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(“Spring Cleaning” via flickr user sharply done)

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.