Solving the Global Warming Issue.

[hearthstone]

Solving the Global Warming Issue.

Current forms of government are not capable of dealing adequately with
any global challenges, be those global warming, terrorism, or what
ever global issues.
What is needed is to start consciously designing the future of the
world with the participation of all those who are to share this
future. It is obvious to many that this world needs to change for
something fundamentally better, but there is a very little consensus
of what the "better" ought to be in regards to many issues.
There is a need for a mechanism that would expediently address global
issues of any kind, and that would come up with solutions that would
be defendable and justifiable on any grounds, and acceptable by all.
This could be achieved by modeling what the ideal state of the Earth
should be--including ideas about sustainability and stabilization of
the environment--with the participation of anyone who cares for non-
violent solutions of any global problems. In fact, it would not matter
who would be inputting the ideas about a better world future into the
model; what would matter would be how viable and how realistically
realizable those ideas would be. Anyone not satisfied with the future
thus modeled would always be welcomed to input the model with better
ideas.
To have a well defendable model of what the ideal state of the Earth
should be would be a good start to improving of all problematical
global issues. After all--there cannot be a better future for us,
unless we all agree what such a "better future" should look like!
The technology for starting of such a dynamically evolving model is
available in the form of "open source" software, and this model could
reside on the Internet by using "distributed computing" that would use
any and all PC's that there are in the world--thus not requiring any
physical location and a minimal outlay of money.
Better to resolve differences in a model non-violently than resolving
differences in real life on battlefields!
Thank you. sincerely -
Mr. Jan Hearthstone.

Submitted to BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/2804227.stm
at 15:00 GMT today.

[keegan...@yahoo.com]

i think a global discussion on what would work in the world (as
opposed to just talking about what DOESN'T work) is a good start to
realizing positive change in the world. i understand you to be saying
that software should be either identified or developed to harness
different ideas and give them a field to be tested out in theory
before direct application to the material world (do i have that
right?)... so does the computer software have to come before different
ideas can be gathered, compared and implemented? what can be done
toward this idea in the meantime before such software is found?

> Submitted to BBC -http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/2804227.stm

[hearthstone]

Everyone has an idea, never mind how vague and imprecise, what the
ideal state of things should be. Comparing these individual ideas with
each other, and defending their validity on the basis of what is known
about the ecological and social processes would be a good start,
possible even without the use of any computers at the level of a local
community where everyone knows everyone else.
However, on the global level (almost every aspect of our lives has
global, not local connections anymore) this would be quite impossible
without using available technologies.
I, even while not being a specialist of any kind, think, based on what
I know of the state of technology from readings and such, that the
technology that would be needed for comparing our ideas about what our
future should look like is already available--I wish that someone more
knowledgeable in this would give their opinion.
Thanks, Hearthstone.