Preventing a Ton of Cure: Disaster Preparedness.

[hearthstone]

Preventing a Ton of Cure:
Disaster Preparedness.
online: www.ModelEarth.Org/art01.html

Disasters, be they natural or human made, do occur--they have been occurring all throughout human history, they occur even nowadays; they are nothing new to us. They do not surprise us.

Sadly though, whenever a disaster causing human and material damages happens, we act very shocked and surprised, time after time again. I say "act", because we should not, really, act surprised each time a disaster causes life loss and damage, wherever this might happen in the world, because we know of the possibility of disasters happening just about at any place on Earth, and we can envision what damages might occur at those places at such times.

Common sense dictates that it would be much wiser to prevent and to mitigate any possible effects of any disaster before it happens! I am sure that the state of the art of our science is such that we already are aware of the inadequacy of our disaster preparedness--why don't we use our capabilities, our knowledge to be ready (better than we are now) in case of disasters, and more importantly--why don't we do everything humanly possible to prevent the terrible damages and life loss that happen every so often before a disaster does happen?

All this that I write is very trite, but it is true--time after time again. We know that disasters do happen; we know very well what the aftermath of any potential disaster anywhere in the world could be, and yet--anytime a disaster strikes, we play the same game over and over again. We feel very sorry for the victims, we feed the huge relief industry with our money, and we are ready for the next round, without ever trying to address the problem at where it might be stemming from well enough to make a difference.

Wouldn't it be much more humane to become concerned before disasters happen, and feel compassion for our neighbors before something preventable happens and causes grief to them?

Here is what I would like to suggest:
Let us have a look all over the globe, and let us try to imagine what damages could happen should a disaster, natural or otherwise, happen there.
Let us not stop there; Let us do get prepared for any relief might be necessary in the future for after disasters happen, but--let us also start suggesting what the optimal conditions at each potential disaster site would have to be to make the damage and loss of life minimal, should a disaster happen there.

May all these suggestions be made "visible" in models that would be accessible to anyone on the Internet, or by using what-so-ever media available, and may all this be open to critique and input by anyone who might feel that they may have some ideas pertinent to the subject to offer.
It would not be realistic to expect that all of these suggestions of how the ideal situations in which as little damage and life loss would happen in case of disasters would be immediately followed up upon, but, all of these suggestions would be there to be implemented when possible. The models would be there for anyone to see where to put their efforts into before anything bad happens, rather than be ever so concerned after a disaster strikes.

The news that we hear on the radio on the TV, etc., after each disaster strikes are the wrong kind of news. What the news should be about every day, should be about how we are preventing the next disaster from happening! About what the potential dangers are where, and about what should be done so that the next disaster, should it happen, would cause as little damage as possible.

Thank you sincerely - Hearthstone - www.ModelEarth.Org
--
Creating Lasting Peace:
https://www.modelearth.org/peace.html

If we, the people, were really sincere about having real Peace in the
world, we would pursue creating Peace by peaceful means more actively
rather than by relying on our military might!

[Thad]

We are thinking along similar lines. In your reference to Modeling and in terms of that there being many revisions as an active process I have a very crude model hear that could stand some revisions and would be something I would vote for every day. I believe its subject could be as the lowest cost of simultaneously solving a problem and creating a template.

If you like anything, edit it and paste it into a reply as in an evolution of drafts to aim for the beginning of a project. I think this would be the biggest bang for the buck, the soonest implemented and the quickest return on interest

The Theme of this below is undiscovered currency.

Proposal

A New Formula

Academy for The Enlightened Response

( A.F.T.E.R )

Focus

To create a matrix for the application of advances now available in education, technology and psychology, in the form of personalized contracts that will address the nub of need from which all other applications of care expand to revitalize, inspire and utilize the talents and interests of the damaged individuals of our day.

(as well as those capable of self-captaincy yet needing an alternative environment for the flowering of their hopes)


Actions towards this goal are as follows:

To create a Vocational Academy, boarding facility, campground and or hostel utilizing various forms of housing, dependant on the social, economic capacity of the applicant at onset. These could range from backpack dwelling units, pedal-powered RV styled crafts and dead cars remodeled into micro-habitats to trailers, assembled by the occupant, first nights camping on the bare wheel base as initial start point for vocational project.

1.the campground is the immediately available option

a. Imagine the effect of catered campsites at state and local parks: 8 people a site equals $2.00 a night lodging, imagine those on site, willing workers, with a transportation shuttle account available for morning and evening transits

b. 2 weeks camping would allow more grace for odd counseling moments to occur…next camp locations carefully extend, a series of refining camps and the campers become organized units, cottage industry on site and fine administration of chores lead confidence in ones place in the circle


A sweat equity format, legitimate corporate base, personal initiative, and stock holding requirements, contracts designed per attention span, Individuals who quit prior to the completion of their agreed upon project would hold a lower rated stock value at payout than those succeeding in their contracts. Rated stock value and personal intention determine ones ability to influence group decisions.

By an ascending or descending rating of stock according to a succession of project completion, incentive to implement and hold to cycles of action would accomplish the task of enhancing self-esteem, confidence in one’s ability to accomplish, as well as the individual’s capital base.

With the orientation to the mobile formula, a lower budget enterprise can prove out a most profitable avenue for integrating the available manpower now available in the homeless population towards community usage. The difference in quality of manpower between one inspired and one simply putting in ones hours would be an easily observable difference.

Motivating and inspiring those now seen as dross can easily be done working within this formula:

1. Provide immediate personal space as described above-

2. Determine a goal that has immediate interest and access-

3. Require assistance to other’s projects till one’s project contract could be designed.

A very tasty environment would occur around those captured by these notions. The availability of a personal zone of privacy and personal possession of a quality piece of workmanship would begin from the onset with the agreement to become faithful to a self chosen project.

These projects could be from something so simple as becoming a crewmember on a dog cart litter patrol, to experimenting with Wave and tidal micro-hydro plants, recycled material product development, Trade or Craft Guild enrollment, or any project that had convergence with an aspect of neglect, need, or social/ technical innovation.


ACTIONS

Selecting a crew of people from the homeless population, who have no “seeming” goals beyond the reach of a day, active interests or assets and suspicious to the point of paranoia towards anyone with an interest in them that requires any reach of time.

Taking a donated dead vehicle and swarming it to render it a personal zone of privacy as a micro dwelling, while functioning as a shelter from the onset. Individuals, in order to maintain support and holdings, will agree to daily commitment to its development. As resources are required, time exchange through labor pools would have higher value than the dollars and cents received as cash the increase in value of the vehicles as time passes would be viewed as a personal equity holding when project completes. In the course of this, a full suite of shop skills would be encountered introducing the individual to trades of interest leading to economic possibilities for employment unknown before this action. The atmosphere of this project being that any creative activity tending to personal enhancement is the engaging matrix and that unrealistic expectations by authority being the general cause of failure.

Expectations are held to what attention span is available to work with towards integrating the individual into an ascending gradient of successful contract completion. Beginning with projects of a day ascending towards those requiring a greater reach of time and resources provides a real enhancement of the individual’s stock rating.

Self-captaincy and leadership qualities would be extracted through the process of individual project formation. To captain a crew on one’s project as well as becoming crewmember to others projects the eventual goal, with great attention applied towards individualized economic formulas.

The points taken into consideration as to the vehicular mode of dwelling are these:

That it is the lowest dollar approach confronting the fact that some who would wish to dwell with others but because of either economic, mental, emotional, social, or habitual reasons cannot create the relationships to achieve the more acceptable form of housing.

To those too long on the fringe, it is much more acceptable to lose oneself into the mass of “oppression” than to take charge of one’s condition, so

Offering an open-ended ascension for those inclined, it would also be acceptable that those yet to be online would have personal dwelling provisions, but attached to a personal contract a bit more distant from those actively pursuing their future.

You work with what you have to work with and it is time the progressive mind is put to the task of coming up with an educational aspect that takes more into focus than the economic avenue or integrating into the status quo.

So remove the time lag between application and reward and since we live in a system so dependent on credit and the entrepreneurial instinct, that principal applies here on a daily basis. With the successful completion of a day’s contract enhancing one’s credit account to that degree, the next day’s activity may be so directed as to include a greater scope of options, in line with the limits of one’s credit resource of that day

A bicycle works seems a reasonable vocational endeavor in the beginning of this school’s progression, borrowing technology from Zap motor works, making available pedal-powered water crafts as well as tricycle RV’s that could taxi to a property somewhere.

With a possible campground orientation for those with active projects, resources for projects can be earned through whatever one’s ability to commit to daily economic actions. The low cost factor would make manpower available to community usage. The guiding principle being that all people at whatever beginning condition can be utilized for both, their own and others benefit.

Those capable of working normal hours, with the social skills available to maintain co-housing, rather than rent, monies accrued become as sweat equity in real property holdings. Individuals could replace themselves and opt out with capital, or utilize capital as entrepreneurial funding and continue as crewmembers towards a noble goal

Profit considerations as to viability have more to do with limited perceptions of yields, Strange isn’t it nine peoples rent money could buy so much more than what they would have with each alone trying to rent

Imagine a campground with a spiraling perimeter where at the center are those captaining their initiative in grand fashion and those on the fringe functioning on a basic contract, able to view the difference in quality of life and open access based on a refined contract.

It’s at this point the potentials of a Drug weaning program come into perspective, that in the comparison of ones daily life with those gaining in self-captaincy the observation becomes the persuasion to attempt a self-imposed program of diminishing drug usage…

It’s my thought that those whose habits limit their abilities would be far more attracted towards change by being allowed their position to view those whose habits have come under review and the difference between as time passes. This is based on contracts of:

Decisions self-imposed have a longer life than those coerced. People leaving behind bad habits can have a positive effect simply by being available to view.

It’s time solutions were tailor-made, engineered with the aspect of pragmatic formula in consideration of attention span and increments of success, I.e., a person living in a shelter would have a major step up simply by moving into a dead vehicle being remodeled into a mini RV. Such a solution would have a real property asset with a visible enhancement in equity, which would be woven into the basic contract. Skills would be acquired in the process of someone creating a minor domain of personal privacy. Such a possession in terms of monetary output has no comparison in present formulas.

Humans have creative natures. Those who do not, function below their capacity. The path upward lays the awakening initiative. To create any successful formula for integrating lost souls lies in allowing the entire condition one comes with to be self-compared with those making better decisions and this on a much more intimate level than watching someone drive by or the pompous promos of the look at me’s when there’s really not much to look at

I see a campground with a spiraling perimeter. Those at the core welcoming the viewing of their formulas, inviting the outs in, to refine their behavior as project development heats the matrix of interaction, becoming crewmembers until the time they captain their own projects, schooling into a human family as the day passes. Elitism by velocity means that those on the perimeter by the effects of their daily choices can see for themselves the more interesting things being achieved by those refining their actions solely in the needs of a project’s flow during the span of a day.


By amending a basic contract…

Minimal contracts get camping privileges,

Refined contracts, daily, amended

Get access to tools and resources.

With the basic requisite that one must choose an expandable project to participate, I believe the lessons of the workplace, such as being a good crewmember, pruning one’s limiting notions, taking initiative and being respectful of resources is a good enough lesson to begin with.


Imagination is the key to heaven

Within imagination, the battles are won or lost. How one sees oneself engages creativity to prove it out.

Education enhances capacity.

Enhanced capacity encounters a finer range of options.

Associating with those whose range of options is expanding creates surprise

In contrast the cliché

“Familiarity breeds contempt”

Is proven true. This principle is in line with the nature of the creature: that one is only as alive as their curiosity and so should one live in such a way as to no longer provoke curiosity…then what is left?

An odd allusion can be made to a scriptural reference, that “except ye become as a little child, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven” means this to me.

One thing most essential beyond the platitudes of moldability, obedience, innocence, is this

A child has yet to define the nature of reality

That “reality” could still be anything

That life is constantly a surprising thing

The idealistic expectation has yet to be sullied by the “nature of reality”

That nothing is better than being with loving people and that curiosity is rampant.

Preventing a Ton of Cure:
Disaster Preparedness.
online: 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 even nowadays; they are nothing new to us. They do not surprise us.

Sadly though, whenever a disaster causing human and material damages happens, we act very shocked and surprised, time after time again. I say "act", because we should not, really, act surprised each time a disaster causes life loss and damage, wherever this might happen in the world, because we know of the possibility of disasters happening just about at any place on Earth, and we can envision what damages might occur at those places at such times.

Common sense dictates that it would be much wiser to prevent and to mitigate any possible effects of any disaster before it happens! I am sure that the state of the art of our science is such that we already are aware of the inadequacy of our disaster preparedness--why don't we use our capabilities, our knowledge to be ready (better than we are now) in case of disasters, and more importantly--why don't we do everything humanly possible to prevent the terrible damages and life loss that happen every so often before a disaster does happen?

All this that I write is very trite, but it is true--time after time again. We know that disasters do happen; we know very well what the aftermath of any potential disaster anywhere in the world could be, and yet--anytime a disaster strikes, we play the same game over and over again. We feel very sorry for the victims, we feed the huge relief industry with our money, and we are ready for the next round, without ever trying to address the problem at where it might be stemming from well enough to make a difference.

Wouldn't it be much more humane to become concerned before disasters happen, and feel compassion for our neighbors before something preventable happens and causes grief to them?

Here is what I would like to suggest:
Let us have a look all over the globe, and let us try to imagine what damages could happen should a disaster, natural or otherwise, happen there.
Let us not stop there; Let us do get prepared for any relief might be necessary in the future for after disasters happen, but--let us also start suggesting what the optimal conditions at each potential disaster site would have to be to make the damage and loss of life minimal, should a disaster happen there.

May all these suggestions be made "visible" in models that would be accessible to anyone on the Internet, or by using what-so-ever media available, and may all this be open to critique and input by anyone who might feel that they may have some ideas pertinent to the subject to offer.
It would not be realistic to expect that all of these suggestions of how the ideal situations in which as little damage and life loss would happen in case of disasters would be immediately followed up upon, but, all of these suggestions would be there to be implemented when possible. The models would be there for anyone to see where to put their efforts into before anything bad happens, rather than be ever so concerned after a disaster strikes.

The news that we hear on the radio on the TV, etc., after each disaster strikes are the wrong kind of news. What the news should be about every day, should be about how we are preventing the next disaster from happening! About what the potential dangers are where, and about what should be done so that the next disaster, should it happen, would cause as little damage as possible.

Thank you sincerely - Hearthstone - www.ModelEarth.Org
--
Creating Lasting Peace:
creating peace on earth cooperatively

If we, the people, were really sincere about having real Peace in the
world, we would pursue creating Peace by peaceful means more actively
rather than by relying on our military might!