GMU:Cybernetic Garden/Five measures to save the world

Ressources

Wikipedia

• wikipedia:World population
• wikipedia:Peak oil
• wikipedia:Climate change
• wikipedia:Global warming

Statistical Sources, UN, WHO, EU, etc

• UN data
• World Bank Data
• CIA World Factbook
• ESA Data application
• Eurostat (European Komission)
• Statistisches Bundesamt

NGO information, campaigns

• Campaign “Fleischfrage” by WWF
• TED Talk: Marcel Dicke Why not eat insects?
• World Population Awareness
• Public Food Locations
• Interview with Stephane Hessel about his essay "Time for outrange!"

Press coverage, interpretation

• BBC: Five ways to save the world, online
• Süddeutsche Thema Bevölkerungswachstum
• De:Bug about fabbing

Artworks

• shrink men to 50cm

Blogs, conspiracy theories

• SAP by IMF and Worldbank as a cause of poverty

Issues to solve

1. Overpopulation
2. Food production and agriculture
   • starvation
3. Climate change
   • CO2 emissions: carbon footprint
4. Energy crisis
   • Peak oil

Philipp & Phillip

Under the aspects of expanding the efficiency of human potential and individual satisfaction, WE HAVE...

1. to change practical politics into a transparent lawgiver with equal basics
   • we have to multiply the dynamic of individual involvement in political systems
   • one should no longer be able to build the means of existence out of a political career
2. to change market into a fair and useful constitution of trade
   • we have do decentralize its might
   • the development and spreading of digital fabricators (fabbers) has to be forced by law
   • pseudo-requirements have to be discovered and eliminated
3. to change society into a clear, veritable and permissive band of mankind
   • we have to create a whole new way of consciousness, that is built on trust and thoughts of liberty instead of fear, opacity and mistrust
   • investing in balanced and progressive education means growth of global and individual wealth and drop of the average birthrate
4. to change our understanding of food "usage"
   • eating is more than just satisfing hunger
   • radical reduction of animalistic food would reduce hunger, environmental pollution and consumtion of land and fresh water
   • come clean about our humdrum death cult
5. to change the danger from generation of energy into save and clean lines
   • "Ecotropolis"
   • to build a city based on the thoughts of consistently green intentions

Catalina G

To save the world we have to:

1. Stop eating beef! The cow is guilty
   • it will help to reduce the global warming: Cows are methane-making machines
   • no more deforestation (and no more McDonals): 70 percent of previous forested land in the Amazon is occupied by pastures, and feedcrops cover a large part of the remainder.
   • no more wasting and polluting water: 4,500 gallons of water to produce a cut of 300 gr. beef.
   • It could even help with people´s excess weight
2. Let the earth to follow her own work (against overpopulation)
   • Diseases, plagues
   • Natural Disasters
3. Understand natural balance
   • Social Inequality (everything could be worst)