Planetary Management takes into consideration the management of all things of the earth, whether individuals, societies, flora, fauna and the material supports that our planet provides so generously and which so many of us have taken for granted. The intention of planetary management is install processes within the social systems that result in social evolution with the outcome being social stability and social sustainability.
Planetary management is not an excuse for the exploitive practices of colonialism that have existed for the last 600+ years, which are intimately tied to the erroneous concept of “sustainable growth” coupled with money-driven goals. In terms of planetary management, those practices are socially suicidal and cannot be sustained even for another 100 years. The culture change to stable markets without growth seems impossible to conceive, yet we are seeing the beginning of the end of such exploitive practices as the vectors of global population and material demand cross in the exponential curve that Al Bartlett so aptly described.
Culture change is occurring now as we see economic indicators becoming level, as they are now. Conceiving of a stable, non-growth, non-deflation economy would require a cultural mindset of “sustainable markets,” which equates to stable and steady low return on investments. It would mean that material sustainability would become the norm, with the ideal where all output becomes input for another industry: No waste, no landfills. When this begins to sound reasonable, then that cultural change would become systems-driven. Fortunately, we are familiar with those concepts. If the 600 year old mindset of contemporary business is destined to fail in the next few decades, will we choose to reinstall the same failed paradigms of economics and finance? Or, will we seek to design sustainable social, political and economic-financial-business systems that are supported by socially sustainable values and beliefs?
As for planetary management as a practice, it must be as obvious to you as it is to me that there is no one managing the planet. If we were to choose a process of planetary management, what would that be? Consider, who has the most to lose? Everyone. Who has the most to gain? Everyone. Designing a holistic planetary systems management process must have the capability of developing sustainable designs for the social, political-governmental and economic- financial pillars that support functional societies. Is this possible, to do?!! Yes, but only if you are willing to be humbly powerful designing those options. And, it will take a good deal of time to fulfill without a global series of cataclysms that necessitate rapid, progressive change.
Planetary management is not an excuse for the exploitive practices of colonialism that have existed for the last 600+ years, which are intimately tied to the erroneous concept of “sustainable growth” coupled with money-driven goals. In terms of planetary management, those practices are socially suicidal and cannot be sustained even for another 100 years. The culture change to stable markets without growth seems impossible to conceive, yet we are seeing the beginning of the end of such exploitive practices as the vectors of global population and material demand cross in the exponential curve that Al Bartlett so aptly described.
Culture change is occurring now as we see economic indicators becoming level, as they are now. Conceiving of a stable, non-growth, non-deflation economy would require a cultural mindset of “sustainable markets,” which equates to stable and steady low return on investments. It would mean that material sustainability would become the norm, with the ideal where all output becomes input for another industry: No waste, no landfills. When this begins to sound reasonable, then that cultural change would become systems-driven. Fortunately, we are familiar with those concepts. If the 600 year old mindset of contemporary business is destined to fail in the next few decades, will we choose to reinstall the same failed paradigms of economics and finance? Or, will we seek to design sustainable social, political and economic-financial-business systems that are supported by socially sustainable values and beliefs?
As for planetary management as a practice, it must be as obvious to you as it is to me that there is no one managing the planet. If we were to choose a process of planetary management, what would that be? Consider, who has the most to lose? Everyone. Who has the most to gain? Everyone. Designing a holistic planetary systems management process must have the capability of developing sustainable designs for the social, political-governmental and economic- financial pillars that support functional societies. Is this possible, to do?!! Yes, but only if you are willing to be humbly powerful designing those options. And, it will take a good deal of time to fulfill without a global series of cataclysms that necessitate rapid, progressive change.