Heading Toward a Technological Utopia

 or an Ecological Oblivion

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Harry Braun is a Technical Analyst, Author of The Phoenix Project: Shifting from Oil to Hydrogen, CEO of Sustainable Partners, a wind energy development company and former Independent presidential candidate in 2000 (please refer to the BraunforPresident.US website). The primary  objective of  the Harry Braun Show is to help the general public understand that given the "Exponential Age" in which we live, we are rapidly approaching either a technological utopia or an ecological oblivion, and the decisions that are made in the next few years could determine which future evolves.  Oblivion is defined as the destruction of the earth's primary food production systems, and the utopia is defined as humanity having made a successful transition of the substance of renewable energy and biological resources.  The Harry Braun Show is the "trigger mechanism" for the passage of a number of constitutional amendments in a Constitutional Convention that Harry Braun is proposing in Washington DC. 

Avoiding the Exponential Iceberg

The Exponential impact of climate change and more and more people competing for fewer and fewer resources will be devastating.  We on Spaceship Earth are all like passengers of the Titanic, and there is little time left to change course before we hit a number of exponential icebergs (i.e., climate change droughts, floods, the death of the oceans, etc), which will dustpan global food production systems.  Supermarkets will be rapidly sold out in panic buying.  Millions of people will suddenly be dependent on what they have on hand.  Guns, ammunition and gasoline will become the most important assets.  Within hours, the fabric of civilization will dissolve.  As the remaining food reserves become critical, panic and chaos ensue as millions of people begin to starve to death, and that will only be the beginning of one of the largest mass-extinction events in the history of the Earth. 

Energy, the Economy and the Environment

The most serious economic and environmental problems are relate to the world's dependence on fossil and nuclear fuels, and the recent energy legislation passed by the U.S. Congress will only worsen these interrelated problems.  The Phoenix Project, a 360 page book by Harry Braun, by contrast, is a plan that will phase-out all fossil and nuclear fuels by 2020 by mass-producing wind and other solar-powered hydrogen production systems and modifying every existing vehicle to use pollution-free hydrogen made from water -- as well as gasoline -- with the flip of a switch.   Green plants on the Earth have been successfully manufacturing hydrogen from water with solar energy (which is referred to as photosynthesis) for the past 3.5 billion years, on a global scale with no pollution.  While the several million wind systems that will be needed to make the USA energy independent of fossil and nuclear fuels can be placed on land, there are many important reasons for placing most of the wind-powered hydrogen production systems at sea as "windships," which are pictured above and can also be seen on the PhoenixProjectFoundation.US website.  According to the most comprehensive study on ocean ecosystems (published in nature of May 2003), over 90 percent of the ocean ecosystems have already been destroyed from destructive fishing and trawling practices, and even though hundreds of ocean scientists from over 60 countries have called for an immediate moratorium on these practices, nothing is being done by anyone.

The Ten Amendments

Harry Braun is also author of "The Ten Amendments", which refers to 10 Constitutional Amendments (the second Bill of Rights) that he has proposed to the United States Constitution.  The current system of government is so fundamentally corrupted by wealth special interests and multinational corporations that only a series of constitutional amendments can resolve the problem.  As such, Harry is focused on organizing a Constitutional Conventon to pass the 10 amendments, which will end unverifiable computer voting machines, government secrecy and transform America from being a Republic (i.e., rule by the few who make decisions in secret) into a true democracy(i.e. rule by the majority).  Other amendments would provide universal non-profit healthcare and an ultra high-quality education for all Americans; the burning of the production of radioactive wastes; corporate lobbying and campaign contributions.  Balanced federal budgets would be required; as would the use of a true and fair accounting system that will factor in environmental, healthcare, social and military costs of products.  Details of the Ten Amendments can be found on the PhoenixProjectPac.US website.

The Revealing Science of God

Evolution simply means change, and it occurs every time a baby is born with a unique set of DNA instructions from each of its parents.  Science and religion both seek to answer the most basic questions of who, or what, created us and why.  While no one in the scientific community has yet proven precisely how living organisms evolved out of a non-living matter, it is understood that the original life forms were not human beings or plants, but protein-scale "Nanobes" that are the key elements of all life and metabolism of every living cell.  It was the Nanobes that evolved and created the Microbes, and eventually, each and every human being.  As such they are indeed our biological creators.  This is not a theory, it is a fundamental understanding of biochemistry that all humans, as well as all bacteria and viruses, have nanobial-scale proteins at the heart of their molecular structure and metabolism.  There are no exceptions.  Harry Braun is the first analyst to bridge science and religion by proposing this scientific explanation that God is indeed within each individual because our creator and its descendants are the nanobes, which are the master engineers that designed, built and operate the nervous systems and brains of every living organism on the Earth.  These insights are not based on faith, but on the science of molecular biology.  For more details on this "Revealing Science of God," please refer to the paper by that same name that is located on the PhoenixProjectFoundation.US website.

Other Significant Insights

Americans are breathing contaminated air, drinking contaminated water and eating corporate junk food that has genetically modified genes and a long shelf life but little or no nutrition.  Harry thinks we should stop contaminating our own people and create a non-profit universal healthcare system that does not require health insurance or allow doctors to "operate" on commission.   Harry's education plan calls for organizing a network of the most gifted instructors and documentary production and animation groups (NOVA, Frontline, etc.) to product CD/DVD/Video productions on every phase of major technical subjects.  This would allow every student to have access to the very best instructors and animators that would allow each student to progress at their own individual speed.

About Harry Braun

Harry Braun is a graduate of Arizona State University and for the past 30 years he has worked as a technical analyst in the interdisciplnary field of energy and the environment.  He is the author of numerous technical papers and articles as well as The Phoenix Project, 360 page book that documents how to shift from oil to hydrogen wartime speed.  Harry is CEO of Sustainable Partners, a wind energy development company, and is chairman of the Phoenix Project Foundation and the Phoenix Project Political Action Committee, which is focused on organizing a Constitutional Convention in Washington in 2008.  He has been an Advisory Board Member of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy (iahe.org) since 1981.  Harry ran for Congress in 1984 against John McCain, and also ran as a independent candidate for President in 2004. For more information on PhoenixProjectFoundation.US the PhoenixProjectPac.US and/or the BraunforPresident.US websites please click on the link or email Harry at hb@HarryBraunShow.com.