Question: [via trans] Okay, Lyn, I would like to ask if you could explain a little bit more, how this great infrastructure project allows civilization to create new urban centers, so that we would not be piled up, as we have it now, in the Monterrey metropolitan area? And I would also like you to tell us, how we patriots can say that a sovereign nation is the best way of living, not with the same sort of ideas, that some people are trying to impose on us, such as Jorge Castaneda, that we must bend before other forces that are better than Mexico; and to say that Mexico can be just as great a nation as the United States, or any other nation in the world?

LaRouche: Actually, we have not yet really developed this science of infrastructure properly. We have a lot of people, who know a lot of things, and a lot of these things are very useful and very good. We don't use those things enough, on this question of urban development, and so forth.

But, we have to look at the universe, and the Earth in particular, from the standpoint of the eyes of someone like Vernadsky. We have to see the process in the large, and then find ourselves within that process. For example, let's take the case of Central Asia, which I've used so many times: You have a tremendous concentration of natural mineral resources, in Central and North Asia. But these are fairly thinly populated, rather dry areas, largely; or tundra areas, which are frozen a good deal of the time. So therefore, to get these raw materials, you have to develop the area. If you don't do that, you're not going to have enough of the raw materials needed, to develop China, India, and so forth, and so on.

So therefore, we have to do it.

So therefore, we have to think about re-forming the characteristics of the environment, in such a way as to be able to solve this particular problem. For example, we have to move a lot of the water, fresh water which is going into the Arctic Ocean, move it down toward Central Asia; as by the River Ob, divert some of that water down there; from Irkutsk, a similar kind of thing, in Siberia, is an example of that.

And we have similar problems in Mexico: We have a lot of water in the south. Some of it comes tumbling down, with great potential, which could be used for power, and we have to find the cleverest ways to move that water along, toward the north of Mexico--which is too dry--and with the least amount of pumping, relatively speaking, to get that water into the central area, the drier area, of which Monterrey, of course, abuts; and the adjoining state.

So, that has to be done.

Now, we need more cities. We need to develop the green more. We need to think about engineering new weather systems, by properly managing the way we plant things, the way we use water, to try to get micro-rain systems going within the area, which give an ability to very more easily utilized and recycle some of this water that we're bringing north--that sort of thing.

So, we have to think about how we build a city. We have an idiotic tendency, in the United States, since the end of the war, to go away from urbanization, toward sub-urbanization. This results in a tremendous waste of land--and neglect of cities. The cities are left to be looted by real estate speculators. The cost of a house in the city and everything goes up; the income of the city, per capita, declines; the maintenance of the infrastructure declines, and so forth and so on. There're diseases, and the city becomes a hell-hole for the people that live in it. These are the kinds of problems.

So we have to think, again--go to another level: Now, as Vernadsky reminds us: We have three aspects of this planet. First we have the core of the planet, which is presumably, largely, abiotic--or appears to be. Then, we have a top layer of the planet, which has been growing for many billions of years. And the top layer is the biotic layer. It's the area where life and the fossils' remains of life have taken over. For example, the oceans, the atmosphere, are fossils. The soils are fossils. Much of the mineral material, which we mine, are actually come in the form of fossils, where certain minerals are concentrated by the previous activity of living processes, and they become now the deposits we tap, in that sort of thing.

So, now we have to think about managing the planet; because we have to control the rate at which certain raw materials are being concentrated, from inside the planet, toward the area, which we mine, in the Biosphere. We have to think about managing the atmosphere, the water systems: to manage them, for man. We have to think of this planet as something we have to manage in many ways, and don't simply utilize available natural resources: We manage them. So, we provide enough for man.

We think of all these problems. And, this forces us to think about the planet in a new way--not simply in a good engineering way, the way many people do--hydraulic engineers and others, who have excellent ideas. We have to integrate this kind of knowledge into a comprehensive approach, as to how we develop the planet, for people, for future generations. And I think we can do brilliant jobs.

We also have to realize, that we have to have a much higher rate of capital investment; that we have to end this idea of privatization. Yes, we need the private entrepreneur; we need the private professional: Because we need the creative genius of the individual. And we want people who are good at this, who have shown their ability to use this innovative power, to generate enterprises, which are beneficial to society. We want that. But, in order to have them, we must give them an environment in which to work: That environment, is the basic economic infrastructure--transportation; power generation and distribution; water management on a large scale; forestation; and so forth and so on. These things we must provide.

So, we have to have an integrated approach, to physical economy. And, we must then, in turn, understand how to run a financial economy, in such a way that we manage it, so the financial economy does not run away, out of control of the object, which is its physical object: That is, our object in financial economy should be, that if there's an improvement in the finances, there should be an improvement in the physical condition of life, of the population, the society, and the future. Therefore, we should have regulation, of the way financial processes operate, the way tax systems operate, such that, the flow of money and the flow of income corresponds to the purpose for which we create money: which is to facilitate the processes of trade and investment, in such a way as to produce these desired physical effects, hmm?

And, we don't have such a science. I think, in terms of any university setting, that this should be one of the major topics of discussion among the faculty and students, as to how the knowledge which we have, should be applied to clarifying our thinking about these kinds of longer-term objectives.

In the meantime, universities should be a hot-bed, of discussion and training for the kind of task, which for example, in Mexico, we were discussing recently--again--the kind of tasks to rebuild Mexico, in order to solve the problem of the Mexican population. Because the country has to be rebuilt, in such a way, that the population of Mexico--which is growing, and should grow--will have the means to exist, within its borders, and not simply have to export its people, to find a living for them.

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