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The BIG and The BEE: A Sustainable Convergence (Basic Income Grant and Basic Energy Entitlement) by Roy Morrison Abstract This paper explores a global Basic Energy Entitlement (BEE) as a concomitant to a Basic Income Grant (BIG) within the context of building a global ecological civilization from industrial business as usual. The BIG is a global means for both justice and for sustainable consumption levels. The BEE is a tool for fair transfer of assets and skills for building a global efficient renewable energy system. This is key to making economic growth mean ecological improvement and encourage the regeneration of natural capital that must characterize an ecological civilization. The intention of the BIG and BEE is to help catalyze a global convergence on social justice for all, sustainable consumption levels, sustainable energy use levels, and a funding means to facilitate building an efficient renewable energy system and encouraging sustainable economic growth. A sustainable future will mean a combination of global social justice and efficient distributed renewable energy and continental scale Supergrids. Efficient renewable energy can be many times more thermodynamically efficient in second law terms, and contribute negligible amounts of carbon. The BEE sets a sustainable per capita energy entitlement and carbon entitlement. A global plan for the BEE uses assessments on all energy use, on a kWh equivalent basis. The BEE will be used as a means for the transfer of resources and capital from rich to poor, both from North to South, and, within nations, from rich to poor. The BEE is a means for an ecological global growth regime. A BEE based on a per capita annual entitlement of 70 gigajoules of primary energy (19,443 kWh equivalent) and 3 tons of carbon dioxide emissions. A 3 ton per person global coverage average keeps carbon output equal to natural carbon sinks at around 21 gigatons per year. Physics can be on the side of a