Redesigning the Planet: Region

0/5 ( ratings)

An Abstract and Annotated Outline to be Filled in as Emergency Actions Fail or Succeed

A Challenge to You to Engage in Creating Wild Designs for Wicked Problems—
To Transform Regions In the Planet for the Extended Present Using Common Sense, Synergetic Designs, Radical Ecology, Eutopian Strategies & Thought Experiments.

Redesigning regions in the planet is a conscious effort to correct the massive ‘unconscious redesign’—perhaps ‘unbalanced reordering’ is a more appropriate phrase—of regional systems. The ‘unconscious redesign’ is an unconsidered effect of the activities of changing economic and political structures devoted to self-growth and private profit. This unbalanced reordering is rapidly changing the social and environmental orders that represent the natural capital of social and environmental evolution. The reordering is also constructing an accidental trap that leads to massive catastrophes that will destroy that capital as well as the basis for its renewal. Only an equally massive response of a conscious regional ecological design framework can lead to some form of global balance.

Buckminster Fuller suggested that the appropriate tools, such as eutopian design frameworks or advanced technologies, might help human worlds to work, given the right emergency. We have been encountering the right emergencies for well over a hundred years, and we need to refine and try these tools, now. The emergencies that he considered are the human responses to a variety of catastrophes, such as fires or earthquakes. But, we are finding
that not all catastrophes are fast, human-scale or visible. The effects of those large, slow, invisible, long-term changes make us uneasy, but not really adrenaline-ready. The changes are reflected in starving children, hotter summers and stronger storms, failing food supplies, and collapsing infrastructures. We must learn to recognize and respond to these other catastrophes. And, we have to do it now, before they crest and become overwhelming. We can do it. We have the evidence that things are taking a downward turn . We need to respond with the best tools we have.