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The SuperForest Game

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Goooooood morning SuperForest!

Let us play a game, shall we?

Okay, here’s the game: The are roughly six billion humans living on planet Earth. There are resources enough on Earth to ensure that every human being and their offspring could be totally provided for, forever. Every person and their friends and loved ones, as a member of Team Earth, is entitled to a slice of this resource pie, simply by merit of being born into this marvelous human clan.

So, the game is: How do we transition from our current status of SCARCITY (i.e. there’s not enough to go around, some folks gotta starve,) to a sustainable status of ABUNDANCE, where there are energy and resources enough for all in perpetuity.

Here at SuperForest, we are learning the rules of the game, introducing you to the players, and most of all, imploring you to jump in and play alongside us. The more you play, the better and more hopeful you feel about the future.

The key question is this: How can the “Haves” successfully hybridize their lifestyles with the “Have Nots”?

How can we rig the system early so that if the institutions we rely on for our survival break down, we all don’t turn on each other?

Best answer to that question wins the big prize: a 1977 Chevy Caprice Classic! (Hot! Kidding.)
And there are no wrong answers! Either you’re busy trying out solutions and sharing them or you ain’t playing.

Come and play the SuperForest Game. If you were the environment and the environment was you, what would you change first?
Let’s decide as individuals to “save the environment” and then come together to share our results on our blogs, here on SuperForest, or by telling someone not to mention it to Perez Hilton.

Sound fun?

Yayyy!

Be excellent to each other :)

-Jackson

P.S. Wanna read an incredible book that will totally give you a leg up on playing the SuperForest Game?
Check out “Ishmael” by Daniel Quinn. SuperForester Jordan wrote a lovely review of it. Get it and read it. If you like this site, you’ll LOVE this book.

The Superforest Book Club

Speaking of books and Kinship with all life

This novel is essentially a running dialogue between a (yes, I’m saying this correctly) telepathic gorilla, and an Average Joe Schmoe. If you can get past that odd premise (and it took me a minute to do so), you’ll find yourself thrust into an engaging, challenging discourse on the evolution and mythology of mankind and the resultant course we’ve set for ourselves and our planet.

As silly as it sounds, it’s surprisingly refreshing to find yourself put on the spot by a 600 lb gorilla, even if he is fictional.

This book was certainly a mind-opener for me, and for several of the high school students I taught. Even those who disliked seem affected (or at least engaged) by the resulting lively debates. Now I invite you to buy it, read it, and discuss amongst yourself (or here in the comment boards on Superforest!)

Find it here at Amazon. And enjoy!

Always merry and bright!
-jordan