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Redesigning the Planet - Local Systems: Reshaping the Constructs of Civilizations through the Use of Ecological Design & Other Conceptual & Practical Tools, such as Common Sense, Deep Ecology, Totemism, Systems Theory, Metaphor, Holistic Science, Though (Paperback)
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Redesigning the Planet - Local Systems: Reshaping the Constructs of Civilizations through the Use of Ecological Design & Other Conceptual & Practical Tools, such as Common Sense, Deep Ecology, Totemism, Systems Theory, Metaphor, Holistic Science, Though (Paperback)
Series: Redesigning the Planet, 2
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This work is about sharing the local (as well as 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 local place needs to develop in a stable flow, then we set
aside a satisfactory area of the place 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 local places, regions and the planet. Within human
systems, every culture would claim a share of local resources and
global services not set aside for wild regeneration. Ecological
design would work on global and regional scales, as well as the
local scale. For example, the Colorado river would be allocated a
percentage of water to keep the river and its downstream ecosystems
(including shallow ocean canyons) 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 upstream.
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 the global commons
(identified with the new word 'Koinomics'-See glossary for
neologisms and terms) is supported by the theory and practice of
recognizing and honoring the legacy of the entire planet that hosts
its legatees as tenants (identified here as 'Legatism') and is
supported by the 'rule' of all beings (identified as 'Panocracy'),
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 (identified as
'Harmosophy') and the drawing and making of ecological zones
(identified as 'Zonagraphy'), 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 for wealthier
groups, but that is minimal compared to the suffering and death
under the current system, which encourages overconsumption 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 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, 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 encourage health and development.
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