“Community Motive” Driven “Cooperation Industry Earth 2300” – The
Evolution of Thought Continues – Annual Report 2016
Regional Community News began as an online newsletter November
11, 2003. The tag line was: "Community precedes cooperation. Regional
community makes regions work."
The observation “community precedes cooperation” came from my
experience as a planner promoting regional cooperation and would become a
thesis, as well as lead to more insight. I used the term as early as March 20,
2000 in my journal.
Much evolution has taken
place in my thinking over the years and as of the November 11, 2016
anniversary, the effort becomes: Cooperation
Industry Earth 2300 - News & Thought
What is “community motive” and how does it relate to
cooperation industry earth 2300? Since 2008 it was clear that the profit motive
had failed and was regularly failing to live up to the notion that it was what
solved all problem.
The people who I worked with and saw doing the work
of community, important work, were not paid. There must be something like a “community
motive”. Searching the internet early in 2011 I found only one citation that
used it in the way I’d thought of it: “Acts of conservation without the requisite desire and skills
are futile. To create these desires and skills, and the community motive,
is the task of education.” — Aldo Leopold "Conservation: In Whole or
in Part?” (1944); RMG 319
I
concluded that community motive had not been adequately recognized, even though
it was recorded over 60 years ago and began to promote the term and fit it into
my community
theses.
The
"profit motive" that works in the civil markets made possible by
self-governed communities, has been made to appear as the first cause of
wealth. Yet, in one's life, the most important things one does are not for
profit, but for family and community, to ensure their perpetuation. Both work
together now, though in the beginning, there was only community motive, since
survival and perpetuation depended upon the community.
History
confirms industrious human communities have survived and advanced through out
time, leading to the present world which has enormous challenges,
environmental, social and economic. They require more and more, all talents and
abilities of humanity to achieve balance and eliminate the waste of war.
Cooperation
Industry Earth is inclusive of all humans and their activity, therefore it has
no classification code. As a singularity, it works worldwide, still recognizing
the importance of boundaries for community self-management and the organization
of regional/greater communities. Those who cooperate only for the domination of
others, using war and conquest, are catalysts for greater peace. To see this
requires a Greater Community Spirituality, without domination of any single
religious or non-religious group.
Seven generations of increasing cooperation can occur and return the built-environment and natural-environment to a sustainable balance. My timeline vision from May 24, 2016 follows:
Seven generations of increasing cooperation can occur and return the built-environment and natural-environment to a sustainable balance. My timeline vision from May 24, 2016 follows:
This
then is a paradigm offered to Humanity as a result of years of work, practice,
study and inspiration: "Cooperation Industry Earth 2300: Acknowledge
boundaries. Work across them. Think local planet, act regionally."
Cooperation Industry Earth 2300 -
News & Thought
Recognizing the Community
and Profit Motives
of Industrious Humanity
The news stream can be found in these places and
joined in various ways.
Sincerely
Tom (Thomas J.) Christoffel,
AICP, FeRSA, Editor
Cooperation Industry
Earth 2300 - News & Thought
Recognizing the
Community and Profit Motives of Industrious Humanity
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