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URGENT GEAS ALERT: “Grassroots is not enough – critical failure looming”

Supercomputer predicts bottom-up efforts will lose momentum by late 2020
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BREAKING ALERT - OCTOBER 28, 2019 - GENEVA 

 

Supercomputer predicts bottom-up efforts will lose momentum by late 2020

 

SEHIs urged to engage traditional companies, agencies, and other large-scale organizations in superthreat partnerships

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Senior data analyst Flash Boyer issued an urgent alert via the Superthreat Warning System today: “We are urging all SEHIs to immediately reach out to global companies, agencies, and other traditional organizations. Grassroots and bottom-up are not enough.”

 

According to Boyer, superstructures need to figure out how to combine volunteer efforts with profit-seeking, law-making, and other large-scale organizations. “We need to harness the reach and sheer horse power of society’s biggest, most experienced organizations,” he said. “Otherwise, the bottom-up efforts of SEHIs will almost certainly lose critical momentum by late 2020.”

 

Boyer explained that the alert is the result of continued supercomputer calculations of SEHIs’ impact on our survival horizon. The sustainability calculations for grass-roots solutions show a critical failure after 10 - 12 months without top-down support.

 

“GEAS has calculated that the current survivability algorithms would improve dramatically in our favor if larger, more traditional organizations were combined, hybridized, and leveraged against the Superthreats. The key is to join forces.” Boyer explained that SEHIs can augment traditional organizations with volunteer SEHI efforts, startups, and other kinds of novel grassroots infrastructures – and SEHIs can look to those groups for more rigorous business models, IT solutions, and enforcement options.

 

“If the superstructures start to engage both bottom-up and top-down and all-around global organizations, the GEAS supercomputer would recalculate each individual SEHI’s survivability contribution, amplifying it dramatically by a factor as high as 2x, 3x, or more. Shifting our focus from the bottom and reaching out toward large-scale organizations will give us a real shot at achieving the 14K challenge within the next three weeks and securing at least one more generations’ existence on planet Earth.”

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  • PonyXpress
    Oct 28
    I would ask: What is the definition of what's meant by the terms "Top" and "Bottom"? Does "Top" actually refer to being tied in with one particular system of tracking and "Bottom" refer to that which develops sort of 'out here' and 'off the grid of one-place documentation' so to speak? Or is the question: do grassroots in fact have what it takes to grow the trees some of us think might necessary for survival? Some suggest we need to view the forest that are the collective result of these individual plants. Or should we all be thinking about oceans, clouds and water cycles instead? I think this survival beast is growing exponentially in all directions and has created an interesting head of steam that we're all finding difficult to get a bead on let alone define in any final way. At least that's been my experience to date.
  • rtgarden2019
    Oct 28
    This is a disturbing but predictable report. The combination of the five superthreats means that we have to look past even our own best solutions to find the hidden answers. We need clear information on how to respond to the ReDS crisis for instance. The large scale persistence of huge numbers of children and elderly people being interred in refugee camps and the need for hygenic transparency of the food supply are large scale problems that need large scale solutions. We need international scale organized efforts towards bio remediation and ecological repair otherwise we will deteriorate quickly into a slash and burn ecology.
  • JohnGS
    Oct 28
    It's difficult to appreciate the scale of this, especially when you can do things locally to improve your situation. The idea of creating collaborations of scale, not just of individuals and communities, is important, but that probably also means changing those organizations, and maybe even the way we organize the distribution of power, resources, and responsibilities on the planet.
  • R Smalley
    Oct 29
    I agree. It's all very well scraping around and surviving at the basic level but the people need to find ways to engage with those in power. Corporations need to be part of the solution.
  • infrarad
    Oct 29
    Here's my corporate suggestion. I'm already working on academic connections: http://www.superstructgame.net/DiscussionView/407
  • infrarad
    Oct 29
    Please check out Augmented University. I'm going to be working with my home institution, and soon hope to have augmented reality researchers from other institutions: http://www.superstructgame.net/SuperstructView/468
  • Ruud Dirven
    Oct 30
    Organization, without repression, will require us to cultivate improved means of communication. We need to improve internet, connectivity and resilience of available infrastructures. It'll be hard to make everything hackerproof, but adding more and more sustainable, low-energy eating redundancy in communications systems is the way to go. Plan for the unexpected too!
  • Unity
    Nov 01
    Agreed. Local, grassroots organizing takes time to gain momentum and is inherently limited in its global scope. Time is something we just don't have. The quickest and most far-reaching way to affect change is to activate a local-global/grassroots-corporate partnership. But we don't want our message and activism to be misappropriated. This is the time when we most need sound leadership. Perhaps we can start by identifying trusted leaders and their networks.
  • Linza
    Nov 02
    GEAS also tells us that we have to listen to people who want to tell us how to get our electricity and food instead of making our own. Permaculture for the win. If we put ourselves outside the reach of governments and corporations, then governments and corporations will fail-- I say let them. Larger organizations can theoretically give us resources and ideas we normally would not have, but there's no promise that they will unless they stand to profit by it. By selling our efforts back into that broken system of large organizations telling us what to do, then aren't we returning to the problematic social, political, and economic structures that got us into these big troubles in the first place?
  • Miles Wilkerson
    Nov 06
    Unity brings up something important: though using smaller, more powerfull, hierarchical organizations can legitimize -and even improve- our efforts, it is important that we keep democracy from being hijacked.
  • solspire
    Nov 07
    We need to get schools and children involved in creating solutions. Awareness leads to action, action to knowledge, knowledge to power.
  • Colette
    Nov 09
    I agree that collaboration is the key to developing increased awareness and support. It is crucial to the planets survival to join forces in order to survive. Strategic planning following a business model. Marketing and promoting key objects that unite Grassroots organizations, governments, and corporations presenting a united from to insure our survival will be most effective.
  • Clive Gerada
    Nov 17
    As regards to power the world will be different. There will be no more name of nations and cities, everything will be replaced by numbers.
  • Clive Gerada
    Nov 17
  • PROYECTO BOQUERON
    Nov 18
    Bootom-up participation looses its strength due to the lack of dynamism. New networks of enterpreneurs get allyance and force Academics and Big corporations to work together and look for the most inmediate need solutions, getting the new technologies involved, specially.
  • nmlax420
    Nov 30
    There does need to be a greater proportion of help coming from "top" levels in society, but in order to for grassroots and "top" levels to work together the public issues must be presented and agreed by both parties. Problems will