OUR TRANSITION AWAY FROM THE PROCESS OF 
CONSUMING ALL OF THE WORLD'S FINITE FOSSIL-FUEL-ENERGY

In traditional Non-Sustainable Life-Styles we humans have consumed Stored-Up  Fossil-Fuel-Energy  ( Which came from the Sun )  to Get-Tasks-Done.

"Work" and "Energy" have been defined in Exclusively-Objective-Terms such as: Foot-Pounds, British-Thermal-Units, Joules and Kilowatt-Hours.

Nearly the only "TASKS" that have been the foci of Public-Attention - - - have been those tasks which have been "done" in proportion to the

Consumption of Fossil-Fuels like: Wood, Organic-Stuff, Oil, Natural-Gas, Grains, Meats, Coal, Methane, Hydrogen, etc. as Stored-Up-SOLAR-Energy.

For any civilization to be  Long-Term-Sustainable,  it must focus attention upon all essential-tasks such as the Gracious-Sustainable:

 1. Conservation of Healthy-Global-Ecologies,

 2. Moderation of Excessive Exponential-Growth-Rates in the Consumption of Pure MATERIAL: Fossil-Fuels and Mineral-Deposits.

 3. Moderation in the Consumption of UNSUSTAINABLE Luxuries for a small fraction of the Total-Global-Population.

 4. Moderation in the ENDLESS Destructive Exponential-Growth-Rates of Populations and Per-Capita-Per-Year Consumption-Rates of Material-Resources.

 5. Moderation/Mitigations of:  Alienative-Conflicts and Patterns of Enduring-Alienations.
 
 6. Moderation/Mitigations of:  Wars, Terrors, Terrorism, Violence, Coercion, Domination, Demands, Commands.

 7. Moderation/Mitigations of:  Distributive-Injustice, Greed, Hoarding, Passive-Entertainments, Colonialism, Empire-Building, Empire-Maintenance, etc.


IN CONTRAST

Other-Activities can sustain Civility-and-Civilization in ways that Free-Up-Stored-Up-Energy for use in doing Physical-Work as defined by Physicists.

To the extent that we find ways that FREE-UP Stored-Physical-Energy that is present in such physical material resources such as:  Oil, Natural-Gas,

Methane, Coal, Hydrogen-Gas, etc. - - - for doing work that is 	ESSENTIAL-TO-SUSTAINABILITY;  TO-THAT-EXTENT we have done the equivalent of Discovering 

and Producing additional Physical Deposits of Stored-Physical-Energy - - - such as Oil, Natural-Gas, Methane, Copal, Hydrogen-Gas, etc.  

See the charts that can be found in http://www.essayz.com/sustain2.htm  On those charts such "vitality-energy" is referenced in curves formed by letters

"s" for Sustainability; rather than by asterisks "*" - - -  appearing at the same scale as charts about physical stored energy consumed. 

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THINK   GRACIOUSLY-TOGETHER   in  SHALOM!

Be-Together    within  Shalom's Sanctuaries    DISCERNING    Through-Open-and-Honest-Dialogues - - -

What-IS    and What-is-NOT    ESSENTIAL-TO-CIVILITY   AND  TO  ANY  LONG-TERM  SUSTAINABLE-CIVILIZATION - - -

WITHIN  GOD'S  Astronomically-Tiny-and-Isolated   Blue-Spherical-Space-Ship-Earth 

Traveling with one average star through the Unimaginably:  VAST,  COLD,  COSMIC  VACUUMS - - -

Pervaded by Penetrating   Sub-Atomic-Cosmic-Ray-Bullets   traveling at near to the speed of light.

Some  Gracious-Humility  will be in order!