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gration of the great wealth of our planet was being conducted out of sight of the 99 percent of humanity living on the land with 90 percent in the Northern Hemisphere not knowing what was going on.

CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH IN MARITIME NATIONS

This is why the grand strategy world map of the British Empire was unfamiliar to you, though it is essential to understand how it happened that the great wealth of the Earth became concentrated in a relatively few but incredibly powerful hands. This is the world control power which was fought over by the great maritime nations of Europe, as to who was going to be the master of that waterocean world.

They were not interested in having you and I knowing about this strategic control. Historically, this is an important map, unfamiliar though it is to you.

It was also of prime strategic importance in that water world that it was impractical to try to transfer cargoes at sea. This had to be done in deep water harbors, and such harbors were relatively few. In the East-West Northern Hemisphere world that our history is most familiar with, there were and as yet are a score of good harbors on North America's east coast, but some froze over in some winters, such as those of Canada's St. Lawrence and those of Maine and Boston; no other harbors could compare with New York, with its vast mileage of deep watered shoreline all completely protected from but close to the open ocean. It was a long and badly shoaled way up the Chesapeake to Baltimore and a long way up the Delaware to Philadelphia and so forth.

On the U.S. west coast, both San Francisco and Seattle were magnificent harbors but there were no others. Soon the railroads connected the east and west coast harbors. Until after World War II the great traffic of the Earth went east and west. Just as we did not know in my father's youth that we were going to have a radio or an airplane, we mortals didn't know at the time of the founding of the United Nations that we were going to go suddenly into the jet age.

CHANGE FROM WATER-TO-AIR BORNE-WORLD

In the year 1961, three jet airplanes suddenly outperformed the trans-Atlantic passenger carrying capability of either the Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, or of the S.S. United States, which were the three best passenger ships of that era. Three jet airplanes transported an equal number of passengers per year across the Atlantic at a very much lower cost and at a very much higher speed. In 1961, completely unexpectedly, humans abruptly stopped using the water as a means of getting from here to there around the world. World passenger traffic went into the air. This was only 10 years after New York City was chosen as U.N. headquarters because it was the focus of all the world's steamship lines whose ships were the only means by which the U.N. delegates could then travel to world headquarters.

If you take a helicopter and fly slowly over greater New York's harbor frontier today (1975) you will find only 2 percent of the docks in use. The Jersey City railroad yards are empty. The world's harbor cities are almost obsolete as passenger and freighter terminals,

yet the great harbor cities represent an enormous investment in real estate and buildings. To maintain its value and keep their wealth earning, these cities are being promoted for conventions and so forth.

In the meantime, the 90 percent of humanity that, historically, had been living and working on the farms were suddenly displaced after World War II by mass produced farm machinery, and they no longer needed to be near the source of food growth because of successful canning, drying, freezing and refrigeration. Food became shippable to anybody anywhere around the world. Thus, the great majority of people left the farms and came into the cities, which cities themselves were obsolete, being no longer used for the purpose for which they were originally built-the great warehousing and trading of the world's east-west water-borne life support traffic.

In 1961, humanity changed abruptly from a water borne to an air borne world.

CHANGE FROM EAST-WEST WORLD TO NORTH-SOUTH WORLD

Now I want you to look once more at my nondistorted map of World Two, in which there is one world island and one world ocean. Map One the British Empire-had the oceans integrated at the center, framed around by divided lands. In World Two the lands are integrated at the center and are surrounded by the waters. World One is an east-west circling water world. World Two is a north-south landing and take-off air strip world. Ninety percent of humanity can now reach each other on the shortest great circle air routes without going near the Atlantic, the Pacific, or the Indian Ocean. Enormous investments have been made in the East-West world in the form of real estate holdings, buildings, road building and all, but it is suddenly to be a North-South world, and that is what Nature's evolution is doing. This is all evolutionary. None of it was planned by man, but it is fantastically powerful and as yet almost unrecognized by humanity.

During the same 80-year period of my lifetime, we have gone from less than 1 percent to 52 percent of all humanity enjoying a higher standard of living than had ever been experienced by anyone, including the monarchs and millionaires before January 1, 1900 when I was 5 years of age. During this 52-percent gain of all humanity, the world population doubled, so there was actually a 104-folding of the life support production capability. During that same time, the life expectancy of that newly advantaged human crop approximately doubled, indicating the improvement of living experience. This was as unplanned and as unorganized as the shift from an East-West to a North-South world integration had been.

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION OF HUMAN AFFAIRS

All the time we have political organization of human affairs becoming evermore severely partisan, dividing the world into 150 sovereign nations which tend to divide into two main political camps on a basis that it is a fundamental law of Universe that there is not enough vital life support to go around and there never will be. In view of the assumption of lethal fundamental inadequancy of life support, each

ideology says: "You may not like our system, but we have the fairest and most effective way of coping. We assume that there must always be periodic trial by arms to find out which side is the fittest to survive." So the ultimate strength of all political power must be its armaments and skill in the art of killing. No political system has ever been able to consider taking care of everybody. This would be contradictory to the assumed fundamental reason for having a political system. At the opening of the 19th century, Thomas Malthus was political economist for the East India Company College in England whose East India Company itself manipulated the strings and spoke the words that seemed to come out of the lips of its great puppet, "The British Empire." All historical empires of history prior to the British Empire had been so relatively local on our planet Earth's 200 million square mile surface as to cover only about 10 million square miles, 5 percent of humans within those empires knew nought of the geography beyond the empire borders and thought of the world. as a plane extended to infinity in every lateral direction. The British Empire was the first great watery empire and embraced a spherical closed-system planet. Informed by the vital statistics from around the whole Earth, Malthus discovered and announced that humanity was multiplying at a geometrical progression rate while increasing the production of all life support only at an arithmetical rate, wherefor the vast majority of humans clearly were designed to be economic failures. Darwin's dictum of "survival only of the fittest", characteristic of evolution, pronounced 40 years after that of Malthus, turned what was only an assumption of fundamental inadequacy of life support into a seemingly incontrovertible hard fact. "Pray as earnestly as you may but that's all there is and it's eternally inadequate. It is always going to be 'you and yours or me and mine' for there is not, never will be, enough for us both." Ergo, preparation for all-out war always has had prior consideration in all matters. This is the essence of our world's political confrontations and economic commitments.

FUNCTION OF GEODESIC DOMES

Because you introduced me as related to geodesic domes, I can tell you that there are now over 100,000 geodesic domes installed around the world. There are radomes, for instance, in all the places where no other structure can stand the structural stresses and yet be so delicate as to let through the electromagnetic microwaves. One such geodesic dome exactly covers our Earth's South Pole. Geodesic domes are in all such places where the conditions are too formidable for any other clear span enclosing structure. For a given weight of materials I can give you 300 clear span enclosing earthquake-proof, fireproof, snow, rain and hurricane-proof tensegrity geodesic domes of a given floor area, size and other performance characteristics for every one equal capability building to be produced by the best known alternative structural engineering strategies other than tensegrity geodesic structures, and can erect those 300 domes with fewer man-hours than those necessary for the one conventional dome of equal capability. I therefore know what I am talking about when it comes to housing. All human activity requires housing, but I find that people don't know what buildings weigh nor think in the terms of performance

per pound in respect to buildings. Yet we know exactly what our ships and airplanes weigh; you know what our Boeing 747 weighs-about 150 tons fully loaded-and you know what her rate of climb, cruising range, ceiling, passenger capacity, cruising and top speed are, but we don't even know what buildings weigh, let alone what performance they are giving per pound of material, seconds of time, and ergs of energy invested either in producing or operating them.

PRIORITIES OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS

Because our highest priority of all political systems is the preparation for Armageddon, the opposed major nations of the Earth together have been spending an average of $200 billion each year for the last twenty years (a total of four trillion dollars) getting ready for the great showdown. Highest priority of use of the highest performance material resources and highest performance tools and highest technology are all committed to preparation for war. Not only does every action have a reaction, as engineering recognizes, but so too does all priority have equal and opposite anti-priority. The great historical anti-priority has to be the home front. Science has never been asked to look at the home front. No scientist has ever looked scientifically at the plumbing. It was for this reason that I committed myself in 1927 to just such scientific consideration of the home problems and their scientifically arrived solutions and scientific industry production, distribution and maintenance of the scientific results. I know now exactly what is needed and how to provide environment controls under all relevant conditions on our planet. I can state and prove that it is technically feasible to take care of all humanity at higher standards of living than any have ever experienced and do so by 1985, while employing only proven methods and resources. Not only does this statement include all environment-controlling services for humanity but also the energies required to produce and maintain those life support, protection, travel and communication accommodating services. Our World Game energy income studies make it perfectly clear that it is feasible to take care of all humanity with that higher standard of living than anybody has ever known, and do so by 1985 while concurrently phasing out all human use of fossil fuels and atomic energy.

ENOUGH LIFE SUPPORT AVAILABLE FOR ALL

Therefore, I know that the fundamental vital life support inadequacy which is assumed by all the great political organizations on Earth is invalid and that there is indeed enough life support, protection and freedom of communications accommodating to go around for all. That humanity has been committed through the ages to a false premise is only because humanity had not as yet acquired enough experience to occasion its correction of its premises. Now that I really know all this, I realize that it does not have to be you or me and that Nature is quite clearly trying to make all humanity a success instead of a failure and that Nature is trying to integrate all humanity and integrate all its interests and thereby to provide universal recognition of the success for all that can only be realized by using all resources only for everyone.

EVOLUTION TOWARDS SUPRANATIONALISM

The whole of present socioeconomic direction which seeks to define even more sharply the separate interests of 150 sovereign nations in the United Nations is a trend exactly opposing what evolution is trying to do. All the world's great corporations have found sovereign nations' geographical confinement to be absolutely untenable wherefor they have all become supranational operations. So too have all the great political ideologies become supranational. Only the people are left locked into 150 national pens. They are locked in by their passports. They are subject to conscription, taxation and exploitation in an age of omni-mobilization. Humans are experiencing exactly the opposite of political freedom.

Personally I would say, the way I read the data-and my time is really now up that it is perfectly clear to me that (1) Nature is trying very hard to integrate humanity, (2) she has humanity here in Universe and aboard our Spaceship Earth for a very important purpose, (3) that humans are not here just to be pleased or displeased with the experience. We now know of a billion galaxies of a hundred billion stars each. Universe is not just a decorative array of stars to please the eyes of little people on our planet. We are here for the Universe, not the other way, and (4) I am sure we are here to use our minds.

Humans have an extraordinary capability which is able to discover so far that there are a billion galaxies of a hundred billion stars each, and to take inventory of the relative abundances of all the chemical elements within a radius of eleven billion light years distance of Earth. Only the minds of humans have such capabilities. Human muscle is cosmically negligible, yet human muscle is still as yet in the saddle of world affairs. Therefore, I say humanity is now entered into its final cosmic examination.

The great intellectual integrity and wisdom manifest in the omniinteraccommodative inventory of generalized scientific principles discovered thus far by human mind to be eternally operative and responsible for the integrity of eternally regenerative physical universe deliberately designed us to be born naked, helpless and ignorant, yet hungry, thirsty, curious and procreatively excitable, ergo we were forced to find our way only by trial and error in order ultimately to discover the scientific principles and thereafter to use those principles such as leverage or metallic alloys in the development of artifacts which would so alter the environment of accomplished know-what and know-how as to permit us to graduate into functioning in the main affairs of regenerative Universe operating directly on cosmic principles.

USING OUR MINDS

So I say we are here for problem solving, for using our minds. But human minds are not in the command saddle of human affairs. Mindless, exclusively brain-centered muscle is still in the saddle. Mind is trying to master muscle. That is why you are having such a hearing as this one. I think we have no more than the next ten years within which to pass our final exam, by mounting mind into the command saddle of human affairs. Only mind can accomplish integration of all human affairs-which integration involves the dissolving of 150

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