India and Evolution of Farmers to Cities

Perhaps one may anticipate that India's farmers estimated to be between 100 million and 600 million comprising as much as 50% of the popolation will eventually move into cities along with other rural residents as the economy of India modernizes. Perhaps India shall also have fewer than 1% of the national population involved in agricultural work as the acelleration of A.I. guidance control, mechanization and drones for at least seeding increase efficiency. If some mass social movement of Indian rural residents to cities occurs that will create numerous challenges for urban development includig transportation and sanitation.

Evolution in several respect comprises plans and accidens in a pbenomenal integration from large to small scale. Plans for some cohere within accidental social circumstances in a pre-determined Universe that allows the appearance of free will.  People can always resist plans for social determinism or being regarded as human bio-mass by elites and innovate newr infrastructure criteria.

Microwave toilets that are powered electrically are waterless. Yet it is the need to develop free mass transportation infrastructure that would alloow India to decentralize some of te overcrowding in cities. Mass people movers probably will be electric mag-lift platforms that also require low to zero maintenance normally, and that cross the nation with various forms for low, moderate and high speed.

India's population is more than 1.3 billion people and increaasing. A relatiely swift transition for the majority to high tech fields with better mass eeducation exploiting low cost technology could be develeloped simultaneously with urban and suburban design paradigms innovated to value food production and wildlife on exteriors of building surface wherever possible or practical. Food, transportation and technological synergy should be a good prospect for India if the social leadership is not lacking as is so common in the story of human political history. Maybe they coul;d show the way for modern economies to phase in ecological economics.

Taliban, Land and Economics vs Westernization

The Taliban reportedly are making progress in taking control of more land in that poor Muslim nation surrounded by other poor Muslim nations. As the United States backs down it spending of billions and billions in that nation somewhat (instead of spending a 25 billion to build a border fence with Mexico) the tide of jihadist, radical Muslims that are fairly numerous increases. It costs quite a bit to buy allegiance in a nation that really hasn't got the natural resources and personnel to keep the standard of living as high as would support westernization. Even worse, in 30 or 40 years there probably will still be tens or hundreds of millions of militant Muslims in that region of the world that is central Asia.

So the U.S.A. might want to consider the overly simplistic rationale of long term spending in Afghanistan to provide money sufficient to buy allegiance and create an artificial infrastructure that provides economic activity. The Taliban is quite tough on economic activity it regards as rival to its own Muslim ideas about economic activity and prefer a Muslim legal system too. Historically nations that spend too much on military concerns have damaged themselves even to the point of collapsing their civilization. Americans of course tend to take a simplistic or what-me-worry approach to foreign and domestic policy these days in the confidence that the ability of the Federal Reserve to provide free money to the rich and big banks is unlimited. The prime purpose of the economy and government of the U.S.A. in recent years has been to concentrate wealth and puff up the most rich so far as possible with little concern about the poor or middle class in fact if not in propaganda comprehensively.

The Taliban is regarded as too supportive of terrorist organizations that seek to attack the United States and Europe. Therefor the U.S.A. along with some N.A.T.O. forces believe it necessary to prevent the Taliban from returning to power in Afghanistan because they would allow terrorists to train and stage ops from that eagle’s nest. The strategic situation may be flexible somewhat, and certainly the tactics may be as well. I won’t write about either here more than nominally.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42863116

Two better policy opportunities for Afghanistan are building long-term strong U.S. base fortifications that would allow defense against jihadists for western military personnel at modest expense and creating some new form of ecological economic infrastructure for Afghanistan that would be difficult for the Taliban to destroy. Such a sustainable economy should be able to work with local resources as well as or better than poppy production. Each option (or both) would require a substantial element of intelligent thought that is innovative from U.S. policy planners-a very tall order in a society that traditionally prefers vast ordinance and expensive as a way to inefficiently over-power to victory.

Realistically the decadent drift of western society toward godless doctrine and homosexual marriage etc is likely to reinforce Taliban recruitment as well as that of other jihadist and mufsidoonist groups the next half century. Thus it would be a good idea to develop sustainable economic policy for Afghanistan that could exist without centralized, corrupting power that concentrates wealth and that makes the populous reliant upon the will and benevolence of the powerful in order to exist. That is a trans-cultural phenomenon of course. 

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No One Believes Congress is Smart or Sharp

No one believes the U.S. congress is smart or sharp any more. President Trump offered a perfectly fine four point plan to settle the border issue that has become a lever for the Democrat Party to close down the government at a cost of 2 billion a day lost when it does shut down. The Congress should just pass the plan and move on as if it had something else to do.

Were there more than four good Presidents in the 20th and 21st centuries too, so far? My list has Calvin Coolidge, F.D.R., Eisenhower and just Ronald Reagan (because of the grace of ending the cold war). The rest were tryme and President Trump's time doesn't count as it hasn't finished and he mighht somehow get a tax rate of 90% on the most rich, transition to an ecologically sustainable economy, reform capitalism so those out of work longest are hired first (with tax incentives), patent exclusivity is reduced to three years with just 10% royalties to inventors after that, etc. Really, the Democrat party is intellectually dead. President Trump may need to sell them some ideas if no collusion was going on amongst those seeking his removal from office.

Mars Bound Astronauts May Eat SH*t

Astronauts apparently will need to eat sh*t (their own in recycled paste form) on the way to Mars. Mars is a little over-sold these days. Building on the moon might be better, yet plainly building man-size mobile greenhouses that can be tugged along in space to grow fresh veggies on the way to various moons and planets around the solar system is more palatable than the idea of eating crap though Americans are too used to getting that from both major political parties and NPR these days. NASA evidently feels that astronauts also are ready to eat their own waste products in the spirit of the government way of treating the poor and middle class generally what with tax cuts for the rich.

How much intelligence does it really require to innovate better ways than eating shit? Hopefully N.A.S.A.  and Penn State won’t suggest cannibalism if anyone dies in space as their next big idea. Growing squash as large as a moon may be possible in a micro-gravity greenhouse. Growing and towing some sort of turnip bigger than an office building in a mobile greenhouse alongside a piece of water-ice comet from the moon to Mars probably is better than eating crap.

https://www.rt.com/news/417266-space-manned-food-mars/

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