The Legalities of Insanity

Resounding with jabs coated in verbose misinterpretations and dominated by pure emotion, the public outcry for the cease of illegal immigration has evolved into a war between borders to fortify the borders. However, overlooked amidst media hypocrisy forged by prevalence towards polarization is the apparent offspring of the illegals or legal immigration. In the new age topsy turvey world of electronic media and love affair with the substantiation of the banner headline, the great age of immigration and Ellis Island have become virtually inconspicuous in the subconscious of the public.

Thanks to the actions of the late JFK, hunting season on the U.S. borders and white collar jobs has been wide open since 1965. Under misleading verbiage such as the Family Reunification Act and the hazy requirements for refugee status, thousands of brilliant minds legally immigrate to the shores of America every year and flood the already qualified labor force with an excess, while depriving their native lands of capable doctors, teachers and government administrators. Within this situation nightmare rivaling a dichotomous nightmare, the seemingly exponential amount of PHD's now inhabiting the U.S. scrape to find work in academia, while the third world vacated by balanced minds is left to furrow under the binding vines of dictatorship and extremism.

On average 500,000 legal immigrants are granted passage into the U.S. yearly, and many under the confusing mantra of political refugees. The influx of population has adverse effects on the stabilization of community, economics, resources and environment. In short, the quality of life in the middle class remains at a stagnant plateau. To complicate matters, large corporations commence daily operations as if enduring the reality of a labor shortage. Many businesses will simply not hire Americans as the veil of political correctness and the failed grasp of the current economic environment prevail.

As the U.S. population swells towards 400,000,000 by 2050, thanks to the dated immigration policies set in the 20th century, the consequences can be observed globally. For the better part of one hundred years, presidents and congress have failed in attempt to pass a feasible bill that squelches the dense flow of human traffic through the revolving door of the borders. Though the mantra of “a nation of immigrants” remains viable within a context pertaining to the proper means of assimilation, the economy is now just recovering from the vibrations caused by the Great Wave which swept across the Atlantic in forgotten times.

Resources
The Case Against Immigration, Roy Beck

Energy at a Net Loss

In Nature There Exists No Free Lunch

Instant gratification is not compatible with the modern research tactics of science, much less as solution for alternative energy sources. The continued search to wean the human race off oil is a positive gesture; however science has to be permitted to catch up with imagination. As bio-diesel gains momentum in the media and word of mouth as a legitimate "green" substitute for oil, those who realize the true ramifications of this perspective, cringe.

Large scale production of bio-diesel requires the use of excess volumes of land to produce a necessary amount of plant matter to be converted into fuel. While conversationalists applaud the apparent reduced carbon footprint of this magical compound, a dichotomy exists as the needed acquisition of land needed to produce bio-diesel will actually result in more harm to environment than fossil fuels while driving the up the price of corn thus putting U.S. farmers out of business. (Those farmers who do participate in growing corn for use in bio-fuel are luxuriously subsidized by government dollars, hinting further that this method of alternative fuel does not possess the needed results to be produced effeciently, effectively and adhere to consumer spending standards) The mantra of clear cutting trees and those who live off the land is not in par with the expectations of the environmental movement. Even in Brazil where the organic matter from sugarcane produces a much more efficient end product than corn, the government has been forced to increase spending on oil to satisfy basic energy needs.

The practice of harnessing energy from the universe requires an understanding of the pervading laws of thermodynamics. It remains an abstract goal to believe that in the next 2000 years, humanity will be able to solve the efficiency issue in a closed energy system. Suffice to say, the harvesting of energy from space or from terrestrial sources will always result in a net loss. Even with the production of a hydroelectric dam, one has to picture the amount of labor expended by each individual worker and machine in the construction phase. On another level, one has to consider the properties of each individual turbine and the passing force of the river over the moveable parts. An apt metaphor exists in the business world. An employee is hired at 3000 dollars a month salary and not paid for the first month of work. The employee is paid the next month and until their tenure ends, but the business will always be behind by 3000 dollars. Even if the employee is given an extra 3000 dollars on his last paycheck, the ramifications of not receiving money for a month will have already affected his bank account and life in other subtle ways. No matter the correction, the system is now destined to function at a loss. Entropy may be cruel, but the concept remains the defining characteristic for the structure of the universe and reality. We will probably have to change our habits over the next two hundred years, barring the development of a feasible H3 reactor and a new love affair with nuclear energy.

UK journalist George Manbiot treats this debate with some intriguing thoughts about the effects of energy farming in tropical zones.