Toxic Economics and Solar Currency
•Download as PPTX, PDF•
0 likes•446 views
Toxic systems are everywhere around us and they can be easily identified with simple math. This presentation features illustrative diagrams that explain the difference between healthy economics and unhealthy money systems (even ones that sound like they help people). At the end of the presentation you will be able to easily and quickly identify the toxic systems, understand how they impact your community and environment and know how to avoid them.
Recommended
Recommended
More Related Content
What's hot
What's hot (17)
Viewers also liked
Viewers also liked (20)
Similar to Toxic Economics and Solar Currency
Similar to Toxic Economics and Solar Currency (20)
More from Amber Bieg
Recently uploaded
Recently uploaded (20)
Toxic Economics and Solar Currency
- 1. Toxic Economics How it impacts your wallet, your community and the environment
- 2. Who am I and Why Am I here? I am a mother of two young children and want to a healthy place for my great grandchildren I’m passionate about ethical finance I’ve been involved in sustainable economics for nearly two decades
- 3. What Are Ecosystem Services? Crop pollination Oxygen Climate regulation Watershed Services Biodiversity The benefits nature provides
- 4. System in Crisis 90% of global ecosystems are in collapse Extinction rates are 1,000 x higher than any time in fossil history. Human life depends on healthy ecosystems Humans are consuming and destroying ecosystems.
- 5. Ecosystem Economic Impact Our economy depends on ecosystems Our economy mandates growth! To replace what ecosystems do for us, it would cost $33 trillion, nearly twice global gross product (the value of total global economic activity).
- 7. Our fuel stocks are finite
- 8. How do we change? System Solution • Only reclaiming our understanding will solve this • Seeing the whole system • Having courage to restructure the systems Blame • We have been blaming externally • Some “solutions” have created bigger problems • Nobody deliberately creates the problems
- 9. Two Types of Toxic Systems Structural Deceptive
- 10. How to identify a toxic system: Lack of integrity Deception is present Exponential growth is at the core
- 11. I was invited to a “Gifting Circle” called “Women Empowering Women” A close group of women creating abundance together Money Sisterhood Trusted Friend
- 12. A Toxic Mimic When this Is masked as this
- 13. What is a toxic mimic? Or this Hiding this!
- 14. Pyramids Increase the Divide Between Haves and Have-nots! 12% 88% Gifting Circle Profit Distribution Women who profit Women who lose their money At some point, the circle must collapse, leaving 88% without ever receiving a gift. Not exactly equitable.
- 15. Network Marketing (MLMs) People who profit 2% People who lose their money 98% MLM Profit Distribution
- 16. Inevitably all exponential growth curves go up and down - 200,000 400,000 600,000 800,000 1,000,000 1,200,000 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 Number of Circles Number of Circles
- 17. Can’t the economy just grow forever? Growth That Exceeds Resource Capacity Always Leads to Collapse! Population doubling time for the Gifting Circle is 6 months. Global population doubling time is approximately 25 years. Not enough women exist to meet demand for new participants
- 18. But isn’t abundance infinite? In the non-physical realm, abundance is infinite, for example: Love = infinite Joy = infinite The physical world is finite: We are limited by population, economy, etc. It’s exciting to live in a finite world. It causes us to be more creative!
- 19. How to identify a toxic system: Lack of integrity Deception is present Exponential growth is at the core
- 20. Money and Banking: The biggest pyramid scheme Debt-based currency with interest rate assumes infinite exponential growth!
- 21. The structure lacks integrity
- 22. The Biggest Deception The Federal Reserve Bank It isn’t “federal” – it isn’t part of the government. It’s a privately held company. It doesn’t have reserves . . . It creates money out of thin air. Just like the “Gifting Circle” isn’t a GIFT or a CIRCLE!
- 23. The house of cards inevitably will collapse!
- 24. There Are Plenty of Alternatives
- 26. Idaho has a time bank . . . The value of any system or currency is dependent on the number of users!
- 28. How Does Bitcoin Work?
- 29. We have one steady energy input Fossil fuels are historic stored solar energy. We are borrowing from the past . . . and destroying our future. To have a future that is conducive to human life, we need a economy that is pegged to the ability for humans to use energy from the sun.
- 31. SolarCoin is a digital currency Solar electricity Digital currency SolarCoin is a new environmentally friendly currency backed by the solar output of photovoltaic solar panels Each MWh of power produced will reward the owner with §1 SLR SolarCoin is digital currency Backed by solar output from photovoltaic solar panels Each MWh of electricity will reward the owner with §1 SLR
- 32. The Process of Getting SolarCoin SolarCoin grant process for Solar Generators SolarCoin Foundation & Community accept verification methods Generator verified d Owner verified Meter verification submitted Grant delivered Solar Claimant #123423 home 1. 2. 3. 4.
- 33. SolarCoin helps our planet! SolarCoin is given for free as an incentive to solar energy producers for using and producing renewable energies SolarCoin helps our planet Electricity from Fossil Fuels put Carbon into our Atmosphere Renewable energy release no Carbon into our Atmosphere
- 34. Solar can meet our energy needs Solar Power may deliver our energy needs Solar power has achieved Grid Parity : solar panels may deliver electricity at a cost-effective price and compete with traditional fossil sources Energy Storage enables storing the energy needed for delayed consumption. Several technologies are entering industrial production (Lithium Batteries…) Deployment of a Smart Grid is a reality In implementing these technologies, millions of jobs will be created across the world
- 35. Easy App Based Management
- 36. Yes! We can use SolarCoin now! Getting SolarCoin Meter Unique #123495 Exchange USD- SLR, BTC-SLR… Register your Solar Installation and Generate Electricity 1. Download SolarCoin-QT wallet 2. Participate in the SolarCoin Community SLR SolarCoin Accepted here: 8NS18iag8jJgYunQiXjvLCEnZuQ3rJDE9L Accept SLR for your business Linux v 1.50 Android Windows v. 1.50 Source On Github MacOS v 1.50
- 37. THANK YOU! Contact me! www.green-ideas.com @amberbieg via twitter
Editor's Notes
- Based on an informed guess, hundreds of millions of dollars have been pulled from the hands from economically disadvantaged through toxic economics I have an MBA, Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School, plus I’ve been suckered and learned I am passionate about radically re-envisioning our economy
- Human life wouldn’t survive without healthy ecosystems. Humans are dependent on ecosystem service ranging from pollination of food crops to oxygen from trees and other vegetation. However, human activities are causing the Earth’s greatest extinction of biodiversity (the key to healthy ecosystems).
- “The observed rates of species extinction in modern times are 100 to 1,000 times higher than the average rates for comparable groups estimated from the fossil record (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005).” This mass extinction is a direct result of humans consuming and destroying ecosystems. Since the beginning of the industrial age, human populations have grown and individual consumption has increased. “Increasing consumption per person, multiplied by a growing human population, are the root causes of the increasing demand for ecosystem services (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005).”
- It is estimated that the annual value of global ecological benefits at $33 trillion, nearly twice the then global gross product. While our entire economic system relies on nature, we fail to account for it in our financial and market systems. We continue to consume our natural resources without accounting for the costs of repercussions associated with that consumption. One of the potential challenges to reducing consumption is the economic mandate for growth. Capitalism depends on growth. “If the dynamic relationship between investment and growth were to break down, the economic system would break down as well (Magnuson, 2007).”
- A SYSTEMS STORY: The Great Mud Flats The southwestern United States wrestles with severe water shortages. At the same time the Great Lakes on the border of the United States and Canada hold about 20% of the world's entire supply of fresh water (a stock of 14,000 cubic kilometers). It has been suggested that Great Lakes water could be transported to the southwest to alleviate water scarcities. Aside from the enormous cost of pumping water such great distances, a more fundamental flaw in this scheme comes from a confusion about stocks and flows. The Great Lakes represent an immense stock of water. However, the flow of water through them is relatively small. The outlet of the Great Lakes — the St. Lawrence River at the end of Lake Ontario — has a mean annual flow of 210 cubic kilometers per year. This quantity is the maximum that could be diverted out of the Great Lakes without lowering them. If more than 210 cubic kilometers per year were sent southward, North America would slowly become famous for the Great Mud Flats, and eventually the Great Holes. The sustainable water resource of the Great Lakes is not the stock, but the flow.
- Everyone understands that you can prolong the life of an oil-based economy by discovering new oil deposits. It seems to be harder to understand that the same result can be achieved by simply burning less oil. An economy cannot build up a large stock of functioning factories and highways and electric plants overnight, even if a lot of money is available. Once an economy has a lot of oil-burning furnaces and automobile engines, it cannot change quickly to furnaces and engines that burn a different fuel, even if the price of oil suddenly changes.
- Ever since the industrial revolution, Western society has favored science, logic, and reductionism over intuition and holism. Psychologically and politically we would much rather assume that the cause of a problem is "out there," rather than "in here." It's almost irresistible to blame something or someone else, to shift responsibility away from ourselves, and to look for the control knob, the product, the pill, the technical fix that will make a problem go away. Serious problems have been solved by focusing on external agents — preventing smallpox, increasing food production, moving large weights and many people rapidly over long distances. Because they are embedded in larger systems, however, some of our "solutions" have created further problems. And some problems, those most rooted in the internal structure of complex systems, the real messes, have refused to go away. No one deliberately creates those problems, no one wants them to persist, but they persist nonetheless. That is because they are intrinsically systems problems — undesirable behaviors characteristic of the system structures that produce them. They will yield only as we reclaim our intuition, stop casting blame, see the system as the source of its own problems, and find the courage to restructure it.
- “Each woman gives a gift of $5,000 to another woman to support her in financial empowerment and manifesting her dreams.” “Each woman moves through the circle, arriving at the Dessert position, where you receive eight gifts of $5,000, totaling $40,000.” I could turn $5,000 into $40,000 in just a couple of months – this could pay back my student loans or help with a house downpayment I could have an amazing support group of other spiritual women – something that I have been missing in my life. “The Circle is a way to achieve personal growth, remove blocks to manifesting, and participate in a path to personal empowerment that teaches us to support each other on many levels.” Most importantly, A close trusted friend invited me – she and I share a lot of the same values and perspectives on the world.
- Human Population = Probably Not Sustainable: Growth at our current rate of consumption of the Earth’s ecosystem resources will probably lead to ecosystem collapse. Gifting Circle = Not Sustainable: The growth quickly exceeds economic resource capacity (ability to bring in new women at $5,000), inevitably leading to collapse.
- Economic Limit: The total human population on Earth is 7 billion people and the value of the global economy is $69 trillion. It is estimated that the Earth can only support about 12 billion people and the ideal global population is under 1 billion. If everyone in the world lived like even the most economically disadvantaged in the US, we would need 3x the resources.
- Berkshares are a currency that exists in MA where you can trade one berkshare for 95cents. Ithica used time as a currency.