Overview

“'Infrastructure' does not merely signify a supplementing of the development of production and communication; it represents the developing foundation on which the progress of the power of production depends: the development of the powers of production are dependent upon the advances in technology in infrastructure." --The Folly of Chronic Wars, Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

How we conceive of the role of infrastructure in the coming decades will thus play a determining role as to the successful recovery of society today from the collapse currently underway. The lack of proper investment in, not only maintaining our existing infrastructure, such as water systems, locks and dams, rail corridors, and power systems, but also in promoting the application of higher levels of technology to new more advanced forms of infrastructure, has created the basis for the collapse now being faced. Accordingly, with the establishment of a new global credit system, a key phase of the LaRouche Plan for economic recovery involves massive investment into new modes of infrastructure.

These new modes of infrastructure will usher in a shift in Mankind's relationship to the Biosphere and Lithosphere. With projects such as the North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA), redistributing vast amounts of water across almost every North American river basin, Mankind will be transforming not only the local characteristics of regions, but will be beginning to take into his hands fundamental relationships that the Earth as a whole has to solar and cosmic radiation. Only by such relationships becoming conscious objects of thought (and domains of action) will Mankind prepare for the deeper challenges which must be overcome as we expand our places of habitation and exploration out into the Solar System.

The North American Water and Power Alliance

NAWAPA from the Standpoint of Biospheric Development (PDF)

by The 'Basement' Team--The North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA) program will be among the first of man’s projects to willfully redirect those larger processes determining the further evolution of the biosphere, as a whole.

NAWAPA: The Tennessee Valley Authority of the 21st Century

by the Basement Team -The best option for initiating the economic recovery of the United States, will be to take the NAWAPA proposal, for which much of the fundamental design and planning work has already been done, and expand it.

Excerpt: LaRouche announces NAWAPA project

Lyndon LaRouche delivers an audio statement, identifying the mission orientation that the NAWAPA project represents. It is not a practical project, but rather essential for the survival of human civilization for many generations to come.

LPAC weekly report, July 28th

Lyndon LaRouche delivers a conceptual presentation of the scientific challenges that the NAWAPA program would create.

additional reference material

....soon to be available

The World Landbridge

1. The Eurasian Landbridge: The Most Important Strategic Question Today

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche. The success of the economic integration of the Eurasian continent, on a high-level technological basis, will determine the fate of mankind. This is not a question far ahead in the distant future; but, considering the different strategic parameters, the question of whether the US administration supports the success of the Land-Bridge, or remains indifferent, passive, or worse, will indeed determine whether mankind plunges into an incredible catastrophe—of which the developments in Africa give us a small foretaste—or whether instead, we stand on the threshold of the biggest economic miracle in world history.

2. Proceedings from the 2007 Schiller Institute Conference in Kiedrich, Germany

The following items in this link are key presentations from the September 15th-17th Schiller Institute Eurasian Landbridge Conference, held in Kiedrich, Germany. This selection is presented with the intent of establishing a more detailed understanding of the Eurasian-World Landbridge project.