Renamed to lifeboat labs

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Gardenworlds and the long view.

A few years ago, I proposed the idea of Gardenworld and its politics as a way into a viable approach to the climate-induced collapse that we were likely to experience. But then as the reality of collapses became clear, I added the idea of lifeboats. and that successful life-boats would become garden worlds and Gardenworlds could become centers of arts and conversation and hence elements of nascent civilizations (with access to the deep past of humanity which would be preserved in many places and forms and hence allowing rapid production at higher levels in arts, governance, and science.

I now want to call the Lifeboats lifeboat labs as places for, amongst life-sustaining necessities, places to experiment with new forms of human society, leaving behind war, capitalism, and much of the rest.

The challenge is to populate the world with many species, including our own, without destructive extraction of value from land or people. The world is in a long period of development, with nearly unimaginable scales, but we have the intellect to appreciate the reality of billions of years. We are part of the whole process.

The strategy of first Lifeboats has a major advantage over Gardenworld because it is about preparation without dismantling current life patterns, and hopefully more attractive. The switch from current agriculture, often industrial, to Gardenworld, is too threatening and still considered unnecessary by most people. We need a stepping stone between doing nothing and deep action.

The book _Gardenworld Politics_ is available at Amazon. 2023