PEACE Through Basketball
Peace Must Be More Beneficial Than War To Those Who Make the Decisions
Poverty, Disease, Education, Environment, and Violence X 10 Billion Problem: 10 Years 2 Save the World Poverty, Disease, Education, Environment, and Violence X 10 Billion
Old Thinking New Reality Trading partners don’t fight. Totalitarian Capitalism has Created Rich, Potential Enemies
China: Police State with Malls Russia: Europe’s Energy Source with Nukes GOAL: Become Super Powers
SCARY FACTS Capitalism works without political and personal freedom. Technology can be used to control information as much as broadcast it. The rise of consumer economies create more competition for limited resources. Capitalism without moral leadership is amoral.
We Need a New “THOUGHT SYSTEM” Basketball Wrestling or
Industrial Age vs. Creative Age THINGS IDEAS Extraction Cost - Price Value Efficiency Do Least Harm Invention Unique Value Sustainability Do Most Good
Technologies of Peace GOAL: End Competition for Things Design - Sustainable, Beautiful, Unique, Healing Build “Things” from Atoms (Zero Waste) Sustainable Clean Energy (Zero Waste) Sustainable Food Production (Zero Waste) GOAL: End Competition for Things
Policies for Peace GOAL: End Avoidable Suffering Access to: Capital - Micro loans to macro capital markets. Health Care - local clinics, medicine, knowledge Education - instant and free GOAL: End Avoidable Suffering
Beliefs for Peace Every life is equal and has purpose - People Matter Civilization is better than barbarism - Respect Matters Collaboration is better than competition - The Game is Basketball
THE CHALLENGE If We Start Today, It Will Take 30 to 40 YEARS for Technologies, Policies and Beliefs to PAY OFF!
What’s Needed Focused Investments Citizen Enterprise Big Visionary Leadership… Political and Business Focused Investments Citizen Enterprise
Citizen Enterprise Socially-Strategic GTV Planet People
What can you do?
Imagine… Course Leadership Education Free University (with its own basketball team)