Natural Disasters (Drafts)
Natural disasters have the greatest ability to destroy the majority of life on the planet; they can be both universal and human caused events where a region or regions of the world become dangerous or inhospitable to life.
“Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we’re still at the mercy of nature.” - Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958 - Present)
Natural Disasters
“Today we’re living through the sixth great extinction, known as the Holocene extinction event. The rate of this extinction is nothing short of explosive and terrifying. The current rate of extinction is 100 times to 10,000 times the background rate (the average between extinctions.) It is estimated that between 2.7 and 270 species are erased from existence every day. Including today. At our present course over half of all plant and animal species will be extinct by 2100.” - The Independent
Global (examples)
Climate change, massive lava flows, super volcanoes, solar flares, asteroid collisions and disease; all of these have the ability to cause mass extinctions on the planet.
Localized
“Climate change is the primary contributor to our current mass extinction; the other major human induced contributors are habitat degradation, overexploitation, agricultural monocultures, and human-borne invasive species.” - The Independent
Hurricanes, volcano eruptions, mega tsunamis, draughts, and flooding.
Also in Framework
The EarthCitizen Framework Project
We are striving to build a framework that Earth Citizens can use to guide various aspects of living life and collaborating to help life and happiness to thrive. The topics presented are much like an individual or a group (i.e. non-profit, company, etc.) guiding agreements, charter, values, responsibilities, mission statements, and/or paradigms.
Table of Contents
1. Type 1 Civilization - A Vision for a Global Civilization of Conscious Beings
2. Earth Citizenship - A Free Choice Citizenship
3. Timeless Challenges Every Generation Must Face
4. Core Social Mechanisms to Operate a Global Civilization
5. Core Guiding Values to Avoid Catastrophic Destruction of Our Planet
6. Key Paradigms to Shape a New Planetary Thinking
7. Global Responsibilities We Must Collectively Own
An Earth Citizen Type 1 Civilization
An Earth Citizen, Type 1 Civilization, is the concept of a society that has the technological capabilities to generate energy equivalent to amount of solar energy absorbed on the planet, while managing that energy and other advanced technologies in an ethically and sustainably way so that everyone has access to an abundance of resources, while ensuring life and happiness thrives on the planet.