What will be Alaska’s contribution to challenging the world’s collapsing monetary system through science and infrastructure goal setting?
Alaska has a long list of exciting projects but only one that connects us to some of the common aims of mankind. In Europe this project is known as the European Land Bridge, in Russia the Bering Strait Project, and in Alaska the Road to Nome or the Railroad Around the World.
The Railroad Around the World proposal is based on building an integrated network of high-speed trains, highways, waterways, energy production and distribution, and computer communication systems as arteries in a central development corridor.
This is not a colonialist proposal for resource extraction but a nationalist instrument for developing populations.
My hope is that Alaskans will recognize the long-term strategic necessity for participating in building the Railroad Around the World through Alaska. We may not complete this project in our lifetime but having this goal on our agenda will help create the political alliances necessary to support our friends around the world who are fighting for the survival of the nation-state system of democratic republics.
Support by the United States for the Railroad Around the World and other major infrastructure projects is an inspiration to nations who see us as the potential leader of an international financial reform.
Setting goals for real physical investments challenge our financial system to create low-interest credit for the real physical requirements of human populations. More important, our goal setting helps inspire leadership around the world to step forward and actively want to participate as allies of the United States.
The Russian offer to help build an Alaskan Bering Strait tunnel as one section of the Railroad Around the World is, in actuality, part of an offer of new treaty agreements that create a new financial architecture.
Identifying great infrastructure projects so large that funding can only originate from a new financial system is a strategic feature of what is known as the Great Projects approach to development.
My hope is that Alaskans will keep the Road to Nome–Railroad Around the World actively on our Great Projects agenda.
More important, Alaskans must take the Russian offer one step further by creating a science-driven point of entry into this new relationship. A plasma-physics prototype institute must be established at the University of Alaska Anchorage in combination with the Russian Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Department of Energy.
This prototype institute will take our mining and oil industries into their next phases of production and can be used to pilot the creation of capital goods industries in Alaska.
Our creation of this science and technology institute will be an important feature of Alaska’s goal setting participation in a new financial architecture and will be a signal to the world community that Alaska supports a worldwide science and infrastructure led recovery based on Great Projects.
