My first try at a partial vision for humanity is in this video:
The idea for this came from Kat Anderson’s book, Tending the Wild, which tells in detail how the Native peoples of California wild-gardened almost the entire state.
What if: the workers in all the workplaces — the people who know how things are actually done and made — were the ones who decided “what we’re going to make, out of what materials, with what size carbon footprint, and how everything can recycle back into the stream of materials.”
I bet we could stop making stuff that nobody really needs, and stop filling the oceans with plastic.
What if: we brought the people for whom there are no jobs, into the classrooms — with some training in listening skills — so that every child had a mentor to listen to their ideas for an hour every day; who would help them learn what they wanted, knowing that somebody really cared what they thought.
I bet we’d find we had gazillions of geniuses — and that many of them would turn their interest towards a carbon-free economy.
What if: we overhauled the money system so that it no longer siphoned money, one-way, to the “top.”
I bet, with money spread more evenly among us, there would be a real sense of people being equal, and that the social problems of inequality would melt away.
What if: we made sure there was participatory democracy in workplaces, schools, everywhere decisions are made.
I bet people would get lots of grassroots practice in real democracy, and would gain the skills needed to make our national government truly democratic.
What’s your best vision for some part of the big picture?