Some Suggestions for Designing a
Sustainable Earth Co-operatively.
(a rough draft)
Abstract:
Unless we,
all humans on Earth become truly ecologically and socially
sustainable, only a few of us (in person, or in our progeny) can
hope to survive the current crises that humanity is facing.
Unless we know what "ecological and social sustainability" is, we
can never become sustainable.
The sustainability of anything could be proven by using
modeling1 (of any appropriate kind) to show
transparently, obviously that earth and societal processes
involving humans run unobstructed, with the absence of any
"out-of-control" ("runaway", "positive feedback") processes in any
sort of situations being tested for sustainability.
(One of the ways of testing/proving) The sustainability of any of
the purportedly sustainable ways of life at any level of complexity could be (proven) by
"evolving" those fully transparently from the conceivably simplest
level of sustainable living to more complex ones step by step in
models (of any appropriate kind), in order to ensure that more complex sustainable ways would progressively remain indeed *transparently*
sustainable at any stage of complexity.
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Notes:
1 "modeling"
5. the representation, often mathematical, of a process, concept,
or operation of a system, often implemented by a computer
program.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/modeling
2 "gedanken experiment"
-noun (Physics)
thought experiment.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gedanken+experiment
3 "viable social group"
is the smallest possible social unit. It is viable in the sense of
being able to perpetuate itself indefinitely on its own, without
needing, for its biological and cultural survival, any contact with
any other members of its species outside itself.
It is possible, though, that due to the limitations on size of a
group (a "community") posed by the ability of all the members of
the group to know each other well, the "viable social group" would
have to comprise a several communities, perhaps; this could be
worked out--if not in the modeling process, then "in the
field".
The need for designing a sustainable world co-operatively is
explained at The Need for
Designing the Future Collaboratively
(http://www.modelearth.org/intro.html).
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