[Craic] The Planet of the Humans vs. Resource Based Economy

[Arthur Blomme]

Hi all

The question that Michael Moore's film raises for me is whether our 
civilization is in decline because of the technological excesses we have 
engaged.  At Saturday craic we were discussing alternatives to the 
current system.   A high contender for the kind of system we might want 
in the future is the resource based economy.  I am wondering about the 
carbon footprint of a project where we stick 6 billion people into 
cities like the one pictured below.  It took a couple of hundred years 
for the Roman empire to decline.  if it takes that long for the American 
Empire to decline will we have sown the seed for our inevitable extinction.

A Resource based economy involves much more than substituting green 
technology for carbon based technology.

Art


Resource Based Economy video 
<https://youtu.be/_EkMjTnWk14>*https://www.thevenusproject.com/*

The Venus Project proposes an alternative vision of what the future can 
be if we apply what we already know in order to achieve a sustainable 
new world civilization. It calls for a straightforward redesign of our 
culture in which the age-old inadequacies of war, poverty, hunger, debt 
and unnecessary human suffering are viewed not only as avoidable but as 
totally unacceptable. Anything less will result in a continuation of the 
same catalog of problems inherent in today's world.


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My first introduction to resource based planning was through this book 
by Peter Joseph.  His website is http://peterjoseph.info/ His highly 
recommended book is .



    *Society is broken. We can design our way to a better one.*

    In our interconnected world, self-interest and social-interest are
    rapidly becoming indistinguishable. If current negative trajectories
    remain, including growing climate destabilization, biodiversity
    loss, and economic inequality, an impending future of ecological
    collapse and societal destabilization will make “personal success”
    virtually meaningless. Yet our broken social system incentivizes
    behavior that will only make our problems worse. If true human
    rights progress is to be achieved today, it is time we dig
    deeper—rethinking the very foundation of our social system.


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