Arctic & Antarctic Cold-Sink Systems
( a hypothesis )

Graph of land ice decline ( by mass ) from NASA website - March 14th 2017

[ Republished: 3rd edit – 14Mar2017 – from original article April 2015 ]

author’s note:

This article has been heavily edited. If you read a previous version, you might not recognise it at all – new images have been added, the whole thing has been redirected and reworded, but refers back to the original version of the article at the start to put it in context. Continue reading “Arctic & Antarctic Cold-Sink Systems
( a hypothesis )”

Self-Sovereignty: Making Ecological and Social Justice Possible

[ Republished – 2nd edit: March 20, 2017 – from original article April 2015 ]

author’s note

This general topic is covered repeatly from different angles in different posts, but the intended purpose of this article is just to go straight to the heart of the matter, with respect to the scepticism many people have, as to whether or not an Resources Based Economy is possible in any form.

But to argue the case for an RBE, we must also argue the case for how every other social system attached to the economic system will function in its absence. So this article also deals with how an RBE can deliver justice. Continue reading “Self-Sovereignty: Making Ecological and Social Justice Possible”

Property vs. non-Property Reward Models

[Republished – 2nd edit: March 18, 2017 – from original article April 2015]

author’s note

A common question I am asked is:

how people are rewarded if not by ownership of things?

… but the problem with this question is that it assumes if you don’t actually own something, then you have no certainty of access to it, and thus you haven’t received a reward.

But this is actually just an assumption &/or a failure of imagination. Continue reading “Property vs. non-Property Reward Models”