Ecologically Good Jobs for Alaska

Alaska has a population moving up slowly towards seven hundred thousand. Far too many people are dependent upon crude resource extraction or termination industries for employment. Coincidentally with modern social use entire fisheries such as that of Chinook salmon of the Yukon River, have collapsed. Already the corporate world is salivating over the potential opportunities for next business opportunities in Alaska and the Arctic littoral with increased global warming. Human reasoning is such that simply moving to exploit newly accessible regions is considered desirable. An ecologically rational economic approach is not an up-front requisite of the individuated direction advance of corporate business investment. The government provides only a post-hoc economic delimitation of boundaries and criteria for conducting large scale business in regard to the reduction of environmentally adverse ‘externalities. Alaska is such a place that inadequate protection of water and land resources is yet possible but the window of conservation is in rapid decline. Work must be found for Alaskan in ecologically renewable and non-harmful business vectors that would bring a no-net-loss of biospheric quantity and quality into effect.

With a 50 billion dollar permanent fund (approximately) the State of Alaska could well afford to install large numbers of slow-turning wind power electrical generators in its coastal cities as a source of abundant power for electric vehicles and mono-light rails-of course it does not. The state could provide grants for the construction of circular dome homes with zero net loss of biota tax credits-it hasn’t.

A concern is that with global warming permafrost will melt releasing untold quantities of frozen underground pollutants some of which are from the oil and gas industry. More than a hundred years of mercury pollutants have accumulated in tundra grasses that when burned are released into the atmosphere again. River tributary impact is still too much to not have the quality of water and fisheries adversely affected. Fish growth may be destroyed or deformed from a variety of point pollution sources such as pulp mills . If a good neighbor ethic were taken up generally the state might be able to create a renewable economic infrastructure with more desirable resource use technologies and business.

Cities such as Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau should lead a good neighbor ethic social renewal by the construction of large winter pedestrian indoor, warm walkways for socially easing the hardship of the Arctic. Geothermal and renewable energy sources should be developed as electrical power sources for the malls that should provide more economic return than their cost over time. They should be designed with the most advanced conservation and human increase of life quality values possible.

A search for ecological restorative employment in Alaska could find a line of advance through zoning laws that create incentives to build monolithic domes or eco-aesthetically valuable appropriately designed geodesic domes. New construction of lower cost, better designed homes in Alaska might work better than a cash for clunkers approach.

Fishermen that use sail power or should receive prioritized fishery permit allocation in order to reduce fuel consumption and over-taking of fish. Sports fishermen and subsistence users should receive at least 50% of a reduced overall harvest of fish. At least a 30% increase in fishery escapement should be made by fishery regulators.

If people in Texas want salmon they should build their own air-conditioned pedestrian malls over glass enclosed cold-water rearing pens that could provide local food supply-same goes for Florida.

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