Some additional thoughts on the 'control system' isSHEWs, mentioned in the initial post.
The majorty of the scientific community (the most sensitive and accurate sensor system available to mankind) agrees on the necessity to reduce emission of greenhouse gases and a huge number of other measures to prevent further decay of human and(/or?) ecological well-being. Our current local, national and global governance systems however, are not sufficiently equipped with control elements that enable them to act in time, with appropriate measures on relevant signals and signal trends to make them ensure that we and future generations, the stakeholders of our governance systems, can trust in being and remaining to be well. Instead of predominantely initiating adjustment of their plans based on signals that are relevant for securing SHEW for us and future generations (the stakeholders!), national governments merely act on signals that are relevant to their own well-being, directly related to election results on short-term. For local and global governments the situation is not that much different. So what can stakeholders do? Signing petitions is one option. Trying to get them to behave against their own natural tendencies is another. We seek to find others ways: more efficient and more effective! We believe that as soon as we, the stakeholders, are aware of our common destiny, responsibility, unity and ability we can find better ways. What about you? On Jan 15, 8:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello TSI Founder, these are really good questions. I don't presume to > have answers, but have been working independently on a similar set of > questions organized under the concepts of human solidarity, ecological > sustainability, and non-violence. I use the UN MDGs as a point of > reference. Could you kindly take a look at my work? > > Solidarity, Sustainability, and > Non-violencehttp://www.pelican-consulting.com/solisust.html > > Notice there are links to some resource pages and to the newsletters > posted up to December 2006. The January 2007 newsletter is almost > ready. > > Hope we can collaborate! > > Sincerely, > Luis > > > > TSI Founder wrote: > > ... globally? > > > How would you think we could rearrange our decision making processes to > > make them sensitive, adaptive and robust enough to: > > 1) "Enable us to cope with probable dramatic changes in Earth's > > ecological and physiological systems" and > > 2) "Structurally improve them to ensure we don't make the mistake of > > overexploitation of the systems we depend on, again and again ... and > > again" ? > > > How would you modificy governance systems to make them fit for the > > purpose of establishing and maintaining a world of Sustainable Human > > and Ecological Well-being (SHEW)? > > > Triggered? Share your common sense! > > > The SHEW Initiative- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
