1 00:00:01,958 --> 00:00:04,509 What is a Resource Based Economy? 2 00:00:04,649 --> 00:00:06,836 I'm sure you've all heard about it. 3 00:00:06,976 --> 00:00:11,644 But a Resource Based Economy is entirely different than anything 4 00:00:11,784 --> 00:00:15,029 that has ever existed in the past. 5 00:00:15,169 --> 00:00:19,975 Most decisions were made by kings, politicians, statesmen 6 00:00:20,115 --> 00:00:24,059 but nothing based upon resources. 7 00:00:24,199 --> 00:00:27,940 To better understand the meaning of a Resource Based Economy 8 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:31,059 picture an island somewhere in the South Pacific. 9 00:00:31,199 --> 00:00:34,738 And you really want to know how many people 10 00:00:34,878 --> 00:00:38,132 can that island support and to what degree 11 00:00:38,272 --> 00:00:42,060 can the extravagance of the island be maintained. 12 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:44,320 First, you have to know how much wood there is 13 00:00:44,460 --> 00:00:47,619 how much water, how much arable land. 14 00:00:47,759 --> 00:00:51,702 Once you do a survey of the resources of that island 15 00:00:51,842 --> 00:00:55,061 that can best be the method for determining 16 00:00:55,201 --> 00:00:57,720 how many people it will support. 17 00:00:57,860 --> 00:01:02,447 If the materials do not exist, you can only design a culture 18 00:01:02,587 --> 00:01:06,260 based upon the materials that do exist. 19 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:10,594 You can only grow food based upon the arable land area 20 00:01:10,734 --> 00:01:13,010 and the water surrounding the island 21 00:01:13,150 --> 00:01:17,182 the fish, crustaceans, all the other things. 22 00:01:17,322 --> 00:01:20,500 And if you have an agronomist on your island 23 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:23,739 or a series of them, they can advise you 24 00:01:23,879 --> 00:01:27,680 as what is best to grow in that tropical region. 25 00:01:27,820 --> 00:01:31,290 So you really need technical competence 26 00:01:31,430 --> 00:01:35,935 in order to arrive at decisions that make sense. 27 00:01:36,075 --> 00:01:38,760 You cannot arrive at decisions 28 00:01:38,900 --> 00:01:41,640 that make sense by consensus. 29 00:01:41,780 --> 00:01:43,860 By asking people what they want. 30 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,859 You have to find out what the island has to offer. 31 00:01:46,999 --> 00:01:49,996 And that's what you can determine the future by. 32 00:01:50,136 --> 00:01:53,020 All other systems will fail. 33 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:56,517 Politicians have opinions about everything 34 00:01:56,657 --> 00:01:59,990 and information about nothing in particular. 35 00:02:00,130 --> 00:02:02,240 Therefore you understand 36 00:02:02,380 --> 00:02:06,529 that the decisions are not made by the majority of people. 37 00:02:06,669 --> 00:02:11,339 They are made by the majority of people that have technical competence 38 00:02:11,479 --> 00:02:15,980 that have information in the areas you wish to excel in 39 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:20,845 and methods of scientific scales of performance. 40 00:02:20,985 --> 00:02:25,581 If you have a million sincere people that have no technical competence 41 00:02:25,721 --> 00:02:28,791 I can assure you, nothing can be accomplished. 42 00:02:28,931 --> 00:02:31,119 So you have to ask the questions: 43 00:02:31,259 --> 00:02:35,905 Can we build a society of sustainability? 44 00:02:36,045 --> 00:02:40,239 If you have no information as to the availability of resources 45 00:02:40,379 --> 00:02:43,179 you cannot undertake such a project. 46 00:02:43,319 --> 00:02:45,762 Suppose you have a shortage of resources. 47 00:02:45,902 --> 00:02:48,419 That's the function of research labs: 48 00:02:48,559 --> 00:02:51,019 to make alternative materials 49 00:02:51,159 --> 00:02:54,529 that will substitute for lack of materials. 50 00:02:54,669 --> 00:02:59,150 Technicians do not tell you what to do or how to live. 51 00:02:59,290 --> 00:03:03,232 They merely carry out the function of designing elevators 52 00:03:03,372 --> 00:03:07,639 transportation units, bridges, housing systems. 53 00:03:07,779 --> 00:03:12,859 They do not tell people what to do, what to think or how to live. 54 00:03:12,999 --> 00:03:15,839 That's a mistake that most people make. 55 00:03:15,979 --> 00:03:18,671 They think that a Resource Based Economy 56 00:03:18,811 --> 00:03:23,359 has technicians that also tell you what lifestyle to use. 57 00:03:23,499 --> 00:03:26,659 No they don't. The resources determine that. 58 00:03:26,799 --> 00:03:29,239 All that the technicians do 59 00:03:29,379 --> 00:03:33,290 is build a system that can utilize those resources 60 00:03:33,430 --> 00:03:37,459 for the benefit of all the people involved. 61 00:03:37,599 --> 00:03:39,719 It has to be global. 62 00:03:39,859 --> 00:03:43,749 If it's not global, if you have most of the resources 63 00:03:43,889 --> 00:03:48,170 and most of the building equipment and most of the automated machinery 64 00:03:48,310 --> 00:03:52,719 and most of the arable land and most of the drinking water 65 00:03:52,859 --> 00:03:56,834 countries that do not have that will attempt to invade your country 66 00:03:56,974 --> 00:03:59,019 and take what they need. 67 00:03:59,159 --> 00:04:04,689 Every nation wants a piece of the pie. Keep that in mind. 68 00:04:04,829 --> 00:04:10,161 So, to the degree that you try to live a sustainable life to yourself 69 00:04:10,301 --> 00:04:12,838 will not work because other nations 70 00:04:12,978 --> 00:04:15,906 that lack material will invade you. 71 00:04:16,046 --> 00:04:19,034 In the rebuilding of cities throughout the world 72 00:04:19,174 --> 00:04:23,830 you have to consider how far those cities are from resources. 73 00:04:23,970 --> 00:04:29,500 That means available materials: concrete, steel reinforcement, etc. 74 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:32,419 If the cities are near that source 75 00:04:32,559 --> 00:04:36,529 then it becomes more efficient to design the cities 76 00:04:36,669 --> 00:04:41,279 as systems operations, meaning that the city itself 77 00:04:41,419 --> 00:04:45,090 must meet the needs of the people that live there. 78 00:04:45,230 --> 00:04:48,325 We announce on television what is available 79 00:04:48,465 --> 00:04:51,122 and what is not available at the time 80 00:04:51,262 --> 00:04:54,134 and when it probably will be available. 81 00:04:54,274 --> 00:04:57,250 So the public has information of where to go 82 00:04:57,390 --> 00:05:00,529 to access whatever it is that they need. 83 00:05:00,669 --> 00:05:04,150 So people will have access to more things than they've ever had 84 00:05:04,290 --> 00:05:06,120 in a monetary system. 85 00:05:06,260 --> 00:05:10,110 More things and more opportunities will be available. 86 00:05:10,250 --> 00:05:13,082 All of the cities are designed 87 00:05:13,222 --> 00:05:18,110 to utilize the minimal amount of energy for maximum service. 88 00:05:18,548 --> 00:05:21,384 In that way, we conserve energy 89 00:05:21,524 --> 00:05:24,520 so that we can handle more people. 90 00:05:24,660 --> 00:05:27,890 There are people throughout the world that do not have access 91 00:05:28,030 --> 00:05:30,039 to high energy systems. 92 00:05:30,179 --> 00:05:33,595 We will be able to provide more for human need 93 00:05:33,735 --> 00:05:35,799 if we use efficiency. 94 00:05:35,939 --> 00:05:39,140 Naturally, if we fail to do that 95 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:42,226 you can only take care of a limited amount of people. 96 00:05:42,366 --> 00:05:45,812 The Resource Based Economy has millions of slaves. 97 00:05:45,952 --> 00:05:49,771 But they are machines. And machines do repetitive 98 00:05:49,911 --> 00:05:51,833 boring and dangerous jobs. 99 00:05:51,973 --> 00:05:55,602 That's what the machines are for. They are not to put you out of work. 100 00:05:55,742 --> 00:05:59,595 If they can turn things out faster than you, we don't need you working. 101 00:05:59,735 --> 00:06:03,509 In fact we don't want you working in industrial plants. 102 00:06:03,649 --> 00:06:07,941 We want you to go back to school and study whatever you're interested in 103 00:06:08,081 --> 00:06:10,444 whatever you think you'd like to study 104 00:06:10,584 --> 00:06:13,979 whatever you feel you'd like to understand better. 105 00:06:14,119 --> 00:06:19,311 Unfortunately, money doesn't represent things in existence. 106 00:06:19,705 --> 00:06:22,429 If you set a value on every tree 107 00:06:22,569 --> 00:06:26,341 every inch of arable land, all the water 108 00:06:26,481 --> 00:06:30,160 and you printed money proportionate to the resources 109 00:06:30,300 --> 00:06:33,840 so that the money represents resources 110 00:06:33,980 --> 00:06:37,042 then it can have meaning, but today 111 00:06:37,562 --> 00:06:41,300 that is not accomplished. Although they may tell you 112 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:47,049 that demand will really bring about these things. 113 00:06:47,189 --> 00:06:49,789 No, demand doesn't bring about the things. 114 00:06:49,929 --> 00:06:52,050 Available resources do. 115 00:06:52,190 --> 00:06:55,503 And if money doesn't represent available resources 116 00:06:55,643 --> 00:06:59,009 it has no basis for social management. 117 00:06:59,149 --> 00:07:01,620 When you live in a false society 118 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:04,869 that bases its wealth upon money 119 00:07:05,009 --> 00:07:08,599 then that society itself will collapse eventually. 120 00:07:08,739 --> 00:07:13,833 Not because I say so. Because it's not based on physical referent. 121 00:07:13,973 --> 00:07:18,172 In a Resource Based Economy, where production and automation 122 00:07:18,312 --> 00:07:21,150 can turn out more goods and services 123 00:07:21,290 --> 00:07:24,610 there's no need to use money anymore. 124 00:07:24,750 --> 00:07:28,150 If you really wish to put an end to war, poverty 125 00:07:28,290 --> 00:07:32,289 hunger, territorial disputes 126 00:07:32,429 --> 00:07:35,849 you must utilize all the world's resources 127 00:07:35,989 --> 00:07:39,960 as the common heritage of all the world's people. 128 00:07:40,100 --> 00:07:43,899 Anything less than that will remain 129 00:07:44,039 --> 00:07:49,119 with the same problems that you've had continuously for centuries. 130 00:07:49,259 --> 00:07:52,140 Now you have to consider what I'm saying. 131 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:57,020 The reason nations invade other nations is because of scarcity. 132 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:00,729 When a few nations control most of the earth's resources 133 00:08:00,869 --> 00:08:03,810 you've got to have territorial disputes. 134 00:08:03,950 --> 00:08:07,069 No matter how many treaties you sign or laws you make 135 00:08:07,209 --> 00:08:10,670 if you don't declare all the earth's resources 136 00:08:10,810 --> 00:08:14,389 as the common heritage of all the world's people 137 00:08:14,529 --> 00:08:17,179 and bring all the separate nations together 138 00:08:17,319 --> 00:08:20,300 in one unified system - 139 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:23,409 there is no solution other than that. 140 00:08:23,549 --> 00:08:27,706 And this is why we recommend the Resource Based Economy.