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Human Unsettlement:
"The electric generators hooked up to the waterfalls kept producing electricity and the overland wires kept distributing that electricity to mass-production factories and human homes. Energy is the essence of wealth, wealth being the organized capability to support life.
“When World War I was over, all the metal-producing capability and energy generation persisted. In contradistinction to previous wars there was an enormous wealth gain by humanity. This high producing capability went not only into automobiles, but into farm machinery. It reduced the 90 percent of humanity necessary on the farms to six percent. Those not needed on the farms migrated to the cities. The canned or refrigerated food could now reach them anywhere. The new technology and its mass production under controlled environmental conditions made the old building craft technology–operating under noncontrolled-environmental-conditions–fundamentally obsolete; but the conditioned reflexes of humanity and society’s preoccupation with the many accepted ways of earning its living obscured the fact the the World-War-I-initiated mass-production technologies of the sea and sky had unexpectedly rendered the old building arts completely”
