The document discusses several issues related to the sustainability of the global ecosystem including: 1. Current food production relies heavily on fresh water but fresh water sources are dwindling. The ecosystem is crashing under the pressure of population growth and consumption rates. 2. A potential solution presented is growing food crops using halophytes or "salt plants" which can thrive on saline or salt water irrigated wastelands. This could help address issues of land, water, food, energy, minerals and climate change. 3. Overall the ecosystem appears to be crashing under human activity levels and the constraints that population growth and consumption rates place on limited resources. Changes will be needed to shift to more sustainable systems regarding water

1. The Water “End
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Animals), enabled civilization!
• Industrial - Mechanized Agriculture!
[1800-97% Farmers,Now-2%] !
• IT/BIO/Nano - Automating Industry/
Agriculture [ 1950-60%,Now-11%,
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• Virtual - Robotization of IT/Bio/Nano/
Industry/Agriculture [TBD]!
• Technology MATTERS - For Both Good and
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Humans Have “Taken Over” and
Vastly Shortened “Evolution”
- Human Engendered ‘Evolution” ~E7 times
“Natural”
Of the Planet!
- Global Warming, Pollution, Deforestation, Species
Extinction, Ground Cover changes, Ocean Acidification!
- Huge “Public Works” (e.g. 3 Gorges Dam)!
Of the Human Species!
- Genomic Design and Repair!
- “Mind Children” (Moravec)!
Products/Life Forms!
- Cross Species Molecular Breeding!
- “Directed Evolution” (Maxygen etc.)!
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[90%] Extinction- 250 MY ago]
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5. “Prevention of collapse of the
Ecosystem has now become the
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Technologies for Europe,2005!
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the Ecosystem to support NOW, if/as ROW attains U.S.
Consumption rate will need 3 more planets…]!
- Resulting in “PEAK EVERYTHING”…………!
- A “Solution” is to switch to Halophytes [ “Salt Plants”],
produce food on wastelands using saline/salt water, 22 nations
working this, ‘Solves” Land, water, food, energy, minerals and
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There are three emerging
Energetics approaches with the
capacity to provide cost-effective
Desalinization:
- Biomass/ Biofuels produced via
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--an excellent measure of a society’s wealth is
currently the power production per capita.As the
ROW attains U.S. energy usage rates and
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