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Projects
Participants Becha
Skills Community building
Status Planning
Niche Community
Purpose World domination 
"In our present numbers and enacting our present dreams, 
the human race is having a lethal impact upon the world." Daniel Quinn

"You cannot sustain population growth 
and / or growth in the rates of consumption of resources." Albert Bartellet 

 "Is this culture ever going to undergo voluntary transformation
to a sane and sustainable way of living?"  Derric Jensen

"I’m fighting on behalf the species we’ve not yet driven to extinction. 
I’m fighting to increase the odds that Earth will be vibrantly green 10 million years from now." Guy McPherson


Hackers Tribes (Saving the World)

Why are hackers like tribes?

About hackers

http://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/everyday-hacking/

http://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/the-multifaceted-hacker/

http://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/productive-freedom-and-the-political-economy-of-hacking/

http://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/hacking-beyond-activism-and-crime/

http://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/hackers-freedom-fighters-or-danger-to-society/

http://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/productive-freedom-and-the-political-economy-of-hacking/

http://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/which-hackers-are-we-talking-about/ 

Hacker Culture: Smári: Hacker culture is all about being able to learn and experience and interact. It takes an "anything goes" approach 
to altering reality. A hacker is somebody who has read-write-execute permissions on the universe. 
Within this mindset there is no right and wrong - such moral judgements are separate from hacker culture, 
and although hackers might argue heavily about what is right and wrong, 
they will all agree that tinkering is a good idea. A side effect of this is an incredibly liberal attitude towards almost everything. 
Once you recognize moral relativism for what it is, then we can move forward to do more interesting things than opining at each other, 
such as working together to build better communities.
The free exchange of information is a necessary precondition for this.
  • "The hacker is someone one can imagine as still having some shred of a utopian practice." Interview with @McKenzieWark http://owl.li/rPYGN

About hackerspaces

Why are hackerspaces like tribes?

"... Internet’s spirit of permissionless innovation, open entry, diversity and competition." http://www.internetgovernance.org/2013/10/20/plans-for-internet-commission-on-internet-cooperation-revealed/

On Ethics


On Consensus

  • Wired 3.10: How Anarchy Works www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.10/ietf.htm
  • (get some links from anarchist web sites!!)

On Leadership

Other hackerspace related project

We are organized and unorganized individuals like you, fighting for our rights, for democracy, equality, justice, freedom and solidarity,  
for our and the planets’ survival.
GNUnion is a new type of transnational and p2p networked social movement union.
GNUnion strives with its entirity, to build and stregthen ties among all the nodes untill the humanity becomes One Big Meshwork.

Why are tribes important?

    • 1) The Great Forgetting
    • 2) The Boiling Frog
    • 3) The Collapse of Values
    • 4) Population: A Systems Approach
    • 5) The Great Remembering
  • The parable of tribes, Andrew Bard Schmookler

Becha's Talks and Papers

UnCivilization

* October 2013, RIPE67, synopses for the undelivered talk Hackers_tribes:42_questions

Hackers Ethics

Beyond Civilization

Is this culture ever going to undergo voluntary transformation
to a sane and sustainable way of living? Derric Jensen

Books

  • Daniel Quinn

http://www.ishmael.org/Origins/Beyond_Civilization/

  • Derrick Jensen: Endgame

http://www.derrickjensen.org/work/books-dvds-cds/

  • A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It -- (2011), Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed:

http://crisisofcivilization.com/book/

  • Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilizatio ... , John Zerzan
  • "Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections"

Culture

New way of thinking

Quotes on Sharing, spirituality, Culture or "the new way of thinking" Hackers_tribes_quotes_culture


  • In the Absence of the Sacred, Jerry Mander
  • Born and raised in captivity...
  • The Great Turning

"somebody will take care of it... that's their job..." == THAT'S MY JOB!

Are we distroying the planet just to be a little bit more comfortable for a short while? Dimitry Orlov

What does a life well lived look like?

Socratic Questions / Social Justice issue : http://goodmenproject.com/social-justice-2/social-justice-climate-change-is-a-social-justice-issue/

  • "Myth" : The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. John F. Kennedy

Art

Novels

"the most important environmental book ever written. It is not Silent Spring, Small Is Beautiful or even Walden. It contains no graphs, no tables, no facts, figures, warnings, predictions or even arguments. Nor does it carry a single dreary sentence, which, sadly, distinguishes it from most environmental literature. It is a novel, first published (in 2006) , and it will change the way you see the world."



Animations

(and unrelated, but worth it: http://stevecutts.com )

  • There is no tomorrow", animation

http://www.popularresistance.org/video-can-this-current-way-of-life-continue/

  • Michael Pollan's Food Rules vimeo.com Based on Michael Pollan's talk "Food Rules" given at the RSA, this animation was created in the context of the RSA/Nominet Trust film competition. Using a mixture…

http://vimeo.com/35444471

Video & documentaties

  • What a way to go - LIfe at the end of the empire // WhatAWayToGomovie.com

http://www.youtube.com/embed/h2em1x2j9-o

  • Crisis of Civilization

http://crisisofcivilization.com/watch/

  • Al Gore interview: Why civilization will not survive next 100 years:

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/al-gore-explains-why-civilization-might-not-survive-the-next-100-years

  • And of course, "The Inconvenient Truth"
  • "There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside, first." - Jim Morrison // The sustainable Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9pDfxdWT2js#t=24

  • Films: "What the Economic Crisis Really Means" & "Peak Oil and Economic Contraction"


Music

  • Pearl Jam: Yield , album inspired by Ishamel (Daniel Quinn)
  • * "We are the Vogons" (spoof of "We are the robots" by Kraftwerk & HHGttG"

Other examples

  • Gypsies
  • Circuses
  • Homeless people

Problems

  • The Myth of "Takers": Greatness, Power over, Pinnacle of Evolution, God's chosen children
  • Peak Oil
  • Overpopulation
  • Climate change
  • Over-Consumption
  • Pollution
  • NTE

Takers Myths

 The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. 
 John F. Kennedy

The myth of superiority

  • The Great Delusion: The Myths Greatness, Power over, Pinnacle of Evolution, God's chosen children...
    • Daniel Quinn: Ishmael, Story of B, etc

The myth of progress

Now is the best time, we never had it as good as now
PRO AGAINST
Bill Gates: By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. http://annualletter.gatesfoundation.org/ Seven out of ten people live in countries where economic inequality has increased in the last 30 years (1)
The bottom half of the world’s population owns the same as the richest 85 people in the world. (2)
* There are no problems, we never had it better then now, it's been only progress since 1850: http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/10/20/the-anti-reactionary-faq/ (first part only! = "1: Is everything getting worse?")
http://www.businessinsider.com/charts-that-will-restore-your-faith-in-humanity-2013-5

(1) http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-22/top-1-has-65-times-more-wealth-bottom-half-and-global-elite-it-way

(2) http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/20/oxfam-85-richest-people-half-of-the-world &&& http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/bp-working-for-few-political-capture-economic-inequality-200114-summ-en.pdf

Limits to Growth (Oil, Population, Consumption)

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  • and transcript

http://www.albartlett.org/presentations/arithmetic_population_energy_transcript_english.html 

       "You cannot sustain population growth and / or growth in the                  
       rates of consumption of resources."
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is                                                            
our inability to understand the exponential function."
  • "There is no tomorrow", animation

http://www.popularresistance.org/video-can-this-current-way-of-life-continue/

  • The Dream of the Earth, Thomas Berry; "The Great Wok"


No Growth != Economic Collapse


Food = Totalitarian Agriculture

  • " Civilization will eat itself" Ran Prieur & "Superweed"
  • Acheiving food security in the face of climate change

http://ccafs.cgiar.org/sites/default/files/assets/docs/climate_food_commission-final-mar2012.pdf

Overshoot

  • "Overshoot" -- the ecological basis of revolutionary change
  • Footprint & "energy slaves" = equivalent of human work , done by machines, using energy & resources
  • "Unguarded gates" Otis Graham
  • "as Perlman makes plain, population growth is purely a product of civilization: 'a steady increase in human numbers [is] as persistent as the Leviathan itself. This phenomenon seems to exist only among Leviathanized human beings. Animals as well as human communities in the state of nature do not proliferate their own kind to the point of pushing all others off the field.' "

Climate

  • "The Paryt's Over" , Richard Heinberg


  • The World according to Pimm, Stuard Pimm
  • Grassland, Richard Manning
  • "Published on Friday, November 15, 2013 by Adbusters 'Sleepwalking to Extinction': Capitalism and the Destruction of Life and Earth

by Richard Smith https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/15-3#.UoukAlRq0jc.twitter // http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue64/Smith64.pdf // Upcoming book: "To Save the Planet, Turn the World Upside Down"

IPCC 5th report

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In the HAIKU form: http://daily.sightline.org/2013/12/16/the-entire-ipcc-report-in-19-illustrated-haiku/
  • 27 sept 2013 the 5th IPCC report got published, and results from their year study are summarized :

http://www.ipcc.ch/news_and_events/docs/ar5/ar5_wg1_headlines.pdf http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/communication/news-archive/2013/ipcc-report-released-today-stockholm http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929360.200-climate-science-why-the-world-wont-listen.html#.UkVjjKw4_T0 http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/27/ipcc-climate-change-report-ar5-live-coverage http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24292615

the revolutionary nature of climate science http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/science-says-revolt

"our entire economic paradigm is a threat to ecological stability."

challenging currents economic paradigm is humanity’s best shot at avoiding catastrophe

"ditching of this cruel system is no longer a matter of mere ideological preference but rather one of species-wide existential necessity"


"we have an economic system that fetishises GDP growth above all else, regardless of the human or ecological consequences"


"Today, after two decades of bluff and lies, the remaining 2°C budget demands revolutionary change to the political and economic hegemony"


Water Shortage

The Global Search For Liquid Gold, Urban Times, 11 June 2013 http://act.sumofus.org/go/2394?ak_proof=1&t=5&akid=.1859150.b05Aq7 Bottled Life: The Story, Bottled Life, 1 January 2012 Water Facts, Food and Water Watch http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/interesting-water-facts/?ak_proof=1

Pollution

  • OCEANS


=> solution?! http://www.step-initiative.org (solving the e-waste problem, UN)

Near Term Extinction

  • Previous mass extinctions : ....
  • Devouring all life & resources on the whole planet:
  • "The World is Blue" (a book)
  • A Good House" (water shortage!)

Collapse

  • "Collapse" , Jared Diamond? Another guy?
  • "5 stages of collapse" & "6th stage"

Partial Solutions

Goals

Guy McPhearson: "I’m fighting on behalf the species we’ve not yet driven to extinction. 
I’m fighting to increase the odds that Earth will be vibrantly green 10 million years from now."


Bright Side

  • Always look on the bright side of life...
  • "I am planning on living forever -- so far, so good" (Groucho Marx)
  • Comedians! (Russel Brand, Ship of Fools....)
  • OBOS (anti-commercials for Norvegian housing corporation) (thanks, Patrice!)


Changing Culture

  • You can and must be the one to change the world. You are the One. "saving the world isn't the work of specialists" - Daniel Quinn

http://www.ishmael.org/Education/Writings/littletrain.cfm

  • "My name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery of Western Civilization"
  • Off the Map , Chellis Glendinning
  • "Pirate Cinema", Cory Doctorow

"fighting climate change requires “a clear moral vision of the alternative being fought for,” said Klein. Just as Mandela fought for a new “rainbow egalitarian society” rather than simply against racism, environmentalists need to establish a new approach to society.

It is time for a new generation of environmental activism to emerge, she said—one that is not dominated by acceptance of the prevailing world view, but one that breaks free from the “ideologically shackled environment in which we all operate”.

Failure to challenge an ideology based upon self-interest and an all-powerful market ... the ideas that have been our greatest obstacles—especially the idea that there is no society, that we are defined by self interested, consumer desires.”


No Techno Fix

  • To Fix Climate Change, Scientists Turn To Hacking The Earth, by NPR STAFF

http://www.npr.org/2013/10/20/238548240/turning-to-scientists-to-engineer-a-cooler-climate

No Fossil Fuels

Bikes instead of cars

Human-powered transport!!

  • My own idea: multi-user-rickshaw-with-roof :)

Alternatives to Consumerism

crisis regions can learn from ecovillages // applied sustainability:
- Natural water management.
- Decentralised energy autonomy. 
- Local food autonomy. 
- Community based economy.
- Holistic Planned Grazing.
- Community Knowledge

Economy of No Growth

  • Applying permaculture principles to finance

http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-12-18/seedbombing-applying-the-principles-of-permaculture-to-finance#

Cooperation

  • Sustenance Farm

Existing Communities

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Sharing Economy

  • p2pfoundation.org (EVERYTHING about peer to peer & sharing!!)

"Interestingly, women are pioneers in the so-called sharing economy, which conservative Milo Yiannopoulos slated as an "emasculating, dispiriting and demotivating" realm of insipid do-gooders. Poor Milo, frightened by the thought of his manhood being threatened by people actually wanting to co-operate and share stuff.)"

(this links to my Women in Technology page Ladies_Night

Protests & Revolutions & Resistance

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  • Russel Brand (see below)
  • How to start the revolution, Meaning conference (link later)
Energy issues will also set the stage for more aggressive geopolitics and will substantially destroy the ecosystem services 
on which society is wholly dependent. These are but a few of the impacts that the double energy problem 
of climate change and oil decline have in store for us.

Disruptions

Enemy according to DHS.jpg

Green Anarchism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_anarchism

Green Syndicalism vs. Anti-Civ: Social Revolution or Primitivist Reaction? / http://ecology.iww.org/node/283

Primitivist Primer: http://www.primitivism.com/primer.htm

Small Steps

Eco-drawing-mind-map.jpg

Get prepared

  • Links about "preparation & transformation" rom "What a Way to Go"

http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/the-issues/preparation-and-transformation/

  • Scientists say new approach to climate preparedness essential to help people adjust to coming changes

http://phys.org/news/2013-11-scientists-approach-climate-preparedness-essential.html#jCp

Clean Energy

Divestment

(put your money where your mouth is)

  • ikstapover.nl

Managing environment

  • Mountain regions in Europe... Sustainable Land-use Practices in European Mountain Regions under Global Change: an Integrated Research Approach

http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol18/iss3/art37/

Urban Gardening and Food

Clean-up

Practical Survival

Emotional Healing

  • Geneen Roth - the feeling of *enough*
  • Brene Brown: Vulnerability, and "Daring Greatly"
  • Non-Violent Communication & Self-empathy
  • Empathy
    • "The Willow Tree", Herbert Hubert Selby, Jr.
    • "Nevertheless, Say "Yes" to Life: A Psychologist Experiences the Concentration Camp)" or "Mens search for meaning" by Viktro Frankl
  • Byron Katie: Loving What Is and How to live in harmony with the way things are (A Thousand names for Joy, Tao te Ching)

UN, EU & other attempts to solutions

  • "How to feed the world in 2050", a video etc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjtIl5B1zXI&feature=youtu.be // http://ccafs.cgiar.org/news/commission-sustainable-agriculture-and-climate-change/world-scientists-define-united-approach#.UpDgJRZEB3a

Science

Misc

To overcome the crisis of democracy and reaffirm our autonomy, we first of all need to liberate our empty self from mindless consumerism and conformity.

Representation places the source of legitimacy outside of oneself. Whether it is a corporate brand name, political party, an ideology or slogan, one looks for objects of representation through which something inside can be projected out onto the world.

Slowly Boiling Frog (just like in "the story of B")

People are moving more and more outside of electoral politics. A call is arising for a new type of governance, for a real democracy where each person participates directly and manifests their own voice. This is a political act, but it is also much more. The current crisis of democracy is a crisis of representation. Images that perpetuate illusions about ourselves can no longer sustain our humanity.


Misc Solutions

(to be placed in categories later! Note to self!)


Russel Brand

(see quotes: Hackers_tribes_quotes_culture#Quoting_Russell_Brand )

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