Economy. Beyond GDP: The Geological Society

The Geological Society

Nature's Amazing Productivity of Logical Economics Wins.....Fake Numbers of Artificial "Economy" of Empty Numbers that Count Deadly Waste More than Life Loses

Logical ecological economist, Robert Costanza reported in the scientific journal Nature in 1997 that natures' hidden but amazing, living, logical, growing green economy produces 3 times as many services for humans than humans produce for humans (in terms of "GDP")  such as water filtration, air filtration, O2 production, buffering of micro and macro climates and air sheds,  soil production, green habitat production, support for living creatures such as humans, food production, flood prevention, drought prevention, desertification prevention, buffering entire earth systems from cashflow floods....than humans produce for humans in artificial, mechanical packages in walls, human GDP only 1/3 that produced by nature’s amazing genius in every seed, seedling, soil that wants to reach up toward light.  

In 2003, Grist reported that Costanza had changed that ratio from 3:1 to 100:1.....and commented that they were puzzled why "financial advisors" on Wall Street weren't giddy about those dividends ......dividends of amazing, logical economic productivity hidden far from urban walls that nature's invisible flows deliver to the poorest in our cities....without help from the GOP…..nature’s logical economic returns much, much greater than our dying, cracking urban centers of the artificial walls.

Could it be because nature's amazing producers and genius in every self, cell, self, globe, seed, seedling, soil hide so far from the obvious, immediate, everyday, private world and walls of noisy traffic jams and urban sprawled chaos that we're too busy counting empty numbers of simple, mechanical artificial human cash coins and paper that we've forgotten to count outcomes of our actions and oppressive rates of numbers?

Could it be that cash-driven, privatized profiteers know that they need to control distribution of supplies to demand to cling to political control also?  

Could it be that the cash-driven focus so much on obvious, everyday, privatized, immediate things and gadgets and widgets invented by human cities....that they have forgotten about basic critical needs, wants and dreams of the many stuck in the bowels of our crumbling cities?

Do you think that the cash-driven 1% can learn to understand that a happy and healthy human, life, land, earth produces more stuff and critical flows for their own “economy” so that their own cash account can grow?  Or not?

Could it be that the many stuck in thick, dense walls and barriers have difficulty finding critical flows of O2, H2O, rich organic topsoil to grow food hidden far beyond the obvious, privatizing, mechanical toll booths of human cities that block access out and block access in to keep the other out.....blocking also critical flows of O2, H2O, soil, food that many need to find to access any private or public health, "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" of any definition, impossible to count in mechanical human cash.

Could it be that the cash-driven 1% that are seizing control of my country under "Citizens United" a sham have forgotten to read my U.S. Constitution, international laws and treaties, The Rule of Law, Biology 101, and moral laws of reciprocity balanced by nature's amazing balancing of powers, justifying for equality and equalizing for justice for every living cell on earth, each living cell filtering all critical flows that hold our fragile web for all life intact then, now, generations from now?  We can't afford a world limited to totalitarian black or totalitarian white, black bad white good, me good you bad.....We need gray continuums for life and land to function….to produce enough to survive now and generations from now.

Any system, living or not needs a) logical structure, b) logical function, c) critical flows to connect structures enough to function, c) organisms to produce critical flows (such as O2, H2O, soil, food) to keep the system functional (function squared)....to d) produce enough specifically designed critical flows to meet the needs of others, e) to consume enough specifically designed, logical critical flows to function (function cubed), f) nature’s hidden and ancient genetic potentials, genius, logic that has learned to adapt to environment, that shapes environment, a trademark of living organisms to survive., su..g) specific critical flows designed by nature's amazing but hidden genius, hidden genetic potentials and critical flows to connect the disconnected enough to activate hidden genetic potentials to kinetic function to the 4^th power, to energize enough to lift the many up to light enough, light to energize and fulfill all to h) enable living organisms, cell, self, ecosystem, globe to reach up to light enough to produce abundant riches, critical flows and functions and structures and genius /logic enough to count in human cash....critical flows impossible to count in human cash systems that crush life's genius on earth, life and land of infinite productivity potentials if we stop crushing nature’s ability to produce wonders….

Our word root, "eco-" as in "eco+nomic" as in "name" and as in "number" and as in "eco-logic" as in "logic" and "link" and "linguistics" of infinite permutations and flows of ideas means "house" or "oikos" in Greek.......but not every house nurtures those within.

Some houses crush and destroy those within.....Some houses assuming erroneously that mechanical and artificial cash-flow floods of empty numbers mean "riches" or "worth" or "economy..." ….and define “poverty” as lack of empty counts of cash…..when actually that may be a blessing……….the cash-driven 1% assuming erroneously that privatized cash profiteering justifies all.   But it does not....and they are wrong, very, very wrong, wrong scientifically, wrong mathematically, wrong economical, wrong ecologically, wrong morally and often wrong legally, the cash-driven rewriting human history and human law to sell the immoral as acceptable for a privatized profit for only 1%.

After World War I, an entire wheelbarrow of German Marks became worthless....as any artificial, mechanical symbol can change its meaning in an instant.....especially empty, mechanical, artificial rates and numbers of cash-flow floods that destroy nature's productivity, nature's living producers and amazing earth systems that produce critical flows enough to keep humans alive day to day and minute to minute.....until humans destroy life and land and earth's ability to heal a broken earth.   A cash-driven 1% seem to limit counts to empty numbers of cash of, by, for only 1%......but need to wake up and count more than simple, empty numbers of rates of human cash.   The cash-driven 1% such as the Koch brothers, the Bush and Cheney families and the cash-driven and fossilized coal, oil, gas industries need to think about outcomes and potentials for their own childrens' futures.   The evidence has become overwhelming that they have not....and have instead, blocked public access to critical information and resources that All 100% need to change our course of history from a tailspin downward into climate heating and drowning that are destroying human civilization and life.....into a more positive course upwards made possible by an immediate transition from our addictions to dead, dying, fossilized energy that we need to leave in the ground where it belongs....to a more positive course upwards to free us from the negative, by investing immediately asap now yesterday into a cleaner, safer, greener, more affordable, healthier, cost-free, happier Renewable Energy Economy Future to lift all up out of "poverty" to safer, more affordable, efficient access for All to public infrastructure foundations designed to conduit critical flows from nature directly to the many to produce abundant riches, critical flows, cost-efficiency, health, laughter, light to empower all to grow positives enough to count in cash now and generations from now.

Why not?

Cashflow floods kill life and our own childrens' futures.   All hands on deck now.   Why the wait?

Nature, however has perfected (her? his? its? mother's) designing expertise for millions, billions of years to adapt magnificently to changing environments and needs, for living cells of genetic genius to understand how to act to survive (as paramecium one celled organisms seek pleasure and avoid pain also).....nature's amazing genius clearly evident in the very, very specific adaptations of many creatures to their complex environments impossible to explain by Darwin's hijacked theory of the "survival of the fittest" or unnatural "natural selection" used by industrialists 150 years ago to feel better about luring migrants into the cities with "streets of gold" that weren't.   The totalitarian lies continue to this minute.....cash-driven lies that are destroying life and land that we need to produce critical flows of air, breathable oxygen only as O2, water as H2O, rich, organic topsoil and soil makers to grow food for us to eat and forests to grow shelter....to keep humans alive day to day and minute to minute.

But so many just don't get it because nature's amazing and productive genius hide far beyond the obvious of linear, dumbing human walls and barriers that crush life.

We have a chance as a species to become heroes for all living things....if we act now asap immediately yesterday to a) leave dead energy of dinosaurs in the ground, b) divest from dead fossilized energy with the help of the public and private sectors working as a team together to save their own childrens' futures (and public sectors have already blessed oil/gas/coal CEOs with unearned fortunes at taxpayer expense now and generations from now)....and c) invest immediately asap now yesterday into a cleaner, safer, more affordable, healthier, happier Renewable Energy Economy Future (REEF), a more logical economy to enable US and our world to c1) harvest amazing free gifts from nature, critical flows of solar and wind power to power our world and economies with amazing minimal investments for amazing returns/dividends now and generations from now....because the sun alone could power all energy needs on earth x 11,000....wind power could also power all energy needs on earth......so why in the Hell haven't our leaders, private, public sectors already constructed that Renewable Energy Economy Infrastructure for US already?  Why?  Why not?  Are they addicted to their own private, empty counts of cash for only one private bank account at our expense.....while destroying their own childrens' futures?   That is criminal.   Did the oil/gas industries conspire to melt the ice in the Arctic to open shipping routes for shipping oil/gas from the Arctic to ports around the world of, by, for privatized cash profiteering for only 1%, the cash driven oil and gas industry while destroying the ability of human civilization and life on earth to survive.....turning earth "into another planet"....an unlivable planet with impunity?

Do our leaders assume that privatized, blinding bank accounts of privatized cash-flow floods count all?   They are wrong, very, very wrong, wrong scientifically, wrong mathematically, wrong exponentially, wrong economically, wrong ecologically, wrong ego+nomically, wrong morally and wrong legally.....though a cash-driven 1% try to rewrite human history and human law to sell the immoral as acceptable.   They cannot rewrite nature's laws nor moral laws of reciprocity .......nature's productivity of critical flows balancing powers, justifying for equality, equalizing for justice for all living organisms and amazing earth systems.....ironically.

Ironically, the most cash-driven seem to want to own G_d the most......blaming my G_d for their own stupid actions.......limiting their definitions to thick, impermeable walls and barriers and boxes of impermeable definitions stuck in stone.....and pushing those absolutes onto the many unsuspecting, vulnerable, innocent, unborns now and generations from now.....abusing powerful religious and political symbols to seize political and cash-driven powers from the many to sit secretly at the top of impermeable pyramid schemes, scams, secrecy that crush the many with force and suck resources from the many to the top.....to send our innocents to fight for war and oil profiteers at taxpayer expense.

All hands on deck.   The time is now.

Thanks for your help!

Any System Needs Both Structure & Function Plus Critical Flows, Turning "Waste" into "Resource" to Win..to Produce Positive Outcomes Now & Generations From Now:

We can't afford easy, cheap, quick fixes that stuff complex, public worlds into easy, cheap, quick boxes of, by, for privatized cash profiteering for only 1% of only one obvious now.

We can't afford those that destroy their own childrens' futures.  Period.

We need a diverse population able and willing to seek vision and wisdom, never easy, cheap, quick...to reach beyond the obvious, privatized, immediate walls and barriers of the homogenous....to produce positive outcomes, to grow abundant riches of earth enough for All 100% to share freely...even with the 1%.

Every seed, seedling, soil wants to reach up toward light to produce abundant riches enough for All 100% to share, critical flows to fill in hungry voids of the negative, to satisfy All enough to cause peace.

We need leaders of vision and wisdom to nurture those hidden genetic potentials enough to grow abundant riches enough for All 100% to share....even with the 1%.

We need leaders able and willing to reach far beyond the obvious of only one private point of view that limits vision to the private, immediate, obvious, everyday world of linear urban walls and barriers.

We need leaders who understand that human cities need human cash systems to build great cities and great civilizations......but that humans also need nature's hidden but critical genetic potentials, genius to produce the critical flows of O2, H2O, soil production, soil makers, green to grow food and shelter to keep humans alive day to day and minute to minute....even the 1%.

We need leaders able and willing to harvest so-called "waste"...to prevent discards of usable resources...to tolerate complex, longterm, public systems and civil government impossible to count in cash enough to develop a more functional and successful public system....

We need leaders able and willing to lead the many toward a more positive future....instead of conspiring with war against the many.

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Nature's genius wastes little and produces much for us to consume as humans,  tiny but fragile seeds and seedlings and soils producing many continuous and infinitely intricate, critical but hidden flows, inalienable and ancient cycles, biological, chemical, geophysical cycles that keep humans alive day to day and minute to minute.....rich, green watersheds that protect entire human cities from their selves...that hold our fragile web for all life intact.

But human cities limit their counts to human cash, mechanical, artificial, privatizing, obvious, immediate, consumptive counts of human cash........cashflow floods that crush the productive, green watersheds of nature that humans need to produce critical flows to survive day to day and minute to minute....

Human systems waste much carelessly, thoughtlessly, destroying nature's fragile, quiet producers,  crushing lands and lives, ripping apart forests and wetlands, stuffing toxic landfills faster than we can consume them, and crushing and burning nature's ability to turn waste into resource.......destroying natures's ability to clean up human messes .....so we are paying overwhelming costs that we cannot afford as persons, as a people or as living beings.......and we are throwing those costs onto the unsuspecting, the many, onto our own childrens' futures, destroying our own futures.

It would be better if we could produce flows that we want to consume, however to keep us healthy enough to find “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” of any definition.  How?

Logical economics can guide us toward that goal.....but we need to count more than cash.

The word root, “eco-“ as in “econ+nomic” as in “number” and as in “eco+logic” as in “logic” and “link” between cause and effect means “house” or “oikos” in Greek…..but not every house nurtures those within.  Some houses hurt and destroy those within.

Houses need nature’s genius to produce positives enough, critical flows enough to balance the budget, to produce the critical flows to keep humans alive and happy enough to fill in hungry voids of the negative.......to produce enough to consume, to consume enough to produce, etc. now and generations from now.

Have we forgotten what we're counting?

Ancient human cities developed artificial and mechanical cash systems such as metal coins, inflexible structures of coins and stacks of paper.... and humans developed cash registers in urban walls as a symbol to represent everyday "goods and services" to exchange in measurable mechanical urban centers of the artificial volumes and numbers for private, obvious, immediate, everyday use and consumption to satisfy human needs....and wants and emotions, blinding emotions of wants winning more often.   

Humans have built great cities and civilizations with structures of metal pieces and stacks of paper....but need more than that to succeed....and needed nature's critical flows to keep humans alive while they were building cities and civilizations.

Humans need nature's hidden genetic potentials, genius to produce critical flows of logic, of qualities and satisfaction for All 100%...even the 1% .....critical flows such as breathable oxygen as O2, drinkable water as H2O and rich, organic soil to grow food and shelter to keep humans alive day to day and minute to minute.

However, nature grows critical flows far beyond the obvious and flows deteriorate in their journey to human cities.

If humans could green their cities, their public infrastructure foundations with nature’s genius of green producers, then many would find safer, more affordable and abundant access to the critical flows of O2, H2O, soil, food, shelter that humans need to find health, “life, liberty (from want and fear) and the pursuit of happiness” of any definition.

Was the Biblical story of Adam and Eve actually a parable about thoughtless consumption without production, destruction of producers and lands that depletes the ability of the land and life to produce supplies enough to consume…turning Eden into desert?

Humans need to count more than human cash to build and maintain great cities into the future....

Humans need nature’s genius to produce the critical flows, critical flows produced far beyond the obvious.......and need civil government to share critical resources and information to keep public infrastructure foundations functional enough to survive.......critical flows hidden from the obvious, immediate, private and public worlds.

Humans need to share resources and information enough to build safe, affordable public infrastructure foundations enough to stand on to find safer more affordable access to safer, more affordable opportunities to succeed privately enough to manufacture a private "profit" and success.

But some just don't get it....and continue to limit their vision to privatized cash-flow in only one private bank account of only one obvious now:   Self-centered manipulators in cities often try to block and hoard the critical flows of resources and information, hoarding deadly cash-flow floods, crushing fragile green watersheds that humans need to find access to critical flows of enough O2, H2O, soil, food, shelter to survive or exist....causing social upheaval that threatens ability of all to survive.

Cash-driven persons and corporations and governments cannot readily see the hidden genius, logic, productivity of forests and wetlands of green ecosystems, ecologies of logic....and have difficulty understanding the value of those producers, erecting walls of urban sprawl that crush the ability of nature to produce critical flows.   Many of the cash-driven have tried to privatize our public schools that were invented to enable the many to reach beyond the obvious...to protect their own children's future, to keep laws of moral reciprocity intact.

Humans need to value and protect the invaluable, the priceless and critical flows produced and grown by nature's green, productive systems far beyond the obvious ....critical flows impossible to count in human cash.

Nature's fragile but critical green watersheds and wonders far from the obvious of urban walls and barriers produce the critical flows of O2, H2O, soil, food, shelter to keep humans in cities alive day to day and minute to minute.

But some, many blinded by hypnotic cash-flow floods just don't get it.   Thick, impermeable urban walls and barriers of human cities, heat islands of asphalt, concrete, glass, metal, waste and chaos block access for many to find and discover nature’s wonders far beyond the obvious.

But we can bring nature’s genius into our cities to help to heal a broken world and to clean up messes that humans have made….to reverse the catastrophic costs that human emissions have caused, catastrophic climate change bred in human cities in America (and beyond) that produce more waste and chaos and pain than logic and healing and beauty.

Humans want immediate, obvious, privatized, sensory satisfactions and orgasm more than they want to think about the distant future of the many and of life 40 years from now.

Humans want and need linguistic definitions and mechanical numbers and sensory experiences (not electronic substitutes) to understand their world around them, and structural objects in addition to critical flows satisfy that need to count and define, to understand in remedial or advanced terms....to give validity to our 5 senses to verify who, what, when, where, why, how.....to find meaning and links between causes and effects that help us to understand our world enough to function.

But we also need the freedom, ability and will to find access to nature’s wonders and genius to to discover productivity of critical flows and learn how to adapt to changes and to grow a more positive future for All 100% to share….even with the 1%.

This is not a matter of “ownership” ……but a matter of critical flows enabling entire systems, natural and artificial to function enough to produce outcomes enough to consume to survive day to day and minute to minute......critical flows from the cellular level to the self to earth and beyond.

So humans have developed obvious, absolute number systems and languages to understand and organize these factors, children starting with the sensory of pain and pleasure of the obvious, the private, the immediate, the everyday world of that one child's point of view.....and the child adds information to the elementary boundaries between definitions and numbers, gradually able to differentiate between what is the same and different.....and to move onto more complex observations for intellectual growth.

Humans need experiences in nature's wonders to understand that we need more than absolutes to understand science, math, economics, economics, morals and law.......especially the laws of nature far from the obvious and moral laws of reciprocity that equalize critical flows for justice and justify for equality.

Humans need to reach far beyond the obvious of only one, privatizing, obvious, immediate now to develop scientific literacy, to develop the skills to see more accurately, clearly without bias far beyond the obvious and to fill in voids to understand the whole, structures, functions, critical flows enough to produce positive outcomes enough for all to share.

Humans need nature’s genius, nature’s wonders that hide far beyond urban walls and barriers to grow upwards toward the positive……..and this explains why American cities manufacture so much crime and costs shifted onto the unsuspecting.

America could grow an amazing era of economic prosperity by greening our cities enough so that those trapped in our cities could grow what they needed free from want and fear enough to find access to the critical flows they need to consume continually.

Our cities need to count more than cash and structures.   None can survive or find happiness in cash and structures.

Humans need the critical flows produced only by nature’s amazing wonders.   Bring those green systems into our cities to produce a more positive era to share with your children, to heal a broken world.

Humans need leaders of vision and wisdom, ability and will and scientific literacy to reach beyond the obvious to grow a more positive world, rich abundance enough for All 100% to share ....even with the 1%.

Humans need nature's genius hiding in diverse, productive forests and wetlands and prairies and oceans to produce critical flows of photosynthetic, breathable oxygen as O2, water as H2O, soil to survive day to day and minute to minute....

Humans need the infinitely intricate and vast wonders of nature far beyond the obvious.....wonders hiding in nature's forests, wetlands, prairies, lands, oceans, climate, life to hold the fragile but critical web for all life intact....to enable nature to produce enough critical flows to hold integrity intact.

But ironically, human cash counts the most critical flows the least and the least critical the most, the most deadly the most:

Ironically, human cash counts the most critical and hidden flow, O2 the least, photosynthetic, breathable oxygen as O2 the least....even though humans die within minutes without O2.

Ironically, human cash counts the next most critical and hidden flow, H2O the next least....even though humans die within days without H2O.

Ironically, human cash counts the next most critical and hidden flow, soil the next least..rich, organic soil that grows food for humans to eath....even though humans die within months without food.

Ironically, we fail to ask if our cash-driven economy is logical.

Ironically, human cash counts the least critical flows of structures and artificial symbols the most, the most deadly the most, bloody diamonds and gold, dirty energy, dirty oil and dirty oil wars, dirty tar sands, dirty fricken fracken and addictions to urban sprawl that disintegrates and devalues our lives......even though many have discovered that "the best things in life are free'.....or "the best things in life aren't things".....

Ironically, humans need critical but hidden flows of breathable, photosynthetic oxygen as O2....and only as O2....but our cash systems slaughter fragile trees and forests and watersheds that produce O2 to keep humans in cities alive minute to minute.

Ironically, humans need critical flows of water as H2O.....but human cash systems crush the fragile green watersheds, trees, forests, soils, oxygenation and filtrations that clean our water to keep humans in cities alive day to day.

Ironically, humans need rich, organic topsoil and soil makers to grow forests and food for humans to eat.....but human cash systems rob and smother soil with asphalt and concrete to cause floods and hunger.....to destroy the ability of humans to grow food to keep humans alive month to month.

We can green our cities to enable the many in our cities to find safer, more affordable, more abundant and more direct access to the critical flows that they need to satisfy their many demands….to let nature do the work….to free our systems from the stress and costs of manufacturing supplies artificially, as the Garden for Eden also produced ready access to supplies Adam and Eve needed.

We can easily:

* count more than cash....value the invaluable impossible to count in cash by writing human laws that protect life's producers, life and land, nature's logic and genius far from the obvious from abuse...

·      * plant gardens in empty lots and urban wastelands to increase both economic and ecological values of those urban spaces….and turn those places into pleaseant parks

·      * turn empty rooftops into greenspace with soil and plants that absorb CO2 and other carbon molecules (such as CO) from the atmosphere to clean the air

·      * turn wasted space such as empty lots, urban wastelands, rooftops into green producers + renewable energy producers, solar farms/gardens to harvest the free flows of energy from the sun……..and possibly wind farms/gardens to harvest wind (though this is more difficult in the city), cutting energy costs for many by much to

·      * plan our urban spaces more logically ……without thoughtless, careless sprawl……to reduce the chaos and costs of urban sprawl that wastes too many resources for too many for too great of costs ….throwing too many costs onto unsuspecting, neighbors, our selves and future generations……….to invest in more logical planning for our cities, so we can:

o  live close to work or school, within walking distance and make the walks pleasant, green and clean

o  greened neighborhoods to increase productivity of critical flows of O2, H2O, soil, food, shelter, Eden to clean up human messes and fill in hungry voids of the negative that cost too many too much exponentially

o  change the course of history from a deadly tailspin into costs and consequences of global climate change caused by carbon emissions of the last 150 years….into a more positive future of renewable energy and green in our cities to power the many in a more positive direction to lift millions, billions out of poverty

o  redefine our word “economy” as more than artificial, mechanical counts of cash…..enough to value the invaluable, the priceless of nature’s genius impossible to count in human cash, cell to self to globe to produce wonders and miracles for All 100% to share….even with the 1%

o  think about the whole in addition to parts, wholes for parts, parts for wholes, structure for function, function for structure and critical flows to enable each whole, cell or self or globe to produce positive outcomes enough for others to consume enough to produce to consume, supply for demand, demand for supply forever in a living system

o  enable and encourages opposites that attract to produce energy to power the system…..hence life needing diversity to function, to find energy enough to lift us up

·      sort our “waste” more logically….because we are smarter and have the abilities to think before tossing……to understand that the world does not stop after simple consumption of simple boxes of simple commodities labeled for sales and consumption and trash to burn to fill private pocketbooks with cash and urban lands with toxics that kill.

o  Break our addiction to fossilized, dead fuels that have caused carbon emissions and global climate change that threatens the livability and survivability of cities and millions around the world, more frequent and intense megastorms that threaten to destroy the fibers that hold civilization intact and ruin lives for millions, billions

o  Divest and transition from dirty fossil fuels to a safer and more affordable and clean Renewable Energy Economy that will free millions, billions from harm….invest in a renewable energy infrastructure to lift millions, billions out of poverty asap now yesterday

o  Think beyond the simple walls of the box:  Think continuums that connect everything intricately…and it is our job to anticipate where the flow that keeps us alive comes from….and where it is going…. That we need more than boxes and stones to survive…..

o  Think potentials….that produce kinetics

o  Connect the disconnected to produce energy enough to use

o  Think positive

o  Share

o  Think creatively, about new uses for old objects and old uses for new objects, recombining, etc far beyond the obvious to connect the disconnected to repair brokens….to produce the impossible, miracles impossible in old, stagnant systems

o  Value critical flows that cleans systems, nourish systems and keep systems and All 100% healthy, alive, happy

o  Value structures and genetic structures for functions

o  Value functions and genetic functions for structures

o  Value adaptation and ability to flex, change, to find vision and wisdom enough to adapt and survive and grow

o  Think beyond the private world, the private self of only one obvious point of view now:   Think public infrastructure foundations that enable the many to find safe, affordable access to cavemen and cavewomen could not find……that humans need to find safe, affordable access to the critical flows such as O2, H2O, soil, food, shelter that nature has produced for us as “blessings”…..as humans destroy the forests, wetlands, prairies, watersheds that produce those flows…Think web for all life that nurtures all, that cleans all….

o  Think beyond the obvious, reach beyond the obvious of thick, dense, impermeable urban walls and barriers to discover nature’s wonders and genius that we need to learn scientific literacy enough to survive…

o  Think beyond the immediate and shortterm enough to reach into the future to anticipate links between causes and effects, obvious or not……positive actions causing positive reactions slowly through time to lift all up to light enough to produce abundant riches of earth enough for All 100% to share….even with the 1%....and negative actions causing tailspins downwards to suck all down into gravity easy, cheap, quick.

o  Think inalienable structures and functions and critical flows to produce more positive outcomes for All to share….sharing the key word…..all living organisms sharing and filtering, selecting parts of ancient air and water and chemical cycles that all life filters, reorganizing those chemicals, structures, functions to pass on to the next.

o  Help each urban city develop a “fix-it” shop to repair usable objects enough to funnel back into the marketplace…..such as appliances and other electrical objects, furniture, broken but repairable objects that can be repaired with innovation, imagination, art and science, efforts and infrastructure to enable that rescue.   Iowa City, Iowa has a world-class university with world-class departments, including an engineering department, art department, department of urban and regional planning, business school and students from many nations who have probably learned to repair objects that would be tossed in the US’s “throw away society”.

o  Nature wastes little because nature’s currency is the critical flows invisible to human eyes that include all living organisms, exchanging supplies and demands logically with genius…..to clean up human messes as in “phytoremediation”…..a method of cleaning up human toxics and meeting clean water standards by planting poplar trees and other vegetation to prevent runoff from entering streams.

o  Human economies need to get with it and redefine their words “waste” and “resource”  as more than structures and thnings….so that we break our categories and definition into smaller units….into more digestable pieces instead of huge, unconsumable chunks and boxes……so that “waste” becomes “resource” by breaking it into smaller, more usable parts (as nature breaks huge/toxic molecules into smaller/healthier units)……by redefininig it so that more can  recognize and use it more successfully….But many of our current urban systems fail to recycle at all ….or limit the recyclable types to just a few definitions such as “cardboard”…”mixed papers”   “clear glass”….”colored glass”….plastics of several types…..metals of several types….or collect all recyclables in only one container….or worse, turn all categories in a careless trash can into fire to produce “energy” irresponsibly, releasing too many toxics into our atmosphere

o  Think fun and humor to help to heal the sick and wounded…..to help the child to distinguish between good and bad and other definitions difficult to understand….to see points of view of the other and the self

·      Nature’s genius and abilities to produce critical flows for survival, satisfaction and happiness can potentially pull millions, billions out of poverty to enable the many to find time and energy and resources to spend on creative, positive and productive activities/recretion/hobbies that enable us to grow a more  positive civilization to help to lead the world toward a more positive future together……..but we need to count more than simple, obvious, privatizing numbers of human cash systems…..and learn to value and protect the invaluable, the priceless impossible to count in human cash.

Can we redefine our word “economy” as more than mechanical, artificial, homogenous numbers of cash to save our own childrens’ futures?

Yes.

Ironically, solid, strong human made steel looks strong.....but it rusts and cracks through time....and a spider's web is stronger than human-made steel unit per unit.   Nature knows.