Version of Jan 2 · 49 min read (link back to book and its chapters https://medium.com/gardenworld-politics Gardenworld Politics & The Renewal of Civilization Its Economy, Politics, Philosophy and the Character of People Douglass Carmichael www.dougcarmichael.com words in [..]s are for editing . words in (…) s are to be footnotes Chapter 1. From the current stuck to GardenWorld Gardenworld politics is an interim strategy and possibly…

Gardenworld is a survival strategy, more tghan mere technocratic. but needs to be implemented with human nature in mind, and to be as attractive as possible. The shift of the center of our living, from urbanized land now covered with wires, poles, mlti sand traffic, to land covered with plants…

Notes in […]s -. are ideas to develop further (..) are to become footnotes version of Jan 2 [Main points in the chpater. To explore the human nature that Gardenworld should always be aiming to support across the life cycle. Human nature moves in the life cycle from the organic…

Marc Block writes that history is about “humanin beings in time”. [ acting together we have created a mess.] The expected growth was going to provide us with a future, but the flow of the river of society seems to have been slowing down as it spreads out into a…

version of dec 27 The simple answer: the human population struggled along, and then agriculture and empires and then coal and then oil led to increase. Instincts inherited down the evolutionary chain played a major part: sexuality, food, status seeking, defense of territory, and willing to make long migrations. We…

Nov 15 · 20 min read We are at the point where scenarios that were plausible are, with the passing of critical time, no longer viable paths. In particular the idea of a resurgent growth of productivity, GDP, technology and finance — a general augmentation of the existing economy with…

Dec 11 · 19 min read version of dec 18 2020 Crossing the river by feeling the stones. — Deng Xiao Ping. It is probably obvious that what will happen, and what we need to respond to, is some combination of the three: doing nothing, high tech and Gardenworld. …

Douglass Carmichael Nov 18 · 15 min read I made a few suggestions about the early form of several key words in chapter 1. Remember, we are looking for leverage points that can help us create a better future. I find histories of key words extremely important, showing the rich…