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  • Zeit. Studios presents Peter Joseph in 'The Summary'.

  • My name is Peter Joseph.

  • I am currently the de-facto founder of an organization called The Zeitgeist Movement,

  • which is seeking to alter the current cultural climate, if you will,

  • into something that can be considered actually sustainable, for not just one nation or class, but all the world's people.

  • We live in a paradigm now where we have society operating on the idea that we can grow infinitely,

  • therefore we keep buying and consuming regardless of how many resources we have.

  • This creates a collision course with nature, which the world is figuring out right about now, on many levels.

  • That the Earth is essentially a closed system.

  • It took billions of years to create the minerals we have.

  • It took many, many hundreds of millions of years to create the fossil fuels which govern everything we have,

  • and amazingly enough, we've created this system where we're using all of our resources

  • to create the economic growth required to sustain employment and everything else,

  • and simultaneously we're diminishing our resources at a near exponential rate it seems,

  • as population continues to grow, and no one seems to understand

  • that it's an absolute clash and that eventually we're going to run out of pivotal resources,

  • and eventually you're going to see things, I don't know, like the human population start to dwindle down.

  • The only way a real society can operate, period, is in a 'Steady State Economy'.

  • Meaning you don't have the mechanism of constantly needing to do anything other than being sustainable

  • in your everyday living, and having society recognize the attributes of sustainability which are required.

  • That's the value system orientation needed to create a stable society.

  • As a brief extension of this, we live in a materialistic culture witihin a culture that's predicated on inferiority

  • and people with thinking that need more and more and more, because of many reasons.

  • Because of someone else having more, status oriented issues, so on and so forth.

  • And that fuels into this mechanism of the growth economy;

  • of getting more and more holidays, people give each other gifts. These are inventions for economics.

  • In regard to social operation and how to create a new society, or better yet, just to say,

  • to create any society that would be sustainable and efficient,

  • there's really an empirical train of thought if you will,of how to do that.

  • First of all, you have to think about what the human being actually needs.

  • We require resources at the bare minimum.

  • We require food, water, etc., as we all know.

  • Therefore, resources become the most paramount subject.

  • Resources, in fact, should be the foundation of any economic structure.

  • So, what do you do, if you consider that the Earth is a closed finite system?

  • To organize a structure based on the intelligent management of the Earth's resources,

  • you start from essentially the base level of 'Where is everything?'.

  • So, you look at the planet and you say OK, we see we have iron ore here, we have petroleum deposits here,

  • if we were using petroleum at that point in time. In the future, hopefully we will not be because it's damaging.

  • We have places for great wind energy here.

  • You get the point.

  • We can assess the entire environment of what we currently use based on our technological facilities at that point,

  • and we start to create a structure of analysis, maintenance and management and[...]

  • basically monitor and understand what we have. Then you move to the next level.

  • How do we utilize the resources in the most efficient way?

  • Technology is the methodology to harness any type of resources we have.

  • Technology is the growing intellectual field that allows us to know how to manipulate our environment

  • for our betterment and to be more sustainable, hopefully.

  • So, what we do is we utilize our technical information and then we analyze the planetary resources.

  • Then we build from the ground up an entire infrastructure,

  • not based on the whims of any type of ideology, capitalist, socialist, fascist, whatever, what have you, communist...

  • You do it based explicitly on the most efficient means to do it with the most peak efficiency possible

  • based on the technology available at the time. The intellectual resource of the time.

  • You have peak efficiency and sustainability as your goal.

  • You just simply weigh all parameters when you analyze anything and then you're going to build a society

  • that is essentially, for lack of a better expression, 'perfect'.

  • It's not perfect at all because things are going to constantly change, but,

  • it's the best you can do at that point in time, which I think would be a variance of perfection.

  • www.thezeitgeistmovement.com www.zeitgeistmovie.com

  • fin.

  • Subtitles by the Amara.org community

Zeit. Studios presents Peter Joseph in 'The Summary'.

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