Transcript GLOBAL REALITY

GLOBAL REALITY
10 Threats, 12 Policies, 10 Major Players
20 Minutes of Context
Robert David Steele-Vivas
CEO, OSS.Net, Inc.
Co-Founder, Earth Intelligence Network
We’re in a Six-Front 100-Year War of Our Own Making.
America is losing/has lost the moral high ground.
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Conflict Facts for 2002: 23 LIC+, 79 LIC-, 175 VPC
Source: PIOOM (NL), data with permission © 2002 A. Jongman
Ethnic Fault Lines 2000
18 Genocide Campaigns On-Going Today
Source: Dr. Greg Stanton, http://www.genocidewatch.com
Water & War
Hyper-Arid
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Arid
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Semi-Arid
Sub-Humid
Water
Pollution
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Source: The State of the World Atlas (1997), chart 54, 53
Global Threats to Local Survival
Complex Emergencies
32 Countries
Water Scarcity &
Contaminated Water**
Refugees/Displaced
66 Countries
Ethnic Conflict 18
Genocides Today**
Food Security
33 Countries
Resource Wars, Energy
Waste & Pollution**
Modern Plagues*
59 Countries & Rising
Corruption Common
80 Countries
Child Soldiers
41 Countries
Censorship Very High
62 Countries
*State of the World Atlas (1997), ** Marq de Villier (Water), John Heidenrich and Greg Stanton (Genocide),
Michael Klare et al (Resources), all others from PIOOM Map 2002
Water & War
Hyper-Arid
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Arid
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Semi-Arid
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Sub-Humid
Water
Pollution
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Source: The State of the World Atlas (1997), chart 54, 53
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Information Converted Into
Intelligence Will Create
Infinite Wealth for All
Collective
Intelligence
Harnesses the
Distributed
Intelligence of
the Whole
Earth
10 Threats
12 Policies
Each with
great costs.
Each offers
significant
savings.
Each tears
apart the
Earth.
We must
address all
of them, as
a whole, in
unison.
Each can
impact on
saving the
Earth.
We must
craft all of
them, as a
whole, in
unison.
Agriculture
Debt
Diplomacy
Economy
• Local & Organic
• Deep Root Farming
• Family/Community
Owned Farming
• $9 Trillion is “a lot”
• Debt scales &
incapacitates.
• Balanced Budget
• Dogma kills
• Restore USIA
• Need global
information sharing
• End CEO Greed
• $10/hr minimum wage
• Full employment
• LOCAL supply chain
Education
Energy
Family
Immigration
• Self-paced Online
• Apprenticeships
• Team Learning
• Learn to learn
• Wind & Solar NOW
• Portable Electricity
• Two-way Grid
• Green capitalism
• One job per couple
• End overtime
• Community Centers
• Build neighborhoods
• Enforce Labor Law
• GLOBAL standards
•Border Patrol +25,000
• Biometric tagging
Justice
Security
Society
Water
• Pardon all marijuana
offenders
• Wind down the
prison-slave complex
• Eliminate corporate
“personality” amnesty
• Wage peace not war
• Wind down the
military-industrial
complex
• Belief systems and
morality are core.
• Universal service
• Universal health care
• Preventive medicine
• English required for
citizenship & extended
residence
• Reflect True Cost
• Global Manhattan
Project to restore
aquifers, push salt back
• Regional Water
Authorities
Ten Major Players Killing the Earth
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Brazil
China
Europe
India
Indonesia
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Iran
Russia
United States
Venezuela
Wild Cards
The Earth is Lost if the USA continues to consume one third of the energy and
produce one third of the waste. The Earth is also Lost if we fail to help all of
the other major players avoid our near-catastrophic mistakes.
The Budget as Baseline
Al Gore, EIN, & Amazon
New Strategy, Better Balance
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CINCWAR
CINCSOLIC
Strategic NBC
Small Wars
State/USIA
Intelligence
Big War(s)
Constabulary
Peace Corps
Border Patrol
Reserve
Ground Truth Economic Aid Port Security
Reserve
45%
248B vs. 550B
CINCPEACE CINCHOME
20%
110B vs 20B
Environment
Electronic
Peace Navy
Public Health
20%
15%
110B vs. 20B
82B vs. 36B
Governance Reform
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Coalition Cabinet
Balanced Open Budget
Quality Education
Public Health
Ethics
7th Generation Issues
– Water
– Energy
– Information/Education
Electoral Reform
• Voting on week-ends
• League of Women Voters &
Debates
• Cabinet Choices in
Advance & in Debates
• Instant Run-Off
• End Gerrymandering
• End Corporate Funding
Let’s Get Our Priorities Straight!
First, be
strong at
home.
Second, be
“America
the Good”
abroad.
• Third, have a strategy to empower the poor,
create wealth, and sustain peace & Earth.
A Strong America
Through Common Sense
• We must honor our values and
stop supporting dictators.
• We must serve the interests of
the people rather than
corporations.
• We must have balanced
national security capabilities.
• We must be fiscally sound.
Al Gore
Earth Leader & Meme Catalyst
Saving America for Future
Generations by Saving the Planet