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Ecology
Including our position on Climate Change,
the Green New Deal, Technocratic Globalism,
and The Healing of the Earth
Ecology provides one of the purest examples of the value of Left-Right Synthesis.
Each side has an indispensable key to solving the puzzle.
The Left is correct: There is a problem, and it's serious.
And the Right is also correct, in that technocratic responses are not true solutions.
There is a problem, and it's serious, but technocratic responses are not true solutions.
The true solution is introspective. It has to do with understanding how and why we created the problem in the first place — how we changed from living in harmony with our ecosystem, to getting out of balance and becoming destructive.
Technocracy is not the solution. Technocracy is how we got into this mess in the first place.
Technocracy is the manifestation of the belief that:
-Nature is incorrect,
-Man's ways are better, and
-Man should replace Nature with his ways.
And that is the source of the problem, quite obviously. The ecological crisis results from the human mind thinking it understands the universe better than the Creator does, and Man's own ideas of "how the world ought to look" are superior to the Creator's.
You don't have to believe in a religion, to recognize that even a billion years of evolution should make Nature smarter than this bipedal newcomer.
An opposable thumb should not be confused with an integrated understanding of the intricacies of the universe, nor a graduation from membership in the natural world — not even by a thoroughly secular mind.
We are members of the ecosystem, and we share this planet with intelligences far greater than our prefrontal lobes.
The works of our hands are not wiser or truer than Nature, nor can they ever be so; and technocracy is the purest expression of the confused belief that they can be, and are.
Even though the entirety of post-Neolithic history proves the exact opposite.
Technocracy is the very source of the problem, and therefore, cannot be the solution.
You obviously can't solve the problem with more of the problem. You can't solve it with more of the same type of thinking that you used when you created it.
einstein quote
The answer to the ecological crisis requires looking inward, to our own psychology, to our souls.
What is the real problem?
The problem is our cultural mythology — the way we construct the world in our minds, and our interpretation of our place in it, which for some of us, is that of self-assumed lords and masters of the very ecosystem from which we emerged.
It's our inner emptiness, resulting from a society mostly devoid of genuine spiritual nourishment, resulting in excessive cravings for needless consumer goods, which we have to abuse the planet in order to extract and produce, in order to fill that inner void with temporary gratification.
It's our derivation of identity and selfhood from our possessions, resulting in conspicuous consumption of land and commodities to impress others and display social status.
It's the condition of our hearts — the spiritual ones (having to do with compassion, love, and forgiveness) — which, if degraded, results in distrust and conflict, leading to estrangement, leading to needless duplication of tools and amenities, the sharing of which is perfectly possible and doable logistically, and stymied only by our social customs of private property and de facto fear of sharing.
In other words, our metaphysical condition is what's driving our consumption and our wastefulness, and hence, the ecological crisis.
The destruction we see outside of us is a manifestation of the decay inside of us.
What we need is not more tech. We don't need a laundry list of glistening new machines.
What we need is more inner clarity, more love, more connection, and more spiritual fulfillment. We have to repair our relationship with ourselves, with one another, and with Source.
This is a psychological and a spiritual test, not a technological one.
If we approach it this way, we'll find that we don't even need those machines. We'll instead find that coexistence with Nature was never all that complicated in the first place, and we can win by reducing it, rather than by increasing it.
We'll realize that we can eliminate the demand for 99% of the transoceanic container-shipping industry (one of the biggest sources of all pollution) by simply re-domesticating and re-localizing our economies to be closer to where we live. (Something the populist right already wants to do, and you can work with them on it).
We'll realize that the private lawn was invented as a symbol of conspicuous consumption, and serves no practical purpose or service for 99% of people who have one, and most people don't even want to mow them, and would stop if they were no longer legally forced to; and that with 99% of lawns allowed to re-wild or become food-gardens, all that new foliage will sequester multiple times more carbon than the entire amount targeted in the Paris COP22 Accords, while simultaneously restoring biodiversity and reversing the wildlife-population decline.
If we re-localize our economies and societies, we'll do all of those things, while simultaneously making human beings healthier, both physically and mentally, by bringing Nature back into our awareness (in the case of re-wilding), or, in the case of gardening, getting our hands in the dirt, developing direct connection to the land and especially to our food, restoring neighborhood cooperation and communication, reestablishing the original natural social unit of humanity (i.e. the Village), ending the problem of school shootings because no one will be lonely and alienated anymore, which in turn leads to less pressure on gun rights... the point being that there are so many benefits that all cascade upon each other — Oh, and the food would obviously be organic and not laden with preservatives anymore! Too many benefits to list in just one extremely run-on sentence/paragraph!
Contents:
Summary
A quick read, showing our general positions, and the aims of the three conversations.
Conversation #1: What's Actually Going On
Why You Don't Even Need Scientists
The Non-Linear Principle
The Fractal Structure of the Universe
Feedback Loops and Tipping Points
Water and Life
The Precautionary Principle
Conversation #2: What NOT To Do About It
Technocracy - a Fanatical Religion
A Gallery of Technocratic Stupidity
Carbon Reductionism
Unbalanced Minds
Understanding the True Nature of the Problem
Conversation #3: What To Do About It
The Earth Party Plan for Planetary Restoration
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Climate Summary
Summary:
A. Even though the problem of climate change is being exploited by people and organizations with ulterior motives, it's still a real thing.
B. And it's part of a larger crisis called the omnicide.
Whereas the killing of a person is "homicide", and the killing of an ecosystem is "ecocide", the omnicide (from Greek: omni = "all") is beyond all of those - it's the systematic elimination of all Life on the planet. It's a war against Life itself.
Our civilization is quite simply killing the planet, in a thousand ways. Piece by piece, tree by tree, creature by creature, hectare by hectare, species by species, it's converting the living planet into a dead one. It's driving a global collapse of our ecological life-support systems.
C. Most of the public discussion about this is mired in carbon reductionism - the intellectual reduction of all environmental issues into a single one: carbon. This is dangerous, because it ignores the wider omnicide, and perpetuates the societal narratives of technocracy (see below) and separateness from Nature (also see below).
D. We can prove the reality of the omnicide, without the need for "trust" or "belief" or "faith" in any scientists or governments - or any kind of self-styled "authority" figures.
In fact, reliance on an appeal to authority (i.e. "trust scientists", and "trust governments") is counterproductive, and the wrong type of argument to be making.
We can prove the reality of the omnicide with pure reason alone, without needing a single scientific paper, and we're going to do it right here on this page. It's not a hoax - it's really happening.
E. But despite being real, it is nevertheless getting hijacked by technocrats, who don't actually understand the problem, and in some cases, don't even really care, and are simply exploiting the crisis as a pretext to advance their own agenda of technocracy.
Technocrats think machines are the answer to everything. The solution to every problem, in their view, is "more machines."
They offer ridiculous "solutions", like stratospheric aerosol injection to cool the planet by creating a new atmospheric layer of heavy metal compounds (like aluminum, barium, and strontium) floating in the atmosphere, to reflect sunlight back out into space), robot bumblebees to pollinate the crops after the actual bees are gone, and carbon sequestration machines when we already have a system that can do that called a FOREST.
These so-called "solutions" are dangerous. If we follow the technocrats and implement their solutions, we won't fix the problem - in fact, a serious attempt at technocratic geoengineering could cause just as much damage to the planet as the entire industrial economy. 200 years of damage could be matched in a single decade, just by the geo-engineers who believe they're "helping" the planet!
Einstein said you can't solve a problem with the same type of thinking that you were using when you created the problem.
Technocracy reflects a failure to learn the lessons of ecological consciousness. Technocratic solutions reiterate the same fundamental mistake that got us into this mess, and they certainly won't get us out of it.
F. The type of geo-"engineering" we need is the kind that Nature does on her own. We have to stop destroying. We have to give land back. We have to allow this planet to regenerate. If we just allow Nature to heal herself, she will.
G. But this means a drastic change to our economic systems, philosophies, mythologies, religions, lifestyles... and our most basic assumptions about the way our society needs to be organized.
We're going to have to give up our egregious excesses, learn to share and cooperate, think as one Planet, and adopt new forms of economics and governance. And we'll need to re-examine some of our civilization's founding narratives, about who we are, and what our place in the cosmos is.
H. People are generally reluctant to engage in such a high degree of introspection. It can be intellectually uncomfortable to look so deeply in the mirror, and to question one's model of Reality. Most people don't want to do this.
So technocratic "solutions" seem appealing by comparison. Why re-evaluate your most basic assumptions about the way economies and societies ought to be organized, when you can just get a new machine that will take care of the problem for you!
Most people are eagerly latching onto these (false) technocratic solutions because they enable us to avoid a deeper introspection, which would be too humbling for our egos.
I. But we have to get serious about this. Everyone must acknowledge that we need the most fundamental change, at the most fundamental level of our social structures.
Solving the ecological crisis for real requires a more profound collective change, and a rewriting of our civilization's founding stories and principles.
J. The Earth Party has a plan to do this. If you've been feeling a sense despair because you know things need to change, but you haven't found any organization with a comprehensive, workable plan to do so, then fear no more, because the Earth Party Presents:
The Blueprint for a Mature Civilization.
To read the full blueprint, click here.
At the bottom of this page, we'll present excerpts from the Blueprint that relate directly to stopping the destruction of the biosphere and allowing the planet to heal.
But first, a few much-needed conversations:
9. This change should begin with a recognition of the Precautionary Principle - the idea that when a system is very large, very complex, and indispensable to our survival, we should simply not mess around with it.
The Precautionary Principle is an inherently conservative principle, and is thus more readily digestible to people who identify as "conservatives." So, instead of citing scientists and their studies as an argumentum ad authoritatum (the authority fallacy), ecological activists should instead appeal to conservatives' innate (but latent) understanding of this principle. This will be much more effective at bringing them on board the effort to stop the tropocide.
Conversation #1
What's Actually Going On
Climate Conversation #1
What follows is a pair of side-by-side conversations.
If you understand the seriousness of climate chaos (and ecological breakdown), the one on the left is for you.
And if you're skeptical about the whole thing, we'll see you over on the right.
Question from an activist:
"Before we can even begin to think about solutions, we need the world to accept that there's actually a problem. So far, that's not happening. World leaders are either in outright knuckle-dragging denier-ism, or they're mealy-mouthed corporate neoliberals who CLAIM to care, but won't actually DO anything about it, other than nip around the edges with weak, incrementalist "reforms" that will solve 1% of the problem in 100 years.
So first, humanity must become collectively aware, not just of the problem's existence, but its full SIZE AND SCOPE. People need to start understanding just how BIG this is.
But they're not. Why won't they?"
Part of the reason why it's so hard to change "skeptics" is because the narrative you're offering them is flawed from the start.
If you want to understand why so many people remain skeptical, then you need to realize that there is a "bug" in the narrative.
Most activists are framing climate change as an issue of trust and belief. You're asking people to put faith in scientists, and trust their data, and believe their reports.
You're setting up scientists as authority figures.
While most of the science on climate change is indeed sound, it nevertheless constitutes an appeal to authority, which is a weak argument in a debate.
Please take note:
There are personality types, comprising a fairly substantial portion of the population, who are instantly repelled the moment they see an "appeal to authority."
(And for good reason, considering how "authority" has been used for so many horrific purposes throughout history...)
And whenever you make an appeal to authority, you instantly lose the respect of this type.
There are also types who are highly cautious and skeptical. They're the kind who are difficult to fool with scams, because they're reluctant to believe anything - especially coming from strangers, and anyone they don't have a personal trust relationship with.
And you're trying to convince them to take someone's word - a stranger's word - as fact. You're telling them to put faith in the pronouncements of researchers they've never met, dressed in strange clothes, working for institutions with names they can't remember, located on distant icy continents they've never been to!
Don't you see how this approach is flawed from the start?
The good news is, you don't need it, because there's a far stronger argument available.
"And what might that be?"
You can explain ecology.
It shouldn't be about
"believing data."
It should be about understanding concepts.
It's a bit more complicated to do. It's hard to explain deep concepts to people - especially something as deep as ecology.
It's much easier to just throw data at them. Throw graphs at them. Throw articles at them. Throw big names and titles and degrees and credentials at them. And when they refuse to believe, call them names. Shame them. Make them feel bad. Sit in the middle of the road, and block traffic, until they believe.
It is easier. But it doesn't do the job.
You have to start doing the messy work of educating them about the principles behind ecology. You need to teach them an entirely new way of looking at the world, different from what they're used to.
And, not only that, but...
...before you can teach them the concepts, you have to make sure that you understand! Which is by no means a given!
But thankfully, there is a resource to help. A comprehensive, convenient, step-by-step guidebook, to both learn ecology, and explain it to others.
We're talking, of course, about this page. :)
You're reading it right now.
"OK, sounds great. But one thing though... You keep saying that we "don't need science." You don't think science is important? You even said it to that denier guy in the right-hand column over there. "Science isn't necessary." Don't you think that's a dangerous thing to say? How can you possibly think that? How does it help if you're unscientific?"
There's a difference between unscientific and non-scientific.
"Unscientific" is a claim that's not based in science but pretends to be.
"Non-scientific" is something that doesn't claim to be based in science in the first place. It uses a different type of thinking entirely.
Science is not the only way to arrive at conclusions, you know. There's also Reason. If Reason is done properly, it can serve as ironclad proof.
And the useful thing about Reason is that it doesn't depend on external validation the way science does. It doesn't require any measurements or data. It doesn't require any believing. It can validate itself, from within.
Its like math. You don't need a credentialed scientist in a peer-reviewed journal to verify to you that 375 + 896 makes 1271. There is no argument about "whom to believe." It's internally provable.
And we're going to rely on Reason to prove that our planet is in trouble.
Science can play a useful supplementary role - but it's not the main argument.
"And how should I use Reason to prove that our planet is in trouble?"
Simple - just keep reading this page! We've got a pretty comprehensive walk-through. It should be all you need.
So let's begin!
"Alright, go ahead. I'm listening."
Question from a skeptic:
"Climate change isn't real! It's a globalist plot to undermine national sovereignty, set up a one-world government, and take away our freedom!"
OK. Sure. That may be true, but it doesn't change the fact that climate change is a real thing.
Yes, there are shadowy elites.
Yes, they have a secret agenda.
Yes, it involves setting up a totalitarian technocratic world government.
Yes, they're using the issue of climate change to advance that agenda.
But they didn't create the issue - they hijacked it.
They're taking a real issue - one which people are right to be concerned about - and
exploiting that concern, and redirecting it in a direction that benefits their own agenda.
You shouldn't need science to tell you to respect your planet. The Earth is our home, and you're supposed to take care of your home. You're supposed to know that already - with or without a guy in a lab-coat telling you!
Even if there were no scientists talking about climate change, the precautionary principle still applies.
"But that doesn't matter because the whole thing is a hoax! It's completely made up! It isn't happening! Or, if it is, mankind isn't causing it! Or, if we are, then it's not a bad thing!"
Fine. You know what? For the sake of the debate, we'll toss out a freebie for you.
We'll concede (for the sake of debate), that there are problems with climate science, major ones, and global warming is a hoax.
Let's just assume that, for this discussion. That's your free Bingo square.
Even WITH that being true, it's still ALSO true that our economic system is destroying the planet in a thousand other ways. And if it keeps up, we might actually kill the planet.
"Bah! Kill the planet? That's ridiculous! That's the most alarmist thing you could possibly say! It makes no sense! How could we possibly "kill the planet?" Why are environmentalists so crazy?
The idea doesn't make sense to me. After all, the planet is just a "big rock", right? How could a rock die, if it's not even alive to begin with?
I know some things about ecology. I've heard of the "food chain." I know what an ecosystem is, and I know that they can become degraded.
But an entire planet?
It's one thing for a local ecosystem to collapse, but quite another thing for the planet to do so.
Are environmentalists out of their minds? Why do they think this?"
If you're asking this question, then you're in the right place, because we're about to explain it!
Are you willing to learn?
"But it's a buncha crap!"
Look. You're probably one of those people who gets upset at the fact that activists are sitting in the middle of roads, blocking traffic to get your attention.
You probably call them "nutjobs" or "wackos." You probably say that if they have a point to make, they should do it like mature adults. They should have a rational conversation, and just explain what the issue is.
Well that's this. We are going to explain the issues to you, in a rational, straightforward manner, form start to finish. No one has to sit and block traffic. No one has to disrupt your life. Because we're explaining it right here.
Will you read? Will you learn?
"But I don't believe in the data and studies put out there by scien-.."
There's no science necessary. We can explain it without needing a single scientist.
Are you willing to learn something?
"OK. Fine. I'm listening."
Before we begin, please be aware that there are several smaller concepts that you have to understand, before we get to the larger ones. It's like building with Legos. You have to put the smaller pieces together first, before combining the big pieces.
And it might appear, in the beginning, like some of the concepts might not be "relevant" to the discussion. Bear with us. We promise, it's all relevant. If you read to the end, you'll see how they all fit together - how all the dots are connected.
It requires some patience. Are you willing?
"Well I dunno, I got things to do..."
This is something that threatens your life, and your family's and your children and grandchildren.
Isn't it your duty to look out for things that could harm your family?
"But I don't see it as a threat..."
That's what we're about to explain. That's the reason for this page.
"Alright, go ahead. I'm listening."
Anyone who tells you know how it all works is lying. And humans have a terrible track record on predicting this stuff.
Here are a few examples:
How Whales Change Climate
How Wolves Change Rivers
As you can see, unintended consequences are myriad. We think we're just getting rid of one species... but we're really degrading the whole ecosystem.
Conversation #2
What *NOT* To Do About It
Now that we've established that we need to take care of the planet, the next question is: How.
"You said that there are people who are using the ecological crisis for ulterior motives, and you called them "technocrats." What does that mean?"
Technocracy is a complex force that manifests in just about all aspects of human life in this society.
It's a worldview with 4 main tenets:
1. "There is only one direction for technological progress to advance in. We have to advance in that direction, and there's nothing we can do to change it."
2. "That direction always means more machines, more dependency on machines, and reliance on increasingly complex machines."
3. "More machines will fix every problem, and the answer to any and every problem is more machines, always."
4. "Even if machines don't solve the problems we invented them to solve, and they don't make us happier (and might actually make us less happy) it doesn't matter, because what really matters is having more machines, which is a good thing in itself, as it will bring us closer to an eventual (no one ever says exactly *when*) point in the future where machines WILL finally start making our lives better, and we just have to trust that that's the case.
Some technocrats even believe in a 5th tenet:
5. "The purpose of technology is not to serve humanity - but the reverse. The purpose of humanity is to serve technology, by creating more of it, and getting it up to a level of development where it can self replicate, and replace us - because that's all we're for - we're just a "stepping stone" on the march to a race of robots - and that's our only purpose, to invent them - and once we achieve that, biological organic life-forms aren't even necessary anymore."
To learn more, read: What Is Technocracy?
"Wow, those people sound crazy."
Yes, this worldview is crazy. However, it also happens to be the dominant philosophy among top business leaders, media owners, and public policymakers.
And they've spent the past 100 years saturating us with propaganda in favor of this worldview.
In fact, most average people believe in this, to some degree. It underlies a lot of our thinking, subconsciously. You might even be carrying around some assumptions and attitudes connected to technocracy, since it permeates our culture so thoroughly. It's important to become aware of these subconscious assumptions, and correct them.
"And how does this apply to climate change and ecology?"
Because (most of) the so-called "solutions" being offered and promoted by major institutions, media corporations, and governments, are technocratic solutions.
And they won't solve the crisis. In fact, they could make it even worse. Technocratic attitudes are downright dangerous.
A technocratic solution is one that does not address the underlying problems (and more importantly, the problematic thinking methods) that caused the problems in the first place, and instead tries to simply patch up the problems with more technology.
The people who believe in this 5th tenet do not care about the planet. As long as they cna get their robots up and running... so their solutions will at most slow it down, but that's it, and it doesn't matter ot them, because all they're trying to do is buy time - time so they cna get their robotic world up and running ,and then it won't matter if there' sno more bilogy and thean d the planet looks like Mars or venus, because they won't need biology anyway, because there will be robots to carry on civilization and the proejct of reaching the so called singluarity . that's all they want. That's acceptable to them . The complete genocide of all people a,dand tcomplete ecocide of the thtire living world, is palatable to them. so that's why they're gonly trying to slow it down, but don't care about actually stoppin git of hrelaing the planet.
"Can you give some examples of what you mean?"
Of course.
The Earth Party Presents:
A Gallery
of Technocratic Stupidity
Technocratic False-Solution #1:
Stratospheric Aerosol Injection
There are people who want to spray chemicals with heavy metal ions, like aluminum and barium and strontium, into the upper atmosphere, to stop global warming. The idea is that these chemicals are reflective, and will reflect sunlight back into space, slowing down warming. Other ideas involve spraying sulfur dioxide to form artificial clouds. You can read about this stuff here (CBS), here (LiveScience), and here (CNN).
These mainstream (technocrat-owned) publications present it as a perfectly acceptable idea, overlooking how obviously stupid it is.
Just think about it for 2 seconds. We got into the climate mess by spraying chemicals into the atmosphere. Right?
And now they want to get us out of the mess by... you guessed it: spraying chemicals into the atmosphere.
It doesn't take a genius to spot how dumb that is. Have these people learned ANY lessons from the past century?
"Apparently not."
Right, and that's what makes them technocrats! They do not understand the true nature of the problem.
This CBS article details some of the concrete reasons why this won't work.
Excerpt:
As one may imagine, a concept like this comes with a lot of controversy. Like treating a fever with aspirin, this type of engineering only treats the symptoms, it does not fix the root cause of the warming: Escalating levels of heat trapping greenhouse gases produced by the burning of fossil fuels.
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) expressed concerns that the possibility of seemingly quick and inexpensive fixes will distract the public and policymakers from addressing the underlying problems and developing adaptation strategies. And if for whatever reason the aerosol missions stopped, within a few years the temperatures would shoot up at breakneck pace. A pace that would likely be too fast for humanity to adjust.
The AMS official policy statement regarding this type of geoengineering begins with a warning, "Reflecting sunlight would likely reduce Earth's average temperature but could also change global circulation patterns with potentially serious consequences such as changing storm tracks and precipitation patterns."
In other words, the atmosphere is complex. Any band-aid fix is bound to have unintended consequences and possibly cause a new set of problems. The AMS goes on to say results of reflecting sunlight "would almost certainly not be the same for all nations and peoples, thus raising legal, ethical, diplomatic and national security concerns." One region may become a desert, while others become flooded out.
Oh, and it will change the color of the sky. And they admit this.
"Wow... anyone who is OK with changing the color of the sky - after this entire mess was caused by humanity screwing around with nature in the first place - is out of their freaking mind. This is really, REALLY idiotic. We have to make sure we don't allow these people to lead the way."
Right! And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Technocratic False-Solution #2:
Robotic Bumblebees
Yes, you read that correctly. Robot bees to pollinate the crops. Here (NPR) and here (The Guardian).
If the bees die out (from pesticides, mono-crop agriculture, cell-phone microwaves, and all the other ways we've polluted and eliminated their habitats), the answer is apparently not to re-examine our relationship with Nature, not to ask ourselves why we use things that are so incompatible with the foundations of Life in the first place, and not to contemplate the possibility that we may have messed up. No, the answer is more machines!
We can build trillions of tiny robots to pollinate the crops!
The ingenuity of man! Hurray!
This idea is so stupid, it's embarrassing to even bother addressing. But it's real, and they're going to try to go for it. The patent has already been filed!
We hope this doesn't insult your intelligence too much, but here's a scientific paper proving why it's a nonsensical idea.
If we manage to build robot bees - even if - it would still be a Pyrrhic victory, as it would enable us to avoid asking deeper questions about how we got to this point in the first place. We won't have to ask ourselves what mistakes we made that led to the disappearance of the bees. We won't have to examine ourselves or our systems. We won't have to admit that anythings wrong with our beliefs, and our cosmology. It will be business as usual, without acknowledging any mistakes. And that would merely set us up for more problems in the future. And the longer we kick the can down the road, the worse problems it will cause.
Technocratic False-Solution #3:
Tapping Rotational Energy
There are people who propose to draw energy from the rotation of the planet, and convert it into electricity.
Can you think of any potential problems?
"Hmmm... Well there is the Law of Conservation of Energy, stating that energy can neither be created nor destroyed... and if we're taking it OUT of somewhere... then that source will have less energy in it. So... I suppose it could... slow down the planet's rotation over time?"
Yes. And not only would it shorten the length of days and nights, thereby interfering with biological rhythms, but it would also sap the centripetal force that holds the lithic layers of the planet in place. With less centripetal force, the planet's crust will begin to collapse in on itself, causing earthquakes, more volcanic activity, and the appearance of completely new volcanoes popping out in random places, like an acne-plagued teenager, as the crust cracks and the mantle bubbles through.
"But there's sooooooo much energy in the planet's rotation... and we'd only be taking a little tiny bit... right? It would not be significant-enough amount of really change anything... right?"
Isn't that what they said about fossil fuels?
"Yes, the coal in steam-engines produces horrible black smoke that chokes people... but it's just a little bit of smoke! It will never be enough to make entire cities and regions have black skies..."
"Yes, burning petroleum releases carbon, but it's just a little bit, and the atmosphere is soooooo huge! It will never be enough to significantly change the atmospheric chemistry..."
Can't you see the same exact folly repeating?
Technocratic False-Solution #4:
Nuclear Power
If our civilization doesn't... "make it"... then who will be around to watch over the radioactive waste? No one.
As the canisters rot and leak, they'll be releasing pulsed infusions of radioactive matter into the biosphere, for the next 100 million years. Any remaining humans (perhaps the un-contacted tribes deep in the jungles will survive the Great Collapse) will be finished off by the radiation leaks. And the leaks will keep happening at intervals, for millions upon millions of years, sabotaging whatever "comebacks" Life makes. Even if dolphins develop an opposable thumb 10 million years from now, the nuclear waste will get them long before that. Biological Life might never recover.
Nuclear power is so diabolical, it almost gives the impression of having been deliberately designed with the explicit intention of making sure that once we're gone, no intelligent life will ever replace us.
Technocratic False-Solution #5:
GMO's (Genetically Modified Organisms)
GMO Exhibit A: Genetically engineering a fungus or a bacteria that eats plastic, thereby cleaning the plastic up.
A genetically engineered... bacteria... or... fungus... What could go wrong?
It's a sci-fi horror movie that writes itself.
So why would anyone be stupid enough to want this?
Because it's an easy fix that allows them to avoid asking why we have so much plastic pollution in the first place. And they don't want to ask it because it would implicate the system, and they're attached to the system. They'd rather risk turning the whole planet into a campy horror film than question the system.
GMO Exhibit B: Genetically engineered crops.
"But we have so many mouths to feed!"
You wont be feeding any mouths if you destroy the ecosystem. And that's what GMO crops do. They degrade soil. They poison insects. They aren't a balanced member of the ecosystem - they're like an alien organism. They might produce more calories, in the short run, but in the long run they lead to the degradation of the overall ecosystem.
If someone is telling you we need GMO crops to feed hungry people in "third world countries" - but doesn't complain about the fact that these same countries are using the majority of their farmland to produce cash crops for export to other countries - and doesn't want to address the gaping idiocy of making starving people export their own food - and would rather corrupt Nature's genome to inject more food in through the back door than address the question of why their food is being snatched out through the front door - then you're dealing with a technocrat - someone who doesn't have the wisdom to see this as a systems-problem.
Technocratic False-Solution #6:
Electric Cars & Self-Driving Cars
Changing our cars to electric and/or self-driving won't solve the problem, for several reasons.
First, electric cars still require energy to charge their batteries. That's energy whose production harms ecosystems.
Second, those batteries require rare-earth metals, like cadmium, lithium, cobalt, neodymium, lanthanum, terbium, and others. They all have to be mined out of the ground, involving horrendous ecological destruction - even worse than fossil fuels!
Third, self-driving cars will rely on 5G Wi-Fi to communicate with other cars in the vicinity. Having hundreds of microwave transmitters radiating in a close vicinity, and marinating ourselves and the environment in hundreds of sets of microwaves all at once, comes with its own set of frightening dangers to biology.
Fourth, the manufacturing of cars requires a large amount of materials and energy, and we have to ask ourselves whether having 8+ billion personal cars, regardless of how they're driven or powered, is really the wisest use of the planet's limited resources.
And fifth, perhaps most importantly of all, switching to a different type of car ignores the fact that the roads themselves are as big of a problem as the cars themselves. Roads take up a lot of land - land that could have had forests on it (and once did). We need those forests. Our planet is choked with roads, with concrete, with cement. We need to break that stuff up, and return the land into living, breathing soil.
Switching to a "new type" of car will just perpetuate our dependence on all these roads, keeping the planet choked.
Thankfully, there is a way to transport everyone where they need to go, but it won't involve car culture.
While technocrats are busy talking about making small tweaks to improve efficiency in small ways, they never ever ever ever ever mention the fact that the physical layout of our communities creates waste in itself, and is not conducive to efficient use of energy or resources, and that the only way to fix this is to redesign the physical layout of our civilization.
Even if we did nothing but restore the Village as the basic unit of human society, this alone would save so much energy, and so many resources, by making use of the power of permaculture principles such as cooperation, proximity, non-duplication, sequential re-use, and other forms of intelligent design of food and energy systems.
This would be the wholistic solution, whereas just building tons and tons of machines is the technocratic solution (which isn't really a solution at all, as we just explained above).
To learn about the new transit system that will phase out car-culture, visit our page on Transportation and the Automobile.
Technocratic False-Solution #7:
Solar Panels
First of all, solar panels use rare-earth minerals, just like electric cars. In addition to the ones mentioned above, there's also dysprosium, indium, praseodymium, and more.
And there might not be enough.
And even if there is enough, the amount of horror we'd have to inflict on the planet to extract them would be a crime in its own right.
"Wait a minute... no solar panels? Really?
NO SOLAR PANELS?"
Solar panels are a relatively good source of energy, and the Earth Party plans to transition to renewable clean energy, and solar panels are part of that plan.
But think about this:
Whenever you have an energy supply and an energy demand, and the supply is not currently meeting the demand, you have two options.
You can increase supply to meet demand...
or...
You can decrease demand to meet supply.
And the first option is the only one you hear from politicians, media people, business bigwigs, and tech leaders.
And that's what makes it technocratic. They're not asking us to re-examine our lives or the structure of our society.
Instead, if we use too much energy, their answer is simply "more energy!"
But why do we use so much energy in the first place?
Aren't there a lot of things we don't need? Aren't we consuming too much?
Why are machines always the answer?
Simply "building more solar panels" is a lazy excuse to avoid asking these kinds of questions.
Solar and wind power will be enough to power a re-localized permaculture economy with conscious and wise use of energy, in which the decisions about how to distribute energy are made democratically, based on where it's actually needed.
But it will NOT be enough to power a capitalist economy, in which those decisions are made by money, and whoever has the most money gets the most energy simply because of their money, and gets to use the energy to build and power the kinds of pointless vanities that rich people like to buy as status symbols.
"More energy" not a complete solution. The real solutions involve reexamining our relationship with Nature, and figuring out why we got so out of balance in the first place. From this introspection comes regenerative agriculture, re-rewilding, and the complete restructuring of our social, economic and political systems to be based on love-based values of cooperation, sharing, and trust.
Technocratic False-Solution #8:
Carbon Sequestration Machines
These are great big machines the technocrats plan to build, which will suck carbon out of the air and store it in solid form.
Read about it here.
But wait a minute! Where will we get the resources to build all these machines?
Where will we get the metal? We're going to have to mine it. How much more ecological destruction will that cause?
What about all the factories? How much pollution will they cause?
Where will all these machines go? If they're sitting on the ground, then plants can't grow there. They can't grow if there's a machine on top of them. How many forests will we need to cut down to make space for all of these machines?
Where will we get the energy to power all of these machines? How much more destruction will that cause?
These carbon-sucking machines won't solve the problem. They'll only make it worse.
Solving the actual problem, and healing our planet, isn't the purpose of such a plan. The only purpose is to have an excuse to build more machines. Having more machines is a goal in itself, when you're thinking like a technocrat.
And this whole idea ignores the glaring fact that we don't even need "carbon-sequestration machines" because we already have them!. They're called trees.
TREES, people. TREES.
We need to give land back to Nature. And to do that effectively, we have to redesign the entire physical layout of our civilization. Building more machines is not enough - we're going to have to make some real changes, going down to the roots of our culture, and the way that our society is structured.
(Don't worry - these changes are explained further down the page).
Furthermore, the whole idea of making carbon-dioxide the center of the whole issue, fails to see the bigger picture of how our civilization is destroying the planet.
Our planet's biosphere is under threat from many angles. Every aspect of the global ecosystem is eroding.
Yet, strangely, our news media and politicians only talk about a narrow subset of those crises.
Even when they "care", it's only about a few things. Not the big picture.
Here is a partial list of the ways in which our ecosystem is under stress:
Climate change
Deforestation
Desertification
Habitat loss
Insect loss
Mass extinction
Melting glaciers
Micro-plastics
Mono-crop agriculture
Nuclear radiation
Nuclear waste
Nuclear weapons
Ocean acidification
Pollution: air
Pollution: electromagnetic
Pollution: genetic
Pollution: water
Soil depletion
Toxic waste
Despite the seriousness of every item on that list, the issues in red are the only ones the mass-media and political establishment bother to talk about.
Isn't that a bit... odd?
Why do they ignore all of the other issues, and focus solely on those three?
Think of the corporate media. You know... CNN, NBC, the NYT, the WaPo, and all those other big networks and papers.
How often do they attempt to educate their viewers about the complex relationships between various aspects of the global ecosystem (or any ecosystem, for that matter)?
Why are they obsessively hammering this one angle of the global ecological crisis, while ignoring all the other aspects of it?
This type of thinking is known as carbon reductionism. This is a word you're going to (hopefully) start hearing a lot more of, as people start realizing what's going on.
Carbon Reductionism
A Technocrat's Lowest-Common-Denominator
"Wait... You don't want to reduce carbon?"
That's not what the term means.
It doesn't refer to the physical reduction of carbon - it refers to the intellectual reduction of the omnicide into a discussion solely about carbon.
Carbon reductionism takes the entire planet, and all of its complexity, and the complex interaction of all of the processes involved in the living system known as the Earth, and reduces all of it down to carbon - down to a single number - the ppm (parts per million).
This is classic technocrat thinking.
Technocrats look at the chopping and burning of forests, and instead of seeing the evisceration of whole ecosystems, and the loss of biodiversity and the complex ways in which it all interacts with the totality of the planet, all they see is the carbon mass escaping into the atmosphere. The tonnage. A number. That's it.
And when they talk about efforts to "fight" climate change, again all they see is the tonnage of carbon sequestration. Again, just a single number.
The complexity of what it will require to heal a planet from centuries of abuse, reduced down to a single number.
And even that word - "fighting" - as in "fighting climate change" - reveals an incomplete conception of the problem. It portrays the problem as some kind of external monster to slay - something out there - when really the problem is within us. The problem is our attitude, our belief system, the misplaced priorities of our economic system, and our faulty moral values. The philosophical and mythological foundations of our society are the problem. Not some goblin that we can just hunt down, beat, and then get back to "business as usual."
Whenever you hear this violent language - "fighting" climate change, "tackling" climate change, "defeating" climate change - you're hearing nothing more than a reiteration of the same reductionist, dualistic, domination-centered value system that got us into the mess we're in in the first place!
We can't solve it with data, algorithms, and technocratic tinkering. Those things do have a part to play, but they're secondary. Our primary need is to reawaken our innate spiritual connection with the consciousness of the living planet. Only within that context will we even know what to do with the data we've collected!
Fundamentally, the technocratic mindset is incapable of thinking in big pictures. It tries to isolate things, and then analyze and fix them one at a time.
But if there's one thing we know about ecology, it's the fact that nothing is isolated. Everything is connected.
And the technocratic mind has real trouble with this type of thinking.
Technocrats don't have a true grasp on ecology - they don't truly understand our planet as a unified, living organism. They still only see numbers, graphs, and mathematical calculations.
They're still seeing the ecosystem as a bunch of parts - like a machine - and fail to realize that it's a living being, transcendent of the mere sum of its cells and organs.
This is what Charles Eisenstein calls the "Story of Separation."
They look at a forest and see the number of trees, the number of species, the biomass, the mass of carbon sequestration, quantities of soil nutrients and minerals, and the potential amount of resources producible - all things that can be quantified, with a number. They think of everything as a series of data. They don't see the forest as a forest. They don't see it as a living organism of inconceivable ancientness and wisdom.
They're only looking with their linear, quantitative minds. They're not seeing with a the mind that sees unity, interrelation, and the "forest through the trees" - they're looking with the mind that sees everything as separate, quantifiable components. They're well trained in science, but not in meditation. They don't get the big picture.
Technocratic geoengineering is not the solution. We have to make sure this transition is about humans learning to respect the balance and remember our place in Nature.
NOT about allowing the same people who got us into this mess with their shortsighted machines, claiming some "genius" new scheme to get us out of it with MORE damned machines.
The blind allegiance to the so called "advancement of technology" is exactly what got us into this ecological crisis in the first place. It's not going to get us out.
Einstein said we can't solve problems with the same type of thinking that we were using when we created them.
Climate Conversation #2 - A Gallery of Technocratic Stupidity
We can't solve problems created by technocracy with more tech.
We have to understand how we got into this mess, to understand how to get out.
We have to address the underlying root causes of the ecological crisis.
"So... what would those causes be?"
What created the problem is simple. It's our loss of connection with Nature.
We forgot our membership in the Community of Life, and began to see ourselves as fundamentally separate from Nature.
And that's because we changed our society founding story from one of coexistence with Nature to one of domination of Nature.
We used to view Nature as our Community - but then we started viewing Nature as property.
From a who, to a what.
A mere thing - a resource - which it was our right and duty to subjugate and bend to our will.
And we did this, of course, through tech, and that's exactly how we've been destroying the planet.
You see, we have to reassess who we are - who humanity is - and rewrite our entire Narrative, and acknowledge that the so-called "beginning" of civilization around 5000 years ago was actually the beginning of civilization's great lapse. We were civilized BEFORE Sumeria/Mesopotamia - and, after those empires arose, we stopped being civilized. The story of Man needs correcting.
It's about swallowing our pride and admitting that we messed up. Our entire civilization was built on a lie that we were the "lords of the world", and we could conquer Nature and bend her to our will.
The conquest mindset is built into everything we've made. The very layout of our civilization - the physical layout of our cities and towns, reflects the conquest mindset we were in when we built them. We can't use it anymore.
We need a new relationship to the living world, one based on coexisting with Nature, blending, rather than fighting and conquering.
"Whoa. And I thought I could fix it by driving an electric car!" :)
Right! A very convenient solution. It doesn't require us to look deep within ourselves, or examine the roots of our social system. We can continue mostly with "business as usual", with a few "tweaks."
Why evolve from the competition model of economics, to the cooperation model, to save resources and use less electricity, when you can just build a whole bunch of solar panels and continue splurging on as much electricity as you want?
It's much easier to just switch to an electric car, than to criticize the very existence of a transportation system that depends on the private automobile in the first place.
In this sense, the technocrats are no different from the climate deniers.
Both camps believe the corrupt story, telling us that "nothing is wrong" at the foundations of our identity. They both tell us that that the basic assumptions upon which our worldview rests are fundamentally sound, and that the only real problem is we're just "using the wrong kinds of machines." And all we need, of course, is "more of them!"
Theme in all: #1 what it is. #2 why it won't work. #3 why we like it anyway #4 what to really do
not using right sides of brians, don't understand the real story, still in dominion cosmology. still think they own nature, and dont recog comm of life, onlyreason they recog ecology at all, is because auth figures in uniforms, white coats, told them that it's real and it mattes. now that's true, it does matter, but they don't believe that becaus eof any true understanding of how nature and reality work, but simply because auth figures told them.
and the auth figures are not explaining the problem to them properly, scratched surface, yes, carbon component,but just a component. Adn those figures in media and gov don't tell people that just a component, odn't tell about the larger eco crisis. and they certainly don't explore the causes of the crisis.
Technocratis don't explore te causes of crises - they simply seek ways to patch them up and make them better ion the surface in immediate future. dont think about bigger pictur eof more distant fugture, or greater organism of the planet, tehy don't see that part. a
and in that senes, they're just like the deniers. technocrats are deniers. same effect.
Listen to those without the problem, who live in sustainable was. Don't go to the technocratis. They told us fossil fuels would be fine.
what is carb reductionism? failing to learn the greater lessons of eco consciousness. keeps the entire challenge in terms of a technical puzzle to solve, rather than a spiritual to heal.
space for machines machine farms, rows and rows, need space. suppose we have technocratic politicians and they tell us that we need to build this, and in order to make space they need to cut down a forest. if you say no, they could call you a denier! for denying the importance of sequestering carbon. not just carbon. ecosystems, biodiversity. wohle integral system of the planet. not just one chemical.
somewhere to put the carbon. where to store? in piles? gonna need to enclose it in something, or else itll escape into environnemtn, where only 1 reactoin away from being gaseous agaon. need containeres. stack up like garbage dump? underground? if that, can't have trees because roots wil dig into containers and open up and leach back into env and back into atmo. can't have forst on top . where to put them?
Technocrats only believe something is wrong at the surface - "we're using this technology instead of that technology" - and they deny the real problem. They ignore the true nature of it, and try to preserve our current, corrupt model of civilization.
They tell us that our only problem is that we don't have enough machines - or perhaps not the right kind of machines.
And their answer is, of course, more machines!
That's always the prescription, with technocrats: more machines.
"Got a problem? Don't think too deeply about yourself - just get a machine!"
"Machines will fix everything!"
"Technology will fix everything!"
"If one technology doesn't solve it, get another technology!"
"If a technological solution creates 3 new problems in place of the one it solved, don't examine your foundational assumptions about the purpose of technology and its place in the world - just make 3 new machines to solve the 3 new problems! And if those create 9 new problems, build 9 more machines!"
"We can solve ANY problem if we just analyze it with our analytical brains!"
"We just need more data! More science! And especially, more machines!"
"It's the time-tested ingenuity of MAN! (rooooaarr!!)."
These are the types of things said by people who are not ready and not willing to do any soul searching. And they're not going to solve this problem.
If a person tells you that they want to inject the atmosphere with heavy metals, and that's their solution for global heating... but they don't want to give up their lawn and let it regrow into a forest because there might be some mice around and those are icky, then you're dealing with a technocrat.
If they want to build giant carbon sucking machines to suck carbon out of the air, but they don't want to give up steak... then you're dealing with a technocrat.
You're dealing with someone who does not understand the mistakes that got humanity into the ecological crisis in the first place, and they're certainly not going to fix those mistakes.
If a person is telling you that they want to make robotic bees to replace the bees when the bees die out and use robot bees to pollinate, you're dealing with someone who needs to be in a mental hospital, not in powerful positions making policy.
All of these technocratic "solutions" display a staggering obliviousness to what caused the problem in the first place - and why would anyone trust someone who doesn't understand the problem, to fix the problem?
We have to understand this: Technocrats are not the ones who will get us out of this mess.
"So if not them, then WHO should we look to for answers?"
We should look to those who understand the problem.
"And they are..."
The ones who have been living in balance all this time. The ones who do not have a technocratic outlook on the world, who understand Nature, and respect Nature, and love Nature. These are the kinds of people who didn't contribute to the advancement of technocracy and didn't contribute to the system degrading the planet now.
So they must know something. They must have the knowledge of how to fix this.
Who are we talking about?
Aboriginal peoples. Indigenous peoples, tribal peoples, in Amazon, the Congo, in Papua, and even people who live in balance with the wilderness even in modern countries. Nature lovers, permaculture people, hippies, people who understand that we're part of nature, who still hold the Original Story.
Let's ask ourselves why and how these peoples managed to stay in balance. What is it about them? What are they doing differently, compared to us?
It's because they still tell the Original Story. They think of themselves as members of Nature - not owners of Nature.
They see Nature as their home - not their property.
They see all other species - all animals, all plants, and so on - as their equals, not their inferiors.
This worldview facilitates respect and honor for the entire living world. If you revere the living world, how could you ever chop it down? You can't. And that's why they don't.
So obviously, they know something we don't. And they just might have the answers we need.
So let's listen to them.
What do they have to say about all this?
They all say something along the lines of the following:
The malignancy afflicting our planet is a mental disease. The Algonquin have a word for it. They call it wetiko. In modern psychiatric terms, it could be called persistent egophrenia. It's the complete takeover of the human mind and body by the ego - a false sense of self-hood that perceives itself as fundamentally separate and divorced from the rest of the world, and imbued with the insatiable urge to dominate and consume it.
All peoples and cultures, throughout time, knew wetiko, and occasionally struggled with it. People have always been vulnerable to takeover by their egos - but we always had ways of dealing with it, and healing the people driven by it. Visionary plants and mushrooms played a central role in returning afflicted individuals to balance and sanity.
But at some point in history, most likely during the Uruk period of Sumeria (4500 BC - 3100 BC), wetiko/egophrenia became permanent in some individuals. These chronically and irreversibly sick people then dominated their society, imposing and enforcing their sickness upon everyone else. Thus, entire societies became persistently egophrenic. And once an entire society is sick, it's very difficult to heal anyone in it, because the healers themselves are sick too.
With wetiko firmly entrenched and secure in its dominance, those egophrenic societies spread out and conquered the rest of the world - first Mesopotamia, then the Nile Valley, then the Levant, then the Mediterranean, then Europe, and then the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceana - thus making humanity itself persistently egophrenic.
It's from this disease that we get capitalism, and the sociopolitical systems that are destroying our planet, driving us, and the rest of Life, to extinction.
To really and truly solve this crisis and return our planet to a thriving, happy, stable world, we must look inwards.
We must admit that our entire socio-politico-economic system is fundamentally flawed. Not broken - "broken" implies it was fine at some point, and then changed. It was never fine. It's been flawed since it began, thousands of years ago in Sumeria.
We must change our value system:
- from ego to eco
- from "endless growth" to living in balance
- from domination to coexistence
- from "we own the land" to "the land is our home"
We must recognize that we are cells in a larger body called an ecosystem - and that our existence depends on the health of that body - the health of the Planet.
"Are you calling humans a disease? That's not very... uh... nice... It's misanthropic..."
No, humanity is not a disease. There are humans - human cultures - who do not do the kinds of things in those pictures. They do not carry the sickness.
Since there are humans who aren't sick, then humanity itself cannot be the disease.
We might carry it - but it isn't who we are.
And that means...
WE ARE CAPABLE OF HEALING.
Climate Conversation #3
Conversation #3
What To Actually Do About It
Whew!
Now that we actually understand the true nature of the problem, we can start solving it.
The most important thing to remember, when planning our response to climate chaos and ecological breakdown, is that technocracy is how we got into this mess, and certainly won't provide a way out of it.
We must make sure that we don't fall for the technocratic false-solutions offered by the same elites who led us into the problem in the first place.
Not geoengineering.
Healing.
And healing means re-wilding.
We have to let the planet become wild again, as much as possible, by giving land back to Nature.
And in order to free up that land, to give back, we have to restructure our society, to meet our needs while consuming less resources and space.
That is the essence of this plan.
The following items are excerpts from the Blueprint for Mature Civilization - the Earth Party's "master plan." These are summaries of the items that relate directly to stopping the tropocide and healing the planet.
We've organized them into three categories:
1. Personal choices: things you can do yourself, immediately, without waiting for anyone else to get onboard
2. Laws: changes society has to make, together, as a matter of law
3. Collective projects: self-explanatory
Without further ado:
The Earth Party's Plan
to Stop Climate Chaos
and Heal the Planet
Plan Summary
1. Personal Choices
1. Renounce Dominion Cosmology
2. Consume less
3. Adopt a plant-based diet
4. Buy second-hand
5. Use public transit
6. Use a smaller vehicle
7. Take holidays/vacations closer to home
8. Use renewable energy
2. Laws
A. New Freedoms
1. Gardening
2. Rainwater collection
3. Off-grid homes
4. Tiny homes
5. Hitch-hiking
6. Hemp
7. All plant medicines
B. Bans and Restrictions
1. Deforestation
2. Paving of living soil
3. Road construction
4. Lawn-mowing
5. Animal Agriculture
6. Mining in the Living Ground
7. New oil/gas wells
8. Hunting of vulnerable species
9. All water and soil pollution
10. Single-use plastics
11. Agro-chemicals
12. Commercial Advertising
13. 5G and 6G and RF Radiation
14. GMO's
15. Phase-Out the Automobile
C. Requirements
1. Truthful Retail Pricing
2. List of All Ecological Costs on Labels
3. Manufacturers Accountable for Recycling
D. Concepts to Abolish
1. Corporate Personhood
2. Copyright
3. Ecosystem Ownership
4. Economic Feudalism
3. Collective Projects
1. Local Permaculture Economies
Plan Details
Eco Plan Personal Choices
1. Personal Choices
1. Renounce Dominion Cosmology
The outer world that we build around us is a manifestation of the inner world that we've built inside of our own minds. And that world is shaped by our cosmology.
This civilization is founded on an unhealthy cosmology that is incompatible with the Living world of this planet. Our society is sick on the inside - and nothing we do on the outside will truly solve the problem, unless we heal ourselves on the inside.
To learn more, visit: The Two Cosmologies.
2. Consume less
3. Adopt a plant-based diet
4. Buy second-hand
5. Use public transit
6. Use a smaller vehicle
7. Holidays/Vacation closer to home
8. Use renewable energy
2. Laws
A. New Freedoms
These are things that are currently banned or restricted (in many places), and we're going to lift those bans. Repeal them. Let freedom ring!
1. Gardening
It may sound strange to most people, but in some countries, in some communities, people are not allowed to grow gardens. This is common in the USA. And it's ridiculous. Lift all such bans, immediately.
2. Rainwater collection
Many U.S. states prohibit roof-top rainwater collection systems. This is primarily designed to force people to buy water from a water company. Again, ridiculous. Reverse it immediately.
3. Off-grid homes
Again, in the USA, many cities and counties require all homes to be connected to the mass utility grid. Why? Again, to force consumption. Ridiculous.
4. Tiny homes
In a time when our planet's survival depends on us learning to reduce our consumption, many cities and townships have legislation prohibiting such reduction, and forcing higher consumption. Are you noticing a pattern yet?
5. Hitch-hiking
If you want to get a ride somewhere, hitching one with someone who's already going in that direction makes perfect sense. It reduces costs, both in terms of personal finance, and in terms of natural resources. But in backwards countries, like the USA, it's illegal. You can actually get a fine/violation for it!
By forcing prohibiting hitch-hiking, our society is forcing every individual to buy a car. This is so wasteful! In most parts of the world, hitch-hiking is a common and indispensable form of transportation. And so it will be everywhere, once again.
6. Hemp
Hemp is a miracle plant. It has dozens of different functions - all of which can be utilized to replace other industries that are more wasteful.
For instance, an acre of hemp can produce paper (of good quality) at a rate of 10 times that of a tree farm. Or another way to say it would be that you can get the same amount of paper from hemp, on 1/10th of the land that you'd need to use if you were getting it from trees. So why are we cutting down trees for paper? Why?
Hemp can also make clothing, and it only takes a fraction of the land that cotton takes. So why are we using cotton?
Hemp makes rope, concrete, and many other things - all at a fraction of the land usage. So why are we using all those other things, and not hemp?
The answer lies in the fact that hemp is a medicine, which the malignant social paradigm doesn't want us taking. See below.
7. All plant medicines
Legalize healing and spirituality
The absolute fastest way to change our minds and heal our souls is through the sacred ceremonial usage of visionary plants and mushrooms. These floral teachers kept humanity balanced and sane for 50,000 years. They are our original medicine. And we must recognize this. Now.
Not only must we immediately terminate the state-enforced prohibition of these substances - completely and unconditionally - but we must also actively embrace them and welcome them back into our culture. Instead of "parties" on weekends, we need to have mushroom ceremonies, peyote ceremonies, iboga ceremonies, and ayahuasca ceremonies - all led by the most competent shamans, shamanesses, and facilitators available among the community. This might sound far-fetched in our current society, but what's the alternative? The alternative is the completion of the omnicide, and the annihilation of the human race.
Once our minds and souls are healthy again, we will be able to invent and deploy the technologies necessary to rearrange our societies into a Nature-affirming shape. If we try to use technology to fix the crisis without the concurrent inner healing, then we will use those technologies in the wrong way - a destructive way that will only exacerbate the problem. But once we're healthy on the inside, we can use many of the same technologies - but in a different way - a way that supports Life, instead of competing with it.
Climate Plan Laws/NewFreedoms
B. Bans and Restrictions
These should be effective IMMEDIATELY - at whatever scale or jurisdiction has the power to enforce it - be it country, city, town, or village - as soon as they have such power. And strict enforcement, with harsh penalties - enough to dissuade violation.
1. Deforestation
No more deforestation - not a single tree! If you need a wood product, there are many options, including salvaging from scrap, dismantling useless buildings, and hemp (which produces 10x the product in 1/10th the time). And if you need space, rip up a parking lot - not the lungs of the planet. There are no more excuses.
2. Paving of living soil
No new pavement - not a single meter of living soil converted into lifeless concrete. If you need a facility, you can re-purpose an existing one.
3. Road construction
No new roads through wilderness.
4. Lawn-mowing
Lawns are the largest crop in the USA, by land area. This is sick.
It's time for a ban on lawn-mowing, and a legally enforced requirement to allow lawns to re-wild.
"But I don't want my lawn to re-wild! There could be, like, mice or something. And other animals! They're icky!"
The mice and other animals won't be in your yard.
Your lawnmower will no longer be in their forest.
"But that's a bunch of hippie nonsense.'
Do you want to live? Do you want this planet to continue to support Life?
"Well yea...'
Then you have to grow up, and mature beyond this "owner/dominator" paradigm regarding land. We already tried that paradigm, and it's resulting in an omnicide - the extermination of all Life from the planet.
You are NOT the owner of the land - it's not your property. You are a MEMBER of the Community of Life, and you have a responsibility to respect the rest of that Community.
"But, but... I LIKE having a lawn. I like feeling soft grass between my toes. I don't want to give that up."
This is where the concept of private sufficiency + public luxury comes in. (Credit to George Monbiot)
It means that we can still have luxuries - like a lawn - but we're just going to have to share them. We can still have the necessities, privately, for each one of us - but the luxuries will have to be public.
This way, we can all use the luxuries, like lawns, but without so much wasteful duplication.
Sharing reduces the need for duplicates., which allows more land to be freed up to re-wild (or produce food or other necessities which we need).
"But I don't want to have to walk on a lawn with thousands of random people!"
Not thousands. Just your immediate neighbors. Your Village.
You can still have 1 lawn per Village. That means that you and your immediate neighbors will share the lawn. This is more reasonable. Having 1 lawn per village, where it's actually used by people, on a regular basis, makes much more sense than having 50 lawns per village, each of which gets used only once in a long while.
Atomized recreation is a prime cause of the absolutely staggering epidemic of mental illness in modern society.
When people recreate together, well-being increases, and the benefits, to both our health and our economics, cascade in innumerable ways.
And still, no mowing. Lawns occur naturally when enough people walk on the grass. You don't need to mow it. If it's used by enough people to justify having it be a lawn, then their feet will keep it that way naturally, and you don't need a mower to keep it grassy. And if not enough people walk on it to keep it grassy naturally, then not enough people are benefiting from it to justify having it be grassy, and you need to let it re-wild.
That's the simple, elegant test!
5. Animal Agriculture
Ban factory farming. This means:
-No more forced impregnation and forced breeding
-No more cages
-No more artificial growth hormones
-No more regular administration of antibiotics (if an animal gets sick, of course you can use antibiotics, but it should not be a daily practice. If the conditions in which you're raising an animal are so horrendous that they need daily antibiotics to survive, then the operation you're running is by definition a factory farm, which is a sociopathic endeavor, and it's no longer allowed.
-No more growing of crops just to feed to farm animals. That cropland is needed by people, many of whom are starving, and it makes no sense to rob them of food so you can fatten up animals for your taste preferences. And if there are no starving people in your area, then the planet still needs that cropland to re-wild, and it makes no sense to prevent re-wilding just to satisfy a lust for eating flesh.
Furthermore, a ban on grazing ruminants in biomes that are naturally forest, and would otherwise return to being forest again, if not for the ruminants. Ruminant grazing will be allowed only in arid to semi-arid landscapes.
If you want to eat animals and/or their secretions, it's still allowed, but you're going to have to start respecting them, and that means serious limits on what you're allowed to do with them.
6. Mining in the living ground
A ban on the opening of new mines, and a moratorium on the use of existing mines, until landfills are used up.
Whatever mineral, metal, or material you need, it's sitting in landfills. There is absolutely no logical reason to assault the living planet to obtain something that's already sitting in a man-made waste-heap. Especially when you consider that we're going to need to clean those things up anyway.
7. Fossil fuel infrastructure
A ban on new oil/gas wells, pipelines, refineries, and other fossil fuel infrastructure.
Existing ones may still be used, to facilitate the transition to a renewable energy economy, but their management will be placed under public stewardship, and the public will control how they operate, how much they produce, and where their products are distributed. This is part of Economic Democracy, which is explained further down.
8. Hunting of vulnerable species
Self-explanatory. If they're endangered - even a little bit - absolutely no hunting!
9. All water and soil pollution
Not one drop of industrial pollutant into bodies of water or the land. Not under any circumstances, not for any reason.
Whatever waste product a factory has, find a way to capture it, sequester it, break it down, and recycle it appropriately.
If this adds to the end-consumer cost (and it most certainly will), then so be it. We're already paying the extra price, in terms of ecological externalities. It's time for retail prices to reflect the actual, true cost. It's time for Truthful Accounting. (This is explained further down on this page).
10. Single-use plastics
Ban single use plastic for all non-essential supplies. We can continue to use them for sensitive purposes - like, for instance, packaging for medical syringes. But not for the vast majority of products.
All other products should use biodegradable packaging. Either that, or don't sell it. It's that simple.
Again, if this causes the price to go up, so be it. Better to pay it upfront, at the register, than further down the road in the form of a degraded environment. You're going to pay that higher price either way.
If you really need those potato chips - and you somehow can't afford the new price as often as you'd like - then you still have options. Plant some f***ing potatoes. Harvest them. Make them into chips. Share them with your village. If you really love potato chips so much, learning how to make them seems like the next logical step, doesn't it? If you love a particular kind of food, wouldn't it make sense to learn to make it yourself, so that you can try different types of ingredients and combinations, to make the perfect kind?
If you really love it so much, then you'd wanna put some heart into it, wouldn't you?
And, if your passion for it isn't quite great enough to do that, then you don't need it that badly.
"But I don't have any land to plant potatoes!"
Don't worry, we've got you covered with our plan to restore natural social units.
11. Phase out agro-chemicals
Pesticides, industrial fertilizers...they're killing the soil. Some studies estimate that if we keep using them, we might only have a few more decades of productivity left, and then the soil will be incapable of growing anything.
Also, they're killing insects, who are absolutely vital to the ecosystem.
"How will we grow our food?"
With regenerative agriculture / permaculture. Please see further down the page.
12. Commercial advertising
Ban commercial advertising.
The commercial advertising industry has no justification to exist in this world. The very rationale for its existence is pure evil.
Although it's certainly true that one of the things we're going to need to do, as individuals and as a society, is learn to distinguish between our needs and our wants, and practice foregoing the latter - and while this process does constitute an important spiritual journey for us, as a key component of evolving into a mature species and civilization - this is beyond that.
Consumer advertising doesn't just prevent us from developing the courage and fortitude to forego our wants - it's even more sinister than that. It takes things that aren't even wants at all, and makes them into wants. It doesn't just sap our willpower to resist desire - it creates desire.
Think about it. The sole purpose of consumer advertising and marketing is to create demand where there currently is none - to make people want things that they don't currently want.
You didn't want it. You weren't even thinking about it. You were already content. It didn't even occur to you to need it, nor want it. It didn't cross your mind at all.
Then you saw the ad. And then you started wanting it.
How can anyone justify this?
On a planet that's facing mass-extinction directly caused by over-consumption, where resources are finite and scarcity is already rampant and worsening, how can anyone justify an entire industry whose sole purpose is to increase the speed and ferocity by which you consume resources which you didn't even want to consume in the first place until the industry came along and convinced you to start wanting to consume them? This is INSANITY.
Needs vs. Wants
If we say, "Needs should be fulfilled, but not wants", it calls to mind two problems. First, it conjures up images of a bleak, austere world that isn't very much fun. And second, how do we even decide what's a need and what's a want? How do we distinguish them? It can be a very blurry line, and consensus could elude us forever.
But banning consumer advertising solves both of these problems.
First, it won't make the world dull and gray, because all the same products that you already buy would still be available. You can still buy everything you want to buy. The only difference is, you'd no longer be poked and prodded and psychologically manipulated into buying them.
And secondly, the very existence of an advertising/marketing campaign for a product means, inherently, that you don't actually want that product in the first place. The fact that you had to be manipulated, with state-of-the-art psych techniques, into wanting something, means that it's not only not a want, but not a need either. If you don't even want something, then it's obviously not a need! So the blurry line vanishes, and we don't even need to debate which side of it a previously advertising-dependent product falls on.
In a world with advertising, you can be fooled into thinking you need something (because advertisers are skilled at making you feel like your wants are actually needs - it's their whole profession) - but in a world without advertising, if you don't want something, you can be 100% sure you don't need it either. Advertising is what makes the wants/needs line a blurry one - and without advertising, the line becomes clear and crisp.
Consumer advertising and marketing have no rationale for existing in a world of such dangerous over-consumption. This entire industry should be completely abolished and strictly banned, immediately.
"What about all the people with jobs in that industry? Are you gonna just let them starve, and sleep on the street?"
No. That's where Universal Basic Income comes in. UBI is an absolutely vital, indispensable necessity for an orderly transition to a benign economy.
13. 5G, 6G, and RF Radiation
An immediate halt to the deployment of 5G and 6G, and a gradual phase-out of non-essential RF telecommunications, replacing them with land-based lines (fiber-optic).
Here's why.
14. GMO's
Genetically modified organisms are a dangerous Frankenstein experiment. And if the climate crisis has taught us anything, it's to stop it with the dangerous Frankenstein experiments!
It's not the same as "breeding." GMO cuts and pastes genes that would never occur through breeding. There is no way to "breed", for example, a corn plant with E. Coli genes spliced into it. This is insane. It's like, "what could possibly go wrong?"
And it's not "helping to feed the world" - it's starving the world. Because it's killing animal populations that are vital to ecosystems. It could be a major culprit behind the ongoing "insect apocalypse."
That's because these insects are adapted to a certain food source - corn - and when you genetically modify the corn ,you're opening up a Pandora's Box of mutations that can cause the food to no longer be as nutritious to the insects, and possibly even be poisonous to them, over long periods of time. You're messing around with the enzymes, the proteins, and all sorts of things that nobody fully understands because no scientists is a god. No scientist knows all of the possible consequences of such experiments.
15. The Automobile
The automobile is the stupidest invention ever invented by mankind, and the more you think about it, the more obvious it becomes.
Climate Plan Bans/Restrictons
C. Requirements
1. Truthful Retail Pricing
The dollar price will go up, but the real price won't. You're already paying a higher price - much higher than what's on the tag or the label - through the environmental destruction that comes with the production. But you didn't know that because these externalities weren't factored into the retail price.
All we're saying to do here is shift the price from invisible to visible - from indirect to direct. Pay it at the counter. - rather that years down the road in the form of loss of ecology.
Climate Plan Requirements
D. Concepts to Abolish
1. Corporate Personhood
Abolish corporate personhood. The whole purpose of a corporation is to absolve individuals of responsibility for their actions. Why is that a good thing? It's not. It's absurd. And it's absurd that any society could be brainwashed into thinking that that could be a good thing.
Mine landfills instead.
2. Copyright
It's time for our civilization to grow up, and abolish the concept of copyright.
Copyright makes no sense. It's destructive. It's preventing the maturation of our civilization. Everyone has a piece of the technological puzzle, but we can't pout them all together because no one owns the rights to all of it. Or everyone is sitting on secrets that they're not sharing with others, so everyone makes sub-par low-quality things, which waste more resources, and consume more of the planet.
Much of the consumption we're doing is unnecessary happens because everyone is using inefficient technological systems, despite better ones existing.
We can't afford this anymore. These are immature, childish, juvenile games that our civilization has been playing with the life of the planet.
The objection, of course, is that we "need" copyright to stimulate innovation.
No, we don't. In fact, it's the opposite. The financial incentive for innovation is what corrupts innovation and pushes us onto the dangerous paths that we've been on.
This is obvious. If something needs to be invented, people will want to invent it because they want to help the world. If something is truly good for society, then the goodness by itself will motivate people to want to research into inventing it.
And furthermore, if money is the only incentive to invent something, then that thing probably shouldn't be invented. It's probably bad for society. It will probably make society worse, and the planet worse, and people more unhappy. Because it's being invented from greed, not from the heart. We have to innovate from our hearts, and bring our hearts and true inner wisdom to the process of innovation. When you introduce the financial incentive element, you're shifting the process away from the heart, away from altruism, and toward short term immediate self interest, which is exactly the reason why were in this ecological crisis in the first place!
So copyright is not only unnecessary for innovation, it's actually detrimental to innovation. The financial incentive for innovation hurts innovation. It corrupts it, and pushes it onto the wrong path. And we have the eco-crisis, all the crises around us, as proof of that. We've been inventing the wrong technologies, we've been applying the whole concept of tech in the wrong way, and that's why we're in this mess.
The reason why copyright was invented was to speed up the process of innovation without taking into account the direction that the newly sped up innovation would take. Why is it better to have fast innovation of corrupt and detrimental tech? Why is that better? Of course it's not. And copyright is what made that.
And, copyright is preventing our maturation as a society.
This person over here is using dirty energy when he could be using clean, but he just doesn't have the copyright for it. Perhaps this person over here, this major production company over here produces a lot of so so or pretty good product, but it could be better, but they don't know the secrets that another company has, so they can't make it the best that it can be. So it's less efficient, it uses more resource and it pushes the planet further in the direction of tropocide.
With this in mind, not only should we abolish copyrights, but we should force all manufacturing companies to publish their formulas, trade secrets, so that everyone can use them. Because we need to.
If you're stuck in saying "no no no me me mine mine mine", then you're an immature person, and you're contributing toward our civilization remaining immature, which is pushing us toward extinction. You need to grow up. Stop it with this me me mine mine or that's mine... Stop it. We can't afford that anymore.
3. Ecosystem Ownership
The concept of "land ownership" is driving the ecological crisis, both because of its origins in Dominion Cosmology, and because of the inherent wastefulness of monarchical resource control (see #4, Economic Feudalism).
4. Economic Feudalism
Economic Feudalism (also known as "capitalism") lies near the center of all of these problems. It's a primary driver of the ecological crisis. When resources are allocated based on money, horrible wastefulness always results. Rich people always spend resources on pointless vanities and monuments to egotism - and the richer they are, the more egregious they are about it. The more inequality there is, the less efficiently our society uses resources.
We do not have room to be playing these kinds of games anymore. Our planet is dying from over-consumption. We have to minimize our consumption - and we're not going to do that while rich people are building themselves 10 yachts per family, or any of the other insane and obscene ways in which they spend the limited resources of this planet.
We will have to evolve to a more healthy economic system. There is no way around this.
Resources need to start going where they're actually needed, instead of just where there's the most money. Money is not an efficient or smart allocator of resources. Look around you: the entire ecological crisis proves that. We have to decouple the distribution of resources from the possession of money.
The question of "what to do with resources" must be answered democratically from now on. When everyone has a say, the decisions will be much more fair, much more equitable, and much more efficient.
To learn more, visit our page on Economic Democracy.
5. Nationalism and Borders
Abolish nationalism. We need planetary consciousness. The planet is one living system. It's a living organism, and you can't create divisions within an organism and expect it to help that organism. The more divisions you have, the more it interferes with the function of that organism.
Borders are interfering with our ability to realize our membership in the planetary community. They're preventing the formation of planetary consciousness by keeping everyone focused on their own little chunk. They're preventing cooperation, and we need to cooperate as a total planet in order to overcome these crises.
To learn more, and to see every conceivable argument in favor of keeping the "nation-states and borders" system roundly and conclusively debunked, visit our page on:
Borders, Immigrants, and World Travel
Climate Plan Concepts to Abolish
3. Collective Projects
These are actions that require a collective intention, and coordination between people.
Some of these (like the ones in the beginning) will only require the coordination of your local community - your neighborhood - your Village.
But as we go down the list, the degree of coordination required will increase. Some of the later items will require the coordination of much of the planet.
The important thing to note here is that, while a lot of these projects have been floated by many people, it's time to get serious about them.
Not just allowing it, not just nodding at it, not just paying lip service to it, not just saying "yea sure maybe some day", and not just being "down with it" - but actually making it a primary priority of society, and giving it an amount of physical resources appropriate for its newly recognized paramountcy. Transfer hundreds of billions of dollars from the war industry to the permaculture industry. The same amount of R and D the military has been getting, we must now give to finding ways to integrate our civilization harmoniously with Nature, to allow the Earth to heal.
1. Restore natural social units.
2. Convert mono-crop fields into food forests.
Of course this will mean no more rows, no more big industrial farm equipment. It also means pretty much everyone is involved in the food growing process.
But that's a good thing, as most mental illness comes from being disconnected from Nature; and, if everyone reestablishes that connection, most mental illness will disappear. We will all be much happier - especially those who are the most lonely and alienated in our current society.
It also means cooperation, and a willingness to share, to get to know our neighbors, and to trust in community.
Also it means we have to reevaluate our centuries-old system of land-proprietorship, abolish private ownership of non-private spaces, and let the commons be commons again, belonging to the whole village. (See below, dismantling capitalism)
3. Build local permaculture economies.
See our plan for permaculture for more details.
4. Grow hemp
It needs to be a matter of public policy to grow as much hemp as possible, as quickly as possible. A massive program to distribute hemp seeds and plant them everywhere. This will fix soil, sequester carbon, and provide economic products (building materials, textiles, paper, rope fibers, medicine, nutrition, and much more) to replace the more wasteful products that we're currently using.
Now you might be thinking: "But hemp products aren't that great. Hempcrete isn't as strong as concrete. Hemp clothing is kind of rough. Hemp can't replace all these things, and still keep the same level of quality."
Yes it can. Ponder this.
When cotton was first used to make clothes, in the very beginning, do you think it was super soft and nice?
No. Cotton was pretty rough in the beginning. Because they hadn't gotten the art down yet, and they hadn't perfected the technology of cotton weaving. When it was still in its early stages, it was rough, the clothes didn't hold together all that well, and it wasn't that great of a material.
But, lots of research and development was done. Lots and lots and lots of resources time labor money, thought, energy, everything was poured into cotton and its research, for centuries, in order to get us to the state of the tech as it is today.
Same with concrete. Same with wood construction. All these other materials had the full might of scientific community researching them, supported by the full funding of the business community.
If hemp had had that same level of funding and energy poured into it, for the same amount of time, then hemp would be just as advanced as these other materials. And, judging from its general miraculousness, probably 10 times better. 10 times more useful and perfect for its function.
The reason why hemp-based tech is not at level of others is because the research wasn't done. And the reason why is not just because people didn't care enough to put the money in. Not because there wasn't enough funding. Not just that. It wasn't just zero. It was negative. Hemp research wasn't just underfunded. It was prohibited. Even if someone wanted to research it, and had the funding and facilities to do so, the state would hunt them down destroy their labs and their lives, and throw them in prison for 20 years. The government broke up families because people tried to research this.
That was a crime. A multi-generational, multi-decade crime, against not only humanity, but the entire living world. And justice will be restored!
5. Invest in hydroponics, and vertical gardening
6. Aquaculture development for seaweed.
7. Expedite development of plant-based meats.
Factory produced meat protein that does not involve animals for the production of meat.
8. Build desalination plants
9. Green the deserts.
A perfect way to use the newly freed-up military infrastructure.m
Desert-greening is a massive project, requiring military-level budget, resources, tech, and expertise.
10. Renewable energy.
Again, we need to use our military infrastructure to build as much of it as possible, as quickly as possible.
11. Clean up the landfills.
The existence of landfills is enough, all by itself, to prove that we are not yet a mature civilization.
12. Clean up the oceans.
13. Intuitive transit system.
Our current transportation network was patched together in a series of whims by rich people and developers seeking nothing but short-term profits. And as a result, it's a mess. It makes no sense whatsoever.
We have almost a 1 to 1 ratio of roads to residences.
But if we live in coherent communities, instead of this hodge-podge, then we can have 1 road per community, while still having easy and convenient transit to wherever we need to go, while freeing up the vast majority of land that's currently under asphalt, to give back to Nature.
We need a transportation network that is scale-appropriate.
This will be a massive job, and we need to approach it with a military level of seriousness and resources. In fact, the world's militaries should be repurposed for this, among other projects. We can even use parts from dismantled weapons as building materials.
14. Make peace in the war between the sexes
Consumerism is a primary driver of the ecological crisis, and unhappiness is the ground from which consumerism grows. And the war between the sexes is one of the main sources of unhappiness in humanity today.
15. Establish a UBI
To cushion all the people unemployed by the abolition of those industries (advertising, lawn-mowimg, fossil fuels, cars, big pharma, etc.)
16. Establish the Planetary Protectorate.
The Protectorate is the only way to make a lasting peace.
And we need peace, now, because the world's militaries are causing an enormous amount of environmental destruction and pollution. War is the most wasteful human enterprise, by far.
When we no longer have wars, we can:
-Dismantle weapons and use the materials to build healthy technology (see below)
-Re-purpose weapons factories as healthy technology factories
-Re-direct all that manpower (and womanpower) into projects to heal the planet.
Climate Plan Collective Projects
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