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Blog: Mark R. Jones
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 Mark R. Jones Mr. Jones uses his forty plus years as a spiritual practitioner, thirty plus years as a spiritual teacher, and twenty-five plus years of experience serving in leadership capacities (CEO / Executive VP / Corporate VP / CIO / CTO / CTA / Chief Architect / Senior Manager / Chair / Vice Chair / . . . ) in business, non-profit, and elected and/or appointed positions to inform his conversations about organization optimization, enterprise management and integration, politics, religion and spirituality, race ethnicity, social justice, economic well-being, environmental sustainability — through the lens of: evolution of consciousness, compassion in action, whole-system design, whole-person embodiment, community capacity-development and interconnection, and whole-life cycle continuity.
Created by System Administrator on Sun 21 of Sept., 2008 13:58 PDT
Last post Sun 19 of Oct., 2008 13:24 PDT (1 Posts | 1383 Visits | Activity=2.00) “Green Economy Implementation Strategy — A Practical Approach to National Security — Nurturing Our Ecosystems”
I have been doing some pondering about what are the causes of, and possible solutions for — our current economic, political, and environmental predicament. So I did some research and a little contemplation. The resulting article is my second “Findings” document on the topic. The first "Findings" document was an article entitled "Developing a Green Economy for Cascadia Bioregion". In that first article, I laid out a general inquiry regarding manifesting the Green Economy". In this second “Findings” document, I provide an analysis and suggest a solution for implementing the Green Economy.
Global climate change is a good resulting example of our lack of ecosystem security. The impact of global climate change has already been established: accelerated rate of species extinctions; increased spreading of disease; earlier arrival of spring; shifts in plant and animal ranges and populations; bleaching of coral reefs; downpours, heavy snowfalls, and flooding; droughts and fires; and a raising of sea levels. The result of global climate change is a profound degradation of our environmental and ecological systems such that crop yields decrease (water and food), natural disasters increase (weather pattern changes), stress on human populations increases (disease, housing, energy, and pollution), and warfare and incivility increase. Therefore, our urgent evolutionary challenge is to achieve ecosystem security (resource generation and renewal — of water, food, energy, infrastructure, and human relationships) Our new mission is to identify, explore, and cultivate optimal relationships with ourselves, each other, and our collectives (groups, organizations, communities, . . . ) — as a means of establishing sustainable and generative understanding and relationships with our ecosystems. We must achieve ecosystem security ! — The Fractal — In our brief time on the planet, we humans have been quite successful at securing resources. And the United States has proven to be the Grand Master of securing resources — representing just 5% of the world population yet acquiring and consuming 30% of the world’s natural resources while producing 72% of the world’s hazardous wastes. Since 1966, the United States has been a net “Consumer” of resources — versus a net “Producer” of products and services. This is reflected in our consumption habits, our trade deficit, and our budget deficit. Our behaviors have activated and reinforced an extinction-level causal chain:
Consumerism refers to the mental models, values, beliefs, policies, laws, processes, societal structures, and individual and collective lifestyles that emphasize “open-loop” consumption: the purchasing and consumption of resources in excess of our basic needs — without regard for resource generation and renewal. Imperial expansionism refers to the doctrine, policy, advocacy, infrastructure, and practice — usually by means of military aggression — of: expanding of territorial base (or economic influence) by extending span of control, dominion, or empire through the acquisition of new, territory or dependencies; or by unifying independent sovereigns for operations of war, copyright, internal commerce, etc. — all to secure resources. Militarism refers to the beliefs, economic and administration policies, and infrastructure to project an aggressiveness that involves the threat or actual use of military force (via a “professional” military) — to secure resources. The “Consumerism” causal chain annihilates ecosystem security (resource generation and renewal — of water, food, energy, infrastructure, and human relationships) ! — The Micro — United States energy consumption behavior is a good example of how the “Consumerism” causal chain annihilates ecosystem security (resource generation and renewal — of water, food, energy, infrastructure, and human relationships) ! The United States consumes about 20 million barrels of oil per day, of which nearly two-thirds is used for transportation. The United States consumes about 25% of the world’s energy production:
The average U.S. household consumes 10,660 kW hours / household per year. This is twice the consumption of other “Developed Nation” households, and ten thousand times the consumption of a “Developing Nation” household. In an attempt to achieve the energy security required to satisfy this “Consumerism”, the United States has implemented strategies of imperial expansionism and militarism. Thus, the single largest consumer of energy in the world is the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) — representing 1% U.S. energy consumption. Our behaviors have increased:
I will say it again: The “Consumerism” causal chain annihilates ecosystem security (resource generation and renewal — of water, food, energy, infrastructure, and human relationships) ! — The Result — ! Stress ! Stress Destroys (Individuals | Collectives | Ecosystems):
The stress on individuals, collectives, and ecosystems that is caused by the “Consumerism” causal chain, annihilates ecosystem security (resource generation and renewal — of water, food, energy, infrastructure, and human relationships). It destroys us and the biosphere. — The Transformative Vision — You can read the full article by clicking: To read other Sunyata Articles, please:
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