WEDNESDAY, JAN 25, 2023: NOTE TO FILE
Eric Lee, A-SOCIATED PRESS
“For the first time in history a conviction has developed among those who can actually think more than a decade ahead that we are playing a global endgame. Humanity’s grasp on the planet is not strong. It is growing weaker. Our population is too large…” — Edward O. Wilson, Half Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life 2016
TOPICS: PATHWAY, FROM THE WIRES, NO PATHWAY
Abstract: A viable form of civilization implies a viable form of education system (formal and informal). Implementing one would be alternative to convincing a majority of expansionist adult humans on the planet (1+ billion heads of household plus dependents) to agree to a policy of rapid population reduction and economic contraction to avoid a die-off event secondary to ecological, complexity, density, financial, cognitive and civilizational overshoot (and force the minority to comply with rapid degrowth policies needed to avoid a die off by premature death instead of old-age death). The precondition for forming a viable civilization would be the formation of a Union of Concerned Elders (UoCE) consisting of a minimum initial number of 1,700 'ecolate' elders. Unfortunately for 10 year olds (aka posterity), there is no evidence that there are enough ecolate elders on the planet who could self-identify as ecolate and write a warning to posterity that existing ecolate elders would view as insightful, and of potential value to posterity should posterity consider the warnings offered. An alternative pathway is to convince over 4 billion people (including dependents) to vote for a viable form of civilization based on a social contract that selects for persistence.
COOS BAY (A-P) — In 600 words:
0. Step zero is to form a 1,700+ member Union of Concerned Elders (UoCE) whose
existence will be noted by issuing the World Ecolate Elders' Warning to Posterity.
7 ecolates and 30 sublates, apolitical management boundaries, named
To achieve the goal of renormalizing humans to again live as adaptive, evolvable K-strategists within the environmental carrying capacity of all biomes (to maximize empower, MPP), the Union of Concerned Elders (UoCE) will issue a warning to posterity (as 13–19 year olds) in such a way that all 13 to 19 year olds on the planet hear the warning.
The warning calls upon posterity to question and rethink the assumptions of Modern Techno-Industrial (MTI) society’s narratives and consider not seeking to be schooled by MTI colleges and universities to serve a society that is not remotely viable long term, a call to apply for admission to the first AWMU as autodidacts and teachers in a lifelong learner-teacher community based on a self-sufficient agrarian biophysical economy of enough that seeks out the condition now that will come anyway.
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