How we became more than 7 billion – humanity’s population explosion, visualized

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Let Us Do Something About the Future Now! Not After It Happens.
https://www.modelearth.org/gosus.html

The unpredictable nature of any of the next coming crises--and their, justifiably presumed,...

What Would Make Non-Violence Work?
https://www.modelearth.org/terror.html

What would make non-violent means of resolving differences work? One thing that would make non-violent means work could...

<b>Whatever there might be of a "community" here--yes it is, perhaps, learning to "... meet its members' needs
without dependence on violent, unjust, non-sustainable systems...", but at such a...

<b>To only <i>start</i> thinking about the worst, arthunter's link to https://wearechange.org/why-the-global-financial-meltdown-happened-and-how-to-deal-with-it/ is a good start.
As to the best, in...

<b>In this our case it would/could mean con-united by sharing (one way or another) the same piece of geography and the same time? In a which case one would not have to "join"? ....
But I suspect I...

<b>It doesn't matter what the "worst", nor what the "best" could be, no matter the degree of worstness or bestness--how ready are we?</b><br><br>

<b>I thought it remarkable:

Islamic leaders issue bold call for rapid phase out of fossil fuels....

<b>The end-result of "working with others in building environments that support the flow of life energy within and between us, which are those within which all real human needs can be met" is...

<br><br><b>Dr. Dana Meadows: Envisioning A Sustainable World.

I just posted at the "Reader" - https://www.waccobb.net/forums/editpost.php?do=updatepost&p=192945 a video -...

<b>The Necessary Qualities of Sustainable Earth Vision.

A sustainable Earth vision has to be universal --it has to
optimally accommodate everyone's personal vision of what a
sustainable life on...

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Not much can more needs to be said; the way I read is that all the protesting against anything we don't like in our reality might change things at best superficially, but in the end it might...

We have to know what it is that we want first! If we do not know what it is that we want well, then we just end up with anything to no one satisfaction! But even when I know what I want well, is it...

To come up with a mere definition of what a "new society for a peaceful, humane, sustainable world" would not be enough. We have to _know_ what a "new society for a peaceful, humane, sustainable...

This was created by Saturday Table, a group concerned about the homeless and those in need of a meal.


https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2015-06-07_19-07-04.png

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<b>Then--again:
What is it that we do want? (In this case, presumably, for the whole planet.) Is what I want the same as what you do? Because, if it is not the same thing that we want for the whole...

Yes, humans are still evolving after a worldwide catastrophe, caused by a giant meteorite striking the Earth some over sixty mill. years ago, causing the relatively stable environment become upset,...

About warfare--the actual armed conflict is only, of course, the "tip of the iceberg", the rest of which is the whole human civilization. All competition is for resources ultimately, whether the...

[B]This has been done in most of Oceania, Polynesia, and many other parts of the world in times before the arrival of more advanced (??) peoples. Take New Guinea--many different kinds of sustainable...

<b>We, the 1% and the 99%, have to realize that we all share the same common ground--the Earth and the future--and that we have to share wisely, because if we don't, the consequences will be felt by...

I attended a meeting at the St. Stephens Church the other day, it was felt that the Sebastopol homeless should have a bulletin board somewhere--could it be at WaccoBB?
Hearthstone.

This bellow was written over twenty years ago--I wonder if anything ever became of it?

Envisioning a Sustainable World
( it is better formatted online -...

<b>This world needs to be redesigned--it's malfunctioning.
"Grass Roots Government--by All for All" - www.modelearth.org/grassgov.html
Thanks, Hearthstone.</b><br><br>

<b>Preventing a Ton of Cure: Disaster Preparedness.</b>
<b>(a timely rerun, I think)</b>

<b>Disasters, be they natural or human made, do occur--they have been occurring all throughout human...

With the oncoming environmental changes (raising sea level, shortage of water and other resources, shortage of space to live) a small population level humanity could find it easier to move to for...

Again--it is forgotten in our considerations about the optimal human population level that we not only share the resource of the area available for living with other humans only, but also with all...

Business as usual--we'll continue resolving our differences in real life, causing real waste of time, resources, and life to happen.
If we started resolving our differences according to the concept...

<b>What seems to make sense?</b><br>(Life too short, videos too long ...)

It might be so that, roughly speaking, two children in a developed country might use as much as ten (or even more) in a third world one....

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/gallery/2015/apr/01/over-population-over-consumption-in-pictures

From EANTH-L online archives -...

It is obvious that with an infinite expansion of human population on a finite area brings increasing problems to the whole Earth system.
What do you think the density of human population--one...

Somewhere I saw a picture from an Occupy demonstration in which somebody was holding a sign which read:
"99%+1%=100%".
This is what, I think, should be happening: All from all sides of a conflict...

"Victory Gardens" anyone?

From
https://reclaimgrowsustain.com/content/russians-proving-small-scale-organic-gardening-can-feed-world
(via Mother Earth News)

Russians Proving That Small-Scale,...

The Existence of Homelessness Epitomizes Our "Civilization" Perfectly.
(online: www.modelearth.org/sanehome.html )

For a human to have a home is a necessity, not a right, because a home should be...

I am re-initiating the thread as it left its intended purpose: the posting was meant to investigate ways of dealing with the causes of societal violence; not with yet another "prohibition"--we should...

Dear Edward,

I am having difficulties getting to the video--what is it about?

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<br><br>Even with the guns gone, the insanity causing gun violence will express itself in other ways. Our society is in need of serious healing, rather.<br>Thanks, Hearthstone.<br><br>

Preventing a Ton of Cure: Disaster Preparedness.

Disasters, be they natural or human made, do occur--they have been occurring all throughout human history, they occur nowadays; they are nothing...

Designing a Sustainable Community:
The Ongoing "Master Plan".

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model...

Some Basic Qualities of a Sane World.

No matter how the initial "vision"/model of a sane world would originate (whether put together by a "few individuals", or by collective, cooperative effort),...

Home: The Very "Leverage Point". ¹
online: https://www.modelearth.org/leverage.html


The most obvious place where a meaningful intervention would start a profound change for better...

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete"*
(Buckminster Fuller)

Thank you, Hearthstone -...