The Water & Energy Policy California Urgently Needs to Revive Itself | Pat Ruckert @AI

00:00 - Welcome

Pat Ruckert. What is required for California's Water Management System to provide water to the entire population? And, to be the most productive agricultural power in the nation?
01:24 - Intro topics.
01:59 - The two documents that are the origin of our nation
03:20 - The Preamble: Sovereignty. Purpose. The coming generation.
05:11 - The Right to Progress is the inherent right of every American
06:06 - Trump's speech in Davos (Viper's Den) at the World Economic Forum
07:45 - The building of Duomo di Firenze
09:31 - Evolution of Transport
12:02 - Only human beings have the creative capacity to change the future

13:19 - How is California going to ensure, far into the future, a secure water supply for the entire population? And, to ensure that the agricultural sector of our state, continues to be able to produce more than 50% of all American vegetables, fruits, nuts?
15:97 - The 20 year fight to build the Grand Coulee Dam
17:48 - The California Water Management System. Unique in the world.
18:42 - The Central Valley Project. Built during financial crisis times.
20:00 - California State Water Project.
21:58 - Los Angeles Aqueduct.Built by the visionary William Mulholland, labeled, at its completion, the 8th wonder of the world.
23:58 - Hoover Dam and Lake Mead.
24:57 - All that exists today, had been completed in 1972. Nothing major built since.

26:05 - What happened in 1971-72?
28:31 - Talking about Economy these days.
28:57 - The goal of our political work. Investigate Trump Agenda47...
30:07 - ...compared to the old Guard's financial policy

30:55 - How we're gonna fix it. Exhibit 1: NAWAPA
34:22 - Massive expansion of desalination, and supply of electricity. Diablo Canyon. Carlsbad Desalination Plant.
37:26 - The rural electrification project of the 1930-50s
40:49 - Private companies cannot do this.

41:26 - Concluding remarks. The power of productive physical economy.

Questions
44:02 - Is California's water being wasted into the ocean?
47:36 - On the topic of Climate Change
53:38 - Why does the price of power keep going up when the infrastructure is unchanging?
59:06 - Does PG&E pay to build the grids or is that a public project?
01:01:13 - Would the cost of power go down if utilities were publicly owned?
01:02:26 - What makes it cheaper?
01:03:13 - Aside: The responsibility of Citizens of our Republic
01:06:11 - Do you have any comments on them adding fluoride to our water?
01:09:02 - Any examples of Agenda47 policy uniting people on different political sides?

Concluding Remarks
01:13:08 - Having conversations with people. Join PrometheanAction.com

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Pat Ruckert has been involved in shaping physical economic policy for decades. His main ongoing publication today is the **California Water and Infrastructure Report,** published weekly since 2014. I first met Pat in 2022 at a Thanksgiving Dinner shortly after having read his [Thanksgiving Report Special](https://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20221124-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf) in which he called for *“a renewed national commitment to advancing science, technology, and human culture, willed into being by all of our efforts.”*

Pat graduated from the University of Washington in 1967 at the height of the Vietnam War. From then until 1970 he worked full time to stop that war, becoming disgusted with most of the activist and left-wing organizations, for he knew all of them had no future.

One organization stood out to him. Coming from a family of constructors and farmers, being himself that for many years, he found a home in the LaRouche organization. Its focus on physical economy, building infrastructure, and lifting the entire worldwide population is what brought him home. He dedicated his life to the mission, in large part because of the rich and rigorous intellectual environment of this political movement, its intervention into American, and then worldwide politics.

Full Introduction to Pat here: https://open.substack.com/pub/asodhani/p/water-energy-policy-to-revive-california