In order to HELP SAVE THE PLANET - we
need YOU to become a CONTRIBUTOR and FOUNDER of the New Economic
Model - ‘TERRAISM’ - outlined below.
Instead of rewarding those who help
DESTROY our beloved planet, the real ‘TERRORISTS’ it rewards
those who help SAVE THE EARTH - the real ‘TERRAISTS’.
The more saving YOU DO - the MORE YOU
EARN. Not SOCIALISTS either because you must DO THINGS to lower your
or someone else’s Carbon Footprint in order to EARN.
It’s called ‘Terraism’ - a new
economic model and jobs market where participants are rewarded for
lifestyle changes that lower their carbon footprint, while also
influencing others to lower theirs.
The
Problem:
We are all becoming more and more aware
of the gradually increasing negative impacts of Climate Change caused
by Human activity. Every year, the summers are warmer and warmer and
winters are colder and colder while the weather delivers more and
more catastrophic events every year.
Many scientists are now telling us that
we may be living in a period of time known as the ‘Tipping Point’,
a point of no return, where no matter what we do as a society, it
will be too late to reverse the worsening greenhouse gas accumulation
that will end in our total suffocation and extinction as a species.
Under our current economic model of
almost complete unregulated emissions of greenhouse gasses by the
producers and distributors of fossil fuels, such as the continued
exploration and mining of Oil, Natural Gas, and Coal, there is little
hope that our society will be able to halt all production of same in
time to save the planet. There is simply not enough cooperation by
the general public to boycott such goods, because there are little to
no incentives to do so, and there are not enough job opportunities
for those in the fossil fuel industry to make an important switch to
an alternate, more sustainable way to support one’s family.
Therefore, there may be little to zero
time left to begin a new type of economic model that encourages a
significant portion of society to wean themselves of their daily
behaviors that contribute to the problem of CO2 released into the
atmosphere and actually makes the participant a Netzero to a negative
producer of greenhouse gasses, thus helping to push the world away
from the Tipping Point and giving us all hope.
The economic model I envision would be
based on a method of verification of any organization, family or any
individual reduction in their Carbon Footprint in order to obtain
credits that can be used like money to further their progress in the
world.
However, instead of promoting the
monetary wealth of the organization, family or individual, the system
would promote and support the health of the planet, with the
interests of the individual subordinated to the planetary interests
for generations.
The
Solution:
I am proposing to design a system that
instead of being based on the DOLLAR or other currencies is based on
Carbon Reduction Credits. (CRC’s). The more CRC’s the
organization, family or individual acquires through their activities,
their ‘Jobs’ in the new economic model, the more secure they
become in the way of food, housing, travel, etc., but all of this
improved lifestyle would itself be based on sustainable usage of
energy and food that is consumed.
EXAMPLE No. 1
A family can provide proof that they
have all agreed to become vegetarians by showing grocery store
receipts for enough plant-based meat products to supply all of their
demands for protein over the course of a month, or for the year.
OR it could be that only one member of
the family has committed to go completely vegetarian or to at least
replace one meal per week with plant-based proteins.
Each credit could be based on the
planting of one tree since this activity has a measurable and
constant positive impact in reducing greenhouse gasses which can be
measured. One CRC, therefore, may be equal to one new tree being
planted somewhere on the planet, or one tree, or acres of trees being
saved from destruction somewhere on the planet.
There are numerous organizations
already in place who can provide these services, and who are already
providing such services on a large scale such as One Tree Planted -
OneTreePlanted.org, and Global Citizen (GlobalCitizen.org).
PLEASE NOTE: Part of the grant
money would be used to determine the precise relationship in CO2
reduction as per the elimination of meat protein by an individual at
a given age. Most other relationships for an altered behavior in
terms of C02 prevented, reversed or sequestered would also be
determined.
After attaining all of this data and
establishing practical working numbers, a value can be placed on the
activity of this family member or the entire family in changing their
diet to plant-based proteins. Once verified, these data results in
an appropriate CRC credit into their account for use in acquiring
other things they need in their daily life.
Under such an economic model, the
rewards for doing the right thing for one’s planet, gradually
exceeds the former financial rewards in terms of dollars and assets
that become less and less favored while CRC’s become more and more
favored and even more valuable.
Even greater credits can be paid out to
families, organizations, or individuals who rid themselves of a
gasoline powered vehicle and exchange it for an electric powered
vehicle and such transactions are verified.
Again, grant money will be used to
determine the exact computation of gasoline not used, and thus CO2,
not produced into the atmosphere over time that such a transaction
would produce for that individual based on past usage of gasoline for
that individual or organization.
Example No. 2
An entire job classification that is
detrimental to the health of the planet such as Fossil Fuel
exploration, transport, retail sales, can be gradually phased out of
existence and all the jobs therein replaced by jobs and even
investment opportunities that rely on sustainable forms of energy
like Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Hydro-Electric and perhaps even a new
Nuclear Energy that has conquered the current problems of
catastrophic radiation leaks and contaminated water.
One or more of the workers in the
Fossil Fuel Industry is enticed over to work in the Solar Industry
due to progress being made in the transferability of the CRC’s. It
is determined that CRC’s are at a level that competes with the
older forms of monetary rewards for work performed.
This person or group is able to
convince many others to leave the Fossil Fuel Industry and over a
fairly short period of time there are no longer enough workers in the
Fossil Fuel Industry to produce significant amounts of these harmful
products.
The person or persons who influence
others to leave a detrimental occupation and switch to a sustainable
future type of occupation would receive the most CRC’s and give his
or her family a greater financial and economic stability than those
who remain in the detrimental Industries or occupations.
EXAMPLE No. 3.
A homeowner or business converts his
heating and air-conditioning from a fossil burning furnace and
grid-tied air conditioning system to a heating and cooling system
based on Solar panels. This event is easily verified with receipts
and other supporting documents from official agencies.
The amount of fossil fuel energy not
required to heat and cool this building over the next ten, twenty,
thirty and even forty years is easily calculated and then converted
into hard cold CRC’s that are then paid into the account of this
individual or organization.
Let’s be clear that Dollars saved and
government tax incentives in this area are another incentive for
people to do this kind of thing as they are doing in record numbers
today.
However, the combined effort of all the
homes and businesses that are converting under these dollar based
incentives is not enough to save the planet. We are still sliding
past the Tipping Point due to other factors in the economy that
overwhelms all of the individual ‘good’ things we attempt at this
time.
There is even talk in my state’s
government to remove rebates made to homeowners that convert to Solar
Power to power their homes and replace these incentives with taxes
and fees imposed on homeowners who put panels on their rooftops.
Obviously exactly the wrong thing to do
at this time, the government has yet to appreciate the danger lurking
on the horizon for all humanity. This is what we have to suffer even
now due to the economic power of the polluters and the influence of
money on the management of the planet.
We must break the back of this kind of
thinking and replace it with a consciousness that is Earth First and
individual greed LAST.
By making every individual person and
entity on the planet more and more aware of the advantages of joining
the new economic model and helping to defeat or at least marginalize
the old one, we have the greatest chance of changing the basic system
of greed and lust for power.
Economic Benefits for the Early
Adopters
Besides earning more and more CRC’s,
the organizations or individuals who get in early by officially
offering their events into the system and having them certified
beneficial AND their descendants should also be rewarded with more
Credits than people who get in at the tail end of the economic system
when things are brought down to sustainable living conditions and the
threat of extinction is completely gone.
Because this is such an urgent need -
In order to give people the encouragement to join in the new economic
model sooner rather than later, part of the grant money will be used
to design an investment plan that is based on a percentage of a
participant’s Credits that are converted into a crypto-currency
that could amount to a huge asset that most people are not able to
achieve under our present economy.
This would be given to everyone and
assets set aside or withheld from the participant to provide for the
participants safe retirement. As in the present Social Security
System, assets are sequestered and set aside to accumulate in a safe
investment portfolio that gains in value over the long term.
This is a major component of the new
economic model because it is conceivable that many more Carbon
Credits will be earned by early adopters than later adopters because
in the early years, it will be much easier to locate waste and
egregious harm being done to the environment and the means to reverse
the harm will be easier to adopt by the offenders. This means that
early adopters could earn huge amounts of CCR’s that would someday
become extremely valuable. Yet, most people may be convinced to slow
down in their efforts as soon as they have earned enough of them and
some of them are wasted credits.
By taking an increasing percentage of
extra CCR’s and segregating them into a government regulated
retirement fund for participants, as Social Security funds are now
treated, would allow anyone to put aside surplus credits for their
future and their descendant’s future.
In this new economic model increasing
the economic security of citizens increases the security of the
planet.
A sense of urgency:
I would use the grant funds to partner
with others who are already doing amazing things to help save the
planet such as One Tree Planted, the Citizens Climate Lobby and
Global Citizen. Together, I am confident that we can achieve the
goal of creating this bold new economic model and launch it in time
to save the planet - but only if we are allowed to get started now.
SYSTEMS AND METHODS
In one iteration, the CRC’s that are
verified could be done so in a Blockchain. When verified in this
manner, literally a second time, they could be mathematically
converted into an appropriate amount of Cryptocurrency created for
this purpose.
As mentioned above, part of the grant
funds would be used to determine the most productive mathematical
formula that equates real Carbon reduction in pounds per year that is
converted to an appropriate amount of Carbon Reduction Credits
sufficient to incentivize nearly everyone to strive to earn more and
more of them.
As soon as this mathematical formula
that can be a reliable measure of someone’s verified carbon
footprint reduction per event over time is configured and tested, it
can be used to convert into precise amounts of crypto-currency given
to participants automatically as part of the ‘Smart Contract’
held within the Blockchain and delivered to the participants digital
wallet instantaneously, a huge incentive for more and more people to
participate.
This series of events can be considered
as the method used in ‘Mining’ the crypto-currency that is used.
With the continued success and adoption
of such a model, it could also push the value of this CRC based
Crypto-currency into higher and higher values as we have seen other
Crypto-currencies acquire even without any substantial or useful
basis.
Bitcoin, the progenitor of this type of
digital currency uses huge computer server farms that today require
many megawatts of electricity to produce one bitcoin. There is
nothing of value that society can use in the production of Bitcoin
and it produces thousands of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere to
produce the coins, yet the value of this asset has gone from pennies
in conversion value to around $40,000 each as of the time of this
writing.
Bitcoin miners are now scrambling to
install solar power plants to power their computer server farms,
hoping to give their industry a better grade in terms of
environmental impacts. However, even if all of the Bitcoin server
farms were converted to 100% solar power generation, they are still
using sustainable energy production that could have been applied to
something more useful to society. So, even though they are
attempting to become more socially responsible, it still takes
thousands of kilowatts of electricity production and fossil fuels
just to manufacture each solar panel that is installed.
Using this system and method described
above, mining of crypto-currency can be pegged to the adoption of
behavior that simply lowers the Carbon Footprint of the participant,
making the underlying rewards far more beneficial to society since
they don’t require any energy to mint and in fact, have the net
effect of taking CO2 out of the atmosphere whenever they are mined.
Part of the grant funds will be used to
issue such a Crypto-currency as described above in what’s known as
an ICO, (Initial Coin Offer) for the purpose of incentivizing the
most beneficial behavior from the most number of people just in time
to save the planet.
