RE: If politics is not the solution, what is?
Thank you for the link towards "the choice is ours".
Many interesting ideas, very optimistic and positive.
I am not sure that the "methodology" brings consensus, they are many subjects on which scientists disagree, let's take the example of climate change. When 95 % of scientists agree that human activity is the origin, you still think that it is not the case. How can we take one direction if we need a 100 % agreement ?
An other exemple is Renewable energy : I agree with the venus project that we can power the world with 100 % RE, but many scientists pretend it is not possible.
The third example is cold fusion, when cold fusion had been reroduced by more than 30 independant labs in the world, the majority of scientist still do not accept the facts.
When we disagree, in which direction do we go ? and how do we implement a true democracy ? You cannot ask people to vote on subject like energy when scientists disagree.
I am glad you liked it.
This is why we the people including scientists should try to work outside of the system and bring clean energy solutions in the format of open source because I honestly don't see any other way of getting them out to the general public. If change ever gonna come it has to come from the people and not corrupt organizations such as governments. There is many scientists that works behind scenes with alternative energy devices such as cold fusion(LENR), magnetic motors, electromagnetic motors, vaccum energy etc and those people need our support. Also I think we need to think in terms of decentralization of energy as well. Today we have it centralized which makes us all very vulnerable to interruptions and also where the monopoly of energy creation lies in the hands of a few at the cost of everyone else.
The access to energy should be readily available just as the access to clean water and food including a place to live but how to make it so requires that the people solves it by organizing themselves. A good way could be to organize in small communities and discuss these types of ideas and try to bring in scientists to the conversation and see how one can make it possible and once established expand upon that globally.
The Venus project suggests this as well as a start of a new era by starting with a small city and then expand upon that outwards. We have also people like Michael Tellinger in the Ubuntu Movement that makes talks worldwide about how things could be solved which is to start with a small community that organize themselves around an idea and to me it sounds like a good plan. But we should always strive towards expanding the idea until it envelops the entire world because making a community self sustainable is not the final solution.
Problem number one that needs to be taken care of before anything else is to raise the awareness because there is still a great number of people who isn't even aware that it exist alternatives for energy production and the social-economic system in which we live in today. If people aren't aware then it makes it very hard to convince them of anything. We also need to change our value system and start thinking about what is right before anything else. People also need to get educated about natural law and human rights and why the concept of government for instance can never be used for the good of humanity because the very concept is based on violence and immoral behavior.
Not sure if I answered the questions you had but that is my take on things from my perspective and understanding.