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to the debt machine known as the monetary system-

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hence creating the monetary-market paradigm

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there is one consequence that runs through

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the entire machine:

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Inequality.

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Whether it is market system which creates a natural

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gravitation towards monopoly and power consolidation

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while also generating pockets of wealthy industries

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that tower over others

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regardless of utility-

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such as the fact that top

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hedge fund managers on wall street

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now take home over 300 million dollars a year

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for contributing literally nothing.

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While a scientist looking for a cure for a disease

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trying to help humanity

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might make 60 thousand dollars a year if they're lucky.

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Or whether it is the monetary system

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which has class division built right into its structure.

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If I have 1 million dollars to spare and I put it into a CD

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at 4% interest-

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I will make 40,000 dollars a year.

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No social contribution- no nothing.

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However, if I'm a lower class person and have to take loans

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to buy my car or home

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I am paying in interest which

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in abstraction

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is going to pay that millionaire with the 4% CD.

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is a foundational, built in aspect of the monetary system.

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And it could be labeled “Structural Classism”.

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has always been deemed unfair

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but obviously accepted overall

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as now 1% of the population owns 40% of the planet's wealth.

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there is something else going on

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underneath the surface of inequality

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causing an incredible deterioration in public health as a whole.

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Well, I think people often are puzzled by the contrast

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between the material success of our societies

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and the many social failings.

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there is clearly something going deeply wrong

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with our societies.

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The data I have been describing

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simply shows that intuition that people

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have had for hundreds of years, that inequality is divisive

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and socially corrosive.

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of inequality. More to do I suppose with feelings

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of superiority and inferiority.

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- people feeling looked down on at the bottom

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which, by the way, is why violence is

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the trigger to violence is so often people feeling looked down

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upon and disrespected.

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that is, the most important principle underlying

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the prevention of violence

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it would be “Equality”.

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that affects the rate of violence

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is the degree of equality versus the degree of inequality

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general social dysfunction.

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It's not just one or two things that go wrong

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something known as the 'health socioeconomic gradient'.

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in society, in terms of socioeconomic status

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everything you could look at.

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why is it that this gradient exists.

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which is, 'if you're chronically sick, you're not

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going to be very productive

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so, health causes drive socioeconomic differences.'

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Not that in the slightest-

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socioeconomic status of a 10-year-old

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and that's going to predict something about their health

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decades later.

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So, that's the direction of causality.

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it's healthcare access?

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because you see these same gradients

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in countries with universal health care and

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socialized medicine.

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and drink and all sorts of lifestyle risk factors.

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that it explains maybe about a third of the variability.

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with the STRESS of poverty

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So, the poorer you are, starting off being

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the person who is one dollar of income behind Bill Gates...

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the poorer you are in this country

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on the average, the worse your health is.

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the health connection with poverty

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it's not about being poor it's about feeling poor.

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Increasingly we recognize that chronic stress

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is an important influence on health

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but the most important sources of stress

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are the quality of social relations.

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and if there is anything that

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lowers the quality of social relations

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it is the socioeconomic stratification of society.

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that regardless of material wealth

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the stress of simply living in a stratified society

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leads to a vast spectrum of public health problems

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and the greater the inequality, the worse they become.

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Life expectancy: longer in more equal countries.

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Drug Abuse: Less in more equal countries.

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Mental Illness: Less in more equal countries.

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ability of people to trust each other:

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Naturally greater in more equal countries.

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Educational Scores: Higher in more equal countries.

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Homicide rates: less in more equal countries.

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Less in more equal countries.

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Less in more equal countries.

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which challenges the age old notion that a competitive

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stratified society is somehow more creative and inventive.

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called The WhiteHall Study

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confirmed that there is a social distribution of disease

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as you go from the top of the socioeconomic ladder

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of the hierarchy had a 4-fold increase

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of heart disease based mortality

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compared to the highest rungs.

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the worse their health is going to be on average.

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This phenomenon is rooted in what could be termed

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and it is at the foundation of the greatest social distortions

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plaguing our society today.

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Its cause?

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The Monetary-Market System.

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Make no mistake:

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The greatest destroyer of ecology...

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the greatest source of waste, depletion and pollution...

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the greatest purveyor of violence-

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war - crime - poverty - animal abuse and inhumanity...

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the greatest generator of social and personal neurosis...

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mental disorders - depression anxiety...

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Not to mention, the greatest source of social paralysis

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stopping us from moving into new methodologies

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for personal health, global sustainability

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and progress on this planet

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is not some corrupt Government or legislation...

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not some rogue Corporation or banking cartel...

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not some flaw of human nature...

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and not some secret hidden cabal that controls the world.

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It is, in fact:

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The Socio-Economic System itself

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at its very foundation.

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[Part 3: Project Earth ]

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Let's imagine for a moment we had the option

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to redesign human civilization from the ground up.

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What if, hypothetically speaking

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we discovered an exact replica of the planet Earth

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is that human evolution had not occurred.

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It was an open palette.

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No countries, no cities, no pollution, no republicans....

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just a pristine, open environment.

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So what would we do?

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Well, first we need a “goal”, right?

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And not to just survive, but to do so in an optimized, healthy

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prosperous way.

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Most people, indeed, desire to live and

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they would prefer to do so without suffering.

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Therefore, the basis of this civilization

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needs to be as supportive and hence

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sustainable for human life as possible-

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taking into account the material needs

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of all the world's people

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while trying to remove anything

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that can could hurt us in the long run.

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next question regards our “method”.

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What kind of approach do we take?

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Well, let's see-

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last I checked, politics was the method of social operation on Earth...

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so what do the doctrines of the republicans, liberals

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conservatives or socialists have to say about societal design?

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Hmmm... not a damn thing.

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Okay then - what about religion?

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Surely the great creator had to have left some blueprints somewhere...

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Nope...nothing I can find.

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Okay then - so what's left?

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It appears something called “Science”.

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Science is unique in that its methods demand not only that ideas

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proposed be tested and replicated...

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but everything science comes up with is also inherently falsifiable.

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In other words, unlike religion and politics

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science has no ego

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and everything it suggests accepts the possibility

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of being proven wrong eventually.

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It holds on to nothing and evolves constantly.

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Well, that sounds natural enough to me.

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So then - based on the current state of scientific knowledge

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in the early 21st century

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along with our goal of “maximum sustainability”

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for the human population

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how do we begin the actual process of construction?

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What do we need to survive?

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The answer, of course, are Planetary Resources.

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Whether it is the water we drink, the energy we use

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or the raw materials we utilize to create tools and shelter

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the planet hosts an inventory of resources-

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many of which are demanded for our survival.

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it then becomes critical to figure out what we have and where it is.

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This means we need to conduct a survey.

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We simply locate and identify every physical resource on the planet

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we can, along with the amount available at each location

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from the deposits of copper, to the most potent locations for

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wind farms to produce energy

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to the most prime arable land for food cultivation, etc.

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But, since we humans are going to be

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consuming these resources over time

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we then realize that not only do we need to locate and identify-

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we also need to track.

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We need to make sure we don't run out of any of this stuff...

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that would be bad.

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And this means not only tracking our rates of use

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but the rates of earthly regeneration as well

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such as how long it takes for, say

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a tree to grow or a spring to replenish.

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This is called “Dynamic Equilibrium”.

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In other words, if we use up trees faster than they can be grown back-

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we have a serious problem, for it is unsustainable.

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So then, how do we track this inventory

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especially when we recognize that all

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of this stuff is scattered everywhere.

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We have large mineral mines in what we call Africa

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energy concentrations in the Middle East

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huge tidal power possibilities on the Atlantic coast of North America

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the largest supply of fresh water in Brazil, etc.

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Well, once again, good old science has a suggestion:

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it's called “Systems theory”.

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Systems theory recognizes that the fabric of the natural world

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from human biology to the earthly biosphere

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to the gravitational pull of the solar system itself

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is one huge synergistically connected system - fully interlinked.

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Just as human cells connect to form our organs

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and the organs connect to form our bodies

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and since our bodies cannot live without the earthy resources

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of food, air and water, we are intrinsically connected to the earth.

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And so on.

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So - as nature suggests, we take all of this inventory

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and tracking data and create a “system” to manage it.

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A “Global Resource Management System”, in fact

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to account for every relevant resource on the planet.

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There is simply no logical alternative if our goal as a species

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is survival in the long run. We have to keep track as a whole.

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That understood, we can now consider production.

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How do we use all this stuff?

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What will our process of production be and what do we need

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to consider to make sure it is as optimized as possible

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to maximize our sustainability?

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Well the first thing that jumps right out at us is the fact that

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we need to constantly try and preserve.

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The planet's resources are essentially finite.

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So it is important that we be “strategic”.

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"Strategic Preservation" is key.

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The second thing we recognize, is that some resources

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are really not as good as others in their performance.

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In fact, some of this stuff, when put into use

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has a terrible effect of the environment

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which invariably hinders our own health.

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For example: oil and fossil fuels, no matter how you cut it

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release some pretty destructive agents into the environment.

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Therefore, it is critical that we do our best to use such things

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only when we really have to - if at all.

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Fortunately for us, we see a ton of solar – wind – tidal – wave -

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heat differential and geothermal possibilities for energy production

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so we can strategize objectively about what we use and where

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to avoid what could be called “negative retroactions”

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or anything that results from production or use

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that damages the environment and hence, ourselves.

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We will call this “Strategic Safety”

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to couple in with our "Strategic Preservation”.

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But production strategies do not stop there.

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We are going to need an "Efficiency Strategy”

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for the actual mechanics of production itself.

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And what we find is that there are roughly

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three specific protocols we must adhere to:

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One: Every good we produce must be

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designed to last as long as possible.

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Naturally, the more things breakdown

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the more resources we are going to need to replace them

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and the more waste produced.

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Two: When things do break down

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or are no longer usable for whatever reason

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it is critical that we harvest, or recycle as much as we possibly can.

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So the production design must take this into

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account directly at the very earliest stages.

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Three: Quickly evolving technologies, such as electronics

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which are subject to the fastest rates of technological obsolescence

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would need to be designed to

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foreshadow and accommodate physical updates.

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The last thing we want to do is throw away an entire computer

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system just because it has only one broken part or is outdated.

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So we simply design the components to be easily updated

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part by part, standardized and universally interchangeable

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foreshadowed by the current trend of technological change.

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And when we realize that the mechanisms of "Strategic Preservation”

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“Strategic Safety” and “Strategic Efficiency”

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are purely technical considerations

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devoid of any human opinion or bias

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we simply program these strategies into a computer

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which can weigh and calculate all the relevant variables

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allowing us to always arrive at the

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absolute best method for sustainable production

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based on current understandings.

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And while that might sound complex

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all it is is a glorified calculator

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not to mention that such multi-varied

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decision making and monitoring systems

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are already used across the world today

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for isolated purposes. It is simply a process of scaling it out.

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So...

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Now, we not only have our Resource Management System

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but also a Production Management System

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both of which are easily computer automated

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to maximize efficiency, preservation & safety.

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The informational reality is that the human mind

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or even a group of humans, cannot track what needs to be tracked.

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It must be done by computers and it can be.

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And this bring us to the next level: Distribution.

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What sustainability strategies make sense here?

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Well, since we know that the shortest

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distance between two points is a straight line

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and since energy is required to power transport machines

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the less transport distance, the more efficient.

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Producing goods in one continent and shipping them over to another

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only makes sense if the goods in question simply cannot

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be produced in the target area.

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Otherwise, it is nothing but wasteful.

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We must localize production, so distribution is simple

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fast and requires the least amount of energy.

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We'll call this the “Proximity Strategy”

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which simply means we reduce the

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travel of goods as much as possible

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whether raw materials or finished consumer products.

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Of course, it might also be important to

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know what goods are we transporting and why...

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And this falls under the category of Demand.

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And demand is simply what people need to be

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healthy and to have a high quality of life.

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The spectrum of material human needs

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range from core life supporting necessities

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such as food, clean water and shelter...

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to social and recreational goods which allow for relaxation

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and personal - social enjoyment -

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both important factors in human and social health overall.

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So - very simply- we take another survey.

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People describe their needs, demand is

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assessed and production begins based on that demand.

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And since the level of demand of different goods will

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naturally fluctuate and change around different regions

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we need to create a “Demand / Distribution Tracking System"

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so to avoid overruns and shortages.

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Of course, this idea is old news

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it is used in every major store chain today

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to make sure they keep up with their inventory.

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Only this time, we are tracking on a global scale.

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But wait a minute. We really can't fully understand demand

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if we don't account for the actual usage of the good itself.

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Is it logical and sustainable for every single human to, say

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have one of everything made? Regardless of their usage?

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No. That would be simply wasteful and inefficient.

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If a person has a need for a good but that need is only for say:

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45 minutes a day on average

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it would be much more efficient if

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that good was made available to them

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and to others when needed.

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Many forget that it isn't the good they want

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it is the purpose of that good.

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When we realize that the good itself

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is only as important as its utility

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we see that “external restriction”

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or what we might call today “ownership”

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is extremely wasteful and environmentally illogical

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in a fundamental, economic sense.

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So we need devise a strategy called: “Strategic Access”.

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This would be the foundation of our

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"Demand / Distribution Tracking System.”

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which makes sure we can meet the

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demand of the population's needs

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for access of whatever they need, when they need it.

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And as far as physically obtaining the goods

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centralized and regional access

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centers all make sense for the most part

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placed in close proximity to the population

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and a person would simply come in, take the item

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use it and when finished, return it when no longer needed...

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sort of how a library works today.

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In fact, these centers could not only exist in

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the community in the way we see local stores today

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but specialized access centers would exist in specific areas

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where often certain goods are utilized

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saving more energy with less repeat transport.

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And once this Demand Tracking System is in order

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it is tied into our Production Management system

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and, of course, into our Resource Management system

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hence creating a unified dynamically updating

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global economic management machine

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that simply makes sure we remain sustainable

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starting with securing the integrity of our finite resources

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moving to make sure we only create the best

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most strategic goods possible

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while distributing everything in the

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most intelligent and efficient way.

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And the unique result of this preservation based approach

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which is intuitively counter to many

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is that this logical, ground up

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empirical process of preservation and efficiency

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which can only define true human sustainability on the planet

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would likely enable something never before seen in human history.

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Access Abundance...

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not just for a percentage of the global population...

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but the entire civilization.

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This economic model, as was just generalized...

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This responsible, systems approach to total Earth

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resource management and processes

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designed again to do nothing less

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than take care of humanity as whole

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in the most efficient and sustainable way

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could be termed:

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a “RESOURCE-BASED ECONOMY”.

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The idea was defined in the 1970s by

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Social Engineer- Jacque Fresco.

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He understood back then that society was on a collision course

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with nature and itself - unsustainable on every level

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and if things didn't change

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we would destroy ourselves, one way or another.

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Are all of these things you are saying, Jacque...

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could they be built with what we know today?

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Or are you guessing... based on what we know today.

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No, all of these things can be built with what we know today.

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It would take 10 years to change the surface of the earth.

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To rebuild the world into a second Garden of Eden.

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The choice lies with you.

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The stupidity of a nuclear arms race...

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the development of weapons...

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trying to solve your problems politically

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by electing this political party or that political party...

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that all politics is immersed in corruption.

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Let me say it again:

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Communism, socialism, fascism... the Democrats

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the liberals- we want to absorb human beings.

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All organizations that believe in a better life for man:

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there are no Negro problems or Polish problems

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or Jewish problems or Greek problems

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or women's problems – there are human problems!

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I'm not afraid of anybody; I don't work for anyone;

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no one can discharge me.

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I have no boss.

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I am afraid to live in the society we live in today.

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Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.

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It was great - the free enterprise system -

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about 35 years ago. That was the last of its usefulness.

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Now, we have got to change our way of thinking or perish.

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The horror movies of the future will be our society...

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the way it didn't work

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and politics...

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would be part of a horror movie.

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Well, lots of people today use the term 'cold science'

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because it's analytical

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and they don't even know what analytical means.

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Science means: closer approximations

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to the way the world really works.

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So, it's telling the truth - is what it is

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A scientist doesn't try to get along with people.

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They tell them what their findings are.

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They have to question all things

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and if some scientist comes up with an experiment that shows

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certain materials have certain strengths

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other scientists have to be able to duplicate

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that experiment and come up with the same results.

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Even if a scientist feels that an airplane wing

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due to mathematics or calculations

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00:26:15,100 --> 00:26:17,340
can hold up a given amount of weight

528
00:26:17,420 --> 00:26:20,140
they still pile sandbags on it

529
00:26:20,300 --> 00:26:22,220
to see when it breaks and they say

530
00:26:22,220 --> 00:26:25,980
you know my calculations are right or they are not correct'.

531
00:26:25,979 --> 00:26:29,459
I love that system because it's free of bias

532
00:26:29,460 --> 00:26:32,859
and free of thinking that math can solve all the problems.

533
00:26:32,899 --> 00:26:35,659
You have to put your Math to test also.

534
00:26:35,739 --> 00:26:38,300
I think that every system that can

535
00:26:38,300 --> 00:26:41,020
be put to test should be put to test.

536
00:26:41,060 --> 00:26:45,900
And that all decisions should be based upon research.

537
00:26:46,260 --> 00:26:48,860
A Resource-Based Economy is simply the

538
00:26:48,859 --> 00:26:51,699
scientific method applied to social concern-

539
00:26:51,699 --> 00:26:54,699
an approach utterly absent in the world today.

540
00:26:54,779 --> 00:26:57,059
Society is a technical invention.

541
00:26:57,060 --> 00:27:00,140
And the most efficient methods of optimized human health

542
00:27:00,180 --> 00:27:04,500
physical production, distribution, city infrastructure and the like

543
00:27:04,579 --> 00:27:07,019
reside in the field of science and

544
00:27:07,020 --> 00:27:10,340
technology - not politics or monetary economics.

545
00:27:10,380 --> 00:27:14,500
It operates in the same systematic way as, say an airplane

546
00:27:14,500 --> 00:27:18,779
and there is no Republican or Liberal way to build an airplane.

547
00:27:18,859 --> 00:27:20,939
Likewise, nature itself is the

548
00:27:20,939 --> 00:27:23,779
physical referent we use to prove our science

549
00:27:23,779 --> 00:27:25,699
and it is a set system-

550
00:27:25,699 --> 00:27:28,939
emerging only from our increased understanding of it.

551
00:27:29,060 --> 00:27:31,500
In fact, it has no regard for what you

552
00:27:31,500 --> 00:27:34,020
subjectively think or believe to be true.

553
00:27:34,100 --> 00:27:36,020
Rather, it gives you an option:

554
00:27:36,100 --> 00:27:38,180
you can learn and fall in line with its

555
00:27:38,180 --> 00:27:40,539
natural laws and conduct yourself accordingly-

556
00:27:40,659 --> 00:27:43,979
invariably creating good health & sustainability...

557
00:27:43,979 --> 00:27:47,059
or you can go against the current - to no avail.

558
00:27:47,180 --> 00:27:49,539
It doesn't matter how much you believe you can just

559
00:27:49,539 --> 00:27:51,859
stand up right now and walk on the wall next to you

560
00:27:51,939 --> 00:27:54,099
the law of gravity will not allow it.

561
00:27:54,100 --> 00:27:56,060
If you do not eat - you will die.

562
00:27:56,180 --> 00:27:59,020
If you are not touched as an infant - you will die.

563
00:27:59,100 --> 00:28:03,020
As harsh as it may sound, nature is a dictatorship

564
00:28:03,060 --> 00:28:06,460
and we can either listen to it and come in harmony with it

565
00:28:06,460 --> 00:28:09,819
or suffer the inevitable adverse consequences.

566
00:28:09,899 --> 00:28:12,859
So, a Resource-Based Economy is nothing more

567
00:28:12,859 --> 00:28:16,259
than a set of proven, life supporting understandings

568
00:28:16,340 --> 00:28:18,819
where all decisions are based upon

569
00:28:18,819 --> 00:28:22,259
optimized human and environmental sustainability.

570
00:28:22,260 --> 00:28:25,579
It takes into account the empirical “Life Ground”

571
00:28:25,699 --> 00:28:28,019
which every human being shares as a need

572
00:28:28,100 --> 00:28:32,180
regardless, again, of their political or religious philosophy.

573
00:28:32,380 --> 00:28:35,420
There is no cultural relativism to this approach.

574
00:28:35,539 --> 00:28:38,100
It isn't a matter of opinion.

575
00:28:38,220 --> 00:28:40,340
Human needs are human needs

576
00:28:40,420 --> 00:28:44,060
and having access to the necessities of life, such as clean air

577
00:28:44,100 --> 00:28:46,539
nutritious food and clean water

578
00:28:46,619 --> 00:28:50,099
along with a positively reinforcing, stable

579
00:28:50,100 --> 00:28:54,220
nurturing, non-violent environment, is demanded

580
00:28:54,220 --> 00:28:56,460
for our mental and physical health

581
00:28:56,539 --> 00:28:58,420
our evolutionary fitness

582
00:28:58,539 --> 00:29:01,420
and hence, the species survival itself.

583
00:29:01,539 --> 00:29:04,260
A Resource-Based Economy

584
00:29:04,380 --> 00:29:07,699
would be based upon available resources.

585
00:29:07,779 --> 00:29:10,939
You can't just bring a lot of people to an island

586
00:29:10,939 --> 00:29:16,099
or build a city of 50,000 people without having access

587
00:29:16,220 --> 00:29:18,180
to the necessities of life.

588
00:29:18,300 --> 00:29:22,779
So, when I use the term 'a comprehensive systems approach'

589
00:29:22,859 --> 00:29:27,139
I'm talking about doing an inventory of the area first

590
00:29:27,140 --> 00:29:30,460
and determining what that area can supply-

591
00:29:30,460 --> 00:29:32,980
not just architectural approach-

592
00:29:32,979 --> 00:29:35,459
not just design approach-

593
00:29:35,500 --> 00:29:39,020
but design must be based on all of the requirements

594
00:29:39,100 --> 00:29:40,700
to enhance human life

595
00:29:40,739 --> 00:29:44,460
and that's what I mean by an integrated way of thinking.

596
00:29:44,539 --> 00:29:47,340
Food, clothing, shelter, warmth, love -

597
00:29:47,380 --> 00:29:50,340
All those things are necessary

598
00:29:50,420 --> 00:29:52,699
and if you deprive people of any of them

599
00:29:53,180 --> 00:29:58,420
you have a lesser human being, less capable of functioning.

600
00:29:58,779 --> 00:30:02,619
As previously outlined, a Resource-Based Economy's ground up

601
00:30:02,619 --> 00:30:07,180
global, systems approach to extraction, production and distribution

602
00:30:07,180 --> 00:30:12,020
is based upon on a set of true economic mechanisms, or 'strategies'

603
00:30:12,140 --> 00:30:14,460
which guarantee efficiency and

604
00:30:14,460 --> 00:30:18,060
sustainability in every area of the economy.

605
00:30:18,220 --> 00:30:21,940
So, continuing this train of thought regarding logical design-

606
00:30:21,939 --> 00:30:23,659
what is next in our equation?

607
00:30:23,819 --> 00:30:26,059
Where does all this materialize?

608
00:30:26,340 --> 00:30:27,819
Cities.

609
00:30:27,899 --> 00:30:31,819
The advent of the city is a defining feature of modern civilization.

610
00:30:31,859 --> 00:30:35,579
Its role is to enable efficient access to the necessities of life

611
00:30:35,699 --> 00:30:40,460
along with increased social support and community interaction.

612
00:30:40,699 --> 00:30:43,619
So how would we go about designing an ideal city?

613
00:30:43,659 --> 00:30:45,220
What shape should we make it?

614
00:30:45,220 --> 00:30:47,539
Square? Trapezoid?

615
00:30:47,659 --> 00:30:49,819
Well, given we are going to be moving around the thing

616
00:30:49,819 --> 00:30:52,939
we might as well make it as equidistant as possible for ease...

617
00:30:53,060 --> 00:30:55,220
hence the circle.

618
00:30:55,420 --> 00:30:57,180
What should the city contain?

619
00:30:57,220 --> 00:31:01,180
Well, naturally we need a residential area, a goods production area

620
00:31:01,260 --> 00:31:04,820
a power generation area; an agricultural area.

621
00:31:05,180 --> 00:31:08,300
But we also need nurturing as human beings - hence culture

622
00:31:08,340 --> 00:31:11,579
nature, recreation and education.

623
00:31:11,659 --> 00:31:13,659
So lets include a nice open park

624
00:31:13,699 --> 00:31:18,019
an entertainment/events area for cultural purposes and socializing

625
00:31:18,180 --> 00:31:20,740
and educational and research facilities.

626
00:31:20,779 --> 00:31:23,059
And since we are working with a circle

627
00:31:23,060 --> 00:31:25,980
it seems rational to place these functions in Belts

628
00:31:25,979 --> 00:31:28,979
based on the amount of land required for each goal

629
00:31:29,100 --> 00:31:31,300
along with ease of access.

630
00:31:31,500 --> 00:31:32,779
Very good.

631
00:31:33,060 --> 00:31:35,140
Now, let's get down to specifics:

632
00:31:35,260 --> 00:31:37,380
First we need the consider the core

633
00:31:37,380 --> 00:31:40,380
infrastructure or intestines of the city organism.

634
00:31:40,659 --> 00:31:42,779
These would be the water, goods

635
00:31:42,779 --> 00:31:45,139
waste and energy transport channels.

636
00:31:45,180 --> 00:31:48,980
Just as we have water and sewage systems under our cities today

637
00:31:49,020 --> 00:31:51,700
we would extend this channeling concept to

638
00:31:51,699 --> 00:31:54,579
integrate waste recycling and delivery itself.

639
00:31:54,699 --> 00:31:57,220
No more mailmen or garbage men.

640
00:31:57,220 --> 00:31:59,940
It is built right in. We could even use

641
00:31:59,939 --> 00:32:02,819
automated pneumatic tubes and similar technologies.

642
00:32:03,060 --> 00:32:04,980
Same goes for transport.

643
00:32:04,979 --> 00:32:08,619
It needs to be integrated and strategically designed to reduce

644
00:32:08,619 --> 00:32:12,260
or even remove the need for wasteful, independent automobiles.

645
00:32:12,260 --> 00:32:15,180
Electric trams, conveyors, transveyors and

646
00:32:15,180 --> 00:32:17,460
maglevs which can take you virtually

647
00:32:17,460 --> 00:32:19,859
anywhere in the city, even up and down

648
00:32:19,939 --> 00:32:23,019
along with connecting you to other cities as well.

649
00:32:23,100 --> 00:32:26,020
And of course, in the event a car is required

650
00:32:26,020 --> 00:32:29,700
it is automated by satellite for safety and integrity.

651
00:32:29,819 --> 00:32:33,619
In fact, this automation technology is in working order right now.

652
00:32:33,659 --> 00:32:38,500
Automobile accidents kill about 1.2 million people every single year;

653
00:32:38,579 --> 00:32:40,699
injuring about 50 million.

654
00:32:40,699 --> 00:32:43,539
This is absurd and doesn't have to occur.

655
00:32:43,659 --> 00:32:47,380
Between efficient city design and automated, driverless cars

656
00:32:47,420 --> 00:32:50,260
this death toll can be virtually eliminated.

657
00:32:50,739 --> 00:32:52,139
Agriculture.

658
00:32:52,220 --> 00:32:55,699
Today, through our haphazard, cost-cutting industrial methods

659
00:32:55,739 --> 00:32:59,779
using pesticides, excessive fertilizers and other means

660
00:32:59,939 --> 00:33:01,899
we have successfully destroyed much

661
00:33:01,899 --> 00:33:03,819
of the the arable land on this planet

662
00:33:03,859 --> 00:33:07,179
not to mention also extensively poisoning our bodies.

663
00:33:07,340 --> 00:33:10,619
In fact, industrial and agricultural chemical toxins

664
00:33:10,659 --> 00:33:16,380
now show up in virtually every human being tested, including infants.

665
00:33:16,699 --> 00:33:19,619
Fortunately, there is a glaring alternative -

666
00:33:19,659 --> 00:33:23,139
the soilless mediums of hydroponics and aeroponics

667
00:33:23,140 --> 00:33:26,060
which also reduce nutrient and water

668
00:33:26,060 --> 00:33:29,900
requirements by up to 75 % of our current usage.

669
00:33:29,979 --> 00:33:33,659
Food can now be organically grown on an industrial scale

670
00:33:33,659 --> 00:33:36,180
in enclosed vertical farms.

671
00:33:36,220 --> 00:33:39,140
Such as in 50 story 1 acre plots -

672
00:33:39,180 --> 00:33:41,500
virtually eliminating the need for

673
00:33:41,500 --> 00:33:44,060
pesticides and hydrocarbons in general.

674
00:33:44,180 --> 00:33:47,140
This is the future of industrial food cultivation.

675
00:33:47,140 --> 00:33:49,700
Efficient, clean and abundant.

676
00:33:49,859 --> 00:33:52,899
So, such advanced systems would be, in part

677
00:33:52,939 --> 00:33:55,460
what comprise our agricultural belt

678
00:33:55,500 --> 00:33:59,180
producing all the food required for the entire city's population

679
00:33:59,180 --> 00:34:02,180
with no need to import anything from the outside

680
00:34:02,180 --> 00:34:05,500
saving time, waste and energy.

681
00:34:05,939 --> 00:34:07,859
And speaking of Energy-

682
00:34:07,899 --> 00:34:10,779
The Energy Belt would work in a systems approach to

683
00:34:10,779 --> 00:34:13,819
extract electricity from our abundant renewable mediums

684
00:34:13,939 --> 00:34:18,059
-specifically wind, solar, geothermal and heat differentials

685
00:34:18,220 --> 00:34:21,980
and if near water potentials - tidal and wave power.

686
00:34:22,180 --> 00:34:24,500
To avoid intermittency and make sure

687
00:34:24,500 --> 00:34:26,779
a positive net energy return occurs

688
00:34:26,779 --> 00:34:29,779
these mediums would operate in an integrated system

689
00:34:29,779 --> 00:34:31,699
powering each other when needed

690
00:34:31,739 --> 00:34:34,019
while storing excessive energy to large

691
00:34:34,020 --> 00:34:36,140
super capacitors under the ground

692
00:34:36,340 --> 00:34:38,539
so nothing can go to waste.

693
00:34:38,739 --> 00:34:41,099
And not only does the city power itself

694
00:34:41,140 --> 00:34:44,380
particular structures will also power independently

695
00:34:44,420 --> 00:34:47,539
and generate electricity through photovoltaic paints

696
00:34:47,539 --> 00:34:51,140
structural pressure transducers, the thermocouple effect

697
00:34:51,140 --> 00:34:54,619
and other current but under utilized technologies.

698
00:34:55,060 --> 00:34:56,980
But, of course, this begs the question:

699
00:34:57,100 --> 00:34:59,220
how does this technology, and goods in

700
00:34:59,220 --> 00:35:01,420
general, get created in the first place?

701
00:35:01,619 --> 00:35:03,539
This bring us to Production:

702
00:35:03,539 --> 00:35:06,739
The Industrial Belt, apart from having hospitals and the like

703
00:35:06,739 --> 00:35:09,099
would be the hub of factory production.

704
00:35:09,140 --> 00:35:10,940
Completely localized overall

705
00:35:10,939 --> 00:35:13,299
it would, of course, obtain raw materials by way of

706
00:35:13,340 --> 00:35:16,900
the global resource management system, just discussed-

707
00:35:17,020 --> 00:35:21,540
with demand being generated by the population of the city itself.

708
00:35:21,619 --> 00:35:23,579
As far as the mechanics of production

709
00:35:23,779 --> 00:35:26,859
we need to discuss a new, powerful phenomenon

710
00:35:26,859 --> 00:35:29,619
which was sparked very recently in human history

711
00:35:29,699 --> 00:35:32,699
and is on pace to changing everything.

712
00:35:33,020 --> 00:35:35,060
It's called Mechanization

713
00:35:35,060 --> 00:35:37,460
or the automation of labor.

714
00:35:37,619 --> 00:35:40,779
Well, if you look around, you'll notice that almost

715
00:35:40,779 --> 00:35:43,300
everything that we use today

716
00:35:43,420 --> 00:35:46,060
is built automatically.

717
00:35:46,539 --> 00:35:51,779
Your shoes, your clothes, your home appliances, your car and so on...

718
00:35:51,859 --> 00:35:57,779
they are all built by machines in an automatic way.

719
00:35:58,260 --> 00:36:01,380
Can we say that the society has not been

720
00:36:01,380 --> 00:36:05,380
influenced by these major technological advancements?

721
00:36:05,579 --> 00:36:06,739
Of course not.

722
00:36:06,739 --> 00:36:11,739
These systems really dictate new structures

723
00:36:11,939 --> 00:36:17,339
and new needs and they make a lot of other things obsolete.

724
00:36:17,380 --> 00:36:21,619
So, we have been going up in the development

725
00:36:21,619 --> 00:36:25,739
and use of technology in an exponential way.

726
00:36:25,819 --> 00:36:30,979
So, definitely automation is going to continue. You cannot stop

727
00:36:31,100 --> 00:36:33,620
technologies that just make sense.

728
00:36:33,779 --> 00:36:37,219
Labor automation through technology is at the bottom

729
00:36:37,220 --> 00:36:40,539
of every major social transformation in human history.

730
00:36:40,659 --> 00:36:43,939
From the agricultural revolution and the invention of the plow

731
00:36:43,939 --> 00:36:47,299
to the industrial revolution and the invention of the powered machine

732
00:36:47,380 --> 00:36:50,300
to the information age we live in now through

733
00:36:50,300 --> 00:36:54,300
essentially the invention of advanced electronics and computers.

734
00:36:54,500 --> 00:36:57,500
And with regard to advanced production methods today

735
00:36:57,619 --> 00:37:00,460
mechanization is now evolving on its own.

736
00:37:00,579 --> 00:37:03,100
Moving away from the traditional method of

737
00:37:03,100 --> 00:37:05,980
assembling component parts into a configuration -

738
00:37:06,060 --> 00:37:08,780
into an advanced method of creating

739
00:37:08,779 --> 00:37:11,619
entire products in one single process.

740
00:37:11,699 --> 00:37:15,220
Like most engineers, I'm fascinated by biology because it is

741
00:37:15,420 --> 00:37:19,579
so full of examples of extraordinary pieces of engineering.

742
00:37:19,739 --> 00:37:25,460
What biology is - is the study of things that copy themselves.

743
00:37:25,819 --> 00:37:27,939
As good a definition of life as we've got.

744
00:37:27,979 --> 00:37:29,979
Again, as an engineer, I have always been

745
00:37:29,979 --> 00:37:32,500
intrigued by the idea of machines copying themselves.

746
00:37:32,659 --> 00:37:35,139
RepRap is a three-dimensional printer-

747
00:37:35,180 --> 00:37:38,539
that's to say it is a printer that you plug into your computer and

748
00:37:38,539 --> 00:37:41,859
instead of making two-dimensional sheets of paper with patterns on

749
00:37:41,859 --> 00:37:44,859
it makes real, physical, three-dimensional objects.

750
00:37:45,060 --> 00:37:46,980
Now there's nothing new about that

751
00:37:46,979 --> 00:37:49,539
3-D printers have been around for about 30 years.

752
00:37:49,659 --> 00:37:54,380
The big thing about RepRap is that it prints most of its own parts.

753
00:37:54,539 --> 00:37:56,060
So, if you've got one, you could

754
00:37:56,060 --> 00:37:57,820
make another one and give it to a friend

755
00:37:57,819 --> 00:38:00,939
as well as being able to print lots of useful things.

756
00:38:00,979 --> 00:38:04,259
From the simple printing of basic household goods in your home

757
00:38:04,539 --> 00:38:08,460
to the printing of an entire automobile body in one swoop

758
00:38:08,460 --> 00:38:11,060
advanced, automated 3d printing now has the

759
00:38:11,060 --> 00:38:14,580
potential to transform virtually every field of production.

760
00:38:14,659 --> 00:38:16,779
Including home construction.

761
00:38:17,060 --> 00:38:19,539
Contour Crafting is

762
00:38:19,659 --> 00:38:22,500
actually a fabrication technology-

763
00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:26,220
the so-called 3-D printing- when you directly build

764
00:38:26,380 --> 00:38:30,060
3-D objects from a computer model.

765
00:38:30,180 --> 00:38:33,180
Using Contour Crafting, it will be possible

766
00:38:33,340 --> 00:38:36,340
to build a 2000 square-foot home

767
00:38:36,420 --> 00:38:40,340
entirely by the machine, in one day.

768
00:38:40,699 --> 00:38:45,819
The reason that people are interested in automating construction

769
00:38:45,819 --> 00:38:48,619
is that it really brings a lot of benefits.

770
00:38:48,619 --> 00:38:52,739
For example, construction is pretty labor-intensive

771
00:38:52,859 --> 00:38:59,059
and although it provides jobs for a sector of the society

772
00:38:59,140 --> 00:39:04,260
it also has issues and complications.

773
00:39:04,260 --> 00:39:09,180
For example, construction is the most dangerous job that there is.

774
00:39:09,180 --> 00:39:12,100
It is worse than mining and agriculture.

775
00:39:12,100 --> 00:39:16,539
That has the highest level of fatality in almost every country.

776
00:39:17,020 --> 00:39:19,580
Another issue is the waste.

777
00:39:19,739 --> 00:39:24,979
An average home in the United States has 3 to 7 tons of waste.

778
00:39:25,020 --> 00:39:30,780
So this is huge if we look at the impact of construction

779
00:39:30,859 --> 00:39:34,179
and knowing about 40% of all materials

780
00:39:34,180 --> 00:39:37,380
in the world are used in construction.

781
00:39:37,380 --> 00:39:40,500
So, a big waste of energy and resources

782
00:39:40,500 --> 00:39:43,779
and big damage to the environment as well.

783
00:39:43,939 --> 00:39:48,819
Making homes using hammers and nails and wood

784
00:39:48,899 --> 00:39:53,019
with the state of our technology today, is really absurd

785
00:39:53,180 --> 00:39:56,500
and will go the way of our labor class in

786
00:39:56,500 --> 00:39:59,939
regards to manufacturing in the United States.

787
00:40:00,020 --> 00:40:05,780
Recently, there was a study by economist David Autor of MIT

788
00:40:05,859 --> 00:40:09,779
that states that our middle class is obsolete

789
00:40:09,779 --> 00:40:12,659
and being replaced by automation.

790
00:40:13,180 --> 00:40:16,300
Quite simply, Mechanization is more productive

791
00:40:16,420 --> 00:40:19,380
efficient and sustainable than human labor

792
00:40:19,380 --> 00:40:22,300
in virtually every sector of the economy today.

793
00:40:22,500 --> 00:40:26,020
Machines do not need vacations, breaks, insurance, pensions

794
00:40:26,100 --> 00:40:28,940
and they can work 24 hours a day, everyday.

795
00:40:29,100 --> 00:40:31,700
The output potential and accuracy

796
00:40:31,699 --> 00:40:34,460
compared to human labor, is unmatched.

797
00:40:35,100 --> 00:40:38,780
The bottom line: repetitive human labor is becoming obsolete

798
00:40:38,779 --> 00:40:40,979
and impractical across the world

799
00:40:40,979 --> 00:40:43,739
and the unemployment you see around you today

800
00:40:43,739 --> 00:40:46,300
is fundamentally the result of this

801
00:40:46,300 --> 00:40:49,140
evolution of efficiency in technology.

802
00:40:49,539 --> 00:40:53,220
For years, market economists have dismissed this growing pattern

803
00:40:53,260 --> 00:40:56,500
which could be called “Technological Unemployment”

804
00:40:56,500 --> 00:40:59,340
because of the fact that new sectors always seemed

805
00:40:59,340 --> 00:41:02,140
to emerge to re-absorb the displaced workers.

806
00:41:02,380 --> 00:41:05,539
Today, the service sector is the only real hub left

807
00:41:05,619 --> 00:41:09,340
and currently employs over 80% of the American workforce

808
00:41:09,340 --> 00:41:13,460
with most industrialized countries maintaining a similar proportion.

809
00:41:13,539 --> 00:41:15,659
However, this sector now being

810
00:41:15,659 --> 00:41:18,619
challenged increasingly by automated kiosks-

811
00:41:18,739 --> 00:41:22,460
automated restaurants and even automated stores.

812
00:41:22,579 --> 00:41:24,300
Economists today are finally

813
00:41:24,300 --> 00:41:26,940
acknowledging what they had been denying for years:

814
00:41:26,979 --> 00:41:30,979
not only is technological unemployment exasperating the current

815
00:41:30,979 --> 00:41:32,979
labor crisis we see across the

816
00:41:32,979 --> 00:41:35,699
world due to the global economic downturn

817
00:41:35,739 --> 00:41:37,979
but the more the recession deepens

818
00:41:37,979 --> 00:41:40,459
the faster the industries are mechanizing.

819
00:41:40,659 --> 00:41:42,579
The catch, which is not realized

820
00:41:42,619 --> 00:41:45,500
is that the faster they mechanize to save money;

821
00:41:45,500 --> 00:41:47,220
the more they displace people-

822
00:41:47,260 --> 00:41:50,380
the more they reduce public purchasing power.

823
00:41:50,500 --> 00:41:52,380
This means that, while the corporation

824
00:41:52,380 --> 00:41:54,180
can produce everything more cheaply

825
00:41:54,220 --> 00:41:57,740
fewer and fewer people will actually have money to buy anything

826
00:41:57,899 --> 00:42:00,460
regardless of how cheap they become.

827
00:42:00,539 --> 00:42:03,300
The bottom line is that the “labor for

828
00:42:03,300 --> 00:42:06,140
income” game is slowly coming to an end.

829
00:42:06,260 --> 00:42:08,699
In fact, if you take a moment to reflect

830
00:42:08,699 --> 00:42:11,099
on the jobs which are in existence today

831
00:42:11,100 --> 00:42:14,820
which automation could take over right now, if applied

832
00:42:15,020 --> 00:42:17,900
75% of the global workforce could be

833
00:42:17,899 --> 00:42:20,619
replaced by mechanization tomorrow.

834
00:42:21,060 --> 00:42:24,380
And this is why, in a Resource-Based Economy

835
00:42:24,380 --> 00:42:27,060
There is no Monetary-Market system.

836
00:42:27,140 --> 00:42:29,260
No money at all...

837
00:42:29,380 --> 00:42:30,900
for there is no need.

838
00:42:30,899 --> 00:42:32,579
a Resource-Based Economy

839
00:42:32,579 --> 00:42:35,340
recognizes the efficiency of mechanization

840
00:42:35,340 --> 00:42:37,300
and accepts it for what it offers.

841
00:42:37,300 --> 00:42:39,980
It doesn't fight it, like we do today.

842
00:42:40,060 --> 00:42:42,620
Why? Because it is irresponsible not to

843
00:42:42,619 --> 00:42:46,539
given any interest in efficiency and sustainability.

844
00:42:47,739 --> 00:42:50,500
And this brings us back to our city system.

845
00:42:50,659 --> 00:42:52,819
In the center is the Central Dome

846
00:42:52,819 --> 00:42:54,539
which not only houses the

847
00:42:54,539 --> 00:42:57,019
educational facilities and transportation hub-

848
00:42:57,140 --> 00:42:59,340
it also hosts the mainframe that

849
00:42:59,340 --> 00:43:01,779
runs the cities technical operations.

850
00:43:01,899 --> 00:43:05,219
The city is, in fact, one big automated machine.

851
00:43:05,260 --> 00:43:07,260
It has sensors in all technical belts

852
00:43:07,260 --> 00:43:09,260
to track the progress of architecture-

853
00:43:09,300 --> 00:43:13,180
energy gathering, production, distribution and the like.

854
00:43:13,619 --> 00:43:16,140
Now, would people be needed to oversee these

855
00:43:16,140 --> 00:43:19,100
operations in the event of a malfunction and the like?

856
00:43:19,100 --> 00:43:20,539
Most probably: yes.

857
00:43:20,539 --> 00:43:22,460
But that number would decrease

858
00:43:22,460 --> 00:43:24,579
over time as improvements continue.

859
00:43:24,739 --> 00:43:26,819
However, as of today, maybe 3% of

860
00:43:26,819 --> 00:43:28,939
the city population would be needed

861
00:43:29,020 --> 00:43:31,340
for this job when you break it down.

862
00:43:31,500 --> 00:43:33,619
And I can assure you:

863
00:43:33,739 --> 00:43:35,779
that in an economic system which is

864
00:43:35,779 --> 00:43:37,899
actually designed to take care of you

865
00:43:38,020 --> 00:43:40,140
and secure your well being

866
00:43:40,180 --> 00:43:42,220
without you having to submit to

867
00:43:42,220 --> 00:43:44,780
private dictatorship on a daily basis...

868
00:43:44,819 --> 00:43:47,139
usually to a job that is either

869
00:43:47,140 --> 00:43:49,940
technically unnecessary or socially pointless

870
00:43:50,100 --> 00:43:53,140
while often struggling with debt that doesn't exist

871
00:43:53,140 --> 00:43:55,260
just to make ends meet...

872
00:43:55,300 --> 00:43:59,820
I guarantee you: people will volunteer their time left and right

873
00:43:59,939 --> 00:44:02,659
to maintain and improve a system

874
00:44:02,659 --> 00:44:05,340
that actually takes care of them.

875
00:44:06,579 --> 00:44:09,579
And coupled with this issue of 'Incentive'-

876
00:44:09,779 --> 00:44:11,699
comes the common assumption that

877
00:44:11,699 --> 00:44:13,779
if there isn't some external pressure

878
00:44:13,779 --> 00:44:16,179
for one to “work for a living”

879
00:44:16,260 --> 00:44:18,820
people would just sit around, do nothing

880
00:44:18,819 --> 00:44:21,380
and turn into fat lazy blobs.

881
00:44:21,659 --> 00:44:23,979
This is nonsense.

882
00:44:23,979 --> 00:44:26,299
The labor system we have today is

883
00:44:26,300 --> 00:44:28,579
in fact the generator of laziness-

884
00:44:28,699 --> 00:44:31,380
not a resolver of it.

885
00:44:31,579 --> 00:44:33,739
If you think back to when you were a child-

886
00:44:33,779 --> 00:44:36,819
full of life, interested in new things to understand-

887
00:44:36,899 --> 00:44:39,179
likely creating and exploring...

888
00:44:39,300 --> 00:44:42,260
but as time went on, the system pushed you

889
00:44:42,260 --> 00:44:45,619
into the focus of figuring out how to make money.

890
00:44:45,779 --> 00:44:47,460
And from early education

891
00:44:47,460 --> 00:44:50,260
to study at a university, you are narrowed.

892
00:44:50,300 --> 00:44:53,100
Only to emerge as a creature which serves

893
00:44:53,140 --> 00:44:55,700
as a cog in a wheel in a model that

894
00:44:55,699 --> 00:44:58,340
sends all the fruits to the upper 1%.

895
00:44:58,699 --> 00:45:01,939
Scientific Studies have now shown that people are, in fact

896
00:45:01,939 --> 00:45:04,500
not motivated by monetary reward

897
00:45:04,619 --> 00:45:07,180
when it comes to ingenuity and creation.

898
00:45:07,300 --> 00:45:09,980
The creation itself is the reward.

899
00:45:10,180 --> 00:45:13,100
Money, in fact, appears only to serve as an incentive

900
00:45:13,100 --> 00:45:15,740
for repetitive, mundane actions-

901
00:45:15,739 --> 00:45:19,859
a role we have just now shown can be replaced by machine.

902
00:45:19,939 --> 00:45:21,859
When it comes to innovation

903
00:45:21,859 --> 00:45:24,059
the actual use of the human mind

904
00:45:24,260 --> 00:45:27,060
the monetary incentive has proven to be a hindrance

905
00:45:27,100 --> 00:45:30,620
interfering and detracting from creative thought.

906
00:45:30,699 --> 00:45:33,779
And this might explain why Nikola Tesla, the Wright Brothers

907
00:45:33,819 --> 00:45:36,340
and other inventors who contributed massively

908
00:45:36,340 --> 00:45:37,659
to our current world

909
00:45:37,699 --> 00:45:41,059
never showed a monetary incentive to do so.

910
00:45:41,180 --> 00:45:44,780
Money is, in fact, a false incentive

911
00:45:44,859 --> 00:45:47,619
and causes 100 times more distortion

912
00:45:47,619 --> 00:45:49,979
than it does contribution.

913
00:45:51,619 --> 00:45:54,260
Good morning class. Please settle down.

914
00:45:54,300 --> 00:45:57,420
The first thing I would like to do is go around the room

915
00:45:57,500 --> 00:46:01,180
and ask what everyone would like to be when they grow up.

916
00:46:01,260 --> 00:46:03,500
Who would like to go first?

917
00:46:03,539 --> 00:46:05,859
Okay, how about you Sarah?

918
00:46:05,939 --> 00:46:10,339
When I grow up I want to work at McDonald's like my mom!

919
00:46:10,420 --> 00:46:13,180
Oh, family tradition, eh?

920
00:46:13,180 --> 00:46:15,140
How about you, Linda?

921
00:46:15,260 --> 00:46:17,579
When I grow up, I'm going to be a

922
00:46:17,579 --> 00:46:20,500
prostitute on the streets of New York City!

923
00:46:20,659 --> 00:46:22,579
Oh! glamour girl, huh?

924
00:46:22,659 --> 00:46:24,500
Very ambitious.

925
00:46:24,619 --> 00:46:26,300
How about you, Tommy?

926
00:46:26,420 --> 00:46:28,500
When I grow up, I'm going to be a

927
00:46:28,500 --> 00:46:30,579
rich, elitist businessman who works

928
00:46:30,579 --> 00:46:32,619
on Wall Street and profits off of

929
00:46:32,619 --> 00:46:34,699
the collapse of foreign economies.

930
00:46:34,699 --> 00:46:35,939
Enterprising...

931
00:46:35,979 --> 00:46:39,859
And great to see some multicultural interest!

932
00:46:41,739 --> 00:46:43,059
[Victims of Culture]

933
00:46:43,260 --> 00:46:45,579
As stated before, a Resource-Based

934
00:46:45,579 --> 00:46:49,500
Economy applies the Scientific Method to social concern

935
00:46:49,579 --> 00:46:52,779
and this isn't limited to simply technical efficiency.

936
00:46:53,020 --> 00:46:55,060
It also has the consideration of

937
00:46:55,060 --> 00:46:58,980
human and social well-being directly and what comprises it.

938
00:46:59,100 --> 00:47:01,980
What good is a social system if, in the end

939
00:47:01,979 --> 00:47:05,419
it doesn't produce happiness and peaceful coexistence?

940
00:47:05,460 --> 00:47:07,579
So, it is important to point out that

941
00:47:07,579 --> 00:47:09,539
with the removal of the money system

942
00:47:09,579 --> 00:47:12,059
and the necessities of life provided

943
00:47:12,060 --> 00:47:14,580
we would see a global reduction in

944
00:47:14,579 --> 00:47:17,699
crime by about 95% almost immediately

945
00:47:17,739 --> 00:47:21,420
for there is nothing to steal, embezzle, scam, or the like.

946
00:47:21,539 --> 00:47:24,460
95% of all people in prisons today are there

947
00:47:24,460 --> 00:47:27,659
due to some monetary related crime or drug abuse

948
00:47:27,899 --> 00:47:32,059
and drug abuse is a disorder - not a crime.

949
00:47:32,819 --> 00:47:34,699
So what about the other 5%?

950
00:47:34,739 --> 00:47:36,420
the truly violent...

951
00:47:36,539 --> 00:47:38,380
often seeming to some as being

952
00:47:38,380 --> 00:47:40,659
violent for the sake of being violent...

953
00:47:40,739 --> 00:47:44,099
are they just “evil” people?

954
00:47:44,579 --> 00:47:49,779
The reason that I frankly think it's a waste of time

955
00:47:49,939 --> 00:47:53,259
to engage in moral value judgments

956
00:47:53,340 --> 00:47:56,060
about people's violence is

957
00:47:56,060 --> 00:47:59,820
because it doesn't advance by one iota

958
00:47:59,979 --> 00:48:03,099
our understanding of either the causes

959
00:48:03,180 --> 00:48:07,100
or the prevention of the violent behavior.

960
00:48:07,260 --> 00:48:11,539
People sometimes ask if I believe in “forgiving” criminals.

961
00:48:11,859 --> 00:48:13,779
My answer to that is

962
00:48:13,819 --> 00:48:16,739
“No, I don't believe in forgiveness

963
00:48:16,739 --> 00:48:19,739
anymore than I believe in condemnation”.

964
00:48:19,739 --> 00:48:22,460
It's only if we, as a society

965
00:48:22,500 --> 00:48:25,859
can take the same attitude of treating violence as

966
00:48:25,859 --> 00:48:29,179
a problem in public health and preventive medicine

967
00:48:29,260 --> 00:48:32,260
rather than as a moral "evil"...

968
00:48:32,380 --> 00:48:35,100
it's only when we make that change in our

969
00:48:35,100 --> 00:48:37,700
own attitudes and assumptions and values

970
00:48:37,819 --> 00:48:41,019
that we will actually succeed in reducing the

971
00:48:41,020 --> 00:48:44,140
level of violence rather than stimulating it-

972
00:48:44,180 --> 00:48:46,100
which is what we do now.

973
00:48:46,460 --> 00:48:49,420
The more justice you seek, the more hurt you become

974
00:48:49,460 --> 00:48:51,340
because there's no such thing as justice.

975
00:48:51,460 --> 00:48:55,579
There is whatever there is out there. That's it.

976
00:48:55,659 --> 00:48:59,579
In other words, if people are conditioned to be racist bigots-

977
00:48:59,579 --> 00:49:02,699
if they are brought up in an environment that advocates that

978
00:49:02,699 --> 00:49:04,500
why do you blame the person for it?

979
00:49:04,500 --> 00:49:07,659
They are a victim of a subculture.

980
00:49:07,739 --> 00:49:09,699
Therefore they have to be helped.

981
00:49:09,779 --> 00:49:13,139
The point is, we have to redesign the environment

982
00:49:13,180 --> 00:49:15,740
that produces aberrant behavior.

983
00:49:15,739 --> 00:49:16,779
That's the problem.

984
00:49:16,899 --> 00:49:18,699
Not putting a person in jail.

985
00:49:19,100 --> 00:49:22,020
That's why judges- lawyers-

986
00:49:22,020 --> 00:49:24,740
“freedom of choice” - such concepts

987
00:49:24,739 --> 00:49:29,139
are dangerous, because it gives you mis-information.

988
00:49:29,220 --> 00:49:32,860
That the person is “bad”... or that person is a “serial killer”.

989
00:49:32,939 --> 00:49:34,739
Serial killers are made

990
00:49:34,739 --> 00:49:39,539
just like soldiers become serial killers with a machine gun.

991
00:49:39,779 --> 00:49:42,300
They become killing machines, but nobody

992
00:49:42,300 --> 00:49:44,779
looks at them as murderers or assassins

993
00:49:44,859 --> 00:49:46,739
because that's “natural”.

994
00:49:46,939 --> 00:49:48,659
So we blame people.

995
00:49:48,739 --> 00:49:51,699
We say, “Well, this guy was a Nazi - he tortured Jews”.

996
00:49:51,699 --> 00:49:54,779
No, he was brought up to torture Jews.

997
00:49:54,819 --> 00:49:57,420
Once you accept the fact that people

998
00:49:57,420 --> 00:50:00,260
have individual choices and they are free

999
00:50:00,260 --> 00:50:02,780
to make those choices... Free to make

1000
00:50:02,779 --> 00:50:05,300
choices means without being influenced

1001
00:50:05,340 --> 00:50:07,619
and I can't understand that at all.

1002
00:50:07,699 --> 00:50:11,460
All of us are influenced in all of our choices

1003
00:50:11,500 --> 00:50:14,500
by the culture we live in, by our parents

1004
00:50:14,539 --> 00:50:16,659
and by the values that dominate.

1005
00:50:16,739 --> 00:50:20,340
So, we're influenced- so there can't be “free” choices.

1006
00:50:20,420 --> 00:50:23,020
What's the greatest country in the world?' - the true answer:

1007
00:50:23,020 --> 00:50:25,580
I haven't been all over the world and I don't know

1008
00:50:25,619 --> 00:50:29,460
enough about different cultures to answer that question.'

1009
00:50:29,699 --> 00:50:31,899
I don't know anybody that speaks that way.

1010
00:50:31,899 --> 00:50:34,259
They say 'it's the good old USA!

1011
00:50:34,260 --> 00:50:35,739
the greatest country in the world!'

1012
00:50:35,739 --> 00:50:38,139
There is no survey... 'Have you been to India?' - 'No.'

1013
00:50:38,180 --> 00:50:39,579
Have you been to England?' - 'No.'

1014
00:50:39,579 --> 00:50:41,100
Have you been to France?' - 'No.'

1015
00:50:41,100 --> 00:50:43,020
Then what do you make your assumptions on?'

1016
00:50:43,020 --> 00:50:45,300
They can't answer- they get mad at you.

1017
00:50:45,340 --> 00:50:46,980
They say, 'God dammit! Who the hell

1018
00:50:46,979 --> 00:50:49,059
are you to tell me what to think?!'

1019
00:50:49,220 --> 00:50:51,740
You know... Don't forget: you're dealing with aberrated people.

1020
00:50:51,819 --> 00:50:54,380
They are not responsible for the answers;

1021
00:50:54,380 --> 00:50:57,300
they're victims of culture and that means

1022
00:50:57,340 --> 00:51:00,260
they have been influenced by their culture.

1023
00:51:18,699 --> 00:51:25,539
[Part 4: Rise]

1024
00:51:27,460 --> 00:51:29,579
When we consider a Resource-Based Economy

1025
00:51:29,579 --> 00:51:32,819
there are often a number of arguments that tend to come up with...

1026
00:51:32,859 --> 00:51:34,339
[EH!] (Interrupted)

1027
00:51:34,340 --> 00:51:36,180
[Eh! Hey!]

1028
00:51:36,180 --> 00:51:38,740
[Now hold on just a minute!]

1029
00:51:38,819 --> 00:51:43,059
[I know what this is. This is called Marxism, buddy.]

1030
00:51:43,220 --> 00:51:47,780
[Stalin killed 800 billion people because of ideas like this...]

1031
00:51:47,819 --> 00:51:51,299
[My father died in the Gulag!]

1032
00:51:51,300 --> 00:51:53,739
[Communist! Fascist!]

1033
00:51:53,819 --> 00:51:55,219
[You don't like America you should just leave!]

1034
00:51:55,220 --> 00:51:56,780
All right, everybody just calm down...

1035
00:51:56,859 --> 00:51:58,819
[Death to the New World Order!]

1036
00:51:58,819 --> 00:52:00,659
[Death to the New World Order!]

1037
00:52:00,699 --> 00:52:02,619
And as the irrationality of the

1038
00:52:02,619 --> 00:52:04,739
audience grew, shocked and confused:

1039
00:52:04,739 --> 00:52:07,739
suddenly the narrator suffered a fatal heart attack.'

1040
00:52:09,060 --> 00:52:14,539
And the seemingly communist propaganda film was no more.

1041
00:52:15,460 --> 00:52:18,500
[System Error]

1042
00:52:20,260 --> 00:52:22,579
[Backup Initiated - Restored]

1043
00:52:23,180 --> 00:52:26,060
But you know, I've said that sort of thing to people

1044
00:52:26,060 --> 00:52:28,700
in 'think tank' type situations

1045
00:52:28,699 --> 00:52:32,619
you know these Club of Rome types and so forth...

1046
00:52:32,619 --> 00:52:34,140
they say ”Marxist!”

1047
00:52:34,180 --> 00:52:36,100
What? Marxist? Where did that come from?

1048
00:52:36,140 --> 00:52:39,900
They just got this icon they hold onto-

1049
00:52:39,899 --> 00:52:42,299
It's their Holy Grail

1050
00:52:42,300 --> 00:52:44,260
and it's such an easy one, you know.

1051
00:52:44,260 --> 00:52:47,739
People ask if I'm a Socialist or a Communist or Capitalist

1052
00:52:47,739 --> 00:52:50,059
I say I am none of the above. Why do you

1053
00:52:50,060 --> 00:52:52,260
think that those are the only options?

1054
00:52:52,340 --> 00:52:54,460
All of those political constructs

1055
00:52:54,460 --> 00:52:56,619
were created by writers who assumed

1056
00:52:56,699 --> 00:52:59,460
we lived on a planet of infinite resources.

1057
00:52:59,579 --> 00:53:02,500
Not one of those political philosophies even

1058
00:53:02,500 --> 00:53:06,140
contemplates that there might be a shortage of anything.

1059
00:53:06,180 --> 00:53:10,500
I believe that communism, socialism, free enterprise, fascism

1060
00:53:10,500 --> 00:53:13,220
are part of social evolution.

1061
00:53:13,220 --> 00:53:15,539
You can't take a giant step

1062
00:53:15,579 --> 00:53:17,420
from one culture to another-

1063
00:53:17,460 --> 00:53:19,300
there are in-between systems.

1064
00:53:19,300 --> 00:53:21,420
Before there's any “Ism”, we have a life ground

1065
00:53:21,420 --> 00:53:23,380
and the life ground is as I've just described

1066
00:53:23,380 --> 00:53:25,260
most easily as all the conditions

1067
00:53:25,260 --> 00:53:26,980
required to take your next breath

1068
00:53:26,979 --> 00:53:29,379
and that involves the air you breathe

1069
00:53:29,380 --> 00:53:32,500
the water you get, the safety you have

1070
00:53:32,500 --> 00:53:34,619
the education you can access- all

1071
00:53:34,619 --> 00:53:37,340
these things that we share and use and that

1072
00:53:37,340 --> 00:53:40,659
no life, in any culture, can do without.

1073
00:53:40,659 --> 00:53:44,380
So we've got to reset down to the Life Ground

1074
00:53:44,380 --> 00:53:47,100
and the life ground is no longer any “Ism”.

1075
00:53:47,100 --> 00:53:50,020
It's “life value analysis.”

1076
00:53:51,060 --> 00:53:52,980
[Beyond The Pale]

1077
00:53:53,180 --> 00:53:55,700
It's simply a matter of historical fact

1078
00:53:55,699 --> 00:53:58,139
that the dominant intellectual culture

1079
00:53:58,140 --> 00:54:00,460
of any particular society reflects the

1080
00:54:00,460 --> 00:54:03,380
interests of the dominant group in that society.

1081
00:54:03,500 --> 00:54:05,460
In a slave owning society

1082
00:54:05,500 --> 00:54:08,619
the beliefs about human beings and human rights

1083
00:54:08,619 --> 00:54:12,059
and so on will reflect the needs of the slave owners.

1084
00:54:12,100 --> 00:54:14,900
In the society, again, which is based on

1085
00:54:14,899 --> 00:54:20,019
the power of certain people to control and profit from

1086
00:54:20,020 --> 00:54:23,180
the lives and work of millions of others

1087
00:54:23,260 --> 00:54:25,619
the dominant intellectual culture will

1088
00:54:25,619 --> 00:54:28,059
reflect the needs of the dominant group.

1089
00:54:28,100 --> 00:54:31,700
So, if you look across the board, the

1090
00:54:31,699 --> 00:54:34,739
ideas that pervade psychology and

1091
00:54:34,739 --> 00:54:37,739
sociology and history

1092
00:54:37,739 --> 00:54:40,380
and political economy and political science

1093
00:54:40,380 --> 00:54:44,100
fundamentally reflect certain elite interests.

1094
00:54:44,100 --> 00:54:47,820
And the academics who question that too much

1095
00:54:47,819 --> 00:54:50,539
tend to get shunted to the side or

1096
00:54:50,539 --> 00:54:53,180
to be seen as sort of “radicals”.

1097
00:54:53,180 --> 00:54:55,260
The dominant values of a culture

1098
00:54:55,260 --> 00:54:57,340
tend to support and perpetuate

1099
00:54:57,340 --> 00:54:59,500
what is rewarded by that culture.

1100
00:54:59,619 --> 00:55:01,739
And in a society where success and

1101
00:55:01,739 --> 00:55:04,099
status is measured by material wealth

1102
00:55:04,140 --> 00:55:06,260
- not social contribution -

1103
00:55:06,340 --> 00:55:11,060
it is easy to see why the state of the world is what it is today.

1104
00:55:11,060 --> 00:55:13,860
We are dealing with a value system disorder

1105
00:55:13,899 --> 00:55:15,659
- completely denatured -

1106
00:55:15,699 --> 00:55:18,340
where the priority of personal and social health

1107
00:55:18,340 --> 00:55:21,100
have become secondary to the detrimental

1108
00:55:21,100 --> 00:55:24,460
notions of artificial wealth and limitless growth.

1109
00:55:24,579 --> 00:55:26,939
And, like a virus, this disorder now

1110
00:55:26,939 --> 00:55:29,259
permeates every facet of government

1111
00:55:29,300 --> 00:55:33,340
- news media - entertainment - and even academia.

1112
00:55:33,340 --> 00:55:35,260
And built into its structure

1113
00:55:35,300 --> 00:55:37,380
are mechanisms of protection

1114
00:55:37,380 --> 00:55:39,900
from anything that might interfere.

1115
00:55:39,939 --> 00:55:42,579
Disciples of the Monetary-Market religion

1116
00:55:42,579 --> 00:55:45,700
the Self-Appointed Guardians of the Status Quo

1117
00:55:45,700 --> 00:55:49,500
constantly seek out ways to avoid any form of thought

1118
00:55:49,620 --> 00:55:52,020
which might interfere with their beliefs.

1119
00:55:52,020 --> 00:55:56,180
The most common of which: are Projected Dualities.

1120
00:55:56,180 --> 00:55:59,020
If you're not a Republican, you must be a Democrat.

1121
00:55:59,059 --> 00:56:02,139
If you are not Christian, you might be a Satanist

1122
00:56:02,180 --> 00:56:04,739
and if you feel society can be greatly improved

1123
00:56:04,739 --> 00:56:06,659
to consider, perhaps - I don't know-

1124
00:56:06,659 --> 00:56:08,619
taking care of everyone?

1125
00:56:08,659 --> 00:56:10,819
you're just a “Utopianist”.

1126
00:56:10,899 --> 00:56:13,100
And the most insidious of them all:

1127
00:56:13,139 --> 00:56:15,539
if you are not for the "free-market"

1128
00:56:15,540 --> 00:56:18,260
you must be against freedom itself.

1129
00:56:18,340 --> 00:56:20,420
I'm a believer in freedom!

1130
00:56:20,540 --> 00:56:22,300
Every time you hear the word freedom

1131
00:56:22,299 --> 00:56:24,500
being said anywhere or government interference

1132
00:56:24,500 --> 00:56:29,020
said anywhere, it means, decoded:

1133
00:56:29,219 --> 00:56:32,819
blocking maximization of turning money

1134
00:56:32,819 --> 00:56:36,899
into more money for private money possessors.

1135
00:56:37,059 --> 00:56:39,019
That's it. Every other thing they'll say:

1136
00:56:39,020 --> 00:56:40,940
'Oh, we need more commodities for people';

1137
00:56:40,979 --> 00:56:45,100
'Oh, this is freedom against tyranny' and so forth

1138
00:56:45,139 --> 00:56:47,859
every time you see it, you can decode it down to

1139
00:56:47,860 --> 00:56:50,700
that and I think you'll find a one-to-one correlation

1140
00:56:50,700 --> 00:56:52,140
with every time they use it.

1141
00:56:52,139 --> 00:56:55,180
And this, in a sense, we might call:

1142
00:56:55,180 --> 00:57:00,180
a Syntax. A governing syntax of understanding and of value.

1143
00:57:00,180 --> 00:57:03,300
So, it governs beneath their own recognition of it

1144
00:57:03,299 --> 00:57:05,739
so they might say: 'Oh, I didn't mean that at all!'

1145
00:57:05,739 --> 00:57:07,659
but in fact, that's what they do.

1146
00:57:07,659 --> 00:57:09,579
Just like you may speak a grammar

1147
00:57:09,700 --> 00:57:11,780
and you have rules of grammar you follow

1148
00:57:11,780 --> 00:57:13,860
without recognizing what the rules are...

1149
00:57:13,860 --> 00:57:17,900
and so what we have is what I call the “Ruling Value Syntax”

1150
00:57:17,899 --> 00:57:21,219
that underlies this. So, every time they use these words:

1151
00:57:21,219 --> 00:57:24,699
government interference'; 'lack of freedom' or 'freedom'

1152
00:57:24,700 --> 00:57:27,300
or 'progress' or 'development'

1153
00:57:27,299 --> 00:57:32,259
you can decode them all to come back to mean that.

1154
00:57:32,459 --> 00:57:35,139
Of course, when you hear the word 'freedom'

1155
00:57:35,139 --> 00:57:37,299
it tends to be in same sentence

1156
00:57:37,299 --> 00:57:39,699
with something called 'democracy'.

1157
00:57:39,739 --> 00:57:42,659
It's fascinating how people today seem to believe

1158
00:57:42,659 --> 00:57:44,819
that they actually have a relevant

1159
00:57:44,819 --> 00:57:47,180
influence on what their government does

1160
00:57:47,180 --> 00:57:49,700
forgetting that the very nature of

1161
00:57:49,700 --> 00:57:52,380
our system offers everything for sale.

1162
00:57:52,379 --> 00:57:55,179
The only vote that counts is the monetary vote

1163
00:57:55,180 --> 00:57:57,300
and it doesn't matter how much any

1164
00:57:57,299 --> 00:58:00,179
activist yells about ethics and accountability.

1165
00:58:00,180 --> 00:58:04,139
In a market system, every politician, every legislation

1166
00:58:04,219 --> 00:58:07,420
and hence, every government is for sale.

1167
00:58:07,500 --> 00:58:11,020
And even with the 20 trillion dollar bank bailouts

1168
00:58:11,020 --> 00:58:13,140
starting in 2007

1169
00:58:13,139 --> 00:58:15,899
an amount of money which could have changed

1170
00:58:15,899 --> 00:58:18,139
say, the global energy infrastructure

1171
00:58:18,139 --> 00:58:19,899
to fully renewable methods

1172
00:58:19,940 --> 00:58:22,260
instead going to a series of institutions

1173
00:58:22,260 --> 00:58:24,460
that literally do nothing to help society

1174
00:58:24,500 --> 00:58:26,379
institutions that could be

1175
00:58:26,379 --> 00:58:29,099
removed tomorrow with no recourse...

1176
00:58:29,100 --> 00:58:31,979
the blind conditioning that politics and

1177
00:58:31,979 --> 00:58:37,500
politicians exist for the public well-being still continues.

1178
00:58:37,500 --> 00:58:40,579
The fact is, politics is a business

1179
00:58:40,620 --> 00:58:43,579
- no different than any other in a market system

1180
00:58:43,579 --> 00:58:47,700
and they care about their self-interest before anything else.

1181
00:58:47,899 --> 00:58:52,180
I don't really, honestly, deep down believe in political action.

1182
00:58:52,180 --> 00:58:55,420
I think the system contracts and expands as it wants to.

1183
00:58:55,420 --> 00:58:57,219
It accommodates these changes.

1184
00:58:57,219 --> 00:58:59,699
I think the civil rights movement was an accommodation

1185
00:58:59,700 --> 00:59:01,780
on the part of those who own the country.

1186
00:59:01,780 --> 00:59:04,540
I think they see where their self-interest lies;

1187
00:59:04,620 --> 00:59:07,380
they see a certain amount of freedom seems good

1188
00:59:07,379 --> 00:59:10,500
-an illusion of liberty- give these people a voting day every year

1189
00:59:10,579 --> 00:59:13,620
so that they will have the illusion of meaningless choice.

1190
00:59:13,620 --> 00:59:17,020
Meaningless choice- that we go, like slaves and say

1191
00:59:17,059 --> 00:59:20,579
“Oh, I Voted.” The limits of debate in this country are established

1192
00:59:20,579 --> 00:59:22,539
before the debate even begins and everyone

1193
00:59:22,540 --> 00:59:24,540
else is marginalized and made to seem either

1194
00:59:24,540 --> 00:59:27,260
to be communist or some sort of disloyal person

1195
00:59:27,260 --> 00:59:29,059
-a “kook”- there's a word...

1196
00:59:29,059 --> 00:59:31,379
and now it's “conspiracy”. See- they made that.

1197
00:59:31,379 --> 00:59:34,379
Something that should not be even entertained for a minute:

1198
00:59:34,420 --> 00:59:37,500
that powerful people might get together and have a plan!

1199
00:59:37,579 --> 00:59:42,539
Doesn't happen! You're a “kook”! Your a “conspiracy buff”!

1200
00:59:43,139 --> 00:59:46,500
And of all the mechanisms of defense of this system

1201
00:59:46,620 --> 00:59:49,380
there are two that repeatedly come up.

1202
00:59:49,620 --> 00:59:53,180
The first is this idea that the system has been the “cause”

1203
00:59:53,219 --> 00:59:56,539
of the material progress we have seen on this planet.

1204
00:59:56,620 --> 00:59:58,540
Well...No.

1205
00:59:58,659 --> 01:00:01,299
There are basically two root causes which

1206
01:00:01,299 --> 01:00:04,139
have created the increased so-called “wealth”

1207
01:00:04,180 --> 01:00:06,899
and population growth we see today.

1208
01:00:07,020 --> 01:00:10,940
One: the exponential advancement of production technology;

1209
01:00:10,940 --> 01:00:13,460
hence scientific ingenuity.

1210
01:00:13,459 --> 01:00:18,259
And Two: the initial discovery of abundant hydrocarbon energy

1211
01:00:18,340 --> 01:00:22,860
-which is currently the foundation of the entire socio-economic system.

1212
01:00:22,979 --> 01:00:24,939
The free-market / capitalist / monetary

1213
01:00:24,940 --> 01:00:27,060
market system - whatever you want to call it -

1214
01:00:27,100 --> 01:00:30,700
has done nothing but ride the wave of these advents

1215
01:00:30,700 --> 01:00:34,220
with a distorted incentive system and a haphazard

1216
01:00:34,219 --> 01:00:39,739
grossly unequal method of utilizing and distributing those fruits.

1217
01:00:39,940 --> 01:00:43,340
The second defense is a belligerent social bias

1218
01:00:43,340 --> 01:00:45,659
generated from years of propaganda

1219
01:00:45,739 --> 01:00:48,299
which sees any other social system

1220
01:00:48,299 --> 01:00:50,739
as a route to so called "tyranny”

1221
01:00:50,819 --> 01:00:54,379
with various name droppings of Stalin, Mao, Hitler...

1222
01:00:54,379 --> 01:00:56,619
and the death tolls they generated.

1223
01:00:56,620 --> 01:00:59,660
Well, as despotic as these men might have been

1224
01:00:59,659 --> 01:01:03,059
along with the societal approaches they perpetuated...

1225
01:01:03,100 --> 01:01:05,220
when it comes to the game of death

1226
01:01:05,299 --> 01:01:07,420
- when comes to the systematic

1227
01:01:07,420 --> 01:01:09,659
daily mass murder of human beings -

1228
01:01:09,739 --> 01:01:14,180
Nothing in history compares to what we have today.

1229
01:01:14,420 --> 01:01:19,739
Famines - throughout at least the last century of our history

1230
01:01:19,819 --> 01:01:22,379
have not been caused by a lack of food.

1231
01:01:22,420 --> 01:01:25,500
They have been caused by relative poverty.

1232
01:01:25,620 --> 01:01:29,940
The economic resources were so inequitably distributed

1233
01:01:29,979 --> 01:01:33,219
that the poor simply didn't have enough money

1234
01:01:33,260 --> 01:01:35,899
with which to buy the food that would've been

1235
01:01:35,899 --> 01:01:38,859
available if they could have afforded to pay for it.

1236
01:01:39,059 --> 01:01:41,859
That would be an example of Structural Violence.

1237
01:01:41,860 --> 01:01:46,460
Another example: in Africa and other areas-

1238
01:01:46,459 --> 01:01:49,059
I'll particularly focus on Africa-

1239
01:01:49,059 --> 01:01:52,139
tens of millions of people are dying of AIDS.

1240
01:01:52,139 --> 01:01:54,059
Why are they dying?

1241
01:01:54,139 --> 01:01:56,739
It's not because we don't know how to treat AIDS.

1242
01:01:56,819 --> 01:02:00,619
We have millions of people in the wealthy countries

1243
01:02:00,780 --> 01:02:04,100
getting along remarkably well because

1244
01:02:04,340 --> 01:02:06,659
they have the medicines that will treat it.

1245
01:02:06,659 --> 01:02:09,659
The people in Africa who are dying of AIDS

1246
01:02:09,659 --> 01:02:12,579
are not dying because of the HIV virus...

1247
01:02:12,579 --> 01:02:15,500
they are dying because they don't have the money with

1248
01:02:15,500 --> 01:02:18,420
which to pay for the drugs that would keep them alive.

1249
01:02:18,620 --> 01:02:20,460
Gandhi saw this. He said:

1250
01:02:20,540 --> 01:02:25,580
“The deadliest form of violence is poverty.”

1251
01:02:25,739 --> 01:02:27,459
And that's absolutely right.

1252
01:02:27,579 --> 01:02:32,459
Poverty kills far more people than all the wars in history;

1253
01:02:32,579 --> 01:02:35,020
more people than all the murderers in history;

1254
01:02:35,020 --> 01:02:38,060
more than all the suicides in history...

1255
01:02:38,059 --> 01:02:41,579
not only does Structural Violence kill more people

1256
01:02:41,659 --> 01:02:44,700
than all the behavioral violence put together

1257
01:02:44,860 --> 01:02:47,659
Structural Violence is also the

1258
01:02:47,659 --> 01:02:50,420
main cause of behavioral violence.

1259
01:02:52,340 --> 01:02:55,180
[Beyond the Peak]

1260
01:02:56,139 --> 01:03:00,139
Oil is the foundation of

1261
01:03:00,659 --> 01:03:04,979
and is present throughout, the edifice of human civilization.

1262
01:03:04,979 --> 01:03:09,139
There are 10 calories of hydrocarbon energy –oil and natural gas–

1263
01:03:09,180 --> 01:03:13,300
in every calorie of food you and I eat in the industrialized world.

1264
01:03:13,379 --> 01:03:16,099
Fertilizers are made from natural gas.

1265
01:03:16,100 --> 01:03:18,140
Pesticides are made from oil.

1266
01:03:18,260 --> 01:03:21,059
You drive oil-powered machines to plant - plow - irrigate – harvest

1267
01:03:21,059 --> 01:03:23,539
transport - package. You wrap the food

1268
01:03:23,540 --> 01:03:26,180
in plastic – that's oil. All plastic is oil.

1269
01:03:26,299 --> 01:03:28,899
There are 7 gallons of oil in every tire.

1270
01:03:28,940 --> 01:03:32,100
Oil is everywhere; it's ubiquitous. And it's only because

1271
01:03:32,100 --> 01:03:34,420
of oil that there are 7 billion people or

1272
01:03:34,459 --> 01:03:37,099
almost 7 billion people on this planet right now.

1273
01:03:37,420 --> 01:03:39,659
The arrival of this cheap and easy energy

1274
01:03:39,700 --> 01:03:41,780
which is equivalent, by the way, to

1275
01:03:41,780 --> 01:03:45,420
billions of slaves working around the clock

1276
01:03:45,659 --> 01:03:49,459
changed the world in such a radical way over the last century

1277
01:03:49,540 --> 01:03:52,860
and the population has gone up 10 times.

1278
01:03:52,860 --> 01:03:57,060
But, by 2050, oil supply is able to support

1279
01:03:57,219 --> 01:03:59,340
less than half the present world's

1280
01:03:59,340 --> 01:04:01,579
population in their present way of life.

1281
01:04:01,579 --> 01:04:06,739
So, the scale of adjustment to live differently is just enormous.

1282
01:04:06,780 --> 01:04:10,700
The world is now using six barrels of oil for every barrel of finds.

1283
01:04:10,700 --> 01:04:12,540
Five years ago it was using four

1284
01:04:12,540 --> 01:04:14,860
barrels of oil for every barrel it finds.

1285
01:04:14,940 --> 01:04:16,700
A year from now it is going to be using

1286
01:04:16,700 --> 01:04:18,740
eight barrels of oil for every barrel of finds.

1287
01:04:18,739 --> 01:04:20,860
What's disturbing to me is the

1288
01:04:20,940 --> 01:04:25,659
lack of any real effort from governments worldwide

1289
01:04:25,700 --> 01:04:29,380
and industry leaders worldwide to do something different.

1290
01:04:29,500 --> 01:04:33,540
We have these, sort of, attempts to build more wind power

1291
01:04:33,540 --> 01:04:36,100
and to maybe do something with Tide...

1292
01:04:36,219 --> 01:04:40,619
we've got attempts to make our cars a little bit more efficient

1293
01:04:40,700 --> 01:04:43,060
but there's nothing which really looks like a

1294
01:04:43,059 --> 01:04:45,659
revolution coming along- these are all pretty minor

1295
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and that I think is pretty frightening.

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And the governments who are driven by these economists

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01:04:51,500 --> 01:04:54,579
who don't really appreciate what we're talking about

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are trying to stimulate consumerism to restore past prosperity

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in the hope that they can restore the past.

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They're printing yet more money lacking any collateral at all.

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So, if the economy improves and

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01:05:08,180 --> 01:05:10,819
recovers and the famous growth comes back

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01:05:10,819 --> 01:05:12,979
it will only be short-lived because

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01:05:13,059 --> 01:05:16,539
within a short period of time counted in months

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01:05:16,540 --> 01:05:20,420
rather than years it will hit the supply barrier again;

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01:05:20,500 --> 01:05:22,139
there will be another price shock-

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01:05:22,180 --> 01:05:24,100
and a deeper recession. So I think

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01:05:24,100 --> 01:05:26,180
we go into a series of vicious circles

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01:05:26,180 --> 01:05:28,260
So you have the economic growth going up- price

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01:05:28,260 --> 01:05:30,620
spike- everything shuts down. That's where we are now.

1311
01:05:30,700 --> 01:05:34,260
Then it starts to come up again but what we have now is this

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01:05:34,260 --> 01:05:38,180
area where there's no more ability to produce cheap energy.

1313
01:05:38,180 --> 01:05:41,100
We're at the peak- were on the down slope of oil production.

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01:05:41,219 --> 01:05:44,859
No way you're going to get any more out of the ground any faster

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01:05:44,940 --> 01:05:48,899
which means that things shut down, the price of oil drops

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01:05:48,899 --> 01:05:54,579
which it did in early 2009 but then as you have a “recovery”

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01:05:54,579 --> 01:05:56,500
the price of oil starts to come back.

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01:05:56,500 --> 01:05:58,540
It's recently been hovering at about $80

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01:05:58,819 --> 01:06:01,100
a barrel and what we see is that at even at $80 a

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barrel now, with the financial and economic collapse

1321
01:06:03,500 --> 01:06:05,459
people are having a hard time affording that.

1322
01:06:05,459 --> 01:06:10,179
World oil production right now is about 86 million barrels a day.

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01:06:10,340 --> 01:06:13,700
Over 10 years, you're looking at

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01:06:13,819 --> 01:06:17,940
roughly 14 million barrels a day having to be replaced.

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01:06:18,139 --> 01:06:21,459
There's nothing around which can come even

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01:06:21,579 --> 01:06:24,459
within 1% of meeting that sort of demand.

1327
01:06:24,459 --> 01:06:26,899
If we don't do something pretty quickly

1328
01:06:26,979 --> 01:06:30,299
there's going to be a huge energy deficiency.

1329
01:06:30,299 --> 01:06:34,420
I think the big mistake is in not recognizing

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01:06:34,420 --> 01:06:38,340
a decade or so ago that a concerted effort

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01:06:38,379 --> 01:06:39,779
needed to be made to develop

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01:06:39,780 --> 01:06:41,460
these sustainable forms of energy.

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01:06:41,459 --> 01:06:44,939
I think that's something our grandchildren will look back on with

1334
01:06:44,979 --> 01:06:49,100
total disbelief. 'You people knew you

1335
01:06:49,100 --> 01:06:51,620
were dealing with a finite commodity...

1336
01:06:51,739 --> 01:06:54,979
how could you possibly have build your economy

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01:06:54,979 --> 01:06:58,219
around something which was going to disappear?'

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For the first time in human history

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01:07:00,579 --> 01:07:04,299
the species is now faced with the depletion of a core resource

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central to our current system of survival.

1341
01:07:07,100 --> 01:07:09,460
And the punchline of the whole thing is

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01:07:09,459 --> 01:07:11,779
that even with oil becoming more scarce

1343
01:07:11,780 --> 01:07:14,820
the economic system will still blindly push

1344
01:07:14,899 --> 01:07:16,899
its cancerous growth model...

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01:07:16,940 --> 01:07:20,100
so people can go out and buy more oil powered cars

1346
01:07:20,219 --> 01:07:25,459
to generate GDP and jobs... exasperating the decline.

1347
01:07:25,579 --> 01:07:27,659
Are there solutions to replace the

1348
01:07:27,659 --> 01:07:29,739
edifice of the hydrocarbon economy?

1349
01:07:29,739 --> 01:07:30,979
Of course.

1350
01:07:31,219 --> 01:07:33,579
But the path needed to accomplish these changes

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01:07:33,620 --> 01:07:37,980
will not manifest through the Market System Protocols required

1352
01:07:37,979 --> 01:07:40,299
since new solutions can only be

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01:07:40,340 --> 01:07:43,299
implemented through the Profit Mechanism.

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01:07:43,459 --> 01:07:46,139
People are not investing in renewable energies

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01:07:46,139 --> 01:07:49,500
because there is no money in it in both long and short term.

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01:07:49,500 --> 01:07:52,059
And the commitment needed to make it happen

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01:07:52,059 --> 01:07:55,100
can only occur at a severe financial loss.

1358
01:07:55,100 --> 01:07:58,300
Therefore, there is no monetary incentive and in this

1359
01:07:58,299 --> 01:08:02,779
system, if there is no monetary incentive, things do not happen.

1360
01:08:03,139 --> 01:08:05,420
And on top of it all, Peak Oil is

1361
01:08:05,420 --> 01:08:08,020
just one of many surfacing consequences

1362
01:08:08,059 --> 01:08:12,379
of the environmental-social train wreck gaining speed today.

1363
01:08:12,379 --> 01:08:14,699
Other declines include Fresh Water

1364
01:08:14,739 --> 01:08:16,860
-the very fabric of our existence-

1365
01:08:16,940 --> 01:08:18,579
which is currently showing

1366
01:08:18,579 --> 01:08:20,979
shortages for 2.8 billion people

1367
01:08:21,100 --> 01:08:25,620
and those shortages are on pace to reach 4 billion by 2030.

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01:08:25,860 --> 01:08:27,300
Food Production:

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01:08:27,420 --> 01:08:31,420
The destruction of arable crop land, from which

1370
01:08:31,420 --> 01:08:34,100
99.7% of all human food comes from today

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01:08:34,219 --> 01:08:38,579
is occurring up to 40 times faster than it is being replenished

1372
01:08:38,780 --> 01:08:41,300
and over the last 40 years, 30% of the

1373
01:08:41,299 --> 01:08:43,899
arable land has become unproductive.

1374
01:08:44,020 --> 01:08:47,100
Not to mention that hydrocarbons are the backbone

1375
01:08:47,100 --> 01:08:49,860
of agriculture today and as it declines...

1376
01:08:49,899 --> 01:08:52,059
so will the food supply.

1377
01:08:52,180 --> 01:08:53,899
As far as resources in general

1378
01:08:53,899 --> 01:08:57,219
at our current patterns of consumption, by 2030

1379
01:08:57,219 --> 01:09:00,539
we will need 2 planets to continue our rates.

1380
01:09:00,540 --> 01:09:02,860
Not to mention the continual destruction

1381
01:09:02,860 --> 01:09:05,380
of life supporting biodiversity

1382
01:09:05,379 --> 01:09:07,219
causing extinction spasms and

1383
01:09:07,219 --> 01:09:10,139
environmental destabilization across the globe.

1384
01:09:10,219 --> 01:09:12,139
And with all of these declines

1385
01:09:12,139 --> 01:09:14,859
we have the near exponential population growth

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01:09:14,860 --> 01:09:17,579
where by 2030 there might be over

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01:09:17,579 --> 01:09:20,139
8 billion people on this planet.

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01:09:20,299 --> 01:09:23,179
Energy production alone would need to

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01:09:23,180 --> 01:09:27,139
increase 44% by 2030 to meet such demand.

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01:09:27,139 --> 01:09:31,579
And again, since money is the only initiator of action-

1391
01:09:31,620 --> 01:09:33,620
are we to expect that any country on

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01:09:33,620 --> 01:09:35,740
the planet is going to be able to afford

1393
01:09:35,940 --> 01:09:39,340
the massive changes needed to revolutionize agriculture

1394
01:09:39,340 --> 01:09:42,540
water processing, energy production and the like?

1395
01:09:42,579 --> 01:09:44,500
When the global debt pyramid scheme is

1396
01:09:44,500 --> 01:09:47,340
slowly shutting the entire world down...

1397
01:09:47,340 --> 01:09:48,780
Not to mention the fact that

1398
01:09:48,780 --> 01:09:50,460
the unemployment you currently see

1399
01:09:50,459 --> 01:09:52,659
is going to become normality due to

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01:09:52,659 --> 01:09:55,180
the nature of technological unemployment.

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01:09:55,260 --> 01:09:57,979
The jobs are not coming back.

1402
01:09:57,979 --> 01:10:00,420
And finally, a broad social perspective.

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01:10:00,459 --> 01:10:03,339
From the 1970 to 2010, poverty on this

1404
01:10:03,340 --> 01:10:06,340
planet doubled due to this system...

1405
01:10:06,340 --> 01:10:08,139
and given our current state-

1406
01:10:08,139 --> 01:10:10,059
do you honestly think we will see

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01:10:10,100 --> 01:10:12,100
anything less than more doubling...

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01:10:12,100 --> 01:10:16,059
more suffering and more mass starvation?

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01:10:16,139 --> 01:10:17,659
[The Beginning]

1410
01:10:18,059 --> 01:10:20,659
There is not going to be any recovery.

1411
01:10:20,659 --> 01:10:22,739
This is not some long depression

1412
01:10:22,739 --> 01:10:25,219
that we're some day going to pull out of.

1413
01:10:25,340 --> 01:10:27,659
I think the next phase that we are going to see after the

1414
01:10:27,659 --> 01:10:30,420
next round of economic collapses is massive civil unrest.

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01:10:30,500 --> 01:10:32,620
When unemployment checks stop being

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01:10:32,620 --> 01:10:35,140
paid because the states have no money left.

1417
01:10:35,420 --> 01:10:39,379
And when things get so bad that people lose confidence

1418
01:10:39,420 --> 01:10:43,219
in their elected leaders, they will demand change

1419
01:10:43,299 --> 01:10:46,219
if we don't kill each other in the process

1420
01:10:46,219 --> 01:10:48,139
or destroy the environment.

1421
01:10:48,180 --> 01:10:52,780
I'm just afraid that we might get to the point of no return...

1422
01:10:52,979 --> 01:10:55,180
and that bothers me to no end.

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01:10:55,219 --> 01:10:59,379
We do all we can to avoid that condition.

1424
01:11:00,059 --> 01:11:05,859
It's clear that we're on the verge of a great transition in human life...

1425
01:11:06,219 --> 01:11:09,139
That what we face now is this fundamental

1426
01:11:09,139 --> 01:11:12,779
change of the life we've known over the last century.

1427
01:11:12,979 --> 01:11:15,899
There has to be a link between the economy and

1428
01:11:15,899 --> 01:11:17,899
the resources of this planet

1429
01:11:17,940 --> 01:11:21,300
the resources being, of course, all animal and plant life;

1430
01:11:21,299 --> 01:11:24,219
the health of the oceans and everything else.

1431
01:11:24,700 --> 01:11:27,780
This is a monetary paradigm that will not

1432
01:11:27,780 --> 01:11:31,140
let go until it's killed the last human being.

1433
01:11:32,139 --> 01:11:36,659
The "in" group will do all it can to stay in power

1434
01:11:36,739 --> 01:11:39,219
and that's what you've got to keep in mind.

1435
01:11:39,219 --> 01:11:41,859
They'll use the army and navy and lies..

1436
01:11:41,899 --> 01:11:45,299
or whatever they have to use to keep in power.

1437
01:11:45,340 --> 01:11:47,420
They're not about to give it up

1438
01:11:47,420 --> 01:11:52,540
because they don't know of any other system that will perpetuate their kind.

1439
01:12:47,979 --> 01:12:50,819
[Live from New York]

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01:13:01,780 --> 01:13:10,100
[Global Protests Shut Down World Economy]

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01:13:38,899 --> 01:13:44,219
[Saudi Arabia - Live]

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01:13:58,420 --> 01:14:00,979
[Western Crime Rates Soar]

1449
01:14:00,979 --> 01:14:03,619
[UN Declares State of Global Emergency]

1450
01:14:03,620 --> 01:14:06,300
[Global Unemployment Hits 65%]

1451
01:14:06,299 --> 01:14:09,420
[Fears of World War Continue]

1452
01:14:09,420 --> 01:14:11,979
[Debt Collapse now causing food shortages]

1453
01:16:03,819 --> 01:16:09,260
[Take it Back]

1454
01:16:39,299 --> 01:16:42,819
[While no violence has been reported as

1455
01:16:42,819 --> 01:16:46,139
the unprecedented protests continue...

1456
01:16:46,139 --> 01:16:49,539
it appears that the equivalent of trillions of dollars

1457
01:16:49,540 --> 01:16:52,700
are being systematically withdrawn from bank accounts

1458
01:16:52,700 --> 01:16:55,020
across the world and in turn..

1459
01:16:55,020 --> 01:16:58,739
evidently now being dumped in

1460
01:16:58,739 --> 01:17:02,819
front of the world's central banks.]

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01:17:58,579 --> 01:18:03,620
[THIS IS YOUR WORLD]

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01:18:06,379 --> 01:18:11,899
[THIS IS OUR WORLD]

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01:18:14,059 --> 01:18:19,779
[THE REVOLUTION IS NOW]

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