ABSTRACT
As we begin writing this book, several significant events and situations have presented themselves that warrant our attention. The devastating earthquake in impoverished Haiti tops the list. It is a Third World nation with a disastrous economy compounded by a disaster event of historical proportions. Second on our list of significant events or situations is the current state of the U.S. economy. The U.S. unemployment rate is at 9 to 10+%, with increasing numbers of workers losing their jobs daily. For those still working in factory jobs, their future in these same types of jobs is threatened and, in some cases, doomed-these jobs are being done away with or outsourced overseas. Many of these are jobs are unlikely to return to the United States. Third on our list is the nominal world population clock that just posted a world population figure of 6,825,276,728 and counting-pointing to the increasing need for more resources, including energy.
