Thinking and being like Bucky is only important if we hope to save the human race from extinction.
But how do you think and act like Bucky? Just three easy steps!
1. REALIZE you are as important to the future of humanity as anyone else. Each individual thought and action matters.
2. RECONNECT with nature. Only through nature can we understand our own deeper nature, which is essential to our evolution. Understand we must follow nature’s rules. (This is what climate change is playing out right now!)
3. ACT with passion and compassion. Seek the truth, find the truth, then have the courage to speak the truth. Bucky said, “Man knows so much, but does so little.” Do something.
Bucky said there would be an “emergence through emergency”. He believed humanity was capable of miraculous achievements. We haven’t proven it yet, but the job of tackling climate change, along with peace and justice issues, is giving us the chance.
We can prove Bucky right. We can make the world work for 100% of humanity, without ecological damage.
But it will take courage. Speak up. Wield your mighty keyboard. Be like Bucky.
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Am I just detoxing or does 2015 seem to be brimming with possibilities for all of humanity?
President Obama has promised to veto KXL and has crafted a plan with China to reduce emissions. Awareness that there are solutions to the carbon problem is growing. Awareness of the problem itself is growing. Environmentalists and scientists are receiving more and more support in their battle for a clean, healthy and just environment.
Could the long awaited transfer to clean energy finally be happening?
It has been an awfully long wait since the 1970s, when the need to wean ourselves off fossil fuels was first acknowledged and discussed publicly. Ever since, BIG OIL, backed by corporate America and a complicit government, has worked diligently to disable these efforts.
It is time to call them what they are: greedy, selfish, nihilistic criminals. They commit crimes against humanity. Every day.
They know climate change is real. You can find proof of that right here on this site. They refuse to act because doing so would interfere with their financial profits. This is the problem with giving corporations the same rights as people. They are not people. They are androids focused soley on financial success. The government leaders in bed with them are even worse, because they have vowed to be otherwise.
As Bucky would still be saying today, it remains the job of every individual to learn into the truth and then to speak the truth. Whether or not humanity passes its final examination is an individual decision.
Do not be afraid to call out the hypocrisies and scandalous behaviors of the oil industry, and all those who call themselves leaders, but who clearly are not.
The stars are aligned for revolution. There is momentum for a clean energy economy as well as an open, acknowledged pursuit for peace and justice — for 100% of humanity.
Your actions and inactions will make the difference. There is safety in numbers. We should all speak truth to power now.
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Whether it’s mankind’s insane propensity for war, his growing gun violence, his abuse of women and children, his militarized police, or even big oil’s excessive greed, the root of many of our problems is one and the same: There is too much alpha male energy running things on Spaceship Earth.
It is time for leaders to emerge from either gender who use more highly evolved qualities — such as compassion, cooperation and a sense of community — to right the ship.
New Feminine Paradigm Needed.
The National Geographic movie entitled Stress offers much needed enlightenment on this issue. It tells the story of how, for decades, Stanford researchers studied a tribe of baboons, which live much like humans do; in nuclear families, caring for their children, men going off in search of food and coming home. They wanted to understand how they dealt with stress. The Alpha male came home empty handed from the hunt. Frustrated, he would swat his wife and their children. His stress becomes their stress; and before long they’re all running around biting each other on the bottoms. Much like life in America today. Stress not managed begats more and more stress.
One day in the Baboons’ backyard, a load of meat poisoned by disease was inadvertently dumped. The alpha males fought off all the others and got to the meat first. They all died. Without them, an entirely new kind of community emerged. Women took over, supported by the beta men. More time was spent grooming and raising children, a sort of utopia came to be.
Buckminster Fuller’s wisdom about the overall superiority of women to rule the world – or for a new feminine paradigm of leadership – was published in a 1968 McCall’s Magazine article, entitled “Why Women Will Rule the World”.
Bucky said a world run by women would refute the outdated notion of scarcity, and set out instead to provide for 100% of humanity. Our abundantly advanced technology and all our new knowledge has brought us to the point where it no longer needs to be “us versus them”, but instead the objective could be “to make the world work for 100% of the people, without harm to the environment.”
We must get control of the alpha energy that’s running amok. We must demand a new more intelligent government. We must make it clear to all of our leaders that war is no longer a sustainable activity. We must demand the transition off fossil fuels happen now. We must demand justice and equality for all peoples, and the environment.
How can women lead the way to make this happen?
Maybe we could get creative and take a lesson from the war-weary women of Sudan who staged a sex strike for peace. Somehow, whatever it takes, we must all find the courage to demand a world where “governance equals nurturance”. As corny as it may sound, love really is the answer. And once humanity demands a compassionately-attuned-to-other world we will get it. As Bucky said, “When there is a strong enough will, there can be no other way. Whatever we think is what will be.”
It doesn’t have to be women who lead, just people who have traditionally feminine values and approaches to problem solving. For example, Bernie Sanders. With his focus on caring for people and the planet, he could have been more of a woman president than Hillary. Elizabeth Warren thinks like a mom. What’s fair? How do we make it work for everybody? And, of course everyone by now everyone knows that Barack Obama is, at heart, already our first feminine paradigm president.
Read Bucky’s article below to get your own vision of how good life might be with a more feminine paradigm of leadership in place. Share it with the women you know who might make great leaders if they had a little encouragement.
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Whether it is a young black man in Cleveland, a teenage girl from the Middle East, seasonal workers from Mexico, or an attractive woman walking down the street, the solution for the ever increasing numbers of marginalized peoples is not to demand equality but to demonstrate their moral superiority — by staying calm, taking video or audio recordings, and afterwards, by speaking up.
And then, most importantly, the rest of us must join them.The rest of us must say it in the boldest, bravest, most visible way possible. No more hate filled rhetoric or actions; not on our watch.
Bucky would observe, I believe, that for now, the terrorists appear to have won. The forces which attacked NYC in 2001 have changed the way we live. Our orchestrated fear of the “other” has brought about the militarization of our local police forces throughout the country. We have created a monster. These well-trained officers are all dressed up in swat suits with nowhere to go. They are itching for action and so they create it. It is estimated that an unarmed black man or boy is killed by a police officer in America almost every day (every 28 hours).
But what choice do we have but to turn away again and again from the news that another young black man has been killed? What else but disregard the kidnappings of dozens of young women, many to be sold into sex slavery? And who would ever even think to speak up about societally acceptable bullying behaviors toward an attractive woman on the street? What are we going to do to stop massive deportations of good people?
What can be done about the runaway, over adrenalized, misguided alpha male energy that is destroying the peace and well being of our planet?
We can all speak out. We can find the courage to see, to understand and then speak the truth. This is the only way the system can change. We must understand that if it doesn’t work for everyone, it doesn’t work. In other words, we must simply support Bucky’s call to “make the world work for 100% of humanity, through spontaneous cooperation, in the shortest time possible, without environmental harm.”
Inclusion. A focus on 100% of humanity. Regardless of skin color. Regardless of gender or nationality. Nothing less will suffice.
The sudden blossoming of renewable energies is filling Buckyworld with hope today.
One such project is IBM’s Sunflower.
Set to launch in 2017, this new kind of flower power can not only provide electricity but also desalinate water for sanitation and drinking. A group of several solar generators could provide enough fresh water for an entire town. It tracks the sun and always points in the best direction for collecting rays, just as a real sunflower does. This is an excellent example of Biomimicry, which Bucky said was the only science that could save us. As he explained many times, since Nature is always right, by learning how to do things the way Nature does, we can prove ourselves worthy of continuance as a species on United Spaceship Planet Earth.
Add these exciting new technologies to all President Obama is doing to address climate change, and to the growing wariness of the greedy and selfish oil industry, there is new hope that we may be at long last on the garden pathway toward true planetary sustainability.
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that renders the old one obsolete.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
We live in dysfunctional times, and realizing this, President Obama is finding new ways to get things done for America and for the planet, and in doing so, creating a new model of leadership.
It’s no secret that the U.S. Congress is broken. Its most recent approval ratings approach single digits. During the midterm campaigns, while Republicans unanimously pointed the blame at him, President Obama quietly moved on to create new ways of working that would render the broken model obsolete.
It was announced yesterday that Obama had worked behind the scenes to solidify a plan with China to curb greenhouse emissions, and now, today we learn he also has a plan to address immigration reform.
It is a beautiful modern-day drama playing itself out: The kooky keystone cops run about smacking each other on the heads, while the calm, intelligent yet maligned leader of the free world gets matters under control. He knows our Republican controlled congress will continue to be distracted with efforts to destroy him and his previous accomplishments, such as Obamacare. While they fiddle and Rome burns, President Obama will wake up every morning and calmly step into his virtual phone booth to don his superhero cape.
It’s not that he’s being a dictator. He’s doing what he knows the majority of Americans want, and need. He’s following the wishes of his constituency, doing an end run around the bowel constriction that our Congress has become.
Now, if only he would also embrace Bucky’s core philosophy that “either war is obsolete or man is” and realize that in order to create a world that works for 100% of humanity, all we have to do is turn away from weaponry, and focus instead on creating “livingry”.
President Obama would do well to read Bucky’s book The Grunch of Giants, a brilliant exposé of how a corporate controlled government works against the interests of every living thing, including all humanity. Maybe then he will find the strength to give a flat veto to any more pipelines, including Keystone, end fossil fuel subsidies, and not ratify any more trade agreements that undermine the environment and social justice interests. Maybe he’ll even come up with some reasonable new gun laws?
Our Superhero may not be perfect, but at least he’s trying. I believe President Obama would get a big thumbs up from the genius that was Buckminster Fuller.
If the world has a chance of limiting temperature rise to 2C, which has been determined to be crucial to our survival on Earth, 60 to 80 percent of current fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground.
The reverse is happening. We are subsidizing the scraping of every last vein on Earth. Ours and our government’s addiction to big oil have been happy bedfellows with the fools who put their own private financial interests ahead of humanity’s survival.
We simply must break the chains of this enslavement or risk ecosystem collapse.
Worldwide, governments are still subsidizing fossil fuel development to the tune of $500 billion annually, according to conservative estimates. What will it take to phase out exploration subsidies, and then all fossil-fuel subsidies, while while we also transfer these critical public resources to low-carbon development and universal clean energy?
How do we stop this idiotic, fossil fuelish destruction of our planet?
It begins with the courage to speak up.
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