This work is about physical, ecological and political designs for
sharing the global resources and services of the planet to meet the
needs of all living beings and their community patterns. It uses
ecological design to create a simple method to implement and manage
the sharing. First, we assess what the planet needs to develop in a
stable flow, then we set aside a satisfactory area of the planet to
ensure the continuing operation of evolution in wild systems. Next,
we measure the ranges of productivities of wild ecosystems as well
as agricultural and urban systems, and use those results to
determine optimum human populations for local places, regions and
the planet. Finally, within human systems, every culture would
claim a share of local resources and global services not set aside
for wild regeneration. The equal apportionment of resources to all
cooperating participants in the global commons is supported by the
practice of recognizing and honoring the 'legacy' of the entire
planet that hosts its legatees as tenants, and is supported by the
'rule' of all beings, although in the human legal system, humans
represent the interests of all other beings, much as we are
starting to do now. This reapportionment is enhanced by the wisdom
of harmony and by the drawing and making of ecological zones, which
emphasize ranges of separation of wild and artificial areas. This
reapportionment of 'resources' that human communities have already
claimed, as well as of resources that have been badly distributed
as a result of theft or violence, may cause some degree of
discomfort or suffering for wealthier people, but that is minimal
compared to the suffering and death under the current industrial
system, which encourages overconsumption and large, immoral
differences in the distribution of wealth. Ecological design would
work on local and regional scales, as well as on the global scale.
Like metaphysics, ecological design has a vision that exceeds its
bounds and a reach that exceeds its grasp. And, we have to use it
to explore possibilities of local and global harmony, without
having complete knowledge or experience. Ecological design requires
participation and cooperation to accomplish its ambitious goals. It
has to be flexible and adapt to changing environments. This means
understanding challenges and problems, as well as natural and
artificial ecosystems, histories and cycles, before using a variety
of physical and conceptual tools to create ecological designs on
local scales, but considering the regional and global implications.
This means trying to design places, ecosystems and landscapes, as
well as cycles and processes. It means redesigning flows of
minerals and gases, wetlands and streams, domestic and wild
forests, and animal paths and reserves. It means redesigning human
patterns, from transportation corridors to traditional and modern
cultures. It means redesigning agriculture, cities-traditional
cities and proposed arcologies-buildings, neighborhoods, vehicles,
industries, and medicine. It means trying to redesign social traps,
cultural adaptations, corporate goals and responsibilities, formal
commons, styles of conflict, economic frameworks, political forms
and sizes, religious applications, and even advertising. And, the
purpose of all this is to restore harmony to systems that support
and encourage health and development, under emergency conditions.
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