This work is about sharing regional 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 keep developing 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, then use those results to determine optimum human
populations for regions. Within human systems, every culture would
claim a share of local resources and global services. For example,
the Colorado river would be allocated a percentage of water to keep
the river and its downstream ecosystems healthy-this may require
50% or more of all the water flow. The remaining water would be
divided between resident cultures sharing the river environments up
and downstream. This approach promises a fair way to deal with
carbon emissions, toxic wastes, and energy use, also. The equal
apportionment of 'resources' to all cooperating participants in a
regional 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 together,
although in the human legal system, humans represent the interests
of all other beings, much as they are starting to do now. This
reapportionment is enhanced by the wisdom of harmony and the
drawing and making of ecological zones, which emphasizes the
relative 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, but that is minimal compared to the
suffering and death under the current industrial system, which
encourages the consumption of everything and large differences in
the distribution of wealth. 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
regional harmony, without having enough knowledge or experience.
Ecological design requires participation and cooperation to
accomplish its ambitious goals. It has to be flexible and adapt to
changing environments. It has to be adaptive and accept feedback.
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 regional scales, but considering the local
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 civilization out of physical
and social traps; it means redefining cultural adaptations,
corporate goals and responsibilities, formal commons, styles of
conflict, economic frameworks, political forms and sizes, religious
applications, and even advertising. The purpose of all this is to
restore harmony to systems that support health and development.
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