Statement | naifelectronic

DECLARATION OF PURPOSE

We need a new vision, some honesty, some common sense, some practical effort. It is time to re-evaluate everything.

Our point of view should be from orbit. Our world is small and our population is challenging the resources.

Quality of living should be the priority. Allowing opportunity to all individuals. Good air good water dry and comfortable shelter. Every person should be capable of supporting their selves.

As a strong healthy adult in this society, I should be able to fill a useful role in my community. I should also be able to continuously challenge and stimulate myself. My good health adds to the health of the community.

Information should be available to all along with the education on how to use it. An informed electorate able to make informed decisions to the benefit of the commons. This must be a determining factor in who we allow to lead us.

A Declaration of the Rights of Humankind.

Life is more important than profit. We are all individual and part of community.

Women are equal to men. Shouldn’t need to be said. Gender, like all in this world, is not either or. All should be respected.

All humans as a society should be guaranteed access to develop the skills necessary for living. Time beyond that needed for food and shelter should be available for individual pursuits.

Educate the young, all young, with quality attention to critical thinking, information and the processing of information. Curiosity should be encouraged. Our young must be taught to think. Information must be made available. Flexibility and initiative should be encouraged.

Health care for all. Healthier people, a better society and the likely realization that our health depends on the health of the environment around us. This is obvious for a government concerned about it’s citizens,

Each human can further their self according to their capacities desires and energies. We are not all the same but we all can find a significance.

Material rewards and incentives for Responsibility and Production. not privilege. Prioritize labor that does the work. Just pay for just work.

Travel and cultural interaction should be encouraged so we can all understand our position in One World.

Unity is not conformity. It is community.

A crisis has begun and few are planning for the long term.

The world is out of balance and will soon adjust itself. Everything is interconnected and small event tipping points can not be predicted.

We are creating a situation where we are altering global systems primarily with the increase of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere.

This will change everything. This is changing everything as we encounter new norms.

We have also had a 150 year build up of industrial and consumer pollutants on a localized level; lead and chemicals in water, particulate matter in the air, accumulation of plastics including microplastics in the oceans.

We have no understanding of the long term consequence of concentrated use of any chemical or substance. Since the industrial age, we have reached an over saturation of contact with many elements. In our diets, in materials around us, in our oceans, in the air we breathe. Our bodies must adapt to these changes. We must expect breakdowns in new and unexpected ways.

The war on accumulated chemicals must be at all levels, manufacture, use and disposal. Industry must be responsible for what it produces. Waste and pollution control must be part of the cost.

Our quality of survival as a species depends on reestablishing a balance and understanding this will be a constant adjustment. Everything interacts with everything.

This must begin with mediation of our creation of greenhouse gases. This is a matter of life and deaths.

Economics

Economics has been uncompromisingly dominated by greed since the Reagan Thatcher reaction of the 1980s.

This has been a standard through world history. An elite class with power and wealth defines the rules. There is not a common purpose. At a certain level inequality becomes unsustainable.

Business (now a global enterprise) is for profit with product only one of the tools. It’s concern is no longer about the stakeholders but only the shareholders. This is an extreme. Corporations with global reach have even less concern for the commons. The resultant inequalities are not justified and no longer acceptable.

Democracy is being suppressed to allow greater wealth for a few. The private sector has shown its failures consistently through misfeasance, fraud and the pollution of the environment. (Misfeasance is easy when they dictate the laws.)

In a democracy we are the government and it is our responsibility to ensure it represents us. The current representation passes legislation to allow profit even while acknowledging that it will cost lives. Civil Society is ignored by the State and the State's interaction with its citizenry is limited to the election periods with a very limited spectrum of political option.

It is time to rethink everything. Economics should be based on sustainability, not growth. We must acknowledge that the environment is a major factor in economic cost. Long term metrics should be prioritized over short term affect. Labour and actual production over finance.

Economics - The Crisis

So there is no reason not to rethink everything. We must approach going forward with a war time economy. Industry must act for common cause. There will be disruptions. There would be disruptions eventually but a confluence of events brings us to a moment to act now. To act now to prioritize quality of life of all citizens while actively responding to the changes to global systems we are creating.

Financial Capitalism is directly responsible for where we are now. Creating wealth for the few has left social infrastructure hollow and unable to respond to crisis be it the current pandemic or the inevitable disruptions of climate change. Ultimately much of this "wealth" created is self referential and largely vapor. It is detached from the actual economy and when called, it will crumble.

We as a species are not here to make a few people wealthy. Our economy should reflect our needs and concerns. Our government can share equity with workers and stakeholders in industries of necessity and value to the commons.

Health, education, energy, transportation can all be developed from the community with government support. Government can be the prime lender in cooperation with regional banks to buffer through difficulty, share profit in good years with workers and support development.

In light of lessons of the last forty years and especially the last two years, we should develop the economy from a local level. Develop strong communities that tie in with other strong communities that develop regional priorities with global vision.

We can create local economies that understand they are part of a global system. We can prioritize quality of life of our society over the creation of wealth for the few. With 0 to 4 and a focus on our children, we can change the world in a generation.

Education

Education should be the very basis of our current civilization. The quality of education is governments responsibility.

Education is to develop the individual to the best of what they are capable of. the child should be enthused with curiosity, excitement of revelation. The capacities of the mind to imagine.

We must begin at the very beginning 0 to 4 to the first grades. The first thing of school is an attitude, being in a safe place. Parents are the first teachers and lay the groundwork. It is about communication, investigation, interaction. It is socialization, being and working with others. It must be fun, challenging, interesting. Teaching should be understood to be a complex profession and rewarded appropriately. Research is abundant on the value of quality early childhood education and the long term benefits through life. In this era of mutual assured destruction, Education is more important than Military.

An enthusiasm should be imparted, play is an essential part of learning. In quality of life, it is in the self interest to be as good as possible. To learn what ever our teachers can teach us.

The system must be flexible to allow for the capacities and interests of the individuals. At all levels outliers should be identified and helped, not ostracized.

Emphasis should be given to the processing of information and data, analyzing, interpreting and decision making. Balance of curriculum is essential. Exposure to a range of arts and science as well as the physical. Cross-over subjects like gardening. At an early middle school level banking, public and private finance should be taught.

Education can be the basis for the new civilization. An institution like the Corps (# 10) can bridge the gap between high school and college and pave the way for an affordable higher education.

Climate Change

The greenhouse effect is changing our world and we are at a moment of crisis.

As with the auto industry and the internal combustion engine, tobacco and cigarettes, the fossil fuel industry, with government support, ignored know science for forty years for quarterly profit.

Which brings us to where we are now. The boil has begun and climate is altering with intensities that will increase this century. The world is changing regardless if we are paying attention.

We have lived the industrial era without consideration for the pollution created. It championed the belief that we as the dominant species could do what we liked, the consequences of which are now becoming apparent.

An economy built on growth has reached a critical mass. We are altering global systems without any understanding of what results this will cause.

WE are not going to stop the climate from changing but we can actively work to remediate the effects as well as adapting to new norms.

Energy

A response to Climate Change begins with energy.

A manhattan project level response with a World War economy is needed in the face of potential catastrophic failure. This must be a public response with the private sector marshaled for needed projects. It is time to rethink everything.

We must alter our economy to eliminate or control further CO2 emissions as soon as possible. Solar and wind can be part of an immediate response and be a strong infrastructure project. Research in developing other forms of energy, (geothermal, tidal and more) must be a priority. This can be a public project with the priority on return of cost, not profit. The economic benefits are multipliers well beyond cost.

Nuclear energy can not be an option until waste can be processed.

A major element must be the redesign and development of the grid. There will be a major up front cost but the long term benefits could last the century. The grid should be a public utility with national coordination. It should begin at a community base and build to countrywide. New housing to be designed to integrate with the grid, to add or pull as needed in coordination with building efficiency controls. Building standards should be updated for the 21st century. Smaller scale production and storage of energy should be localized where possible.

Healthcare

Single payer care for all.

Redesign the health industry. This should not be for profit. Just pay for just work. Doctors should be well compensated with focus on wellness and not on rewarding procedures and process. All health care workers should be valued and well compensated. Insurance as a for profit middle man is not justified.

Health is directly related to environment and a reduction in exposure to pollutants will improve the general health of the whole community.

More doctors through an expanded training. It shouldn’t be an exclusive club. Levels of training through education and field work. Understand and develop the capacities of nurse, nurse practitioner and technicians. Restructure residency to expand numbers and levels of training.

Expanded service from neighborhood clinics to hospitals to specialty groups. Community facilities to promote healthy lifestyles and monitor neighborhood environmental factors. Establish prenatal and post natal care facilities that can expand into community centers. Prioritize development for inner city and underdeveloped areas. [0 to 4, the basis to change the world in a generation.]

Video conferencing and remote technology should allow local providers with access to experts as well as following trends. Shared information to allow new trends and infections to be identified early.

Balance

People's time can be more adaptable. To reiterate, sustainable quality of life is more important than the creation of wealth. A balance of work and play is important not only in childhood but continued through adulthood. Health of the individual directly reflects the health of the society.

School becomes an integrator, an introduction to social interactions. Education must be a training ground for life and should combine work and life experience.

Finance and taxes should be taught young. Ways of thinking, communicating, working together. It should be fun. It should be a way of life.

Common goals developed in groups can accomplish community oriented tasks. It should take them outside their communities, broaden their world. (see # The Corps)

Training should be of both physical and mental capacities.

Everyone taught as a warrior, as a scholar and as an artist

Strength as mental and physical prowess, the abilities to observe, analyze, question and act.

in observation, having perception and attention,

in analysis, being able to handle and process data and make informed decisions.

Adapted to physical and mental capabilities to strengthen who they are.

Everyone should be taught how to fight. principles and techniques. Use of the body. Crisis management,

It can teach one how to walk see and feel things. a way of being in the world.

Everyone to the best of their ability.

Every child must be taught everything to the best of their ability

Every child will benefit from the better education.

Everyone is significant. We are not all the same but we are all significant.

Service Corps

(compulsory service with an option out)

Two years service post high school with a one or two year option extension. After completion free secondary education (including non-academic) for participants - two years for two years. The option extension could provide apprenticeships for skilled work.

A later follow up service of 18 months to two years would be available with a focus on leadership and specializations. This would provide financial support for graduate work or special projects.

Groups will work together with postings to different parts of the country. It will take the recruits and place them with their peers in new parts of the country. They will be exposed to new areas as well as a broad cross section of people.

The mandate is not militaristic. It is local, working together, being part of a community prioritizing quality of living with shared goals and rewards.

A priority will be to train the Corps to react and function as coordinated units in disaster and crisis.

The force is directed to meet social needs.

Environment will have a high priority.

The clean up and establishment of sustainable systems.

Man power and support for scientific research.

Disaster and crisis relief.

Training will balance both physical and mental conditioning. While physical at the beginning and at base, it is a continuation of the individuals education, with an emphasis on coordinated problem solving at a practical level. The physical training should be adaptive and not coercive. Support and understanding of the roles persons of disability can have will be a priority. It is to develop the best of the individual and the group.

Organization of United Democracies

What we need is a world view. An understanding that everything affects everything. Mutual support would be to the benefit of all countries.

The United Nations needs restructure. It is obsolete, a relic of post world war two. The Security Council ensures nothing disrupts the status quo.

It needs respectability, authorization not just for special interest. A consistency in crisis management.

I call for the Organization of United Democracies (OUD) to form with the goal of a common way forward for citizens of democracies to a sustainable quality of life. Member nations will pledge to represent their constituents with transparency of information and freedom of journalism. Minorities must be respected and allowed a significant place in society. Elections will be a celebration and monitored as part of the OUD process.

OUD will be an involved entity. Supporting communication, transportation, crisis management and technological development. Moderating disputes, integrating environmental studies and systems oversite.

It will sponsor and train citizen journalists to support communicating through the public sphere.

Here’s the leap. Monitoring human rights. In other words becoming involved in ethnic identification, cultural rights. A guarantee of community freedom.

Declaration of human rights taken serious. Bill of Human Rights. The OUD will develop and train a military force capable of disaster response. Blue helmets with teeth. Specialists.

The world is a complex place. Migration has always been a way of survival. Sedentary populations overgrow. Increased population is high stress. OUD will work to balance local rights with global issues. Understanding individual democracies strengths allow them to be part of global strength.