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The name of this presentation is Visualizing a Systems Approach.

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This is a single aspect regarding the direction advocated by The Zeitgeist Movement.

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In an event to me it's a key factor understanding human decision making

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and problem solving beyond this publical sphere.

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As we go through the materials we offer reference,

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you come across in many terms and phrases that sounds impressive and fun to say,

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some examples of this would be the resource-based economic model,

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technological unemployment, dynamic equilibrium,

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the scientific method for social concern, a systems approach resource management,

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along with many others.

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Spending a lot of time in the movement, speaking about the root causes that persist on problems,

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of the social operation of the planet,

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specially regarding the monotonous negative outcome

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such as crime, poverty, war, polution, death, another forms of corruption.

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Well, it is logical to understand the problems first,

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we can sometimes miss the focus on aspects of the solutions we propose,

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even know that there is plenty of information available.

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At the foundation of what the movement advocates,

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it's a global movement which can be turned a resource based economy.

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Maybe none to many of us, by the work of The Venus Project, in Venus, Florida,

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a resource-based economic model is a social structure,

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that is global on its operation, based entirely on the earths resources

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as the starting point for the society to decision making.

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Where all goods and services are available,

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without the use of currency, credit, market, or any form of debt or servitude.

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Also, should be an industrial operations are arranged on what we call a systems approach,

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which logically treats the planet earth as a single system that is happens to be.

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We also advocate the application of technology

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to the automation of labour of free humanity from maintaining arbitrary occupation rules,

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which have no such relevance for social well beign, and, at the end of the day,

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we want to encourage new value and incentive system through this social design,

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which maintains a focus on attributes such as community,

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human well being, regular education, social awareness, and creativity.

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That is as far we go into the overall direction

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since it's far too much information we shared with you tonight.

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Instead, i wished to spend a few minutes visualizing a core attribute in this model

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to give you some work understanding one piece of the technical jargon.

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The attribute of focus in this presentation will be a systems approach.

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Our relationship to the earth and the enviroments we are living

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is not a political issue, or a religious ideal.

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It is a technical relationship,

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separated a living organism from its surroundings

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and will die from a lack of oxygen, water and food.

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Organisms are open systems that can not survive

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without continuously extending matter energy with their environment.

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Since we observe systems interacting with each other,

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it's part of a whole, it is in a logical unified system with the biosphere

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and which we are on happy with

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Systems then can be defined as an approach of problems solving.

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by viewing problems is part of the overall

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rather than reacting problem isolated

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unrelated phenomenal from a larger order.

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When taking it separated, such patchworks may development of unintended consequences,

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such as trying to resolve problems from the monetary inflation with more inflation,

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or trying to fate the destruction of the rain forests

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or the increase of plastic waste on our ocean by more laws and legislation,

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rather than addressing the causes of the behaviour to begin with.

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Systems thinking is not one thing,

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but such of habits or practices within the framework that is based on the principle

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that a component part of a system are best understood in context of relationships,

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rather than from isolation from one another.

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So, this present has an attribute that is often mentioned, which is a systems approach.

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A systems approach to the resources management on the planet is comprised of realtime data and statistics.

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This approach can bind with the attribute of peak efficiency,

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so the peak of preservation and conservation

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becoming necessary components to what we call as sustainable society.

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The process of unfolding, which you may call decision making,

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is based on natural law in reason,

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not on political ideologies, or religious notions, or groups oppinion.

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When using a systems approach we arriving in decisions as supposed to make in them.

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Making a decision is a subjective act often based on incomplete information or affected by these cultural bias.

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Our goal is to remove the basis of ones oppinion as best we can,

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by using the most optimal knowledge we have,

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to align with natural processes, to the best of our habilities at a giving time.

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This is an emergent process, because the body of knowledge of human understanding changes over time is

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news covering amaze, to a no final frontier.

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So, human management of the environment equilibrium of this planet

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which is an initial variable how well society functions,

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comes first from understand what the carrying capacity of the earth actually is.

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It follows that the needs of the human population

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must be in balance with the resources of the earth or negative outcomes occur.

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So, what were we start?

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What is the first step to determine the carrying capacity of the earth?

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Well, as worse as systems approach comes in.

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A logical start would be with full survey with the earth resources,

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such we must know we have to work with in order to arrive in any decisions.

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There are many natural resources to be considered, such as forests, and oceans, and energy,

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along with arable land, and water, and minerals,

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but for the sake of simplicity, let's for first these components of these natural resources.

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If anyone is carrying think out has any sense,

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but how even be possible to create this kind of global system,

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or perhaps you might be thinking that the technological know how,

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for such a comprehensive survey be too futuristic.

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Well, this point i would like to make the use of few visual examples

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of current the real world technical systems that are working in this regard right now.

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This is an accurate visualization of many current informer nasa earth observing satelites.

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With names like Trum, Landsat7, Terra, Io1, Jason2, Grace, Isat and Aquarius,

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these one man proves quitely being down information

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that was transforming to understanding of how the earth works.

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And what we know about the human fingerprint on the climate?

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Together, they represent an application of technology in realtime,

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working this part of this globe surveying system,

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not something like Star Trek, not something a hundred years away, but orbiting the planet right now.

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Let's look at the closer example.

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The satellite Aquarius is designed to take comprehensive salinity measurements of our oceans,

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and they are entirelly every week.

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The data obtained from these measurements

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how being such comprehesive questions about climate change.

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Why salinity? When the density of the ocean waters determined from its salinity and from misleading temperature.

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Density of the ocean water drives the patterns of the deep ocean currents,

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and ocean currents drives global change.

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In recent decades, scientists have seen there are ocean salinity have shifted

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in ways which only climate changes seems to be able to explain.

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For four hundred miles above the surface of the earth,

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Aquarius can attempt to detect differences on ocean salinity

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to even a pinch of salt in a gallon of water.

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With this visualization we were seeing an example of current technology

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being applied by methods of sciences

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for environmental and, ultimatelly, social concern.

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The collection of all of this data can be used for understanding our environment,

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or even predicting possible outcomes.

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In this example, what you're seeing is not photographed from space.

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Every pixel from is calculated by the geos5 super computer.

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This supercomputer can accuratelly model and simulate

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the earth's atmosphere conditions for short periods of time.

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In this example, this model is giving data leading up into February second 2010,

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and then, it preceeded to predict the atmosphere's response

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for the next twenty days without any further input.

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This model simulated the real world weather events that actually took place,

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including snow strorms, couple of cyclones, and other climatic conditions.

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Continuing these examples, the Terra and Acqua satellites, gather data of the earth surface every two days.

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This animation shows were the world's food is grown versus where the world's food is consumed.

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The movie starts with the global problems that faces to the countries

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are producing either 80% of the world's weed, grain and cereal.

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And then overlays to the world's population density

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and then double and triple their populations by the year 2050.

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There also exists a mineral resource datasystem, which is a statistical survey done by the USGeos.

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This is United States geological survey.

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The map, this map is a collection of reports

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subscribing the mineral resources through the United States.

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The survey actually expands out for the entire globe,

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but this map just chooses an example purpose for this presentation.

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This is an example of the information that would be part of the so called geodatabase, if you will.

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Integrating the dataset into a global knowledge base

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of our resource management system as a function of a systems approach we have being exploring.

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Another example of visualizing systems approach,

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in action, is viewing compiled data from our global resource system.

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Here, a member of the google earth community, assembled this image from the CIA world factbook,

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showing the world oil consumption for the year 2007.

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This chart displays a exploring 3d graphs in the shape of each country,

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showing the relationship of the oil consumption between countries.

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Here, the United States is showing a tremendous consumption of about 21 million of barrels per day,

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which is almost 25% of the earth total of the 80 million of oil barrels consumed worldwide,

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that's daily, 80 million barrels, a day.

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So, how would you possible interact with such a system that meants data?

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We are following the evolution of the tax space search engines that we are all familiar with today,

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we would interact with this vast knowledge database via computerized AI systems.

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In an example of a computational knowledge of engineerying in generality exists, is Wolfram Alpha.

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This engine generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base

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in set on searching the internet and returning you links.

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In a resource based system that we advocate,

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such a concept can be easily scaled out to include the immensum database

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that is currently collected in both public and private sectors in the world today.

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Along with many free information in data products out there via the internet,

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one could well ponder that question that if a lower cooperation from our technology friends

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could be actually have a path to lead forward and move in such direction? Well, who knows?

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And maybe the world is simply waiting for people enough who want to do so.

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The point is, threre are many real world working examples

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to show such collaborative social system is technically reality and not in someday phenomenal.

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And going to conclude here, with this artistic representation of the system

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is visualized by industrial designing social engineering,

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Jacque Fresco, from The Venus Project,

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who spent more than seventy years of his life researching such a direction.

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I hope this presentation is helping you to understand

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how these system approaches to resources management could work,

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how we can approach problem solving beyond the spheres of politics,

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how we can arrive in decisions via science rather than human oppinion or majority vote.

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And how current technology can be applied to make such a resource based system a reality.