Climate Change Root Cause
The Federal government was created in war to wage war. Underscoring this war nature are World Wars, war on insects (Silent Spring), War on Poverty, and War on Drugs.
The Framers of the Constitution understood that warfare and welfare required Divided Sovereignty between the Federal government for issues of war and state governments for issues of commerce and welfare. The Boston Tea Party provided them with experience. It was demonstration against the general government’s mercantile transportation monopoly that triggered a war. To prevent rebuilding that path to war, the Constitutional Convention voted 8 state to 3 to that enumerated limit of “post Roads” with “No Preference” in the facilities of commerce of one state over another.
- Vote on post Roads
- No Preference
- Preamble
- Ratification, Federalist #45
- Madison explains vote to Congress in 1792
- 21 Presidential veto messages enforcing that states are sovereign over “internal improvements.”
- With Bottom-Up local and state sovereignty of transportation, in 1902 very US city over 10,000 people had one or more free market funded streetcar networks. American cities were walkable cores of wealth creation. 11-minute video on how Import Reducing Cities. Commerce and community are pedestrian activities.
The Divided Sovereignty between welfare and warfare held until the 17th removed state representation in the Senate and The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1916 began rebuilding the path to war. Unconstitutional Federal highways are the Root Cause of foreign oil addiction, oil-dollar-funded terrorism, oil wars since 1990, traffic jams, $36 trillion in federal debt, depleting resources, and Climate Change. Top-Down central planning mandates Americans spend money burning energy moving 2 tons to move a person with the 25 mpg efficiency of the Model-T. Since 1916, Top-Down planning replace 45% of 470 ton-mpg (188 times greater efficiency) with 25 mpg roads.
The purpose of the book Climate Change Root Cause is to document the historical record and define how we can retool our cities to be walkable and sustainable.
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“Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.” Winston Churchill, 1935
Summary
- Amendments triggered Federal consolidation:
- 1913, the 16th Amendment implemented the Income Tax to strength Federal war-powers. It has been used to tax for funds used beyond the enumerated powers of the Constitution.
- 1913, the 17th Amendment ended state representation in the Senate. The cost of political corruption was reduced from buying half a state legislature to mere contributing to a Senate campaign. Senators began representing special interests than their states.
- 1919, the 18th Amendment authorized Federal policing commerce of individual Americans. Although repealed by 21st the police powers esblished have grown since.
- 1916, Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1916 began taxing to build highways.
Harms of violating the Constitution by mixing war-powers with mercantile transport monopolies:
- NASA: “Road Transportation Emerges as Key Driver of Warming”
- Commerce and Community are pedestrian. Federal highways through cites made only 1.2% of land in US cities walkabe despite these islands of commerce accounting for 20% of US GDP.
- Controlling insects resulted in Silent Spring.
- Bragdon Committe (1957-1959) warnings were ignored.
- Resource depletion with US Peak Oil in 1970 and the resulting goreign oil addiction
- Oil-wars
- Oil-dollar funded terrorist
- $33 trillion in Federal debt increasing in tandem with oil import and oil-wars.
- Car harm: A global review of automobility’s harm to people and the environment
The purpose of this book is to restore free markets using the #5x5Solar standard. Free markets will allow urban transport networks to approach the 470 ton-mpg efficiency of freight railroads and remove enough car traffic to make streets safe to walk and bike.
Amazon Link: Climate Change Root Cause, Unconstitutional Federal Highways making unwalkable cities
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The Constitution documents States, not the Federal government, are sovereign over “internal improvements” and “We the People” are sovereign over the “general welfare”:
Two aspects of our Liberty intertwine in a Darwinian crucible of creative destruction to create the “general welfare”:
- Tolerance of Disruptive Minorities offering choices.
- There are few Disruptive Minorities as tiny and disruptive as inventors. An “obnoxious individual” creates a better choice that eclipses entire industries.
- Tolerance of people sorting choices via free markets and free speech, the Wisdom of the Many.
- Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” is not invisible, just tiny. It is the vast accumulation of tiny acts of liberty by each of us as we choose between choices.
- The aggregated wisdom of all of us, with each of us acting in our own self-interest, is wiser than the wisest of us at choosing between choices.
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