1. Plan Together
Part 1. A Living, Breathing Plan
I see a path forward—a blueprint—for helping our species effectively and systematically work together for remedial action for our climate while helping each other to survive in the process.
The plan I am proposing is a five-pronged plan, and the first prong is the plan, itself.
In this chapter we’ll explore the dynamics plan, itself, followed by a brief description of the other components, since the plan is indeed for the purpose of these other categories, and because it is dynamic and living, may grow to include other categories, as the global meeting of the minds takes shape.
The Plan: Our Living, Breathing Plan
The ideas I put forth in this book are starting points.
There is an online version of this book that awaits your input—everybody’s input who will participate. The next edition will be the beginning of our collaborative effort to make a plan for all of us to follow and support one another in doing it.
This book will be forever available on the HLIS as a wiki, one where anybody who has comments, suggestions, etc., can contribute toward the next version, a new version being released on the beginning of every month. Only the first version will be single-authored, hereafter, the authorship will be the general public, serviced and supported by techforce for humanity, which operates in 100% transparent light before all others on the network.
We need to trust one another in order to work together, and that trust can be systematically ensured, indeed, it must be. Honesty and Trust can both be virtues not left to how good or moral individuals or groups can be, but rather how intelligently designed the systems of transparency and accountability can be designed and implemented.
In the following chapters, I will highlight starting ideas on how we can begin, right away, to build this network and to get on the path of saving ourselves before we have managed to destroy our planet’s ability to shelter and feed us on dry—but no too dry—safe lands
Let’s get the input and wisdom of our world’s brightest, best minds in the mix, in all things related to what humanity must do to heal our damaged climate and to support one another in saving our lives in the process.
Our one, shared habitat: Planet Earth.
I will list the problems that are life threatening while leaving the details for others to fill in, as “Our Plan” is unfolding. Resisting expounding much on any of the items on this list, I will instead move focus quickly to the plan I am putting forth to solve these problems, together.
In the absence of seeing humanity’s apparent inability to come together to move as one away from our own self-extinction, over a ten-year period I began a quest to try to understand the problem and see what I could to, and hopefully help others do also, to avert our own self-destruction.
Survive: Preparation for famine
We deserve to have a say in whether or not we wish to continue shooting ourselves in the foot, so to speak, destroying the very climate we depend on to grow and harvest food, to live where we live without being soon climate refugees, running from rapidly rising seas, expanding deserts or uninhabitable extremes in rising temperatures or dropping temperatures, depending on where such changes occur as a result of the continuing pushing the climate out of balance.
What we need is a measured fair fossil fuel phase down, one participated voluntarily by a humanity that has become awake and informed at the same time, and who have the opportunity to coordinate amongst themselves the logistics of storing and distributing resources, growing food in new areas where climate change has temporarily favored while letting go of old growing grounds where water and or temperature no longer favors the food growing process.
If we could leave this to our governments to lead, there would be no such need as a harmonized language international symposium, nor a need for techforce for humanity to support its development and continued expansion. Granted, there are some nation’s governments who are doing the right thing and have been leading the way for sustainability, but indeed they too shall utterly fail if the rest of the nations don’t join them, and quick.
My plan is for us—as a species—to find a new way to organize ourselves to accomplish the global tasks that must be accomplished for the future of our lives, and the lives of the generations to follow.
There will be other matters which we must take into our own hands if we are going to survive and survive well on planet earth into the foreseeable future, matters of economy, governing ourselves as a whole to protect our planet from further destruction from over populating, over consuming, over foresting, etc.
Heal the climate with an Earth Sabbath
The Measured Fait Fossil Fuel Phasedown I have been referring to can be achieved by starting an Earth Sabbath: one day a week of none of our smoke—a chance for the planet to regain its resilience from humanity’s constant onslaught of toxic pollution we are currently spewing into our atmosphere. Earth Sabbath can begin as soon as we choose for it to, and it can become the rallying cry for helping individuals across the earth to take a stand and agree to not burn any fossil fuels for one day a week, the same day all across the world, so our earth’s climate scientists can track and report the benefit of our doing so. We can support each other in ramping up battery storage of power as well as alternative smoke free ways of generating power—all of which are welcome and in vital use during the one day a week of no smoke.
The HLIS will be every individual’s way of reporting that they are participating, sharing their insights, challenges and needs with the rest of the network. Local volunteer taskforces can tend to those needs. We want to achieve one day a week of none of our smoke with as minimal suffering or collateral damage as possible.
We shall communicate together, invite our world most qualified experts to help lead guide the conversation toward our end goals of safety, survival and living sustainably into the foreseeable future.
Humanity’s goal will be to reduce their carbon footprint as fast and as safely as possible. So if one day a week isn’t enough, we can decide together—with the help of our world’s brightest on the matter and the data they can provide us with—to extend earth sabbath to two days per week, then eventually, perhaps it will be three or four days, one day with power turned on, charging up batteries all over the world, the next day relying on those batteries.
Rather than attempt to spell out those, I would rather focus strictly on the network we shall need to strategize together, coordinate together and better survive in sustainable ways together.
International Symposium
HLIS—the acronym for the Harmonized Language International Symposium, which I will be using from this point forward—shall begin immediately at the internet address www.wept.tv and will soon be available as mobile apps which work harmoniously with the website.
Leveling the language divide while empowering the best possible user experience will be among the top priorities of Techforce and its worldwide, open source volunteer team.
A login process will allow each user across the world to establish preferences, such as their native language, their preferred religion or no religion, and whatever other preference needs are made known and implemented as options in the HLIS.
Each logged in person will have the opportunity to both receive and contribute, to learn and to teach, to volunteer.
The volunteer options will include volunteer translators to contribute to the accuracy and verification of the first pass automated translations that are generated.
As the network and support grows, more paid staff will be added in locations all over the world, to support the best and most accurate experience in all languages.
One priority of Techforce will be the development of a new Internet Browser that will further enhance the translation experience and security of the network, but of equal if not greater importance, the emergence of a new dimension of the Internet.
A new Internet Browser that connects people in a peer to peer, non-server-centric way. At its center is a cross-distributed database that has the highest level of stability ever before achieved, so that the network stays on and stays reliably connected when geographic portions of its participators become interrupted or knocked off, whether that be from storms, rising seas, sabotage, for whatever reason sections of the network should go down, the rest of the network will function as if no interruption had occurred, except for the members local to the power out, or whatever is causing the internet in their area to go down.
HLIS is a network that has three priorities: helping to communicate and coordinate a measured fair fossil fuel phase down while supporting everyone in storing then fair distribution of food and water during the tumultuous times ahead. For even if we are successful in reversing climate change, the climate may not respond fast enough for the troubles that are already set in motion to pass us by.
Techforce for Humanity
A secure and open source international social media and syndicated news channel can facilitate both the conversation and the voting process we would need as a species to truly come together and act as one.
World unity is required for our survival, at this point, and the rules of world unity are equality in every way. I believe this can be achieved if we can first find a new and better way for us to converse and coordinate on such matters.
In the United States a non-profit organization has the ability to accept funds which support the giver with tax benefits and is able to operate with helpful tax allowances, as well. It requires a volunteer board of directors and is able to employ a paid staff.
If Techforce for Humanity is to be entrusted as the core of the operation of the harmonized language international symposium, then they will need to model the unity, transparency and equality of the global network they are supporting. I have written out the bylaws of such an organization before it is even formed to be 100% transparent about everything it does. I believe 100% accountability is possible to obtain via a systematic approach, in addition to checks and balances, just as the international network is designed to behave and carry out. Accounting, voting, employee descriptions and the accounting of the tasks being carried out—in real time—naked before the eyes of the world, is required.
Techforce will be responsible for research and development, all of which they will carry out in the open, while interacting with the international volunteer community of programmers, engineers, and designers, offering priority support to this team, then to the world of logged on users, as the network spreads.
