Restoring Paradise on Earth

The land will be restored from the ocean. The best part of the ocean to begin to do that is probably the Western Pacific. Planetary Renaissance from the Ocean was largely written in, and for, New Caledonia and Australia.

The 'doldrums' along the equator were feared by sailors because there is usually little or no wind there. Trade winds and ocean currents some 15 to 30° South of the equator are from East to West due to the earth's rotation. Surface ocean waters between North Australia and the equator are normally warmer and contain more dissolved CO₂ and O₂ than any others on the planet. The surface-to deep (-1000m) temperature difference is highest east of PNG. This is thus the best region in the world for producing food, fuel, fertilizer and desalinating sea water with Sea Ploughs. New Caledonia's maritime economic zone has an area of 1.5 million km². A Sea Ploughed area of 1 million km² of this ocean could easily provide more than enough food and bio-methane fuel?? for all of the earth's inhabitants. (Humanity can also get all the useful energy it needs by cooling, drying and shrinking ambient air). More than enough fertilizer would be co-produced to restore New Caledonia's strip-mined regions and restore all its forests and reefs to their original health and beauty. Mining the land would make little ecological or economical sense once ocean mining technologies have matured.

The Melanesian Pacific is loaded with mineral wealth. There is much gold, copper silver, petroleum and natural gas in PNG and Irian Jaya, also uranium and nickel. The largest known copper deposits in the world are in this region - the largest open cast copper mine is in the Solomon Island, manganese and a little gold in Vanuatu. There is gold, silver, copper, manganese and bauxite in Fiji, East Timor is surrounded by oil and gas deposits. New Caledonia has one of the largest nickel deposits on the planet, also chromium, cobalt and most other metals from antimony to zinc. Gold and copper used to mined here; some platinum and silver have also been found. It is thus fairly certain that the ocean between these islands if full of wealth. It is known that the mud in the deep trench between the Loyalties and the Grand Terre of New Caledonia is rich in precious metals. The largest clathrate (natural gas) deposit is on the other side of the Grand Terre. The Chesterfield-Bellona anticline is one of the largest on the planet - it may contain huge reserves of petroleum.

Sea Plough and Ocean Deposit Miner (clathrate and minerals) Ondynes - are mainly composed of cheap OPC cells filled with cheaper salt water. It would probably not make sense to combine Sea Ploughing and mining on the same Ondynes - but several such devices could be fitted together to form large structures suitable for airstrips, industrial estates, off-shore tourist resorts, tax and/or duty-free commercial centers and the like. One such complex could extract metals from the trench along the East coast of New Caledonia, another natural gas from the deposit off the West coast and process both on board. Such Ondynes could be built cheaply in Asia. They would then be brought to New Caledonia folded up and filled with salt-water - and be operational in a few days.

New Caledonia is on the doorstep of the big blue Pacific - hence could be of greater strategic importance. The English were able to use it to outfox the French by combining operations on both sides the planet twice [S110]. Once to take the Suez Canal ca 1872 to extend their Empire along South Asia to Australia and New Zealand, and again to win WWII. New Caledonia was the first land that the Allies took (9/1940) from the Axis powers - which then included France. From then on, New Caledonia played a crucial, perhaps decisive, role in that war.

Ondyne communities drifting out on the ocean to produce food, fuels, fertilizers, metals and much else, could also be used for surveillance and control from the depths of the ocean to the depths of space. (Reactionless Propulsion) rockets might take off from them - straight up. Initial acceleration could be provided by highly compressed air released in long barrels that reach down into the ocean - classical champagne-cork technology. Such surveillance and rocketry would cost minute fractions of what is now spent for less effective systems. The cost of such aggressive interaction might fall so low that no one can profit from it. Male rivalry could revert to the more entertaining, less harmful and costly forms practiced by ancient Kanaks and modern hooligans. The rockets would then be directed into outer space.

Life in Ondyne communities will probably be more fun, rewarding, healthier and safer than in most places on land. A new civilization, Aquaria, might develop there in response to the new challenges people will face out on the ocean, and new opportunities available to them there. Like the English in the North Country at the time of the early Industrial Revolution, Aquarians would be wise to preserve their freedoms to experiment social, technical and economical innovations. Their socio-economic order will be far stronger and more cohesive if organised along the principles of the The Immediate Economy. Such a society is not torn by the cheats-cheated, rich-poor, right-left rift that ultimately destroys all societies that use money as though it had intrinsic value and its creation was monopolizable.

Aquarians will probably want to organise to control food, fertilizer, fuels, metals and much else produced in the ocean - not so as to racket others for them, but to ensure that scarcities are not contrived elsewhere to ease exploitation. Such exploitation creates unnecessary suffering, and usually destroys the land the land as well. All of the earth's inhabitants live most enjoyably when in greatest dynamic balance such that none is able to exploit, or be exploited by, any others. Getting rid of the creation of money with supposed intrinsic value will also eliminate the old top-down energy - banking - murder - taxation -racketeering social order, together with its arms-space races, global warming and other pathologies. The existing materialist, capitalist-socialist nation-state system will probably do itself in anyway for the same reason that the monarchist-papist French cut their heads off in their own Revolution about a century after the Industrial Revolution began.

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