We the people
Every solution presented here is a proven, and available technology. The reasons we are not seeing them implemented and our lives made better and safer is unregulated and unmanaged capitalism. Every solution here will require the will of the people to drive into adoption, a grassroots movement that provides consistent pressure, education, inclusion, and expansion. The truth is that until we can come together and create a better solution than capitalism, we need to use the tools provided in a way that drives change. This does not mean that we should not work to find a better way, it means that the movement mentioned above creates a market driver that creates change.
Human Resources
By building from core human values and commonality, you have created a truly inclusive and diverse approach to change. This allows the broadest possible outreach and influence possible, across a diverse spectrum.
People are the most powerful tool in the humanity tool chest. Once consensus can be reached anything and everything can be addressed. The challenge with this is thousands of years of cultural programming in divisiveness, and a breaking down the foundation of our shared humanity. The Resilient Communities Project is co-developing a way to overcome this as we rebuild the foundation and begin to address the greater problems together!
The Puzzle analogy
Throughout these pages we have referred to the "Jigsaw Puzzle" in which you are a piece. It is the best metaphor we have found to help you visualize the process of coming together. You own a piece of the puzzle whether you know it, or acknowledge it, or not, the question is will you find the will to bring it to the table? Representative means that you have a voice and must use it! That voice is based on your life experiences, your life in total, nobody else has your perspective, they can't. Which means that unless you come to the table, the picture the puzzle creates will not represent you and will therefore be incomplete. Your interacting with others creates a synergy that lets us all see things we could not otherwise see. This is how we create a human future. So, in the immortal words of James Brown, 'Get up offa that thing', and bring your piece to the puzzle!
grassroots political action
The carrot and the stick is a metaphor for our toxic culture. It permeates all levels of interaction with the single concept that somebody wins and somebody loses and the winner gets to set the consequences. It is how our government functions, our business', our relationships, and our religions. We can hear you thinking about how this cannot be right, though in more base words. You only need a little distance and some greater perspective to see that we are not wrong.
Is this how humans are supposed to be? That is a broader question than we can address here. Suffice it to say that we are this way now, but that we were not always this way, and we cannot continue as we are going into the future. How does that work? We are still working on that, we need more pieces to the puzzle do come join us and bring your piece.
What we do know is that we do not need to change the system of government we have, we need to fix the things that are broken and we can only do that together.
Is this how humans are supposed to be? That is a broader question than we can address here. Suffice it to say that we are this way now, but that we were not always this way, and we cannot continue as we are going into the future. How does that work? We are still working on that, we need more pieces to the puzzle do come join us and bring your piece.
What we do know is that we do not need to change the system of government we have, we need to fix the things that are broken and we can only do that together.
Interconnected
We cannot go back, that is the simple truth, so we need to find a way forward together that meets the needs of our humanity. Why? Because we are all interconnected, how can we not be? We live on one planet, which we are depleting at rates that are found only in dystopian science fiction books. We are facing extinction as a species this century, all for the short term profits of the few. How are we interconnected? Here is the punchline... when the systems fails us, we all go down together. No bunker, no island, no place on earth will be unaffected, and in 400 years there will be no sign left that we even existed. We destroy the soil due to factory farming and nobody has food. We fowl and overuse the water for developing the desert, nobody has clean water. We deplete the resources and continue to create mountains of trash and we have nothing to build with. Moving our trash around to other country's does not deal with it even if we call it recycling, burying it in somewhere else does not make it go away and not looking at it as a resource to be reutilized is just plain stupid for our species. Bottom line, we fix this together, or we end together, that is as interconnected as it gets.
We cannot go back, that is the simple truth, so we need to find a way forward together that meets the needs of our humanity. Why? Because we are all interconnected, how can we not be? We live on one planet, which we are depleting at rates that are found only in dystopian science fiction books. We are facing extinction as a species this century, all for the short term profits of the few. How are we interconnected? Here is the punchline... when the systems fails us, we all go down together. No bunker, no island, no place on earth will be unaffected, and in 400 years there will be no sign left that we even existed. We destroy the soil due to factory farming and nobody has food. We fowl and overuse the water for developing the desert, nobody has clean water. We deplete the resources and continue to create mountains of trash and we have nothing to build with. Moving our trash around to other country's does not deal with it even if we call it recycling, burying it in somewhere else does not make it go away and not looking at it as a resource to be reutilized is just plain stupid for our species. Bottom line, we fix this together, or we end together, that is as interconnected as it gets.
"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men." – Herman Melville
Some things need to be localized
- The average produce you get at the grocer travels 900 miles.
- Climate change is affecting regions that have traditionally been agriculture centric via extreme weather and flooding.
- Water is at risk in many areas due to overmining or pollution.
- Power generation is centralized due to investment in generation facilities, preventing adoption of cleaner, more secure local microgrids and renewable application.
- Communication and internet connectivity is managed by monopolized markets, multinational providers and barley managed, in the ground infrastructure that is both costly and limiting.
- Homelessness is on the rise and is one of the largest signifiers of our continuing collapse of human connection. The solutions will need to be developed locally due to the lack of political or corporate will and resources.
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It begins by breaking bread together and builds to connection, and relationship!