OT: If you lead the world, what would you do?

[PvK]

I'd focus on restoring Earth's ecological health before it's too late, and making life on the planet self-sustaining and maintainable.

Ecological policy (generally priority 1):

* Halt most conversion of land to human use.
* Restore natural environments and prevent extinctions, restoring plant and animal habitats and ecosystems.
* Increase research into ecosystem health.
* Put fishing under control of scientists with the goal of restoring oceanic health, preventing extinctions and achieving eternally maintainable fishing levels.
* Research and develop fusion, solar, wind and tidal power.
* Phase out coal, petroleum, and fission power.
* Research and develop very low-emission vehicles.

Social/political policy:

* For-profit corporations will be re-chartered so that their mission statement is to do things that benefit humanity in some way other than making investors richer.
* Acceptance of the right of communities to define their own rules which may conflict with other communities. The United States, for example, will evolve to states (and in some cases, counties and cities) which each have different laws to fit different communities - people will be encouraged to move to states which have communities and laws that match their belief systems. Some other parts of the world where people are caught in genocidal conflicts, may need to be segregated into their own communities.

Urban design:

* Redesign modern urban and suburban areas to be pedestrian-focused and connected by public mass transportation, rather than automobile-based communities. Most American suburban communities will be re-forested, etc.
* Urban renewal will preserve historical and interesting architecture and destruction of old buildings will tend to be done first (or only) to structures with no redeeming aesthetic value.

Information technology:

* People will have the right to anonymous free data access, anonymous encrypted private communication, and free uncensored expression as long as it doesn't hurt others (e.g. child porn), and to ignore whole categories of content.
* Copyright and intellectual property laws phased out through a schedule of increasingly shortenned expiry, and eventually replaced by new systems which reward individual content creators but quickly open up content to free access to published works by all.

And other stuff...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

There's no system out there which can replace copyright. Just limit it to the life of the artist or forty years, whichever is longer.

Also, disolve coorperations entirely. The're inefficient at producing an economy.

Also, cities? Bad idea. The crowding leaves people feeling disconnected and irratated.

And speed research of electric cars.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

PvK said:
I'd focus on restoring Earth's ecological health before it's too late, and making life on the planet self-sustaining and maintainable.

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Amen.

[AgentZero]

First, I'd create a huge inescapable 'camp' called Super Happy Fun Land. Then, I'd take the entire leadership of any body of authority (governments, religions, corporations, etc) and stick them in Super Happy Fun Land.
I would then inform the population that the remainder were free to reform said organizations by having those who wished to lead them stand for election. Everyone who stood for election would be publically shot. Then, I'd do the same thing again. And again. One more time. And one more for the road. At this point, the population would have come to the realization that governments, religions, corporations are a bad thing, and certain not worth the hassle.
I would then issue a proclimation that every person on the planet is responsible for everything that they do, or have done to them. Total, absolute responsibility. The words "It's not my fault" will constitute a capitol offence (if it's really not your fault, whoever is responsible will take responsibility, ergo declaring something not your fault can be nothing other than an admission of guilt).
Failure to live up to your responsibilities will result in you being sent to Super Happy Fun Land.
Then, I'd retire to my harem of Android Slave Girls.




Oh, yes, and I'd have someone invent Android Slave Girls.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Sorry, had a sarcasm attack.

[Will]

Ever read Brave New World? Kinda like that. Most of the population kept doped up and happy; western governments are almost there with "reality television", but I think they'll need a little chemical nudge to complete the process, and cancel out any of the "news" or "politics" nonsense that may slip through. Most efficient distribution method would probably be via the water system, but methods to deal with anyone who uses well water or buys bottled water will have to be found; probably could just spike the bottled water supplies first, then the general supply, since everyone knows that people who drink bottled water are loopy anyways, so no one will notice. Once this is accomplished, the time to begin labor restructuring begins. First, round up everyone with a useless job in regional processing camps. All politicians, lawyers, business executives, "celebreties", telemarketers, journalists, writers, and artists will be rounded up, given a few extra hits of the happy drug, and sent to the camps. Those that are deemed capable of doing real manual labor are then assigned to new jobs in agricultural, janitorial, construction, etc., and others are sent off to help make even more reality television. Everyone else will be shifted into the areas in and around major cities. To facilitate the move for those too attached to "home" for the happy drug to overcome, there should be some kind of plague where the cure can only be had at the major cities; once you come into the city though, you can never leave. Brave New World has genetic classes of people; I think this is too hard. Instead, we'll just pump the unhappy ones with so much of the happy drug, that they will soon become so baked that even if they're sober, they will be incapable of thought. The stratification will then occur naturally. Once everyone is kept within a certain area, individual vehicles will become unnecessary except for the few in addition to myself who run the show. You can walk to anything you need, and can take public transit if you want to go elsewhere. Ixnay on the asgay, no oil problem. Also, once everyone is in a confined place, it will be easier to implement population control measures; six billion is far too many, but I could get it down to a more managable two billion in a few generations by throttling back the birth rate and eliminating any who can no longer provide any value to the doped up society. If a reality television star loses popularity, the only humane thing to do is make them OD. Same with elderly, disabled, and terminally ill. So, within about 30 years, birth rates can be brought back up to stabalize the population at around 2 billion.

Or not

[Renegade 13]

I think if the magnetic field did collapse, I'd decide to live underground for a while

[Atrocities]

This would make for a great pre-story for sev. The galaxy's magnetic properties shifted thus laying waste to every world in the galaxy. 2400 years after this great catastrophe, many civilizations began to explore the universe, expanding out ward into the unknown, exploiting new resources and extermentating any opposition to create their own Space Empire.

[Renegade 13]

PvK, your policies scare me.

[PvK]

Renegade 13 said:
PvK, your policies scare me.

No one expects the Environmentalist Inquisition!