Scarcity V Abundance

• The conventional wisdom is that fossil fuel is scarce and renewable energy is abundant

• there's also the technology to harvest the renewable energy that generally requires mining either scarce minerals or Earth abundant minerals/elements (or something in between)
• increasingly more renewable energy harvesting technology can be upcycled at the end of its service life
• scarce minerals are not an issue for vertically integrated manufacturing at or near the same location which gives the associated National economy an advantage through taxation (and patriotism) assuming the minerals are fairly taxed and not just exported with no or minimal tax. Trade leverage can also be employed with exceptions eg. Rare Earth minerals are mainly controlled by China both inside and outside the Country
• Earth abundant minerals/elements give every economy an advantage and probably decreases the likelihood of war between them/with us over scarce minerals/elements and energy deposits/reserves eg.oil, gas and coal
• Earth abundant minerals/elements could be mined from air, land and sea eg.Carbon
• Plants are abundant in almost every ecosystem. Microalgae, macroalgae, diatoms, hemp and bamboo could be the key to unlocking the future. Cyanobacteria, the precursor of oxygenic photosynthesis, are everywhere and could be quite handy as well eg. biochar inoculated with Cyanobacteria for additional CO2 removal

Politically in Oz, the ALP is good at redistributing wealth eg. Welfare, medicines, pensioner discounts but bad at taxing it, consuming an increasing larger number of right wing fiscal ideas. They are no longer a 'tax and spend' Party but arguably adequately tax minerals but not fossil fuels eg. The PRRT for oil and gas can be outsmarted with accounting trickery and LNG export royalty taxation is practically non-existent and could be considered as an extraction of National wealth which the people own but don't profit from enough. So, wealth redistribution/spending is still real but the money pot keeps getting smaller relative to inflation, debt repayment and wages (fact check). Earth abundant minerals/elements can be used to manufacture renewable energy technologies eg. Appropriate Carbon Removal Technology (ACRT), which can be researched, designed, built, tested, developed, commercialised and used domestically and exported.

The 'Climate Emergency' is not a new 'mindset', but a dynamic 'State of Mind' which needs to adapt to new ideas that can change the 'Global Climate System' game - which, is not a game for most people and definitely not a game for most, if not all, species. 

So, what about the future?
A Re(generative)growth circular bioeconomy, in my opinion the ideal economy, probably won't be possible without a transition to 'Plant Civilization' and 'Integrated Pyrolysis 'Waste' Management' (with a 'National Pyrolysis Strategy') which may be the only hope for stabilizing the 'Global Climate System' and regrowing sustainable culture/micro economics, where absent, for future generations. 

Feel free to browse my 'Navigator Kitchen (NK) 2026' page for updates over the 2026 biochar season...