Mother Tree

https://vimeo.com/786764581/d961a16cde

  • From the future: 2032!
  • 10-year project 
  • No time for details 
  • Distributive dynamic governance
  • Circular economy - zero waste - all sectors
  • Upcycle and down-cycle
  • Every building produces its own electricity
  • They export electricity
  • Small vortex electric generators
  • Universal health care
  • Composting corpses
  • Work in a neighborhood farm
  • The small hint of cloud function
  • Wealth cap
  • Community banking
  • UBI
  • Elimination of "predatory" banks - ie, credit-based money
  • Get rid of privately owned cars
  • Everything ac
  • 100,000 population
  • No new clothes - repair, recycle ...
  • Freedom from, freedom to -religion
  • Responsibility to be educated
  • Revolutionary educational goals - same as the last 70 years
Comments:
  • Seems like a summary of some current trends, especially in the minds of the radical left
  • What about people who disagree with the radical left? The Utopian paradox.
  • Why a wealth cap instead of progressive taxation?
    • Something fishy here - why "wealth" at all?
  • Fashionable hostility to the banks reflects a misunderstanding of money itself.
    • It seems like the community bank is replacing credit with open-hearted generosity.
  • Virtuous farm work smells of Pol Pot. I prefer robots and air-conditioned tractors. Are we really going back to 17th-century Ireland? Have we done the math? Will carbon-free agriculture actually feed people?
  • Sorry, not everything can be recycled. It's hard to imagine a path from our current efforts to 100% recycling. Also, there is that pesky 2nd law of thermodynamics.
  • To me, recycling is a form of hand-waving that assumes that a whole host of problems will magically vanish


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