Imperial Palace Plaza's Corner
Energy, Water, & Land Size
It is true that one can live only less than 100 years or so.
So, most of Wall Street and the City guys think that they have to concentrate on earning money to enjoy their life without minding history.
But, this attitude itself decides what their life would be, how much their wealth contribute to quality of their spiritual life, and how deeply they can understand the world, the life, and various aspects of what makes them live as civilized entities.
Put simply, one can only live a meaningful life by projecting his life onto history.
That is why The Old Testaments were successfully created and handed over generation after generation. The Vatican could be respected as witnesses for the European history. By reflecting themselves onto these historical lines, some European Christians and Judaists could succeed and sustain their success for long.
That is why they, some Christian and Judaist families who have long enjoyed success of their families, stick to their traditions, no matter how vaguely they can understand this law.
Conversely, that is why dictators cannot succeed ultimately except some royal families in the Islamic world.
PART I: Energy Use per Capita
The U.S. is alone consuming twice more energy per person than most of developed countries.
It would give China every reason to increase its poorly unregulated energy use. The U.S. should decrease its use of energy so as to show a good example to China. CO2 to be emitted from the U.S. and China must be strictly controlled, if the world is entering a little ice age, since it would continue to be a big disturbing factor for the global climate.
(Click to enlarge.)PART II: Water Use per Capita
What ranking is it for the order of the U.S., Australia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, Norway, and France?
(Click to enlarge.)http://www.data360.org/dsg.aspx?data_set_group_id=757
Again, the U.S. is consuming more water than any other country, since it has both the characters as an agriculture country and an industrial country, like Australia.
It might be a little surprise that Italy and Japan use the most water except the two exceptional countries, the U.S. and Australia.
As for Japan, water is plenty in its land. Rice farming needs much water for irrigation, since rice plants grow in a water-covered field. And, people have a habit to keep anything clean by washing away dirt with water.
China might further face a problem of shortage of water supply, as industrialization further advances in its inner territory.
PART III: Large Countries
Country...Land Area (km2)...Population (million)
1. Russia...17,098,242...140
2. Canada...9,984,670...33
3. China...9,640,011...1,345
4. USA...9,629,091...314
5. Brazil...8,514,877...193
6. Australia...7,692,024...21
7. India...3,287,263...1,198
The top 7 countries occupy 44.4% of the whole land of the world.
The top 7 countries have in total 3250 million population, accounting for 47.5% of the world population.
As a whole, it is well balanced.
So, the top 7 largest countries might have to keep this balance among themselves so as not to cause pressure on other part of the world.
For example, Chinese should go to America, Canada, Australia, or Russia if they cannot sustain their living in China, for example, due to lack of water, but not to Japan. Then, the use of energy per capita in the U.S. might be lowered compared to other scenarios.
Anyway, with these data, you have to think about the future state of the world in terms of safety, security, sustainability, and soundness of the whole mankind, in addition to global warming/cooling.
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Around 1450, the Ottoman Empire welcomed Judaist artisans and merchants.
In 1492, Judaists came to be driven out of Spain.
Between 1517 and 1917, Palestine belonged to the Ottoman Empire.
In 1839, the Ottoman Empire conferred citizenship on Judaists.
In 1881, large-scale pogroms occurred in Russia, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths of Judaists.
In 1882, the first wave of Judaists returned to Palestine.
Since then, Judaists purchased long abandoned plots and fields from Arabs to cultivate them. With their efforts, Palestine came to be a good farming land.
Around 1914, when the Ottoman Empire started to collapse, many Arabs living outside Palestine fell into poverty through turmoils. Then they came to live in Palestine where they could find jobs due to great cultivation of the land by Judaists, according to the Judaist version of history.
Yet, all the Judaists in Europe should have started to return to Palestine around 1492 or 1839.
Now, with democracy going to spread among Islamic nations surrounding Israel, Israel will be safer than ever ultimately. Democracy will change Islam. Democracy will advance Islam. And, new Islam will find a reasonable way to deal with Israel. This is my version of historical prospect.
Mar 3:1 And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand.
Mar 3:2 And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.
Mar 3:3 And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth.
Mar 3:4 And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.