“Spherical economics” ~ Earth-healing values for “Gaiatherapeutic” industry
Definition: A “spherical” economic perspective prioritizes functional respect for Nature over industry profits.
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In a “spherical economy” environmental toxins and environmentally destructive industrial practices have negative value. Conversely, time-sensitive environmental services are assigned positive economic value.
For example, when a unit of paper is produced from hemp, the value of the trees that were not needed to be cut to produce that paper is calculated into the value of the hemp paper; along with the carbon, oxygen and terpene values associated with organic Cannabis farming.
Integrated complexity obscures mankind’s full understanding of global systems and processes comprising the Natural Order. Vast mystery inspires proportionate awe, commanding cautious respect.
To intentionally modify integrated systems without understanding or proportionate regard for unintended consequences is reckless beyond criminality.
Even today, mankind continues to disrespect integrated systems upon which our future depends in the interest of obsolete impacted industries riding the economic inertia of the status quo.
Cutting down forests to make paper is sheer madness. Consuming ecosystems turned into toxic energy and manufacturing generating “Gaiacidal” materials knowingly subverts natural relationships that are essential to maintaining functional integrity in Earth’s atmosphere, soil, water, air and wildlife.
In the past few decades, humanity has become increasingly aware of how close we are to inevitable ecological “ripping points,” from which recovery isn’t possible. Social and economic imbalances are increasing concurrently, as the possibility of nuclear annihilation looms, at the whim of fossil fuels
enriched, warmongering global industrialists.
At what point does the pointless absurdity of mankind’s current dominant social evolutionary trajectory run out of illusory value? The hologram of value currently represented in human economic markets is disingenuous. The foreseeable terminus has rendered mankind’s previously accepted values functionally obsolete. In the absence of crucial systemic relationships being eroded by increasing demand, inefficiency and consumption, a non-linear extinction level event becomes increasingly likely.
Integrated environmental services that were once dismissed by industry as inconvenient, “unquantifiable externalities,” burdensome to the bottom line & inconvenient for centralized control; have become urgent national security priorities in every nation, with limited time running out at an accelerating rate.
Fortunately, in “The Tree of Life” there is Nature’s biogenic herbal remedy, that may yet be effective in helping mankind to avert the ripping point of irreversible systemic collapse. If a timely, proportionate, organic agricultural response is initiated before this Spring in 2023, the world may yet have time to coordinate with Nature for the eventual healing of the Earth, and mankind’s peaceful social evolution.
It is in everyone’s best interest to heal the planet, and secure regional natural resources providing complete essential nutrition, while providing abundant, clean energy. There’s only ONE crop that does all of those things, from the same organic harvest, in more countries, in the shortest span of time, with the greatest environmental & agronomic benefits:
Human physiology depends upon our Endogenous Cannabinoid System for optimum health & proper development. Federally recognized in the U.S. as a “strategic resource” since 1942, “hemp” is essential for complete essential nutrition, providing food & energy security in every country where it can be grown.
Cannabis is uniquely, essentially nutritious, not dangerous or undesirable until it’s made “illegal.” Cannabis is mankind’s functional interface with the Earth’s Natural Order.
The evolution of revolution is revaluation.
It’s time to think outside the bong about Cannabis. Integrated natural systems require mankind’s immediate return to responsible stewardship.
Objective assessment and logic are needed regarding mankind’s choices of the natural resources we have to work with in supplying industry with optimally “Gaiatherapeutic” industrial feedstocks.
On land & sea, natural systems are under persistent chemical attack. Conditions of radical contamination and imbalance in dynamic systems has become commonplace. Entire regions of the Ocean are expanding “dead zones.”
Extreme contamination of Earth’s hydrologic cycle has rendered further manufacture and consumption of endocrine disrupting “forever chemicals” functionally obsolete. Reproductive systems in man, plants & animals are being impacted.
Mankind’s long term industrial production increasingly depends upon our achieving cooperative, symbiotic relationship within Earth’s highly evolved systems. Earth-healing, “Gaiatherapeutic industry” is more immediately essential to mankind’s functional integrity within the Natural Order than it has ever been.
Two hundred years ago, the native people lived in functional balance and harmony with Nature. What was taken, with spiritually-founded gratitude, did not deplete Mother’s bounty nor upset her balance.
The lives of game animals were essential for survival. People honored the necessities of life as blessings, generously bestowed by a benevolent universal spirit. Mythologies were created to conceptualize respect for natural manifestations of apparent mystic influence. The Earth, Sun, Moon and stars were seen as ancient kin, spiritual ambassadors of gods, held in justifiable awe & passionate reverence.
No part of brother buffalo ‘Tatonka’ was wasted. Salmon were deified in reverential recognition of their foundational importance to human survival.
Multi-dimensional, entheogenic experiences further broadened mankind’s elevated regard and consideration of human existence, inspiring visions, dreams and profound philosophical insights. Life was worshipped for its ability to give life. Fecundity was life’s precious alchemy of Creation insuring survival. Nature was exalted and respected for giving insights into dimensions of existence greater than ourselves.
Eventually, dishonesty, greed & avarice achieved political dominance through skullduggery; creating the gods of money, celebrated in our own image & indulgences, elevating egos, personal wealth & status above consideration of Mother Earth. “Modern” industrial avarice has long since displaced spiritual respect for Nature. Eliminating hemp from the free market warped human values as other toxic resources & practices were elevated to fill the void of industrial feedstocks created by legislation.
In the prohibition of Cannabis, a sacred & spiritual being was subjugated through falsehood, prejudice & technology.
Her genus name ceased being capitalized. The sacred goddess spirit embodied in “The Tree of Life” was coldly whored to industry, and remains so to this day.
Even though the Christian God’s first commandment was quoted, repeated twice in “every herb” as mankind’s meat (Genesis 1:29-31), we continue to live in conditions of epidemic scarcity and malnutrition.
Without the added dimension of moral accountability, “circular economies” can still steamroll over ancient, spiritually inclusive “spherical” value systems. Contrived “credit offsets” excuse and defer corporate crimes against Nature and humanity.
Concern for future generations is still being dismissed, delayed and relegated to marginalized groups, labeled “anti-progressive,” and “environmental extremists,” characterized as “tree-hugging” purveyors of “gloom & doom.”
When Nature’s mysteries of intangible systemic integrity became inconvenient to production, they were deemed “unquantifiable externalities.” The quality of life that depends upon systemic balance was subordinated in deference to unbridled “progress,” yielding maximum short-sighted profit.
Over time, mankind’s loss of respect for Nature has become increasingly virulent, allowing competing market interests to dominate, wielding ever-increasing political influence to impose control through resource misvaluation.
Respect for Nature includes properly assessing the value of natural resources we have to work with, in a context prioritizing respect for ancient, established, integrated natural systems.
Unevenly distributed fossil fuels deposits afford centralized pockets of energy production, leading to unnatural disparity of wealth. When farming of hemp was banned, the most globally available and abundant vegetable protein and biofuels feedstock was removed from the “ free market.”Patterns of energy production were established and impacted by “drug” policies against a “strategic” “herb.”
Military industries flourished, needed to secure access to unevenly distributed energy resources.
In the absence of Respect for Nature, Earth-killing, “Gaiacidal” industries have displaced & supplanted an Earth-healing alternative. Wealth disparity has achieved dangerous extremes through ruthless media manipulation of markets and human values.
Wealth has been glamorized over respect for Nature. Global conferences to decide the fate of Earth’s future unnecessarily consume obscene quantities of toxic resources in meaningless time-wasting inefficiency.
Resources that can be controlled by the wealthy few are subsidized by governments. Cannabis hemp, which cannot be centralized & controlled is over-regulated, suppressed & banned. There is no mystery or ambiguity regarding our ecological predicament. As long as problems are allowed to generate profit, they will continue to be created by intention.
It is inconceivable that mankind’s selection of industrial feedstocks has expanded beyond reason to include self-destructive poisons. Modern industry consumes natural resources whose functional environmental significance supersedes material values placed upon the commodities manufactured from them.
Among the most egregious examples of this perverse dynamic is found in mankind’s production of paper. Even though the boreal forests have long been celebrated for their critically important environmental services as the “lungs of the Earth,” half of the world’s boreal forests have been cut down or died from pest infestations in the past seventy years. 80% of the forests were rendered into paper products using chemical-intensive, toxic industrial processes.
Big mistake. All of those paper products could have been made better, at less cost, with less pollution, using organically grown hemp. Compared with paper made from trees, an acre of hemp is estimated to produce four times the volume of paper, using a fraction of the processing chemicals.
While “circular economics” has been introduced in response to problems of manufacturing, reuse & waste disposal, “forever chemicals” and ubiquitous, environmentally persistent plastics have nevertheless become imbedded within Earth’s hydrology. A spherical Earth-first perspective has become increasingly urgent and necessary.
Time is the only thing we can’t make more of. Time is the limiting factor in the equation of survival. Time is the NFT of the 21st century.
On a planet threatened with systemic collapse, the value of money is linked to the time & efficiency it buys. A rich man with one minute to live is not wealthy at all.
A circular economic model maps out patterns of human industry that are pointed in the right direction, though in my understanding of it, the dimensions of time & spirituality seem to be left out of the modern “circular” industrial model.
Circular production dynamics are inherent to spherical economics. Expanded dimensions of time and morally accountable responsibility orient toward global harmony and a livable future for subsequent generations of all life. The absence of corporate accountability for environmental harms would not be possible in a spherical value system.
Past mistakes continue to compound. Dangerous absurdities ricocheting over decades of profitable dysfunction, metastasize into radical systemic imbalance, threatening every creature on Earth with an unthinkable future.
Respect for Nature is revealed as an urgent element that has been missing from mankind’s industrial evolution. Respect for Nature has become essential for recovering global systemic balance in the time we may have left to make a difference.
Conditions of imbalance are at dangerous extremes and getting worse at an accelerating rate. The window of opportunity is closing for mankind to make a difference in our collective fate.
Doing the right things too late achieves the same undesirable result as doing the wrong things. The longer we hesitate in initiating Cannabis-inclusive strategies to heal Earth’s atmosphere, soil, water, air and wildlife, the smaller become mankind’s chances for survival.
Two hundred years ago people used the animals they hunted for more than just food. Every part of a buffalo, deer, elk, and antelope were used in some way. Functionality determined value. Spiritually charged gratitude was culturally imbedded into indigenous traditions and sacred practices. Sincere gratitude was an individual’s direct line to the divine.
In our time, the Cannabis plant has become unique in its ability to provide essential nutrition and other “strategic” commodities, simultaneous with time-limited critically essential environmental services. Cannabis is the only crop that produces complete essential nutrition and abundant, clean energy from the same organic harvest; as it simultaneously heals Earth’s atmosphere, soil, water, air and wildlife; while redistributing the true wealth of the world.
Objective consideration of Cannabis values demands an end to institutional foolishness. The patina of misinformation and hysteria that has surrounded hemp, has clouded rational thought and undermined farm & garden policy for more than eight decades.
Vast herds of buffalo provided abundance for native peoples for thousands of years. In the sea, fish were plentiful, food for Cetaceans, man and other predators.
If mankind is to survive, we must expand the arable base by growing a non-invasive pioneer crop that produces the abundance of protein, energy, paper, building materials, cloth, etc. needed to satisfy the needs of a growing global population.
Because environmental conditions and systemic relationships are changing at an accelerating rate, the urgency of properly assessing the increasing value of time is growing as well.
If there is a crop that makes better use of the time we may have left to make a difference, then the value of that crop includes both the material goods manufactured from the industrial feedstocks produced, as well as the time values of environmental services associated with organic cultivation of a resource that is beneficial to the functional integrity of the Natural Order.
Like the buffalo, every part of the hemp plant has functional value. If done properly, there is zero waste or pollution. Many products of higher quality than currently being produced, at less cost, with more environmental benefit from Cannabis, accompanied by many environmental benefits associated with its cultivation.
Serving mankind’s essential needs while supporting Nature’s systemic integrity, qualifies Cannabis as mankind’s functional interface with the Earth’s Natural Order. There is no other crop that fulfills all of the requirements needed for a livable future. Cannabis is uniquely essential, the sacred Tatanka of our time.
Without a Cannabis hemp-inclusive free market, our species can never achieve sustainable existence on this planet. Government regulation of Cannabis has proved to be as harmful as the disastrous pandemic response, over a much longer time period.
A spherical economic perspective affords clear, objective natural resource assessments. Without a doubt, hemp processing and utilization are required on a scale that is in proportion to the vast tracts of boreal forests and inconceivable expanses of marine phytoplankton lost in the past seventy years.
There’s need for a comprehensive, realistic agricultural resource revaluation before this Spring planting season in 2023.
A polar shift in Cannabis value from “illegal” to essential is urgently needed, for mankind to achieve timely transition into “spherical” Earth-healing industry production models, in time to make a difference.
“Gaiatherapeutic industry” is meant to characterize mankind’s value systems that are healing to the Earth. Imbuing industry with a morally accountable Respect for Nature eliminates incalculable, disruptive imbalances, increases efficiency, while stabilizing long term regional and global systems.
The world can no longer afford armed conflict. Wars have escalated to the threat of global annihilation. Self-destruction is functionally obsolete. To squander what time and resources we have left on wars-for-oil is as pointless as a fist fight on the Titanic.
Aligning mankind’s economic values with Nature integrates appropriately urgent intention with consciously evolving symbiotic, Earth-healing “Gaiatherapeutic” industries.
Spherical Value Systems
- Ecological values of benefit to Earth’s atmosphere, soil, water, air & wildlife supersede selfish interests.
- Quality of Life values are identified by equitable resource availability potentiating a peaceful human social order.
- Agronomic values add benefit through crop rotations & companion planting.
- Acknowledging ancient, historically and traditionally foundational concepts of kinship with all life, #RespectForNature is elevated from a trivial “unquantifiable externality” to its proper stature as a “strategic priority.”
- Traditional utilitarian values of quality in manufactured products influence feedstock production.
- Proper valuation of available resources is as important as responsible stewardship and repair of Earth’s Natural Order.
- Working with Nature to heal Nature has several advantages over short-sighted geoengineering schemes, already engendering conflict.
“Economic Sphere: A set of relations of people, arising from the creation and movement of material goods.”
Time without money is more valuable than money without time.
Nature bites last.
You can run out of money & then become wealthy again. When you run out of time, you’re done, no matter how much money you have.
You can have all the money in the world but if you only have a minute to live in a healthy world, then what’s truly valuable?
“Spherical Economics” looks at four dimensions of human market values & benefits of industry.
1. Choice industrial feedstocks
2. Choice of energy production technology
3. Agricultural methods
permaculture
inter-cropping
Organic/biodynamic
Production efficiency based In Biomimicry
Regional energy’s societal benefits
Consumption efficiency:
Reuse, repurpose, recycle, compost, remineralize,
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