The Economic Collapse

 

The human population explosion graph shown below underscores the fact that more and more people are competing for fewer and fewer non-renewable resources

Peak Oil

 

The Phoenix Project Solutions
Rising from the Ashes of Non-Renewable Energy, Economic & Biological Resources
 to a Democracy and "Solar Hydrogen Economy" with wartime-speed

Unlike the energy plans proposed by McCain, Obama, Gore and
Pickens, the Phoenix Project plan, which was first proposed
by Harry Braun in his 1984 Congressional campaign
against John McCain, is still the only plan that
can make America energy independent
of not just imported oil, but
all fossil & nuclear
fuels by 2015

 

 Harry Braun, Chairman

Making Hydrogen from the Sun, Wind & Water

 

Windships                                           OTEC

Either sea-based Windship or Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) hydrogen production systems can displace fossil and nuclear fuels worldwide, while saving ocean ecosystems in the process.  Hydrogen fuel can be manufactured from water with any source of electricity, but the Phoenix Project baseline assumptions focus on wind systems because they presently generate electricity for less cost than any other solar energy, fossil fuel or nuclear technology, and they can be rapidly mass-produced like automobiles on a scale to displace fossil and nuclear fuels worldwide forever. 

While the U.S. has vast land areas for wind systems, it has equally vast ocean areas that could be utilized.  Sea-based "Windship" hydrogen production systems, like those pictured above, could in and of themselves allow the U.S. and other countries to eliminate the need to rely on the rapidly diminishing fossil and nuclear fuels, while providing a vast sanctuary for the remaining fish and marine organisms on the seabed floor that are in the final stages of being hunted into extinction.  Indeed, according to a wide-range of scientific studies, the global ocean ecosystems are already over 90% dead, and deploying large fleets of sea-based wind systems may be the only action that will allow the remaining marine organisms to recover (please refer to the Ocean Destruction paper attached on the Papers button link on this websites navigation bar).

The Windship image on the top was provided courtesy of Norsk Hydro, whereas the lower image on the left was initially published by National Geographic in December of 1975 and was developed by William Heronemus, a former naval architect and Professor of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, who pointed out that from a technology perspective, both OTEC and wind-powered hydrogen production systems could have been mass-produced in the 1920s. 

Note that the tugboat is delivering the crew that live and work in the submerged spherical hulls that also contain the electrolyzers that extract hydrogen from the seawater with the electricity generated by the wind turbines.  The OTEC system on the right was developed by Lockheed in the 1970s, and Lockheed engineers also developed detailed designs on how to modify existing commercial aircraft to use liquid hydrogen fuel (see below).  OTEC systems use the largest solar collector on the earth, the tropical oceans.  OTEC systems were first field tested in the 1920s, and they are the only solar power plants that can operate 24 hours a day because the temperature differentials in the oceans are constant.  Like wind systems, OTEC systems could also displace all fossil and nuclear fuels now used worldwide, and they can be engineered to generate both vast quantities of fresh water and seafood as by-products.  It is why mass-producing a mix of such renewable systems can provide sustainable prosperity without pollution for the global human community.

A Brief History of Hydrogen-Fueled Automotive Vehicles

While hydrogen has been used to fuel all of the Saturn V moon rockets and the Space Shuttles, in 1807 Francois Isaac de Rivaz of Switzerland designed the first internal combustion engine that ran inside the first automobile (below left).  In 1860, Etienne Lenoir of France invented a hydrogen-fueled 1-cylinder, 2-stroke vehicle (below center), which was called the Hippomobile.  Norsk Hydro of Norway (which also developed the offshore wind system pictured above in this article) modified the pickup truck (below right) to use hydrogen fuel in 1933.   

 

              1807                                        1860                                                 1933

 

In the U.S., Roger Billings, a young engineer in Provo, Utah first modified his family's lawnmower to use hydrogen fuel when he was still in high school, and in 1966, he proceeded to modify his father's Model A Ford (upper left) for his high school science project.  In 1972, when he was a student at Brigham Young University, he and his team modified a Volkswagen (upper center) to operate on hydrogen, and they won first place for emissions in the Urban Vehicle Design Competition in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Atmospheric air is approximately 78% nitrogen and only about 22% oxygen, and the high combustion temperatures in internal combustion engines causes oxides of nitrogen (NOX) to form from the nitrogen in the air. 

In order to reduce NOX emissions, Billings and other automotive engineers, including those at Los Alamos and BMW, have injected water into the cylinders to reduce the engine combustion temperature so the oxides of nitrogen would simply not be created in the first place.  Indeed, the hydrogen-powered Volkswagen was shown to actually clean the ambient air and as such, it was given a negative number for unburned hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide.  In 1977, Roger Billings designed a hydrogen-powered Cadillac Seville (upper right), as part of a Hydrogen Home project he developed.  A picture of the Hydrogen Home Billings developed is on the HarryBraunShow.com website, and the the Cadillac pictured above ran in President Jimmy Carter's inaugural parade.  The Cadillac was able to use either hydrogen or gasoline as fuel to extend the range of the automobile.  Note the exhaust coming from the Cadillac using hydrogen, is pure water vapor. If the exhaust was condensed and captured, it would be much more pure than any tap water now used. 

 

A Hydrogen Hummer

  

In 2004, California Governor Arnold Swartznegger worked with the engineers at General Motors to have his Hummer modified to use gaseous hydrogen fuel as part of California's Hydrogen Highway project. 

Hydrogen-Fueled Internal Combustion Engines

Hydrogen is the only "universal fuel" that can power any existing internal or external combustion engine, appliance or power plant.  As such, rather than waiting for costly fuel cells or other new hybrid or plug-in vehicles, it is far less expensive and much quicker to simply modify all of the existing internal combustion engines and vehicles to use hydrogen or gasoline with a flip of a switch.  Hydrogen can be stored as a solid in hydride materials, as a compressed gas or a cryogenic liquid, which most closely simulates gasoline in terms of weight, range and volume.  In fact, it is highly likely that hydrogen storage systems will use a combination of all three phases of hydrogen.  And given that the exhaust from a hydrogen-fueled engine has been shown to be cleaner than the air that enters the engine, air pollution from vehicles would virtually disappear even in rush hour traffic.  Thousands of vehicles, including the diesel engines and even the torpedo's used in submarines, were modified to use hydrogen fuel in the 1920s and 1930s in Germany and the UK, thus no new technology needs to be developed to implement hydrogen as the only "universal fuel" that can power every existing engine, vehicle, appliance or power plant.

Liquid Hydrogen-Fueled Vehicles

    A 1979 Liquid Hydrogen Fueled Buick

Investigators at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico modified the 1979 Buick pictured above to operate on liquid hydrogen fuel, which most closely resembles gasoline from a perspective of volume, weight and engine performance.  The self-serve hydrogen pump is attached to a white cryogenic liquid hydrogen storage tank, and in their final report, the Los Alamos investigators led by Dr. Walter Stuart, concluded that liquid hydrogen could be safely used in vehicles by members of the general public. 

 

Liquid Hydrogen-Fueled BMWs

 

BMW is the only major automobile manufacturer that has been modifying its vehicles to use liquid hydrogen for over 30 years because it is the only pollution-free fuel that does not force their customers to give up performance, range or the luxury of driving a full-sized vehicle.  The hydrogen BMW still has its gasoline tank as a reserve tank, and the engine can use either fuel with the flip of a switch.

A Hydrogen-Fueled BMW V-12 Engine and Liquid Hydrogen Storage System

   

BMW has also modified its smallest and most fuel efficient vehicle, the Mini Cooper (upper left), to operate on liquid hydrogen, which is stored under the rear passenger seats, as well as the world's fastest liquid hydrogen-fueled race car, which has exceeded 180 mph.  

Hydrogen Fuel Cells

   

Fuel cells, which were first developed in the 1800s, are able to create electricity from combining hydrogen and oxygen.  Fuel cells were successfully used in the space program are also being developed for automotive applications, such as the General Motors "Hy-Wire" fuel cell vehicle that is pictured above. The Hy-Wire system that does not have any of the conventional mechanical parts between the driver and the wheels because like advanced aircraft, everything runs on electronic sensors and motors.  However, the cost of fuel cells is still very high.  The initial small fuel cells used in vehicles being tested in California cost over a million dollars each, and even in mass-production, GM estimated that the cost of the fuel cells would still cost between $50,000 to $100,000, which would exceed the cost of the car itself.  While fuel cells may be practical at some point in the future, given that the senior scientists at the National Academy of Sciences have stated that fossil fuels need to be phased-out within 10 years in order to avoid irreversible damage to the earth's climate and food production systems, the only practical solution is to simply modify existing vehicles and engines to use hydrogen as well as gasoline with the flip of a switch.

 

Oil Company Considerations

Given that large amounts of hydrogen are required to make gasoline from oil, the major oil companies are well aware of its use.  However, all of the oil companies now obtain the hydrogen they need from nonrenewable natural gas and other hydrocarbon resources where the hydrogen atoms are chemically bonded to carbon atoms.  Unfortunately, the oil companies are only focused on making hydrogen from natural gas, coal, uranium and other energy resources that are highly-polluting and rapidly diminishing worldwide. 

 

Hydrogen Safety Considerations

Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant and lightest element in the known universe, and because it is lighter than air, it goes up and away within seconds if a leak or accident occurs.  This is why hydrogen is much safer than gasoline or other hydrocarbon fuels, where the hydrogen is chemically bonded to carbon, which is heaver than air, and therefore causes the hydrocarbon fuel to stick to passengers like glue and form explosive mixtures when leaks and accidents do occur. 

The Hindenburg Accident, where two-thirds of the passengers and crew survived. 

  

While the images of the Hindenburg accident were horrific, two-thirds of the passengers and crew survived the accident. 

The Hindenburg was not using hydrogen to fuel its Mercedes Benz engines.  Rather, because hydrogen is the lightest element in the universe, it was used used as a lifting gas.  However, even when the hydrogen was ignited from the highly-combustible aluminum-based paint used on the exterior of the airship, the hydrogen did not "explode."  Rather, it caught fire and as the fire spread, it went up and away from the passengers as the airship gradually fell to the ground.  According to the accident report, two-thirds of the passengers and crew lived, and of the 35 people who died in the accident, 33 died because they panicked and jumped from the airship and they died from the fall.  Two individuals were burned to death, but they were not burned from the hydrogen, but rather from the diesel fuel that was stored in large tanks on the airship to fuel the airship's engines. 

In a carefully controlled test funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, DOE, Dr. Michael Swain and his colleagues at the College of Engineering at the University of Miami initiated similar fuel leaks with two identical vehicles.  As the images below show, the hydrogen-fueled vehicle on the left suffered no temperature increase or physical damage to the passenger compartment, whereas the gasoline-fueled vehicle was totally consumed in flames in less than three minutes.  This underscores the impact of carbon when it is combined with hydrogen to form a highly-deadly hydrocarbon fuel.

 

  Given the images of the hydrogen-fueled vehicle on the left or the gasoline-fueled vehicle on the right, which vehicle would you choose to be in in the event of an accident?

Liquid Hydrogen Tankers

 

Hydrogen can be transported as a cryogenic liquid in tankers just as oil is, except that oil is highly toxic and dangerous if it is spilled, whereas hydrogen is completely non-toxic, non-polluting and relatively safe in the event of accidents or spills.  If the Exxon Valdez was transporting liquid hydrogen instead of oil, no ecological damage would have occurred as a result of the accident.  It is worth noting that even though the accident took place 20 years ago, the oil that was spilled has never been able to be cleaned up and is still contaminating the Alaskan environment.  The liquid hydrogen tanker pictured (above left) was built in the U.S. in the 1970s by General Dynamics, and fleets of similar cryogenic tankers are now used worldwide, primarily for transporting liquid natural gas(LNG).  However, unlike liquid hydrogen, LNG tankers and storage facilities are very dangerous because the hydrogen in natural gas is all chemically bonded to carbon, which allows the LNG to pool and form highly-explosive mixtures.  The advanced liquid hydrogen supertanker pictured on the right, which looks more like a cruse ship, is being developed in Japan by Kawasaki Heavy Industries.

 
The Liquid Hydrogen Supergrid

Unlike electricity, hydrogen can be stored and delivered to national and international markets by cryogenic tanker trucks, ships or underground pipelines that can also be engineered to transmit electricity as well as the hydrogen.  The so-called "Smart" grid proposals that are now being proposed by the Obama administration involve condemning private property in order to build thousands of miles of conventional unsightly and inefficient high-voltage transmission lines across the country, which will ultimately cost over a trillion dollars.  The reason the conventional transmission lines are placed up in the air is because they are hot, which is due to the fact they are leaking energy, and the heat is then dissipated into the atmosphere. 

The Phoenix Project proposal, by contrast calls for building a low-temperature cryogenic Interstate Hydrogen "Supergrid" System that was first proposed in the 1970s and is now being developed by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), which is the largest utility research group in the U.S.  The hydrogen pipelines would be able to carry highly-efficient superconducting high-voltage transmission lines underground, as well as the gaseous and liquid hydrogen fuel that will be made from electricity ideally made from the wind and other solar and geothermal resources.  As the Supergrid image above also shows, a magnetically levitated train could also be incorporated in the system. 

 

Liquid Hydrogen-Fueled Aircraft and Spacecraft

 

In order to modify existing aircraft, Lockheed engineers in the 1970s simply located the two liquid hydrogen storage tanks (dewars) in the fuselage of the aircraft.  This would make hijacking the aircraft virtually impossible because the flight crew is separated from the passenger compartment by one of the liquid hydrogen storage tanks.  The takeoff weight of the hydrogen-fueled aircraft was reduced by over 40%, the aircraft was stronger and much safer in the event of accidents; the wing area was smaller; and the engines were quieter and required less maintenance because hydrogen combustion does not produce organic acids or carbon deposits in the engines

A proposed Lockheed liquid hydrogen-fueled L-1011 aircraft shown above is being refueled by the two spherical highly insulated liquid hydrogen storage tanks (referred to as Dewars) that are located in the distance. 


The advanced liquid hydrogen-fueled aircraft shown above was also designed by Lockheed but it is fully optimized in its design for liquid hydrogen fuel.  Given the lighter weight, the aircraft is significantly larger than conventionally-fueled hydrocarbon-fueled aircraft, where the hydrogen is chemically bonded to carbon, as it is in gasoline and diesel fuel.  

 

The Space Shuttle

  

Liquid hydrogen has been used as a primary rocket fuel because it has the greatest energy per weight of any fuel.  This is why it has been used by NASA to fuel all of the Saturn V moon rockets as well as the fleet of Space Shuttles.  Note the three liquid hydrogen-fueled engines, which are located on the tail of the Space Shuttle, where the light-blue hydrogen flame is almost invisible.  This is in contrast to the solid-fuel rocket boosters (SRBs) that are located on the sides of the shuttle's main hydrogen and oxygen fuel tanks.  While the hydrogen engines are essentially pollution free, the SRBs emit a highly toxic aluminum exhaust, which damages the atmosphere each time the Shuttle is launched. It is important to note that when the Columbia Space Shuttle exploded in 2003, it was not the liquid hydrogen systems that caused the problem, but the seals on one of the SRBs that failed, which then caused the spacecraft to explode, killing all of the astronauts on board. 

 

Spaceship Earth

The earth is the only planet in the known universe that can sustain humanity and the other mammals, yet the earth's biological life-support systems are in the final stages of being made uninhabitable because of humanities reckless exploitation, chemical contamination and mindless addiction to non-renewable fossil and nuclear fuels, which are both highly-polluting and rapidly diminishing worldwide.  It is why a "transition of substance" to a Solar Hydrogen Economy needs to be implemented with wartime-speed (i.e., by 2015).

 
The Silver Bullet

Harry Braun's Phoenix Project plan is the only one proposed that will provide a fundamental solution to the energy and economic crisis, as well as many of the most serious environmental problems by rising from the ashes of oil and other fossil fuels to a Solar Hydrogen Economy with wartime-speed with technologies that could have been mass-produced in the 1920s.  It is important to note that the Phoenix Project plan, which was first proposed by Harry in 1984 when he ran for Congress against John McCain, is the only plan that is able to comply with the specifications and warnings of professor James Hanson, NASA’s chief climate scientist, and the senior scientists at the National Academy of Sciences, that fossil fuels need to be phased out within 10 years or humanity will pass a tipping-point of no return, which will destabilize the climate to such an extent that the earth’s primary food production systems will fail.  Indeed, the tundra and methane ice crystals in the Arctic are now rapidly melting, which could release 100 times more carbon into the atmosphere than is now generated from burning fossil fuels, which underscores the need to shift to a Solar Hydrogen Economy with wartime-speed.

According to Hanson, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are already at 385 parts per million and they need to be less than 300 in order to minimize the impact of the worldwide global famines that have already begun.  Scientific studies have documented that the global ocean ecosystems are now more than 90% dead from the free market forces of unregulated overfishing and the remaining fish are so contaminated from mercury and radioactive isotopes emitted from coal plants they are unfit to eat.  The major forest ecosystems in the Rocky Mountains and the Cascades are being destroyed from the warmer temperatures, and the bees, which are critical in pollinating food crops, are disappearing, along with the bats and frogs as part of a global mass-extinction event that is already well underway.  This time it is not the reptiles, but the mammals that are at risk.

There is a remarkable precedent for such a transition of substance, because some 3.5 billion years ago, the earth's population of protein-scale nanobes and micron-scale microbes was also exponentially increasing, and as such, they were also faced with extinction because their non-renewable hydrocarbon reserves in the primordial soup were rapidly being consumed. Their solution was to re-industrialize their civilization around photosynthetic plants that could extract hydrogen from water with solar energy, and this system has been successfully working on a global scale with no pollution ever since.

 

A Renewable Rate of Return

Although President Obama has spoken about the need to emphasize renewable energy technologies, his expenditures are less than 1% of what are needed, and because he and his advisors assume there is no silver bullet solution, they are continuing to pursue all energy options, including offshore drilling, coal, corn-based ethanol and carbon and nuclear energy options that waste both time and money because they will never be able to make the U.S. energy independent -- much less energy independent of fossil and nuclear fuels, which are rapidly diminishing and highly polluting. 

The U.S. currently spends over $1 trillion annually on energy, and to implement a wind-powered solar hydrogen energy system, approximately $6 trillion of the $9 trillion authorized for the financial bailout, would be needed to build and install the 5 million 2 megawatt wind systems that will be needed to displace not just imported oil, but all fossil and nuclear fuels now used in the U.S. -- as well as the engine conversion systems that will allow the existing fleet of 250 million automotive vehicles to use hydrogen or gasoline, diesel fuel or other hydrocarbon fuels interchangeably.  An additional 15 million wind systems could then generate enough hydrogen to displace fossil and nuclear fuels worldwide, and because the U.S. has vast land and offshore wind resources, this reindustrialization effort has the potential to transform the U.S. from being the world's largest debtor nation and energy importer into a multi-trillion dollar hydrogen energy exporter with a fuel that is non-toxic, pollution-free, and exhaustible, thereby providing a renewable rate of return on the investment. 

It is worth noting that unlike the current economic stimulus proposals, the Phoenix Project solar hydrogen re-industrialization effort would not be creating short-term make-work jobs, but millions of high-quality private sector jobs that would generate over a trillion dollars of wealth annually with hydrogen production and end-use technologies.   And because solar-sourced hydrogen is both inexhaustible and pollution-free, it will fundamentally eliminate many of the most serious climate change and other environmental and related healthcare problems with technologies that could have been mass-produced in the 1920s.  This underscores the fact that the obstacles to this “transition of substance” are not technical or economic -- they are political.

 

Proposed Amendments to the U.S. Constitution

Elections come and go, but very little changes regardless of who gets elected.  Given this reality, and given that the current two party system of government in the U.S. is so fundamentally corrupted by multinational oil and other corporations and other special interests, only a series of amendments to the U.S. Constitution can resolve the problem.  As such, the non-profit Phoenix Project Political Action Committee is focused on organizing the Second Constitutional Convention in Washington D.C. to pass the 10 amendments that are outlined on the PhoenixProjectPac (P3) website.  

The Democracy Amendment

Perhaps the most critical change needed in the U.S. Constitution is the Democracy Amendment, which would transform the U.S. from being a Republic, which is rule by the tiny few, into a real Democracy, which is rule by the majority, where the majority of American citizens would have the power and responsibility to approve all legislation and judicial decisions, would essentially eliminate the power of lobbyists and the political corruption that they foster.  Given this accurate definition of the language, it is obvious that the United States is not a Democracy, and virtually all of the so-called Democrats in the government are really Republicans. 

While most people assume the U.S. already has a democratic form of government, such misinformation only serves the interests of corrupt elected officials and lobbyists who write the bills that most members of congress do not even read before they vote to approve them, which allows the lobbyists to run the Congress like a house of prostitution. 

The key difference in a Republican form of government compared to a Democracy is that a Republic is "representative" government, which is in and itself rule by the tiny few (i.e., far less than one-half of one percent of the citizens in the USA are elected representatives), but given the way the seniority system in Congress works, an even much smaller number of Committee Chairman are empowered to not only conduct business in secret, but they alone get to determine which bills are even allowed to come to a vote in the Congress.  This means that lobbyists only have to bribe and otherwise influence a tiny number of the already tiny number of elected officials that are elected to the Congress, and with the unverified computerized voting machines that are easy to hack and are now in widespread use, even the elections are highly suspect. In a Democracy, however, the majority of the citizens would be in charge, which means the lobbyists would have to bribe literally millions of citizens in order to get their way. While the first democratic form of government was in ancient Greece, at present, the only country that has a true democratic form of government is Switzerland. 

 
The Other Proposed Amendments

The other proposed amendments include a Fair Accounting Act, which would require that military, environmental and healthcare costs that come from products such as the fossil and nuclear fuels, should be factored into the costs that consumers pay for such products.  That is the critical "trigger mechanism" for implementing a Solar Hydrogen Economy because it would then make hydrogen made from the sun, wind and water the least expensive energy option by far. Other amendments would end government secrecy, unverified voting machines, federal budget deficits, and the production of radioactive wastes, while providing a universal non-profit healthcare system that would eliminate the need for health insurance, and no longer allow physicians to "operate" on commission, and an Educational Excellence Amendment would bypass the outdated factory school systems with ultra-high quality educational programs developed and produced by the best educators and animators for all American citizens.  These programs would emphasize critical thinking skills and would be provided at no cost on the internet, or be made available at a small cost on CD/DVDs, and they would therefore allow each student to progress at their own individualized speed.

Details on these proposed amendments are available on the PhoenixProjectPac.US website, and any comments or suggestions on any of these proposed constitutional amendments would be greatly appreciated.

 

Utopia or Oblivion

 

It is important to recognize that due to the Exponential Age in which we live, humanity is rapidly accelerating into a technological "utopia" of molecular medicine that will eliminate aging and disease as well as an ecological "oblivion" of mass-extinction, and the decisions made in the nest few years will determine which future evolves.  For details on the critically important nature of exponential growth, please refer to the Phoenix Project video documentary and the Exponential Icebergs paper that are both posted in the video and papers section of this Phoenix Project Foundation website. 

A Brief Summary and Overview of Harry Braun's
Phoenix Project Energy, Economic & Environmental Recovery Plan

     1.  Shifting to a Solar Hydrogen Economy
Phase out all fossil and nuclear fuels by implementing a Solar Hydrogen Economy with wartime-speed (i.e., by 2015).  This reindustrialization effort would cost about $5 trillion for the 5 million 2 megawatt wind-powered hydrogen production systems and $1 trillion to modify all of the existing automotive vehicles (including aircraft) and power plants, but the system would generate over $1 trillion annually with equipment that could have been mass-produced in the 1920s, and a fuel that is both pollution-free and inexhaustible.

     2.  A Non-Profit Universal Healthcare System
Given that healthcare costs are out of control and now dominate spending by the federal government, it is critical to implement a non-profit universal healthcare system -- not insurance -- for all Americans.  Approximately 90% of healthcare costs are now spent on terminally ill patients in the last six months of their lives, which is why it is critical not to have doctors and hospitals "operating" on a commission basis, which causes unnecessary pain and suffering.  For details, please refer to the paper on healthcare that is posted on this website.

     3.  A Balanced Economic System
Implement a balanced economy, which means nationalizing critical economic sectors, including failed banks, insurance companies, and automotive companies that will need to be retooled to mass-produce the solar hydrogen production, distribution and end-use engine, appliance and power plant conversion technologies, which will create the trillions of dollars in new wealth each year that can then be used to pay off the national debt and ultimately provide significant royalties to U.S. citizens.

     4.  Fair Markets vs "Free" Unregulated Markets
Instead of lowering the American standard of living to that of Third world countries that use child and slave labor and have a complete disregard for the environment, U.S. trade policy should focus on bringing the Third world standard of living up to American and European standards by encouraging organized labor and enforcing minimum wage and environmental standards for any product sold in the USA.

     5.  An Enlightened Foreign Policy
Dramatically reduce US military commitments worldwide and implement a foreign policy based on treating others as we would want to be treated, as opposed to the Golden rule now practiced, which is "he who has the gold makes the rules."

     6.  Providing Educational Excellence for Everyone
Transform education from the existing factory school system to highly individualized internet-based learning systems at no cost that will be created by the most gifted instructors and animators in every major field of study, which will be similar to the programs that are now on NOVA, Frontline and the History and Discovery channels. 

     7.  End the Drug Wars
Legalize and tax virtually all drugs that are now illegal.  According to a CBS News 60 Minutes report, a senior medical official in the UK stated that the major illegal drugs, including heron, are no worse than alcohol from a medical perspective, and by spending billions of dollars to make them illegal, over 50% of the U.S. prison population is there because of drug charges and brutal gang lords have been made into billionaires.  Prohibition did not work, and either has the worsening drug wars that have been going on for several decades.  Drug abuse is a medical problem, it doesn't need to be a criminal problem. 

     8.  The Democracy Amendment
Eliminate a government run by lobbyists by amending the U.S. Constitution to transform the USA from being a republic, which is rule by a tiny few in secret, to a real democracy, where the majority of voting citizens -- and not their elected representatives -- will have the power to approve all legislation and court decisions.  Additional details on this Democracy amendment as well as the other critical proposed amendments are outlined on the PhoenixProjectPac.US website.

Become Part of the Solution

Help to communicate and implement this fundamental Phoenix Project solution by making a donation to the Phoenix Project Foundation, while there is still time to make a difference.  For more details, please refer to the papers section of this website, or contact the Foundation at the address listed below. 

 

 

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