2441. Task? Schmachtenberger and Greaber- Wengrow integration?
Graeber and Wengrow in their new book The Dawn of Everyting
and
Schmachtenbereger at the Youtube What's Really Driving Global Problems in the World Today?
Greaber lays out the conditions in the deep past for humanity and Schmactenberger does the same for the near and long long term future. Putting these together is very helpful in grasping the task for now.
I'm not going out to buy the book, but here is my comment on Daniel:
The capacity to coordinate appropriately and resiliently does exist in potentia. Douglas Engelbart said that the knowledgebase is the ultimate tool for humans. The knowledgebase that can solve the problems you're addressing is the Geographic Information System. The best way to use it is to use it to design sustainable economies at the eco-region scale. An eco-region is a consistent cluster of ecosystems. The World Wildlife fund says there are 867 of them. The knowledgebase needs to be structured consistently, but with an unlimited range of variations within categories, to allow it to reflect 6,000 different cultures and their worldviews, which evolved to reflect 10,000 ecosystems (then there were 10,000 cultures and languages). Each design process for an eco-region starts with how to use the surplus of the region to meet most human needs, and how to manage it to increase the surpluses. That is organized by what each ecosystem in it produces, with local trade to meet needs. Then trade among adjacent eco-regions to meet more needs. Then trade among eco-regions in a larger area, the biome to meet more needs. Then trade between biomes.
Doing this requires ending the power of large corporations to force their way into markets -- or everyone votes with their wallets in a context of full disclosure, and defeats those dominator corporations, giving the market to local suppliers in a Partnership paradigm. Hat tip to Riane Eisler's work under that name.