Reimagining Everything

Round and Round Life Spins

An avalanche of creativity is needed to provide food and health care for all, expand clean energy infrastructure, organize a just economy, and establish enlightened civil liberties. And guess where the most creativity is needed? It is in developing new organizing systems for our various societies. How did I arrive at this conclusion?

Silver and Gold

In the September/October 2020 issue of the Sierra Club magazine, I was taken with an article called “The End of Oil” by Antonia Juhasz, a Bertha Fellow in Investigative Journalism. It seems that there are only three men in the world trying to prop up this dying (polluting) industry: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salmon.

Then, while reading Andrew Yang’s, The War on Normal People, I came across an article about a book by Tony Seba called Rethinking Humanity. Intrigued, I googled the book title and came across a couple of You Tube video interviews with Tony Seba. Pieces of a vast global puzzle began to fall into place as I listened to Seba.

Kiva

Seba believes it is possible to eliminate poverty, meet basic needs, and care for the environment because of lower costs and less waste. He bases this belief on five already occurring disruptions of the current status quo that will all converge by 2030.
1. All our energy in the future will come from solar and wind with batteries.
2. Information will be globally accessible with individual control of our private data.
3. Transportation will be a battery-operated service with fleet charging stations and conversion of rail lines to electric power.
4. Food will be provided through localized production hubs using …
5. Micro-organisms in a process of precision fermentation (think of yeast used in making cheese and beer).

As Seba became aware of these sweeping disruptions, he explored patterns of change and found that the last time such vast changes happened was 10,000 years ago when women invented agriculture. Since then generations have lived in societies based on the extraction of materials from the ground and the exploitation of people to process them.

Let’s Have Tea

Social innovation is required to navigate these five disruptions mentioned above and to help humans adjust. We can move intentionally into an age of creation or be swept aside by others who do. Local experimentation is needed, making centralization a problem. If lobbies in the United States continue to slow down these new technologies, the epicenter of creativity will go somewhere else in the world.

All of these technological changes require new organizing systems that give regions and cities independence. Our efforts need to be put into protecting PEOPLE not COMPANIES.

Temple on A Hill

“We are on the cusp of the fastest, deepest, most consequential transformation of human civilization in history, a transformation every bit as significant as the move from foraging to cities and agriculture 10,000 years ago.” This is the opening of Tony Seba’s executive summary of Rethinking Humanity https://www.rethinkx.com/humanity-executive-summary.

A Gentle Peace