Section 1 Expanded

1. Accountability structure

In order for the future viability of human civilisation in any form to be adequately addressed, a number of key area must be prioritised. Foremost among these is understanding and management of planetary life support systems, including the development of:

Life Appropriate Technologies

Characteristics: non-toxic – or detoxifying, recyclable, carbon sequestering, generative/regenerative, biophillic – must also be viable in terms of all lifeforms rights to quality of life …

• Biological
  • https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/our-team/
• Neurological
• Cognitive
• Architectural
  • http://www.biophilicdesign.net/books.html
  • https://www.terrapinbrightgreen.com/reports/14-patterns/
• Electronic
• Systemic
• Exchange
• Links to stakeholder groups:
  • http://about.foresight.org/
  • http://lifeboat.com/ex/about

 

 

Earth Dashboard (Gabel, 2017)

• (Near) Real time update of planetary systems
  • atmospheric
  • geological
  • ecological
  • fresh water
  • agriculture
  • energy
  • communication
  • distribution
  • populations
    • species balance
    • health
    • access to life support resources
    • access to energy and comms
• Decision support, analysis and advisory body
  • http://phibetaiota.net/about/
• Information access and distribution methodologies
  • http://wlcg.web.cern.ch/wlcg-google-earth-dashboard
• Resources:
  • http://designsciencelab.com/resources-ii/

 

 

A user friendly and accessible information dissemination and retrieval structure must be established and qualified influential users must be prepared to interface and engage with its input/output. This area has been addressed in outline, pathway proposals to the initiation of such a scheme have been described by Earth Intelligence Network (Steele, 2015).

Plan (under construction):

• Investigate shortcomings/oversights in, obstacles to implementation of Steele et al current proposal. Discover potential amendments, alternate strategies, consideration of needs for inclusion, potential stakeholders to on-board in support of concluded best proposal.
• Research and evaluate any other comprehensive proposals toward a World/Global Brain style address to planetary future/s.
  • To read:
    • Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century – Howard Bloom
    • 14-Patterns-of-Biophilic-Design-Terrapin-2014e – Terrapin Bright Green, LLC. 2014

 

Access/assess active R&D/implementation efforts:

• Life preservation policy (all species) – LPP
  • Implementation strategy
  • Ethics
  • Ecology
  • Environment
  • Economy
  • Links to stakeholder groups
    • http://www.eolss.net/ 
    • http://lifeboat.com/ex/programs

 

• Incentivisation of life-equity as prime directive – PD
  • Target groups
  • Sanctity of life
  • Ecocide prevention
  • Species and systems longevity
  • Guaranteed long term returns

 

References:

Gabel, M. 2017, Earth Dashboard, <http://earthdash.org/>

Steele, R. 2015, Re-Engineering Earth, book 1, Beyond Data Monitoring, <https://www.amazon.com/s?_encoding=UTF8&field-collection=Re-Engineering+Earth&url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text#>