In fifty years we hope to have a stable, peaceful, prosperous, diverse global civilization, which honours freedom of personal belief, and in which democratic political processes dominate, with a high level of universal education and health care, and a genuinely impartial and accessible system of justice, and in which both advanced and basic technology is applied in ways that are in balance with the natural environment, and produce an equitable distribution of social benefits. - Hardin Tibbs

That global vision was then divided into several, more manageable categories each with it’s own mission statement and to-do lists so that, as a global community, we would know the things we were working toward on a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and millenial basis. Two of those categories were Environmental Sustainability and Space Exploration (which was really a hidden pointer towards space migration).

If we’re going to actually survive and prosper as a species, we need to get beyond the myopic habits and rigid reality tunnels most of us hold so that we can recognize the possibilities for catastrophe and for success.

Howard Bloom, one of the smartest men i know, does both of these things in what is the most astute and sensible assessment of where we need to start sustainability from.  Check it out.

One of my favorite Benders and one of the smartest people i’ve ever had the good fortune to meet, Howard Bloom just sent me the following email:

Devon,

….It’s a video on a different form of solar power–space solar power–as our way out of the energy crisis. It’s a little underground project I’ve been working on with Buzz Aldrin, Edgar Mitchell, and a crew of NASA renegades.