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<p>Hi all <br>
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<p>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. <br>
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<p>A Resource based economy involves much more than substituting
green technology for carbon based technology. <br>
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<p>Art<br>
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<p><a href="https://youtu.be/_EkMjTnWk14"><img class="aligncenter
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style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>https://www.thevenusproject.com/</strong></span></a></p>
<p><span dir="auto" class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">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. <br>
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<p>My first introduction to resource based planning was through this
book by Peter Joseph. His website is <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://peterjoseph.info/">http://peterjoseph.info/</a>
His highly recommended book is .<br>
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<span dir="auto" class="style-scope yt-formatted-string"><b>Society
is broken. We can design our way to a better one.</b><br>
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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.</span></p>
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