Bucky’s essential ideas – Page 2

SAVING THE WORLD CAN MAKE YOU RICH?

Could it be possible that helping to manifest Buckminster Fuller’s ideas about transforming Spaceship Earth could not only help save the world but also make you rich? One really rich guy says that’s exactly what he did.

Bucky’s mission was “To make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest time possible, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.”

Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, embraced Bucky’s passions, and talks about how Bucky’s book, The Grunch of Giants, changed everything for him, by letting him see into the future. “This book made me incredibly wealthy, because I could see a different future,” says Kiyosaki. Screen Shot 2016-06-13 at 1.58.44 PM In Grunch, which stands for ‘Gross Universal Cash Heist’, Bucky presents clearly how our current system is all about the intentional dismantling of the middle class, the unsustainable dominance of fossil fuels, and a variety of other crises, which we now face, just as he predicted. The book also includes some very specific ideas about what we must do to change course. It is a profoundly relevant book for today. Here’s the Link to a quick talk by Rich Dad Poor Dad on Bucky’s Grunch of Giants. Here’s a link to buy the book from Amazon.

As Bucky said, “Man knows so much but does so little.” Bucky’s book Grunch of Giants is one small book that could represent a giant leap for all humankind.

The problem with Capitalism.

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Bucky would be for Bernie!

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There is a revolution berning in America, and it sounds uncannily like what Bucky used to pine for: A world that works for everybody. A just and sustainable world. A world we can achieve if we simply apply ourselves to that task!

The resemblance between the late Bucky and Bernie Sanders is remarkable. They look alike, and they think alike. They get grumpy when people are too stupid to understand the truth. They both have hearts as big as planets. Most importantly, as Bucky and Bernie have each said in their own way that we must understand that the system is rigged, against the people. Bucky wrote extensively about this in his “GRUNCH – Gross United Cash Heist” and Bernie, having watched the antics of Wall Street for five decades, has honed his ideas well. They ring true to so many, because they are the truth.

Every time Bernie speaks, I hear Bucky.

Bucky. Bernie. Surely we are beginning to make progress and there could be an American Revolution in 2016? It’s all starting to sound possible. But to actually make it happen will require the best of all of us. We must each wield our mighty keyboards. We must each let the world know what we think. Whether you want to call it Democratic Socialism or We the People, what’s important is that you must dare to speak truth to power.

Whether or not the revolution happen depends on you.

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A big year for Spaceship Earth?

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Things are looking up in Bucky’s world. A true leader has emerged in US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. He knows the importance of the statement above. And why government must be returned to the people. In addition, the climate deal in Paris appears to have been a turning point. Wall Street is wobbling, no doubt in fear of Bernie.

But there are serious challenges. Exxon lied effectively for thirty years, derailing Humanity’s most important task, that of weaning ourselves off fossil fuels. Monsanto is still suing California to stop it from labeling RoundUp as a cancer causer, while they greedily buy up non-GMO seeds and refuse to label GMOs. Methane plumes beyond our fathoming are still poisoning the skies in Southern California. Fracking is still screwing up water supplies and lives throughout America are being derailed by irresponsible corporate powers only concerned with their own profits.

Removing the current corporate control over America’s government is key. Bernie Sanders is the only one willing to take this on. The only one even talking about it.

This didn’t start out to be a Bernie ad, but darned if it didn’t become one. Surely Bucky would be #feelingthebern. 2016 could be the year.

Where’s our digital democracy?

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Desperate times call for big ideas.

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Bucky’s hope for humanity

Buckminster Fuller’s vision for the future has one thing few other futuristic visions do: It is entirely pragmatic. Absolutely doable. The only trick is that each of us must actually focus on the task of making it happen.

This begins with one subtle shift in focus — a conscious shift in our perception. Instead of perceiving a world based on scarcity, as we were taught in classic economics, we instead accept abundance, that there are ample resources available to serve all people, and all life on Earth. There is plenty for all.

“If we simply covert our weaponry to livingry, all of Humanity could be enduringly successful.”

In other words, just by focusing on the idea of abundance, we can bring it about. This may not be easy. It requires we become a class one species, which is one that puts the good of the whole above that of the individual. We do this because we know that putting others first is the best thing we can do for ourselves, so we still get to be selfish.

Once we make this conscious evolutionary leap, Bucky said, we would begin to do all the right things for all the right reasons. Or, as he put it, with a big grin:”Humanity will always do the right thing, but only after exhausting every other possibility.” Thirty years ago, Bucky said that humanity was beginning its final examination. He said that whether or not we made it would depend on the integrity of the individual. This final exam. he said, also requires that we wean ourselves off fossil fuels. It is clear now that we have all the technology we need to transition to clean energy. It is only the will which is missing.

Whether we find our will, even when against entrenched interests are working against us, is key to humanity’s final exam. We must tap into the abundant and free “vast cosmic” energies, which await our easy harvest of them, as they have fro decades.

“We must each find the courage to go along only with the truth.”

We must demand responsible climate action from our global leaders, as well as demand only decisions which bring about greater peace and justice.

“Only the individual is free enough to take the initiative.”

The more people who think and speak like Bucky, the better our chances of passing this damn final examination! Only knowledge can raise humanity up to the potential Bucky and many others saw. Amazing things are possible. But we have to have the courage to go along only with the truth.

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DENIERS ON THE RUN. CAN PARIS BE WON?

Deniers are on the run in Washington D.C., as illustrated in this hilarious photo and story linked here from the Onion. They are newly feral creatures sensing the gig is up. Exxon is under investigation. Oil prices are on a roller coaster. Bill McKibben’s divestment movement is a big success. The application for the Keystone XL pipeline is being withdrawn. Americans are wising up. Our eyes are opening to the dysfunction of our present model of government. We know war is waged for profit. We know we have all the technology we need to create clean energy. And we know that we can get the money out of politics.

With either Bernie or Hillary as our new president, America’s hope for an actual renewal is good. Maybe this was the change Barack Obama was promising? But what really matters now, and matters most, is what happens in Paris this December.

This next climate gathering is surely humanity’s last best chance to turn things around. World leaders will gather and choose to come together and work to get our ecosystem back into balance with nature, or blow it for good, by waiting too long and doing too little.

To help make sure it happens, Bucky would say that we must each dare to speak about it, and demand it. Dare to demand Climate action now. Support Clean energy development. Now. Enough with the fossil fools being allowed to place their measly mortal profits ahead of the welfare of not just all of humanity, but of all life on Earth.

How dare they? How could we have been so blind for so long?

#DEMANDCLIMATEACTION #350.org #RaiseHellSleepWell

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Why 1980s Were The Despicable Decade

Now we know for sure: Starting in the 1980s, the fossil fuel industry intentionally misled the world about its beliefs regarding climate change. In order to protect their measly mortal profits, they lied. They discredited the science they knew to be correct. For decades. If you haven’t seen the latest on this, read the story in The Guardian: Fossil Fool Racketeering Report

There is some satisfaction in having been right all these years about the shenanigans of the industry/government alliance that formed in the 1980’s, but mostly there is anguish and an increasing sense of hopelessness. Maybe the Baby Boomer generation should be renamed The Bamboozled generation. How could we have been so blind?

Bucky knew this intentional deception was going on when I met with him in 1982. He said (and I paraphrase, but these ideas are also found is his books): “The industry is working very hard to stop renewables. Because they cannot find a way to place a meter on the sun, profit-only-motivated interests are stopping solar from happening. I say this is the greatest crime ever committed against humanity.”

President Jimmy Carter at installation of solar panels on White House. President Ronald Reagan removed them in 1980, the kick of to an awful decade in American history. — 1980 kicked off the worst decade in American history. President Jimmy Carter had recently installed solar panels on White House. President Ronald Reagan removed them, calling them folly, and fairy dust. Reagan and his crony corporations had already gotten together to create socialism for them and trickle down capitalism for the rest of us. This created the greatest transfer of wealth in our country’s history. All the wealth went straight to the top, strangling the middle class and the poor. Bucky wrote about this in his book GRUNCH of Giants.

The moment that best characterizes the awful decade of the 1980s was the day the solar panels on the White House were removed by President Ronald Reagan. The metaphor is perfect, as he was simultaneously dismantling all government support of clean energy development, which he and his big oil cronies knew was not only possible, but inevitible, eventually. They wanted a few more decades of mind-blowing wealth before the spigot got turned off.

Now, here we are again. Many younger people do not realize we have been here before.

Each of us must demand the clean renewable energy we know is both possible and necessary. With many voices, we will become one, and they will have no choice but to reckon with us.

Let’s give those racketeering oil executives a choice: support clean energy development now, or go to jail for the rest of your life. You have committed great crimes against humanity; at the very least, it is time to stop. End all fossil fuel subsidies now. Those pipeline projects are government projects. They are using our own taxpayer dollars to subsidize our own demise.

Today’s generation may be our last chance.

We will either learn from history, or be doomed to repeat it.

Bucky’s ‘WORLD LIVINGRY SERVICE INDUSTRY’ — An idea whose time has come?

On Buckminster Fuller’s last day, in July of 1983, he left on his desk a proposal for a World Livingry Services Industry. Written for a conference at Waseda University in Tokyo, Bucky describes his “alternative to politics and its ever more wasteful warring, and inherently vain attempts to solve one-sidedly all humanity’s basic economic and social problems.”

Thirty two years have passed since Bucky authored this paper. He always said he worked fifty years in the future. This might mean it will take another eighteen or so years for his thinking to actually take hold in humanity’s ever evolving mind. But it could happen sooner, depending on how many people share Bucky’s great ideas with the world.

“War has taught man that it is all right to use our scarce resources to dominate and kill people. We must now make the decision to reallocate those resources, to help people live better. If we only prepare for war, that’s what we will know. We must also prepare for peace, by converting some of our weaponry to ‘livingry’.”

Take a look at his brilliant proposal for how to put our energies to work of all of humanity, and then, please share Buckyworld.

Here’s the link.