To transcend monetary limitations (stated above) The Venus Project proposes we work toward a global,
resource-based economy, in which the planetary resources are held as the common heritage of
all the earth's inhabitants. The current practice of rationing resources through monetary
methods is irrelevant to survival, counter-productive to our well being, and falls far short of meeting humanity’s needs.
Simply stated, a resource-based economy utilizes existing resources - rather than money - to
provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a
system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money,
credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.

To better understand a resource-based economy, consider this. If all the money in the world
disappeared overnight, as long as topsoil, factories, personnel and other resources were left
intact, we could build anything we needed to fulfill most human needs. It is not money that
people require, but rather free access to most of their needs without worrying about financial
security or having to appeal to a government bureaucracy. In a resource-based economy of
abundance, money will become irrelevant.

We have arrived at a time when new innovations in science and technology can easily provide
abundance to all of the world’s people. It is no longer necessary to perpetuate the conscious
withdrawal of efficiency by planned obsolescence, perpetuated by our old and outworn profit
system. If we are genuinely concerned about the environment and our fellow human beings, if
we really want to end territorial disputes, war, crime, poverty and hunger, we must consciously
reconsider the social processes that led us to a world where these factors are common. Like it
or not, it is our social processes – political practices, belief systems, profit-based economy, our
culture-driven behavioral norms – that lead to and support hunger, war, disease and
environmental damage.

The aim of this new social design is to encourage an incentive system no longer directed
toward the shallow and self-centered goals of wealth, property, and power. These new
incentives

Our current system is not capable of providing a high standard of living for everyone, nor can it
ensure the protection of the environment because the major motive is profit. Businesses aren't
entirely to blame; they are forced to operate this way in order to retain the competitive edge.
Additionally, with the advent of automation, cybernation, and artificial intelligence, there will
be an ever-increasing replacement of people by automated systems. As a result, fewer people
will be able to purchase goods and services even though our capability to produce an
abundance will continue to exist. This is well-documented in Jeremy Rifkin's new book The End
of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-market Era (Putnam,
1995). The Venus Project offers a fresh approach that reverses the negative aspects
experienced in our current applications of automation and artificial intelligence. This project
eliminates the disastrous consequences that such approaches can have on our society, i.e. the
displacement of millions of workers, skilled and unskilled alike.

It is not enough to criticize, point out the shortcomings of society, or advocate that people of
high moral character be elected into office; this would do little to advance civilization. What is
needed is the intelligent management of the world’s resources, and a comprehensive and
workable arrangement of environmental and social affairs that are in strict accord with existing
resources and the carrying capacity of our planet. Even with the election of men and women of
impeccable character into government, without available resources and advanced technology,
war, poverty, and corruption will prevail no matter how many new laws are passed or treaties
signed. It is not democracy that elevated our standard of living, it is our resources, water,
arable land, and new technology. Rhetoric and paper proclamations are irrelevant in the
management of human and social affairs.

If all the money in the world were destroyed, as long as we have sufficient arable land, the
factories, the necessary resources, and technical personnel, we could build anything and even
supply an abundance. During the Depression, there were vacuum cleaners in store windows
and automobiles in car lots. The Earth was still the same place. There was just no money in
people's wallets and very little purchasing power. At the beginning of World War II, the U.S.
had about 600 first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short-supply by turning
out over 90,000 planes per year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have
enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have
enough money or gold, but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available
resources and technical personnel that enabled the U.S. to achieve the production and
efficiency required to win the war.

It appears that the real wealth of any nation is in its natural resources and its people who are
working toward a more humane life-style through the elimination of scarcity. All social
systems, regardless of the political philosophy, religious beliefs, or social mores, ultimately
depend upon natural resources -- i.e. clean air and water and arable land area -- and the
industrial equipment and technical personnel for a high standard of living. The money- based
system was designed hundreds of years ago and was hardly appropriate for that time. We still
utilize this same outmoded system, which is probably responsible for most of today's problems.
I have no doubt that even the wealthiest person today would be far better off in the highenergy
society that The Venus Project proposes.

There are many disadvantages to using this old method of exchange for goods and services.
We will consider just a few here and let you add to this list on your own.

1. Money is just an interference between what one needs and what one is able to get. It is not
money that people need, it is access to resources.

2. The use of money results in social stratification and elitism based primarily on economic
disparity.

3. People are not equal without equal purchasing power.

4. Most people are slaves to jobs they do not like because they need the money.

5. There is tremendous corruption, greed, crime, embezzlement, and more caused by the need
for money.

6. Most laws are enacted for the benefit of corporations, which have enough money to lobby,
bribe, or persuade government officials to make laws that serve their interests.

7. Those who control purchasing power have greater influence.

8. Money is used to control the behavior of those with limited purchasing power.

9. Goods such as foods are sometimes destroyed to keep prices up; when things are scarce
prices increase.

10. There is tremendous waste of material and strain on available resources from superficial
design changes for newer later fads each year in order to create continuous markets for
manufacturers.

11. There is tremendous environmental degradation due to the high cost of better methods of
waste disposal.

12. The Earth is being plundered for profit.

13. The benefits of technology are only distributed to those with sufficient purchasing power.

14. Most important, when the corporation’s bottom line is profit, decisions in all areas are
made not for the benefit of people and the environment, but primarily for the acquisition of
wealth, property, and power.

No government in history has ever planned ahead and directed society into the next phase of
social evolution. Established orders want to perpetuate themselves. Unfortunately, it may take
an economic breakdown and people becoming disillusioned with their leaders before they will
seek an alternative social direction Social change was always brought about by economic
collapse, corruption in government, abuse of the population, etc. Governments are generally
comprised of businessmen, lawyers, and other self-appointed individuals with personal and
corporate interest rather than upgrading society as a whole.

What you have to say about the rich and powerful being resistant to such a society in many
cases is true, however if they keep using automation in their industries, as they have to in
order to compete, millions of people will be replaced by machines. This includes not only the
assembly line workers but also doctors, engineers, architects and the like. As they lose their
purchasing power, the very industries that depend on them can no longer function. This will
bring an end to the old outworn monetary system. It is not a question of them giving up their
industries; it is that their greed will eventually render them obsolete.

Only when science and technology are used with human concern in a world in which all of the
earth’s resources are held as the common heritage of all of the earth’s people can we truly say
that there is intelligent life on earth.

Our problems today are enormous and global in their scope and impact. They cannot be solved
by any one nation. The concept of common good is global in nature, but local in
implementation.

We must start with what we have in common. All social systems, regardless of political
philosophy, religious beliefs, or social customs, ultimately depend upon natural resources like
clean air and water, arable land, and the technology and personnel to maintain a high standard
of living. This can be accomplished through the intelligent and humane application of science
and technology using a global systems approach. When money and self interests are outgrown,
interaction between nations won’t be based on self interest, but on mutual interest. This
approach will help eliminate artificial boundaries that separate people.

The single most important aspect of the project is the social direction of all nations working
together on the restoration of the environment in a resources-based economy. The aim is the
common heritage of all Earth's resources by all of the world's people. This we see as the only
process to end the present cycle of events of war, poverty, hunger, political corruption, and
environmental degradation. The technology that we present can make it possible for the global
population to obtain a very high standard of living one higher than ever imagined possible.
We could eventually surpass the artificial boundaries that divide people. If you fail to grasp the
significance consider this: in the United States when the states joined together the militias
disappeared at the borders and Americans were free of territorial disputes. This same process
can be applied globally where all science and technology are utilized for the benefit of all of
Earth's inhabitants.

It is far more efficient to build new cities as self-contained systems from the ground up than to
restore and retrofit old ones. New cities can take advantage of the latest technologies and be
clean, safe, and desirable places to live. In many instances, a circular arrangement will be
utilized.

We need a current survey of all available planetary resources. The first experimental city or
planning center will conduct a global survey of arable land, production facilities, transportation,
technical personnel, population, and all other necessities required for a sustainable culture.
This survey will enable us to determine the parameters for global planning for humanizing
social and technological development, based on the carrying capacity of Earth and the needs of
its people. This can best be accomplished with a constantly updated, computerized model of
our planetary resources.

The function of the first city is to test the validity of design parameters and make necessary
changes as needed. It will further this new social direction on many fronts with books,
magazines, TV, radio, seminars, theater, and theme parks , as well as designing and
experimenting with automated building processes for the next city. Research will also seek the
development of clean alternative energy sources, and to overcome shortages through the
development of new materials

The new system will provide all the necessities required to support people during the
transitional period. To sustain civilization, we must coordinate advanced technology and
available resources within a humane global systems approach. For instance, the characteristics
of the population in a given area will determine how many hospitals and schools are built and
the equipment needed. Some medical systems will be mobile and others will be prefabricated
on land and sea.

During the transition, scarcity regions will be provided with heat concentrators for cooking and
sterilizing water. Food for those areas can be dehydrated and compressed to save shipping
space. The packaging will be biodegradable and may double as non-contaminating fertilizers.
Regions without arable land will use hydroponic farms, land-based fish farms, and sea farming.
Energy will come from wind, solar, heat concentrators, photovoltaic, wave, biomass,
geothermal and other sources.

An interdisciplinary team of qualified personnel, in line with the project’s requirements, will
work on automated systems to produce and supply goods and services on a massive scale.
These can be the armies of the future, a large peaceful mobilization to restore and preserve
the earth and its people. This has never been done before and can only be done when money
is no obstacle. The question is not do we have the money, but do we have the resources and
means to accomplish this new direction.

Phase One
The first phase of The Venus Project's long-term plans is already underway. Jacque Fresco,
futurist, inventor, industrial designer, and founder of The Venus Project, and his associate
Roxanne Meadows, have constructed a 22-acre research center in Venus, Florida to help
present the proposals of The Venus Project. Four DVDs, pamphlets, and the book, The Best
That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, and War, have been created to help raise
awareness about this project and its many proposals. Hundreds of futuristic models, plus many
computer animations and renderings, have been completed to help visualize this attainable
future.

A major documentary on the life and work of Jacque Fresco is available completed by William
Gazecki, an Academy Award nominated and Emmy winning documentary filmmaker.
http:// www.FutureByDesignTheMovie.com
Also the film Zeitgeist Addendum about the aims and directions of The Venus project can be
viewed at www.ZeitgeistMovie.com

Phase Two
Phase Two includes the production of a full-length feature film depicting how a world
embracing the proposals advanced by The Venus Project would work. This film would provide a
positive vision of a peaceful society in which all human beings form a global family on planet
Earth. A civilization where all people engage in the pursuit of a better understanding of the
world they share. This film has been designed to be an entertaining and educational experience
for both adults and children. It also provides a methodology for bridging differences between
nations.

Phase Three
To test its designs and proposals, The Venus Project is working toward putting its ideals into
practice with the construction of an experimental research city. Blueprints for most of the initial
technologies and buildings have begun. Fund-raising efforts are currently under way to help
support the construction of this first experimental city. This new experimental research city
would be devoted to working toward the aims and goals of The Venus Project which are:

1. Recognizing the world's resources as the common heritage of all Earth's people.

2. Transcending the artificial boundaries that separate people.

3. Evolving from money-based, nationalistic economies to a resource-based world economy.

4. Assisting in stabilizing the world's population through education and voluntary birth control
in order to conform to the carrying capacity of Earth’s resources.

5. Reclaiming and restoring the natural environment to the best of our ability.

6. Redesigning our cities, transportation systems, agricultural industries, and industrial plants
so that they are energy efficient, clean, and able to conveniently serve the needs of all people.

7. Sharing and applying new technologies for the benefit of all nations.

8. Developing and using clean and renewable energy sources.

9. Manufacturing the highest quality products for the benefit of the world's people.

10. Requiring environmental impact studies prior to construction of any mega projects.

11. Encouraging the widest range of creativity and incentive toward constructive endeavor.

12. Outgrowing nationalism, bigotry, and prejudice through education.

13. Outgrowing any type of elitism, technical or otherwise.

14. Arriving at methodologies through careful research, rather than from mere opinions.

15. Enhancing communication in schools so that our language corresponds to the actual
physical nature of the world.

16. Providing not only the necessities of life, but also offering challenges that stimulate the
mind while emphasizing individuality over uniformity.

17. Finally, preparing people intellectually and emotionally for the changes and challenges that
lie ahead.

Phase Four
After the experimental research city is built, a theme park is planned that will entertain and
inform visitors about humane and environmentally friendly life-styles. It will feature
intelligently designed cities; houses, high-efficiency, non-polluting transportation systems;
advanced computer technology; and many other innovations that can add value to the lives of
all people - in the shortest possible time.

We are quite aware that no one can actually predict the future. We can only extrapolate from
present information and trends. Population growth, technological change, worldwide
environmental conditions, and available resources are the primary data required for future
projections.

There is no single philosophy or religious, political, scientific, or ideological point of view that
someone would not take issue with. We feel certain, however, that the only aspects of The
Venus Project that may appear threatening are those that we impose upon ourselves.
The Venus Project is neither Utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical
idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals requiring only the intelligent application of what
we already know.

We encourage you to become informed about our proposals in this project through our books,
videos and seminars. If you identify with this direction, we encourage you to join with us and
work toward its realization. www.TheVenusProject.com

Government and industry will continue to assign more and more responsibility for decision
making to intelligent machines. Today’s machines handle trillions of bits of information per
second, far more than is manageable by any number of industrial or political decision-makers.
They can also assemble and assign constantly updated information.

The other side of this trend is that so many people will be replaced; we will no longer have the
purchasing power needed to sustain a monetary-based system that burdens the entire
population and government with insurmountable debt.

As the old monetary system begins to displace more and more people by its reliance on
automation, these people will cease to respect the authority of industry. The time-honored
pattern of living in all industrial countries, the balancing of work and family interest, would
become impossible to maintain for the majority of people displaced by automation.
As artificial intelligence develops, machines will be assigned the tasks of complex decisionmaking
in industrial, military and governmental affairs. This would not imply a take-over by
machines. Instead, it would be a gradual transfer of decision-making processes to machine
intelligence as the next phase of social evolution.

Many people believe that government leaders bring about change with a deep concern for the
well-being of their citizenry. Nothing could be further from the truth, nor did past shifts in
society come about as the results of changes in the schools or the home. All established
government systems tend to preserve and uphold their own interests and power-base.
The real forces responsible for change have more to do with unforeseen, external events or
biosocial pressures that physically alter our environment and established social arrangements:
for example, the infusion of machines and processes that replace people and remove their
means of making a living, adverse natural conditions of drought, flood, storm, and earthquake,
manmade disasters of economic oscillations, or some outside threat of hostile nations.

The Venus Project is in the process of introducing a set of values and procedures that may
enable us to achieve social nucleation. Our project will provide the designs and blueprints for a
prototype community to test the validity of our proposals; we will strive to achieve a relevant
orientation by which people may adapt intellectually and emotionally to our new technological
age. We feel that anything short of overall social design would be inappropriate and ineffective.
Since we begin in a monetary-based society, the means for raising funds to construct this
experimental community can be accomplished in several different ways. One is through the
production of a major motion picture depicting the advantages of this new social system for all
of the world’s people. Another possibility is the building of a theme park where visitors would
actually experience some of the many benefits of The Venus Project’s proposals. Books, videos,
blueprints, models, a movie script, and the 21-acre research and development center have
already been completed.

Any funds raised by these proposed projects, along with contributions, publications, videos,
seminars, lectures, and grants, will be used to help initiate and construct the first experimental
city.

Our proposals are submitted to the general public and to all educational institutions. We invite
your participation. If enough people find the proposals acceptable and join with us in this new
advocacy, we could form the nucleus of an organization to more forcefully implement the aims
of The Venus Project.

During the great depression of 1929 when banks failed and people were laid off, things seemed
hopeless. Those conditions brought about new organizations to address the many problems--
everything from Mankind United, Socialism, Communism, Technocracy, and The World
Federalist. They produced social awareness on a large scale. These conditions are sometimes
referred to as bio-social pressures or the march of events.

At present, people are not well enough informed to devise a relevant and workable social
system through rational methods. The Venus Project will not be installed by today's political
leaders who are not appointed to change things but to keep things as they are. It is only
through the failure of existing social institutions and political incompetence that people will
seek other possible social alternatives. They are mainly motivated only by severe conditions
that threaten their safety and existence.

No nation today is about to give up its sovereignty for a social arrangement that has never
been tried. Therefore it will take a social breakdown to stimulate the search for alternative
social designs. This has been the case throughout human history.

The Breakdown

The Venus Project can not be put into practice on a global scale until the economic systems of
the world fail to provide for the needs of people.

What will bring about the collapse of the world’s monetary systems is the infusion of
automation and the outsourcing of jobs. This includes not only assembly line workers but also
doctors, engineers, architects, and the like. As workers and professionals lose their purchasing
power, the industries that depend on them can no longer function. This will bring an end to the
monetary system. It is not a question of owners giving up their industries so much as the fact
that people will not have the purchasing power to sustain this system. Even the motion picture
industry is generating computerized people who will replace many TV announcers and
personalities.

This breakdown is already well underway on a global scale.

While these drastic conditions will help produce the motivation for social change, no individual
or organization has laid out what changes are necessary and how to bring them about. Our
current system is not working. Unless people are aware of, or knowledgeable about what is
needed, they will continue to repeat the same mistakes--war, recession, boom and bust,
hunger, poverty, and much unnecessary human suffering.

The aims of The Venus Project cannot be achieved until people become aware of its proposals
and aims. To introduce to the world this new social direction, the best vehicle is a major
motion picture. It will present simply and understandably the advantages to all nations of
participating in a resource-based economy. This film will be both entertaining and educational.
It would present the limitless possibilities of an evolving society which surpasses politics,
poverty, money, and war.

A major film could reach the largest number of people the world over in the shortest possible
time. We feel it is necessary to produce this motion picture in advance of the social breakdown
to help prepare people for this transition and present them with a direction to work toward.
There is a lot of work to be done. We hope enough people will become aware of the proposals
of The Venus Project before social collapse that this new social design may be implemented.
Another way to visualize and accelerate an understanding of this bold new vision is with a TV
series.

Therefore, our main objective is education through the media. If enough people learn about
this direction, accept these proposals, and wish to organize to bring it about, we will then work
toward the building of a first experimental city. The Venus Project has designs and blueprints
for a prototype community.

To further clarify:

Experimental City

The Venus Project proposes the building of a new experimental city whose purpose is two-fold:

(1) To test the workability of The Venus Project's designs and proposals, and to provide the
information necessary to enable people to adjust intellectually and emotionally to social
transition.

(2) To establish a permanent planning center that will be used for future long and short-term
planning of global projects to help implement a resource-based economy and overcome
scarcity, hunger, poverty, and other social ills.

This would not be a private enterprise venture for a select few but would be an open city for
the public to visit. The proposed circular configuration of these new cities is not just stylized
architectural conceptualizations; they are the result of years of research into providing an
environment that can best serve the needs of the inhabitants and yet conserve resources.
Without extensive knowledge of the symbiotic relationship between humanity and its
environment, it would be extremely difficult to develop workable solutions to our many
problems. The Venus Project has taken this and many other factors into careful consideration.
The decisions of a transitional government in this environment would be based upon what is
needed to reach the goals of a humane, environmentally sound, and technically sustainable
society.

Like all other innovative social projects, it starts out with a few devoted people who dedicate
their time to informing others about the humane benefits of this new direction. People are
invited to help in whatever capacity they can during the initial phases of the new experimental
city. An interdisciplinary team of systems engineers, computer programmers, architects, city
planners, sociologists, educators, etc would also be needed.

The design of The Venus Project does not regard environmental conditions as fixed or static.
We must allow for adaptation within the system as a continuous process. This will avoid
perpetuating temporary arrangements beyond their period of usefulness.

This circular design could be the prototype for a series of new cities to be constructed in
various places throughout the world. The rate of progression will depend upon the availability
of funds raised and how many people identify with, participate in, and support this direction.
As these new communities develop and become more widely accepted, they may very well
form the basis of a new society, preferably through the process of evolution rather than
revolution.

The Venus Project does not advocate dissolving the existing free-enterprise system--we believe
it will come to an end of its own accord as a part of social evolution. We encourage you to
become better informed about the proposals of this project through our books and videos, and
invite you to join with us in working toward the realization of a new civilization that could
provide a better life for everyone.

In Conclusion

Many people want to know what to do immediately to help bring about global unification. If you
identify with the proposals of The Venus Project, you can help bring it about by learning more
about us through our books and DVD’s. You can help promote this direction in any way you are
able. Speaking to others about these ideas, fund raising, grant writing, helping with publicity,
promoting lecture tours, or helping to produce promotional materials will all help. If you are in
a position to initiate the motion picture this would be very important. There is a lot to do and
we need the help of many people in bringing these ideas to the public.

Our findings and design proposals will be submitted to the general public and all educational
institutions. If enough people find the proposals acceptable and choose to join with us in this
new advocacy, they will help form the nucleus of an organization to carry out our aims.
The future is our responsibility; if we fail to accept this responsibility, others will do our
thinking for us.

After agreement is attained by nations to move toward unification and sharing of the earth’s
resources, a global survey of available resources, technical personnel, production plants, arable
land etc. has to be done to provide us with sufficient information in order to ascertain the
parameters of social design. During the initial phase the cybernated system being developed
will serve as a data bank to tell us what is available. This will enable us to proceed with the
design. The major initial task will be to provide food, water, shelter medical care and clean
sources of energy.

During the transition, scarcity regions will be provided with heat concentrators for cooking and
sterilizing water. Food for those areas can be dehydrated and compressed to save shipping
space. We would extrude many food products and consist of high protein foods also containing
most of the necessary nutrients to sustain those in the underdeveloped regions. The packaging
will be biodegradable and may double as non-contaminating fertilizers. Regions without arable
land will use hydroponic farms, land-based fish farms, and sea farming.

Most of the world’s universities will partake in the basic designs of cities, production facilities,
transportation of goods and services. The basic design parameters are the aims and end goals
of The Venus Project. Some of these may be the efficient, economic and safe utilization of
resource for the benefit of people and the environment while considering the recycling of
materials. The units of construction would be easily assembled and disassembles by
prefabrication, automation and shape memory materials.

Clean sources of energy will be a priority in all of the infrastructure. Energy will come from
wind, solar, heat concentrators, photovoltaic, wave, biomass, geothermal and other sources.
Although many ideas will be submitted the methods of selecting will be based upon energy
determinants or the required energy to produce a given product. There will be many materials
that will not be readily available. The research departments throughout the world will be
assigned the tasks of developing alternative systems and materials to overcome shortages.
One must remember that the research and development does not depend on funding and
resources will be assigned where most needed so development will be tremendously
accelerated.

Along with these developments we need emergency contingency departments that can act
immediately in the event of any unforeseen events.

The function and use of computers will be to provide information on what is available during
the transition from a monetary to a resource based economy. While the needs mentioned
above will be initiated the automated systems will be in development to help eliminate
shortages.

All media will be used to expose people to this new emergent direction.
The new system will provide all the necessities required to support people during the
transitional period. People will be working in all areas to help eliminate scarcity. To sustain
civilization, we must coordinate advanced technology and available resources within a humane
global systems approach. For instance, the characteristics of the population in a given area will
determine how many hospitals and schools are built and the equipment needed. Some medical
systems will be mobile and others will be prefabricated on land and sea.

An interdisciplinary team of qualified personnel, in line with the project’s requirements, will
work on automated systems to produce and supply goods and services on a massive scale.
These can be the armies of the future, a large peaceful mobilization to restore and preserve
the earth and its people. This has never been done before and can only be done when money
is no obstacle. The question is not do we have the money, but do we have the resources and
means to accomplish this new direction.

I see the "the turning point" of the future as resulting from a social and economic breakdown of existing social designs as older values become less effective. The direction we take will be forced by social circumstances and the march of events. Unless we accept responsibility for a more appropriate social design, we are bound to repeat the same cycle of war, poverty, hunger, homelessness, crime, territorial disputes, etc. Only with the intelligent management of earth’s resources can we overcome these problems. Our social designs must also reflect the carrying capacity of the earth and its resources. We must someday realize that the only solution is to mandate that all resources are the common heritage of all.

This could be a useful lesson if it resulted in a direction where this would not occur again. But most people aren’t aware of the prime causes of social development and how that affects their values and behavior. They do not learn anything from it, despite going through the suffering. There have always been wars, and booms & busts, but most people don’t seem to learn much from them.

Unfortunately, even when rational solutions are presented, people are not educated enough to assess the validity of alternative proposals. Most people are not trained in methods of critical thinking, but only in how to perform a task to earn a living.

I must emphasize that the approach to global governance I advocate has nothing whatever in common with the aims of an elite to form a world government with themselves and large corporations in control, with the vast majority of the population subservient to them. My vision of globalization empowers each person to be the best they can be, and to not live in subjugation to a corporate governing body.

We cannot, as you mention "plop the first city down and expect people to respect" or accept it. First people have to be informed about this direction and it has to be presented in an acceptable manner for the general public. We feel we need to present a film that would help to introduce a sustainable value system and that this is needed prior to the building of the city or the planning center. This new sustainable value system is needed in order to get us from here to there. It will depict a set of values more appropriate to our needs to survive and thrive.

This film will be designed to provide the necessary information that will help develop a global sustainable culture by providing the means of harnessing clean sources of energy and a relevant educational system fee of nationalism and propaganda. It will attempt to unify all nations by providing them with methods of overcoming their limitations. For example nations that do not have arable land for the growth of food stuff will be provided with the methods of hydroponic agriculture. It will also demonstrate to people the design parameters for sustainable cities and adequate international transportation system for goods and services. These cities will contain housing, industry, wind farms, photo voltaics, heat concentrator, health care, education, and all of the other necessities essential to the improvement of all members of society. Many cities will be self sufficient.

The film will identify the problems and the best methods with today’s technologies to overcome many of the problems that plague the world today. It will show how to provide a sustainable diet for the worlds hungry. It will deal with methods of providing health care to all the worlds’ people though efficient mobile transportation of medical equipment and staff by utilizing air, land and sea similar to emergency systems.

It will also provide methods and processes for desalinization without the use of fossil fuels by heat concentrators, mobile photovoltaic systems, wind generators and more. Where feasible we will harness all moving water streams such as the Gulf Stream, Icelandic current and other ocean currents that can be directed toward the development of energy.

The film will also depict how mass housing, cities, industrial plants, transportation and bridges can be developed in the shortest possible time by using prefabricated structural elements. It will show how the Polar Regions can be used to store seeds and food stuff for any international emergency. It will demonstrate how to develop canals and water ways to prevent flooding and other national disasters. It will portray processes that will help eliminate malaria and other diseases prevalent in underdeveloped countries.

There will be a great deal of computer animation used to depict these things in an comprehensive and exciting manner. The film would debunk the belief of a technical elite or any other advantage group controlling the system. It would show just what is achieved by applying the methods of science and technology to the way we live. It will demonstrate how decisions are arrived at with the end goals being enhancing everyone’s life while maintaining a clean environment with no vested interest groups, surpassing the need for military systems.

The film differs from all others in that it will supply solutions and methodology for accomplishing a unified, sustainable global culture. This will have to be a sophisticated and well done presentation that will be both entertaining and informative.

The building of a new city alone will not accomplish the changes needed without preparing people with an acceptable direction to move towards and the values needed to accomplish this. The film would help inform and provide a possible, positive alternative to war and social upheaval. It would emphasize that which nations have in common; we all need clean air, water, arable land. It would set forth a relevant point of view for sustainability and an education system to maintain this new direction. This is not designed to impose a value system upon any nation but to invite all nations to participate in the restoration of the environment and a method for a positive future.

It will be a vehicle to gather people who are environmentally and socially concerned and provide them with more information about this direction. It would lay out an attainable blueprint. We could then form an organization to gain funds to do a first city which will be a planning center to further these aims.

The city of the future must be designed as a totally integrated environment with clean renewable sources of energy, schools, shopping centers, health care, education, transportation, waste recycling, agriculture and entertainment. These city systems can not be built by architects alone but also require an interdisciplinary team of professionals such as sociologists, computer analysts, material scientists, environmental scientists, systems engineers, behavioral scientists, educators, etc..

There are no ideal cities any more than there is an ideal television set. The future requires flexibility and a capacity for change and an adaptation to newer concepts and technologies without any utopian notion of final development. I believe future generations will evolve their own social arrangements. I do not believe in any final frontiers, and the future will continue to undergo changes based upon successive phases of social development.

Being civilized is an ongoing process and not attainable. The same is true for intelligence. An intelligent electrical engineer of 75 years ago could not get a job today. He would be educated in antiquated terms that evolved from earlier times.

Social and cultural lag. All people are always immersed in a culture which is responsible for the levels of education. Today unfortunately most education is designed as propaganda rather than information related to the physical laws that govern all living and non-living systems.

No one does. The process of decision-making in this economy would not be based upon the opinions of politicians, corporate interests, or national interests.  But rather all decisions would be arrived at based upon current knowledge, the introduction of newer technologies and earth's carrying capacity. A systems-approach to solving problems makes use of interdisciplinary teams, aided by computer technology which could provide feedback systems from the environment, industrial complexes and any physical complex to arrive at the best possible decisions and solutions at that time.

Probably in these ways:

• Interested in latest science and technology
• Never accept anything unless fully explained
• Not judgmental of different cultures
• Curious of things that are new
• Instead of few people carrying the nation many will participate
• Allegiance to methodology, will have ability to solve problems, and recognize that contributions come from all different cultures thus helping to eliminate prejudices
• Share resources and ideas

A Resource-Based Economy surpasses the need for money which is the basis for most corruption. The society we envision makes all goods and services available for everyone without a price tag. This is what the function of government could be by surpassing the need for politics in the management of human affairs. At present, governmental decisions have always been subject to the influence of the power elite and private interests. A cybernated complex would only manage and improve the distribution of resources to provide clean air, clean water, and all of the amenities that enhance human life. Again, it does not control people or manage the lives of individuals -- on the contrary, it could encourage the development of individual initiative and creativity far beyond that of our present-day money- oriented culture.

There are many who fear the installations of cybernated systems. This fear is unfounded. It is not technology that is to be feared. Our concern should be with the abuse of this technology, rather than with the inanimate technology itself.

Yes. The potential of untapped energy sources is almost limitless if we utilize desert heat concentrators, wind, wave and tidal sources. Even portions of the Gulf Stream, the Icelandic Current, and the Japan Current could eliminate all of the energy shortages in the world today. If we had utilized the money that we spent on military systems for the last 40 years and put it toward developing clean sources of energy, the world would be a far better, safer, and cleaner place for all of humankind.

The potential of geothermal energy is almost limitless and can easily supply enough energy for all of the world's needs. Even if we harness only one percent of the geothermal energy of the earth's outer crust we would have available approximately five hundred times the energy contained in all of the gas and oil reserves in the world. This source of energy gives off little or no sulfur compared to fossil fuel fired power plants and they emit no nitrogen oxides. In addition, geothermal installations require very little dedicated land as compared to other power plants. The drilling of geothermal wells has far fewer environmental impacts than other energy resources, and there is no need for mineshafts, tunnels, open pits, or waste storage.

A great deal of this energy is available in the outer most layers of the earth's crust which is approximately six miles and this potential energy source is available throughout the world from the Andes Mountains in South America to the Gulf of California, The Rift Valleys of Africa, the Mid Atlantic Ridge, and along the Bering Strait.

We do advocate that all people have access to all goods and services, medical care, education, shelter, food and so forth.

Laziness is not inborn. Laziness, waste and excess are outcomes of our current system.  The education we advocate in our proposals generates a new incentive system. Human beings respond to challenges in order to evolve intellectually and maintain a high level of curiosity and get to contribute. The type of education that we advocate is the intelligent use of existing resources and the protection of the environment.

The shameful thing about the free enterprise system is the wasted lives of many people - young girls standing behind counters in department stores waiting for a sale, men and woman working in industrial plants using a small part of their mental capabilities. In the schools of tomorrow people will learn how to relate to others intelligently, cooperate and share ideas to help make the world a far better place, and not to squander resources in wars and military expenditures.

You have been brought up to believe people are inspired by rewards or money.

The free-enterprise system does create incentive to achieve, however it also breeds the incentive for corruption, theft, and greed. Our aim is to encourage a new incentive system, one no longer directed toward the shallow and self-centered goals of wealth, property, and power. Today, financial barriers place enormous limitations on innovation, individual creativity, and personal incentive. In The Venus Project, money would not be required to help one achieve or create, as facilities would be made available to serve everyone's needs.

I worry about people whose main motivation is money. For instance, if this is the motivation of a doctor instead of the desire to solve problems in the field of medicine and health and enhance people's lives, to many others, and me the services are not very trustworthy. It is a tremendous myth perpetrated on people in a monetary system that people are mostly motivated by money to achieve and produce. I could give you endless examples of people who fought, studied, created, and excelled without the allure of money as a reward, there are much more meaningful rewards than that. It depends on the value system that one is given and the culture that one is raised in that reinforces what is meant by a reward.

In essence all of the people we have admired in the past, Michael Angelo, da Vinci, Bell, the Wright Brothers, Darwin, and many others worked because they were interested in problem solving, not financial gain. This in some cases was a by-product. Usually money-oriented people become business men, or stock brokers; they are rarely creative. I have always felt threatened by people whose sole motivation is financial gain. On islands in the South Pacific, people had more than enough resources. Although banana, coconuts, fish and breadfruit were abundant, the natives worked continuously building navigation equipment, canoes, huts, and weaved cloth. Although no money was used, their incentive improved their standard of living.

In the early days in America a man and wife could build a log cabin in several months. Today it takes 30 years or so to pay off a house with the additional funds to bankers and others that actually have nothing to do with the building of the house.

If you examine your statements carefully of people who have access to all the necessities of life you will find that many wealthy people do not eat 25 meals a day even though they have access to it and they do not stuff their environment with hundreds of musical instruments and accumulate hundreds of cars. It is not the availability of resources that is disturbing to people, it is the lack of resources that is responsible for most crimes, embezzlement, deception of all kinds, etc.

Consider this when few nations control most of the worlds resources and exploit other nations with their positions of differential advantage.

All of the technical staff and everyone else will have access to a very high standard of living; the incentive, which will propel people, is the end of war, territorial disputes, economic hardship, debt, and the basis for most crimes as they will all be eliminated. In this new society as proposed by The Venus Project, the environment in which people are raised and educated will be based upon the fundamental principles of science and the comprehensive knowledge of the interrelationship between people and the environment, which sustains all life.

This is a projection with a set of values based on past events which have little to do with The Venus Project. The world The Venus Project proposes in our literature and books is to bring about the best in each individual throughout the world, while constantly updating our relationship to one another, technology and the environment.

People would be free from boring and monotonous jobs which will enable them to pursue interests, education, and encourage creativity and solve the problems.  A society that does not provide adequate stimulation will decay.

This is true in a monetary system but has nothing to do with the proposals of The Venus Project. The Venus Project maintains an overview of the global economy. Any catastrophic event that may occur in which technology is destroyed or malfunctions, people will be prepared to handle. The new education systems will provide each and every human being with the means, intellectually and emotionally, to handle these variables. People are not reduced to a bunch of dummies that sit around enjoying the high output of new technology, they are continuously engaged to handle "what if" situations.

This is erroneous projection from movies and books by authors in the arts, and poorly informed about technology, culture and behavior. Technologically informed people are not multi-disciplinarians. That is why fascist and neo fascist utilize them to spread propaganda, uphold their established system and make war machines. Politicians are elected not to change things but to keep things as they are. Unfortunately science and technology and the arts have been used by various social systems to maintain the status quo.

The multi-disciplinarian that The Venus Project's refers to is not patriotic. Their only loyalties are to the earth and the people that inhabit it.

Unfortunately many people project obsolete values into our proposals.

Distribution of goods and services without the use of money or tokens would be accomplished through the establishment of distribution centers. These distribution centers would be similar to expositions, where the advantages of new products could be explained and demonstrated. For example, if you visited Yellowstone National Park you could check out a camera or camcorder from a distribution center, use it and then, if you choose to, return it to another distribution center or drop-off, eliminating storing and maintenance.

Besides the computerized centers throughout the various communities where products would eventually be displayed, there will be 3-D, flat-screen imaging capabilities in each home. If you desire an item, an order can be placed and the item automatically delivered directly to your place of residence.

All raw materials for the manufacture of these products can be transported directly to the manufacturing facilities by automated transportation "sequences" such as boats, monorails, mag-lev trains, pipelines, and pneumatic tubes. An automated inventory system would be connected to both the distribution centers and the manufacturing facilities, thus coordinating production to meet demand and providing a constant evaluation of preferences and consumption. In this way a balanced-load economy can be maintained. Shortages, over-runs, and waste could be eliminated.

From H. G. Wells, "The anti-progressives of the early twentieth century loved to assert that "Human Nature" never altered; to imagine that the men of the Stone Age felt and thought like bank clerks picnicking in a cave, and the ideas of Confucius and Buddha were easily interchangeable with the ideas of Rousseau, Karl Marx or De Windt. They were not simply ignorant, but misinformed about almost every essential fact in the past experiences and present situation of the race."

The New Utopians by Robert Boguslaw: "As Norman R. F. Maier (and others) point out years ago, the term "Human Nature" is characteristically used as a screen to hide our ignorance about man in general. And one of the more elementary oversights made in discussions of human behavior consists of ignoring the fact that the actions of men are set in motion by external as well as internal forces."

As Arthur C. Clark and many other forward writers have pointed out, anyone who brings up the human nature question is naïve.

From the book: Looking Forward, by Jacque Fresco:

"When little was known about cultural anthropology, sociology, and psychology, it seemed quite valid to resist proposed reforms by saying, "it won't work. It is against human nature." It is difficult for many people to appreciate the fact that what they call "human nature" just doesn't exit. People are like mirrors they largely reflect their surroundings. If people were to come into the world with a fixed "nature" consisting of automatic responses, civilization would be impossible. Like the ants, we would live out our lives in patterns that are modified but little with the passing of time. The wonderful thing about us is that we come into this world with maximum flexibility."

From: The Best That Money Can't Buy, Page 89, by Jacque Fresco

Bigotry, racism, nationalism, jealousy, superstition, greed, and self-centered behavior are all learned patterns of behavior, which are strengthened or reinforced by our upbringing. These patterns of behavior are not inherited human traits or "human nature" as most people have been taught to believe. If the environment remains unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur. When we come into the world we arrive with a clean slate as far as our relationships with others are concerned.

In the final analysis, any judgment regarding undesirable human behavior serves no purpose without an attempt to alter the environment that creates it. In a society that provides for most human needs, constructive behavior would be reinforced, and people who have difficulty interacting in the community would be helped rather than imprisoned.

Aspiring to a particular ethical behavior has to do with human aspirations and ideals. Functional morality is the ability to provide a process level to achieve a sustainable environment for all people. By this, we mean providing clean air and water, goods and services, and a healthy and innovative environment that is emotionally and intellectually fulfilling. It is difficult to conceive of any solutions that would serve the interest of the majority in a monetary-based system. None of this can be accomplished without a comprehensive redesign of our social system and eventual replacement of the monetary-based system by a resource-based economy.

James Harvey Robinson believed that the proper study of man was man. There is no evidence to support this statement. A plant cannot grow of it own accord. It requires an environment of soil, nutrients, sunlight, etc. Any plant put in the polar regions will not grow no matter how well endowed it is genetically. Human beings are subject to the same physical laws that govern the entire evolutionary process. Human behavior and values are not self-generating; they are byproducts of culture.

Perhaps future historians will look upon us as deviants with our artificialities, violence, and superstitions, a society that spends a great deal of its income on military expenditures when the methods of science could be applied to bridge the difference between nations. Deviant and socially offensive behaviors are byproducts of deprivation or the fear of it.

The Venus Project proposes the redesign of education in which people will be provided with the interrelationship of living systems as a symbiotic whole. Children brought up without bigotry, racism, or greed, will no longer manifest patterns of behavior that are socially offensive. For example, even the most sophisticated of German families were fighting over food in garbage cans near the end of World War II. Mass lynching in the south was also a byproduct of indoctrination.

The question that remains is how much of our value system is programmed by our society's values designed to perpetuate existing and established institutions. It is not human nature but rather human behavior that we have to be concerned with, and that can easily be changed by an appropriate and relevant education and environment, which coincides with the carrying capacity of the earth.

If you elect honorable, ethical people to office but there is no support in the environment to implement the decent laws passed, they cannot be adhered to. For example, if there is not enough arable land to grow food, then behavior will revert to steeling, and corruption to attain what food there is.

Your reference to people like Timothy McVeigh, who was brought up with what you call "a normal upbringing" must be subjected to a more critical analysis. What you refer to as "normal" is a society that is nationalist and takes by force or violence whatever it needs. It makes laws in its own interests and breaks them when they no longer serve those interests. It also limits education, especially in scientific and critical thinking. Its people are not medically cared for and aren't cared about at all when the bottom line is profit. This is true not only in the US, but in all countries.

Behavior is generated by culture. McVeigh was reacting with tools he found appropriate to situations in the culture he felt were unjust--mainly the bombing of the people at Waco. Our nation reacts in similar ways to countries we take issue with, but on a more massive scale. It is not the case that a certain number of people are born as "malcontents or agitators", as you claim. Rather, they are reacting to conditions in the culture that they regard as unjust or inequitable. In apartheid South Africa, Nelson Mandela was considered an agitator but later became president. Hundreds of such examples can be given.

I often wonder why there are not millions protesting for an end to war, poverty, crime, homelessness, and scarcity when it is certainly possible to do so. It is easy to see that established governments have done a very good job in dumbing down the public so that they accept the status quo, along with philosophical explanations to keep conditions as they are. We are trapped with inappropriate terms like malcontents or agitators when we should be looking at conditions in society that generate these behaviors. We should look for ways to change society so it could outgrow them instead of just suppressing them.

It is not the business of The Venus Project to attack the belief systems of other cultures, or to attack the way they treat women, or their values regarding other nations. This has accomplished very little. In our own nation, we mistreated Native Americans and down- graded other belief systems without sufficiently analyzing our own shortcomings. Over the centuries, nations have committed crimes against one another based upon nationalism, propaganda, and inappropriate descriptions of different sovereign nations. Since our identity as a nation is viewed in many different ways due to many years of propaganda and indoctrination, we have not evolved an objective viewpoint about our behavior or the behavior of other nations. I have often mentioned that criticism of one's country without offering a workable alternative accomplishes nothing.

We can not solve our problems with the same type of thinking that got us into the situation in the first place. The only true measure of a workable system is whether or not it achieves its objective ends.

For centuries, nations have abused one another to the point that trusting other nation's intentions is viewed with great skepticism. We and other powerful nations have not come together to really help one another. Instead we remove valuable resources, exploit the labor, pay off leaders to do our bidding, assassinate those who don't conform to our wishes, and use our military to enforce our economic advantages. These are some of the reasons for the difficulties.

If powerful nations were to assist undeveloped countries without exploitation of resources or cheap labor, they would not be seen as a threat. As long as we continue international agreements that serve our interests only, we will be looked upon with skepticism by less developed nations. It is our national behavior over the years that has generated skeptical attitudes about our intentions.

What The Venus Project proposes is to join with other nations in restoring the damaged environment to as near a natural conditions as possible, and to assist nations in overcoming scarcity. The process for accomplishing this will in and of itself generate more appropriate behavior in our own and other nations. If you have difficulty agreeing with this analysis, let's examine some scientific principles accepted by all nations. For example, when engineers in any country wish to build a bridge, they use scientific methods and calculations to determine the design characteristics. With continuous improvements in technology, the scientific method appears to have been a saner approach. All nations use scientific methods to achieve the benefits of technology.

In our present state of social development national interests have subverted, to a large extent, the true benefits of the methods of science. This is due to nationalism and short-sighted self interests. When scientific methods are applied intelligently for the benefit of all with human and environmental concern, these methods will eventually alter the way we think about ourselves, our country, and the world around us.

If genetics were a fixed part of human nature, then behavior could not be altered. Jacque has been at this almost all of his life, and so have I for the last 33 years. He encountered these questions early in his youth. That's why he joined the KKK and the White Citizen's Council and worked on ways of turning them around. He was successful at this. He also worked with "juvenile delinquents" who were called some of the worst kids in NY, and changed them into constructive citizens who still call him today. He also worked with drug addicts and alcoholics who, in turn, worked with other groups to alter their behavior in a positive way using his methods. He had motorcycle gangs and members of the Nazi party come to his lectures and he changed all of these people. There are processes that work with different kinds of people.

Fresco has developed precise incremental steps for altering human behavior. Genetics determines the function and replication of internal organs, the color of the eyes, a propensity toward certain physical disorders, etc., but has nothing whatever to do with values, bigotry, prejudice, or other learned behaviors. Genetics does not make a person mean, selfish, self-centered, or greedy. If genetics endowed humans with preset behaviors, then people would be unalterable.

Animals seem to possess inherited patterns of behavior such as nest building, defending their young, and feeding their offspring, but most of this behavior is based on imprinting and internal body chemistry. Animals with large adrenal glands and a large brain will tend to perpetuate those characteristics in their offspring. Bull dogs of several hundred years ago were very ferocious, which was thought to be inborn. Since then, most of that has been bred out of them by reducing the size of their adrenal glands, which lessened the violence of the animals. It was not the case that the violence was inherited, but rather that the size of the adrenal gland caused the aggressive behavior that characterized the species.

Fresco is interested in ascertaining the precise mechanisms responsible for behavior.

Geneticists can invent a word like genes, and yet still leave out all the details responsible for behavioral variations. Some imply that through the protoplasmic bridge, acquired behavioral patterns are inherited, thus making genes a scapegoat for the real determinants. It is difficult to go into this if you haven't read the books Jacque gave you such as Brain and Mind, Mind in the Making, and books on Semantics. In the absence of a serious familiarity with these books, it is nearly impossible to do justice to this type of information.

In essence, Jacque is concerned with the precise mechanisms that impart values and determine behavior, and he rejects terms like instinct, human nature, and inheritance across a protoplasmic bridge. These do not describe a precise process. If we used only names and neglected processes, we could not make progress in science. We could not build bridges, make telephones, design computers, etc. It would just be an intellectual hobby in linguistics. This inadequate process would not suffice for designing a more positive future.

Linguistic and intellectual engagement has been used by many philosophers and intellectuals who saw that process of evaluation as constituting advanced and deep thinking. From Fresco's point of view, their writings look like the musings of artists who dream that someday people will develop ways of reaching the heavens, but who don't provide any information for attaining those ends. It is the work of people who develop precise methodologies for accomplishing these ends that can translate them into reality. Most people are engaged in a jungle of linguistic abstractions with little or no precise insight into cause and effect or methodology. This, for Fresco, was never an acceptable way of accomplishing anything.

A high emphasis would be placed on education. The better informed children are, the richer everyone's life could be. Although books, videos, computers, and virtual reality would be used, most of the educational processes would be of a participatory nature in which students could interact directly with the physical environment. They would become aware of the symbiotic interrelationships between plant and animal life. They would learn by doing in a hands-on approach in which education and the communicative sciences would be brought into sharp focus, enabling the student actually to grasp the significance of physical phenomena in a much more concrete way. Above all, they would learn how to interact effectively with others, to share experiences, examine alternative approaches to problems, and accept ethnic and cultural differences, replacing intolerance with understanding.

A comprehensive overview of the history of all civilizations would be essential to understanding other cultures, values, and the forces that shape them. The generalist education, as proposed by The Venus Project, will enable students to gain a better understanding of cultures that differ from their own, leading to a better understanding of the advantage of all nations joining together for the preservation of life on planet Earth. With emphasis on a world viewpoint, it would be more difficult to persuade anyone to engage in aggressive, offensive, or belligerent behavior toward individuals and other nations. With this broader education, children would come to see that the Earth is a fantastic and bountiful place where all nations can share and prosper.

In our view, education should be more than the presentation of many facts memorized by students. The first aspects of an innovative education should have an emphasis on communication and the ability to resolve and avoid conflicts. This can be accomplished though an exposure to general semantics.

Although books and computers will be used in the future of education, an exposure to basic science is an absolute necessity. This would include an exposure to the scientific method and how it applies to everyday living. But most of all, an understanding of how science and technology must be applied with environmental and human concern, without which, technological development in itself would be meaningless.

Another portion of education that would be emphasized is the contributions of many different nations to the arts and sciences that are used in the world today. The tendency to use education to enshrine a particular nation is more of a propaganda approach than the presentation of genuine information. It is not possible for people to understand other cultures without an overview of many of different cultural practices. No civilized culture today has lifted itself by its own bootstraps. Instead all nations evolved as a result of many creative people throughout the world that have contributed to the arts and sciences.

If we want people in a society to achieve a positive, constructive relationship with one another, and become contributing members of society, an effective way to accomplish this is by designing an environment that produces the desired behavior. For example, when the children want to learn how to assemble a small motor vehicle, the design would require four children to lift the car while two others attach the wheels. The rest of the car would be assembled in a similar manner, needing the help and cooperation of all to complete the vehicle for use. This enlightened form of education would help students appreciate the advantages of cooperation.

Exercise in our schools would not be mandatory, monotonous, or involve competition, but would be incorporated directly into the classroom experience. For instance, a craft shop the children enjoy using might be located on a hilltop in the middle of a lake. To get there, the children would have to row a boat, and then climb the hilltop. This not only provides exercise, but also a sense of achievement, which improves mental health and incentive.

Food and nutrition would be based upon personal preference and if studies indicate that eating living animals are detrimental to health the information would be there for all people. Through time and education and the manufacturing of synthetic proteins we could do away with killing fish and animals. We can not outlaw what people eat but we can outgrow the need for eating animal protein. During the transition to a better diet for those who need it we could also develop foods that taste and feel just like the ones they like eating but are healthier for people.

People with this condition can be educated out of the need for requiring artificial stimulants. Life would be much more interesting, exciting and always evolving.

All drug addictions would be cared for and provided with the necessary treatment to overcome their problems without the dependence drugs, alcohol or tobacco. And all without a price tag.  In a society where people are brought up with access to information, and resources there would far less stress or need for these artificial substances.

We are not about intentional or sustainable communities living well to themselves. We are introducing a global, sustainable, resource-based society. If there are intentional communities that are interested in working with us towards the aims and direction of The Venus Project, we would welcome this but we know of no other groups who have been advocating this direction.

At this stage we are not in a position of power in order to make a transition. We would like to initiate as much of it as we can if we get that opportunity. We are always working toward this.

I also disagree with the concept that humans actually communicate with one another. This would not be possible unless they have common backgrounds in technology and science. In most instances, people talk at each other rather than to each another.

When stating this, I always try to explain in simple terms the positive gains of the social directions that I propose. To clarify these concepts of a possible sustainable future for all of the world's people, we produce videos and books available on our website at www.TheVenusProject.com

There is no question of credibility. If we continue in the direction we are going we will destroy the environment and one another.