Where is your Sovereignty?

Here we are once again, looking at the newest round of Natural Disasters that shouldn’t have been disasters to begin with as they are a Natural Weather Phenomenon. Yet we humanize the weather phenomenon by naming it Hurricane Harvey, Irma, or Jose, while dehumanizing the communities hit. By speaking more about the danger, the view of the scene, the unrest and the action of the community after weeks of unanswered questions, awaiting help and answers to when ether will come, we lose sight of the real issue, which is the suffering of the people at the hands of their leaders to protect them or build sustainable. Then there is the genocide of whole communities due to inadequate building codes, while being told we should considered ourselves lucky when our whole community is displaced. Time and time again we see this cycle of disaster, “Destruction, devastation, delay, decay, denial, discord, and death.” I have coined these “The 7 D’s of Inadequate Building Codes.” Once again our states (countries) must surrender their sovereignty in order to receive aid they already paid the Federal Government (UN) to receive (via Federal Tax, UN Membership Fees)

I feel I am at a loss, so much to say, so much already said, so much outrage, feeling so helpless to make people listen. How many ways can one say “Building codes reform” is a must. That all the “Bio Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Permaculture Intervention, Green Buildings, Wind Generators, Solar Arrays, and Hydro Generators” will be all for nothing if we do not confront “Building Code Reform” worldwide.

When asking; How can bio-engineers work to heal our world if they are always working to solve the newest disaster and not continuing their studies on earth recovery? What use is studding the environment and environmental engineering just to watch it become extinct? Where can the Permaculturist plant if the seeds, air, soil, and water are unsafe due to contaminants and what is not contaminated they must pay for? How can we call a building “Green” for our communities if it can still succumbs to nature’s natural flow and become a bio hazard to the surrounding environment? What of the wind generators kill rate to our bird life, or the carnage it will leave after a tornado or earthquake if they fall or the blades brake free?  And are we really ready for tornados filled with fine shards of glass and mirrors? Is it not bad enough that 1000s of birds and insects die flying over the solar arrays or that we are supper heating the atmosphere with them? Hydro Generators are by far the best solution of this list yet can’t they too pose a threat to our environment as they can be affected by hurricanes, water spouts, and what of their affects on ocean wildlife and their migration patterns?, we can see all of these are quick fixes’ for long term issues, none address the long term global issues of “Destruction, devastation, delay, decay, denial, discord, and death” do to inadequate building code worldwide, yet all are related to and fall under present day and future building codes.

When breaking down the “Effects of Inadequate Building Codes” we can see;

On average,

1. 50,000 (up to 300,000+) killed per yr
2. 150,000 (up to 900,000+) are displaced per yr
3. 1 Trillion (up to 700 Trillion) in damages per yr
4. 500 Billion CY (up to 500 Trillion CY) of waste per yr
5. 39 to 40% of all Emissions in the world (This is only new construction & does not reflect emission from recovery, cleanup, and rebuilding of a community)
6. 100,000 killed (up to 500,000) from drought when they live in monsoon regions
7. Building to resist nature’s natural flow causes the worst strain on our natural resources because natural disasters pollute the environment as well as the cost of new building material like steel, cement, and wood to rebuild.

 According to “Berkeley Lab’s” Buildings in the U.S. today consume, * (Globally the numbers are higher)

           h.  72 percent of electricity produced

9. 55 percent of U.S. natural gas use
10. Around 40 percent of total U.S. Energy consumption (costing $350+ billion per year)
11. Around 40 percent of total U.S. Greenhouse gas emissions
12. That reducing the GHG emissions associated with buildings is essential to reducing overall U.S. emissions

How does “Bio Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Permaculture Intervention, Green Buildings, Wind Generators, Solar Arrays, and Hydro Generators” prevent and protect us from these incurred cost of/to Life, Land, Liberty, Sovereignty, Prosperity, as well as Our Natural Resources?

*- http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2009/06/02/working-toward-the-very-low-energy-consumption-building-of-the-future/

While reviewing said numbers, consider the last 30 days and the total cost to the People for the “Build Up, Board-up, Tear-down, Rebuild” endless cycle of the broken record mentality of modern day “Building Codes.” We must stop building to resist nature and its natural flow. With building codes emphasizing on Resistance Rating for all structural designs, building material and not a Flow Rating we only build to be in conflict and war with nature, hence we see only the 7 Ds, “Destruction, devastation, delay, decay, denial, discord, and death.”

Then there is the matter of weather forecasters, reporters, first responders, and insurance underwriters seeing firsthand the 7 Ds and not coming forward to demanded complete building code reform. To think our leaders would have us go to war for much less (look to the Iraq war), saddens this writer. If that’s not bad enough, no one has come forward to address the fact that every since Fukushima in 2011, unnatural severe weather phenomenon’s have increased and new records have been set, starting that year with 2011’s tornado season in the US. With the radioactive waters now encompassing the equator we see ocean temperatures off the charts, record die off of aquatic life, an increase of predator attacks in open waters, as well as a increase of tornados in areas not normally subject to this threat due in part to the off shore temperatures being drastically above normal, and then there is our current hurricane season that will sent the world record through the roof. Furthermore, we are not taking into account the effects of solar weather has on our global weather. It was made very clear to us with Hurricane Sandy making landfall simultaneously as a solar flare (Measuring to high to be recorded and appearing as a white splotch in the center of a rainbow on HAM Radio sites) hit over the exact location, hence being coined “Franken Storm” and whipped out New Jersey and the CDC’s Plum Island. It would seem we humans are inclined to take things apart and study them yet we lack the ability to sum them up as a whole and see them for what they are when we are done dissecting them.

Now let us consider a future with Building Code Reform in place, a future where home that are not built to flow with nature have disaster shelter in their back yard like the Liphe Podd Systems stage one shelter so no longer do folk die from trying to evacuate, drowning, or flying debris. Where new home and building construction demands that the structure is self sustaining in of itself, collecting its own water supply from dew and rain water, harnessing the sun and wind for electric power and heating and cooling. Where every structure built must have an atrium with an inner garden/yard to clean the gray and brown water produced by occupants.  Where nothing on the outside of the structure can be grabbed, pulled, or broke off. Building designed taking into account Nature Natural Designs, like eggs, nuts, shells, rocks, birds nest and so forth, and have a “Saddleback Foundation System” to gather flood water and protect from earthquakes. This future communities and their infrastructure would be truly sustainable.

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