exchange rollercoaster, government bailouts are all just symptoms of living a life of thieves. We are in this recession because we spent beyond our means and refused to be responsible for replacing what we took.   

Our economy is based on energy and right now we are using the wrong energy. We decided to spend the next couple of decades living like thieves and stealing the remaining fossil resources so that we could continue to do business as usual. But business as usual isn’t working anymore.

I think Benjamin Franklin would argue that it is urgent to make the change … Ben would surely think of a memorable way to say it is time to do more with what we have.   And what we have plenty of is solar, wind, moving water, geothermal, and biomass resources.  There is a silver lining to this economic down turn. We want to return to better, non-greedy days. We just spent a decade working non-stop for what? What do we have to show for all of our hard work? We are losing our homes and our kids education. Crime is on the rise. More people are turning to drugs. Now is the time to figure out a better way.  We just can’t hunker down and wait for the storm to pass.  We have to create sustainable prosperity to successfully overcome the economy of thieves.

First we must make opportunities for full employment without inflation.  Farm equipment, rail locomotives, trucks, cars, and ships at sea need to be converted to enable interchangeable use of hydrogen and other renewable fuels.  Our homes and businesses need to be converted to hydrogen. Do you know about hydrogen?

Hydrogen is the safest, most convenient, and cost-effective way to deliver renewable energy. We all want a better environment for our families to live in. Hydrogen will clean up our environment and build a new economy.  Engines that run on hydrogen will clean the air by converting greenhouse gas constituents such as unburned hydrocarbons, pollen, tire particles, and diesel soot into much less harmful water vapor and carbon dioxide.

Do you want to save the United States? We have made enormous strides in creating an amazing standard of living by rapidly using the Earth’s fossil fuels. Are we going to throw that away? Do you want to reverse the damage done by burning fossil fuels? We can do that by converting to renewable hydrogen to fuel our needs and purposes.

What about the rest of the world, do you want to save them? While our nation of 5% of the world’s population now burns about 25% of the fossil energy, the largest portion of the world’s population survives on much less disposable energy, which makes it hard for families to earn enough money to keep their children from suffering from starvation and disease. So many people live with the mind crippling effects of poverty, jealousy, despair and that promotes terrorism.

Do you want to stop the wars that drain our nation of many of its bravest and so much money that we have to borrow hundreds of billions from China? Then give terrorists jobs. That’s really what they want. They want a job just like you and me. We all need to be gainfully employed helping the planet and its inhabitants, not stealing from each other and the Earth. Everyone needs clean air to breathe and water to drink. We all need to eat healthy diets. Our brains want to learn and should be used gainfully much like our muscles. It doesn’t matter if you live in America or Afghanistan; we all need jobs …good, clean, productive jobs that help humanity advance.

Do you want to save yourself? Dependence upon fossil fuels has caused rapid increases  in environmental contamination by petro carbon particulates that cause lung dysfunctions and by heavy metals such as lead, mercury and radioactive metals. We are making ourselves sick by breathing bad air.  And it is affecting our genetic code.

So, what’s the bottom line? We need jobs. Not just more jobs to keep us busy, but jobs that us help create worldwide prosperity. We need jobs to create a solar hydrogen economy.

More than a trillion dollars have been spent for military efforts in Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia on oil wars since 1980. This amount of capital could have launched new ventures that would have hired most of the Middle East’s unemployed to build pipelines, Renewable Resources Parks, polymer plants, industrial parks, and communities with schools, hospitals and libraries. This model of peaceful progress could have been provided instead of continuing dismay, terrorism and conflict throughout these countries and Africa.

But, the money has been borrowed and spent. More money is being handed out in government bailouts, which could have been used to build a new economy right here in the United States … a new civilization called the Solar Hydrogen Civilization

Where do I get my ideas? From my dad. You can buy his book and read all about this new way of life. Just go to my home page and click on The Solar Hydrogen Civilization button. Roy McAlister donates a book to each new member of the American Hydrogen Association, a non-profit organization dedicated to research, education and creating sustainable jobs in the Solar Hydrogen Economy. 

How do you want to spend your time on this Earth? Do you want to keep stealing from her? Yes, I said STEALING. It’s time to realize what we have done. Honestly, I don’t think people are aware that we have better options. The technology exists to make this change.

We have been so busy keeping our nose to the grindstone that we don’t seem to know what’s going on. Now that some of us are unemployed, and we all know someone who is, we are all in the same boat together, it’s time to look around and find answers to the hard questions. We can keep doing what we are doing and fight for the last drop of oil or we can make the conversion to hydrogen now.

Do you want to do something today? Then donate a dollar. Just one dollar. I’m going to raise six million dollars for hydrogen fueling stations and I’m going to start converting the 800 million cars that are on our streets. Join me today by making the contribution. It’s just a dollar … go to my home page and click on donate. Do you want to know where your dollar is going? Go to the my blog entry called, “Where does my dollar go?”

These are serious times and we all need to pitch in.