Northern California firestorms are a danger that’s flaming higher due to global warming. In 2018, 7,948 wildfires scorched 1,975,086 acres, causing $148.5 billion in damages. What can be done? Technology offers expensive solutions, like gigantic helicopters dropping massive quantities of water, or drone surveillance swarms equipped with AI collaborating with…

INTRODUCTION What can be done to stop the holocausts that torch citizens, roast properties, annihilate wildlife and poison us with toxic ash? California wildfires are increasingly dangerous and insanely expensive; suffocating smoke kills thousands prematurely every year and the cost in 2018 after 7,948 wildfires scorched 1,975,086 acres was $148.5 billion. …

by Hank Pellissier American Farming is economically cruel and environmentally suicidal. Revolutionary change is needed now to produce food that’s healthy for the earth and human society. The ideal future for world agriculture is small, organic (and near-organic) farms, claims a 2013 United Nations report . The UN also determined…

Tinyism (also called Tinism) is a political ideology that wants to fracture today’s large nations into thousands, or tens of thousands, of microstates. The movement is in its larval stage — its subreddit has only 83 followers — but it is gathering momentum recently, with writers like Jared A. …

Yesterday I read the existentially-depressing paper “Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy” by Jem Bendell PhD. …

by Hank Pellissier and Jonah F2014 with help from Joern Pallensen Tinyism is a political philosophy that believes current empires and nations should be fractured, shattered, dissolved into thousands of independent micro-states and city-states. This action would vastly-improve democracy and enhance economies — recent statistics indicate small nations are usually…

Co-authors: Pierre Pellissier, Paul Johnson, Mike Whitty, Hank Pellissier In 13.5 years (2035) humans will face strange new problems, plus most of the same old miserable scourges that currently plague us. Technology will provide amazing solutions. Here’s the best inventions we anticipate: 1. Electric Self-Driving Cars — accidents, stress, boredom…

Huey Long, aka “The Kingfish” aka “the Karl Marx of the Hillbillies” was a radical populist champion of the rural poor who served as Louisiana governor from 1928–32, and US Senator from 1932 until his assassination in 1935 when he was only 42 years old. The charismatic, larger-than-life Long was…

Underground Cities will be a reality in the human future, for multiple reasons. Many of us, especially claustrophobes, view this prediction with horror and disgust, but that’s unnecessary. Subterranean existence has been wildly successful for many species like earthworms, gophers, ants; homo sapiens might be the next ecstatic burrowers. Who’s…