For example: Agriculture(feeding cattle healthy stuff, general health, clothing and fuel would get an enormous boost of production if industrial hemp was implemented. But, as it is a plant that would make goverment less needed, authorities fear it and thus criminalize it and glorify less efficient ways of production.
Hemp isn't a miracle plant. It's actually a rather mediocre plant in terms of its industrial viability and growth patterns.
The real problem is not Government criminalization of hemp. It's government in general, which sets up regulations and stipulations that serve only to limit human ingenuity and natural market dynamics.
The problem is that we're owned. We need some anarchy and self-sustainability. We need a resource-based economy with free renewable energy without the greed and agendas of corporations. Overpopulation is a hoax used to divert eyes.. In my opinion..
Free renewable energy is a pipe dream at this stage of the game. Unless you have $50-60K to throw down on a solar and wind system - it's not realistic. Small communities could theoretically afford these types of systems - but you're also looking at a radical shift in construction and lifestyle to make that practical. It would have to be a community designed specifically with the purpose of reducing energy overhead.
And the reality of that is that people like windows and hot water on demand far too much to make that cost effective.
Small hydro plants are about as practical as it gets. Those can put out practical amounts of power off of small streams and other such sites without serious interruptions in the local ecology... but they don't work too well for more cramped areas (or those that are flat and lacking in water run-off). Small reservoirs could be created for communities and have somewhat larger (up to a megawatt) systems put into place - but those are going to be relatively expensive installations (though still less than a solar/wind hybrid system to support a community of comparable size).
Then we get into industrial demands - and the reality of that is that electricity is in extremely high demand. While natural gas is still preferred for some industries (and is not at all a bad solution) - the shape of next-generation manufacturing technologies is improvements on Sintering processes (which do not actually melt metal) and the manufacturing of ceramic-metal hybrids and other meta-materials that require the fine control of electrically driven systems.
The only practical sources of energy for those industries is hydrocarbons or some form of nuclear reactor. Hydro or geothermal are plausible - but most of those locations have already been exploited.
And that all cycles around to it being more realistic for nuclear power to replace much of our coal based power with far more gradual changes in our building design and social structure. Already the prevalence of LEDs is slashing lighting costs - I can light buildings for nearly one tenth the amount of energy on LEDs compared to T8 florescents... but getting people to adopt new ideas (particularly those who do not study electronics and have no idea what an LED is - just that it has something to do with TVs and flashlights) is not an easy process.
You should see the look on people's face when I suggest they switch to a solid state relay in their control systems.
They look at me: "Will it still work?"
"No... they built a replacement for a relay that won't work. Why would they ever replace the relay?"
Or:
"... So I don't have to change the brushes?"
Seriously - after the EPA and FDA came along - it's like half of our nation's industry got frozen in the late 70s in terms of technology and no one bothers to change anything because heaven forbid a regulator take issue with it not being on their rubber stamp. No one realizes they are living in the literal stone-age of electronics. I half expect someone to pull out a contact crystal radio or ask me where they need to feed the punch cards in.
"They put the technology of the space shuttle..."
So it's less sophisticated than my watch. Let's get with the 90s.
*flips over a desk in mock anger*
People and their ignorance of the fact they are pissing money down the drain.
i will die and it still wont be a problem even for my grandchildren yet
