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  1. Oct 2024
    1. To galvanise the final reorganisation stage of the life cycle of industrial civilisation, we will need to

      for - rapid whole system change - steps in the reorganization phase - experiment with - new decentralized models of localized ownership and creation - global collaborative models of product design and technology development - transborder mechanisms of political cooperation - participatory economic structures - worldviews which recognize the symbiosis of human life with the earth - values which privilege human-planetary interconnection and mutual thriving over unlimited material consumption for its own sake

    2. This new way of seeing the world should place humanity’s emergence as a planetary species at its centre. That reveals the biggest information gap of all: the inability to see that we are in the midst of a great transformation that could entail the dawn of a whole new life cycle for humanity on a planetary scale.

      for - whole system change - big picture - back loop of planetary adaptive cycle - entering the reorganization phase - regional to planetary life cycle

  2. Jul 2020
  3. Apr 2020
    1. Wheeler-Howard Ac

      The Wheeler-Howard Act, also known as the Indian Reorganization Act, aimed to protect Native people’s religions and lifestyles in a radical shift away from assimilation policies, and represented an open admission that allotment was a mistake. Tribes were required to accept or reject the IRA by referendum; the establishment of tribal self-government was to be decided the same way. When a majority of adult tribal members approved the IRA, they could then write a constitution, which had to be approved by another majority vote and the Secretary of the Interior. Tribes who approved the IRA could then elect a tribal council.