To secure ourselves and future generations the best possible life we need to follow two essential principles: sustainability and cooperation. Solar energy, the main topic of this website, is probably the most important issue for sustainable systems. People who have some interest in physics probably know that a system can only grow, yet even be stable, as long as energy is provided from the outside (thermodynamics). Maybe the earth can provide its surface with geothermal energy for some thousand years without any significant problems, but the sun can do so for billions of years.
However, sustainable systems need more than a sustainable source of energy. We need to manage our resources carefully. If we run out of a certain resource, we won’t be able to keep our standard of living or even life itself. Resources include much more than certain minerals you might think of first. We need clean air, clean water, fertile soil, protection against cosmic radiation, safety, and much more. We must evaluate if our current way of coexistence, our economical system, supports sustainability or if it even inherently leads to exploitation of people and natural resources.
Are workforce and natural resources used the most efficient way? Does humanity develop as fast as it could? And I don’t talk about economical growth – is mean happiness growing as fast as possible? I don’t think so. I think humanity is far away from using its actual potential, and the reason is a lack of cooperation.
You can use information about solar energy, energy efficiency, gardening, food, automation, and more to improve your life and to become more independent of a system that is predetermined to fail. But it’s hard work to do this on your own. Let’s try to build sustainable systems that are based on cooperation. My dream is to initiate non-trading cooperatives that create and run buildings or cities with a high degree of self-sufficiency (arcology systems). Everything the sustainable systems provide is free for all members of the cooperative (fair use); for example energy, food, and water. Tools, machines, facilities and other resources that do not require exclusive access are shared, which increases everyone’s quality of life. A maximum level of automation is a major goal in order to provide as many resources as possible. All information is open source, which ensures the highest possible level of cooperation and the fastest possible growth rate.
It would be great for you to live in a system that brings along so many comforts, but it would also be great for you if others live in such sustainable systems, because they would not destroy your environment and they would not try to take away from you what they already have themselves.
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