https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCGsSe6Pmo Also available on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/310739282 (4:05) From 2014-2018, this channel produced a number of videos centering around my 3x3 Global Drills process, the core idea of my dissertation in political science (international relations), "Prospects for Collaborative Power in a Brutal Universe," University of Hawaii (2012). Those videos provide a deeper understanding of the shorter… Continue reading Better alternatives to money-dominated reality
Intro to 2019: Do we need nations or money?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAfD0lRt1Pw This introduction signals a new direction for 2019. From 2014-2018, this YouTube channel produced a number of videos centering around my 3x3 Global Drills process, the core idea of my dissertation in political science (international relations), "Prospects for Collaborative Power in a Brutal Universe," University of Hawaii (2012). Those videos provide a deeper understanding… Continue reading Intro to 2019: Do we need nations or money?
Abundance-based interchange economics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFG_RUN3k24&t=2s An addition of a new perspective from deep in the mountains of southern Mexico to my YouTube videos from 2017, "Abundance-based Global Currency 1-4 | 3x3 Global Drills Worksheet Series."
Global sea rise migration within 40 years
Here, we consider rapid climate change on Earth, no matter the cause, resulting in drastic global sea rise for next generations of humans based on the ongoing disintegration of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) since May 2014, Greenland ice loss from 2002-2016 and glacial melt around the world. (See also, "Ramp-up In Antarctic Ice… Continue reading Global sea rise migration within 40 years
Countering the gamma-ray burst threat within our galaxy
Artist's conception of an orbiting donor star collapsing into a middleweight black hole from which gamma-ray bursts of radiation jet out in opposite directions. Image credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. https://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/middle_blackhole.html. Retrieved June 4, 2018. As we fight each other for territory across Earth and artificially created scarcity-based money, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) of potentially… Continue reading Countering the gamma-ray burst threat within our galaxy
Ideas for a global senate
National Assembly of Cape Verde, a unicameral body with 72 seats. As humans around the world, born into the nation-state system through no choice of our own, now may be a good time to think about what kind of representative democracy can work best at the global level. We do not necessarily need to abandon… Continue reading Ideas for a global senate
Your own thoughts are needed from around our world
Our world as it is, compromised of powerful and weak nation-states and multinational corporations all guarding their own interests is an inherently unstable system. Chaotic events, particularly since the period from September 2001 to November 2016, itself a chaotic transition may be the logical outcome of the world system into which all of us were… Continue reading Your own thoughts are needed from around our world
Exchange-free Economics speech (1999)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItHp71jblEg&t=71s Also available on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/256199038 (35:02) If you find these videos helpful, feel free to share with your own comments. In this speech, followed by slides of my 3x3 Global Drills process developed from 2005 to 2012, I state why human expansion beyond Earth is necessary to prevent human extinction and why my approach… Continue reading Exchange-free Economics speech (1999)
Introduction: Synergizing all human power
https://vimeo.com/253386000 (5:45) In this primarily audio message, I give some background as to how I developed my philosophy of interchange economics and positive-synergistic global power to prevent human extinction. Further short video messages will explain my approach in greater detail. Below are a few links to sources that I mention in the video: Ashby, W.… Continue reading Introduction: Synergizing all human power