{"id":3672,"date":"2009-12-17T13:23:25","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T20:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=3672"},"modified":"2012-06-13T17:18:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T17:18:30","slug":"the-main-engine-and-a-starter-motor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/the-main-engine-and-a-starter-motor\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference between the main engine and a starter motor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>> &#8220;The fossil fuel deposits of our Spaceship Earth correspond to our automobile\u2019s storage battery which must be conserved to turn over our main engine\u2019s self-starter. Thereafter, our &#8216;main engine,&#8217; the life regenerating processes, must operate exclusively on our vast daily energy income from the powers of wind, tide, water, and the direct Sun radiation energy.&#8221; &#8211; <a href='http:\/\/www.sustainablepractice.org\/2009\/03\/09\/buckminster-fuller-the-crucial-difference-between-the-main-engine-and-a-starter-motor'>Buckminster Fuller<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve thought similar things about a lot of situations: taking a sabbatical, for instance, isn&#8217;t sustainable, but it can recharge the storage battery, and power the setting up of new practices that are sustainable. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space_Shuttle_Solid_Rocket_Booster\">Booster rockets<\/a> are another analogy&#8211;you can&#8217;t use them forever, but they can help you break free of gravity. It&#8217;s important that we use fossil fuels, booster rockets, and sabbaticals to set us up for when they&#8217;re gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>> &#8220;The fossil fuel deposits of our Spaceship Earth correspond to our automobile\u2019s storage battery which must be conserved to turn over our main engine\u2019s self-starter. Thereafter, our &#8216;main engine,&#8217; the life regenerating processes, must operate exclusively on our vast daily energy income from the powers of wind, tide, water, and the direct Sun radiation&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/the-main-engine-and-a-starter-motor\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,381,383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-sustainability","category-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-Xe","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4999,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions\/4999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}