What is Lawless in Seattle?
We are Lawless in Seattle, in that we lack the most basic, essential laws vital to the protection of people and of Mother Earth as a whole.
What are the laws we are missing the most?
There are two broad categories of laws: Laws for People, and Laws for our Planet. The #1 most vital, most essential missing law is Hungerless in Seattle, and it happens to be the #1 Law for People, AND the #1 Law for our Planet: Everyone gets to eat three healthy, nutritious plant-based meals per day, free of charge. Seattle being the trend-setting, beautiful, beckoning utopian city that we are, can lead our country and our world to become hungerless, including virtually everyone eating a 100% plant-based diet. Humanity going plant-based will eliminate both animal agriculture and commercial fishing, which are the main destroyers of our planet’s ecosystems, and thus of life on Earth…
Beyond Law #1, Hungerless in Seattle, what are the other missing laws?
Laws for People
Laws #2, #3, #4 and beyond for People address the other basic human needs: Shelter & housing, health care, safety and protection from criminal drug cartels, and so on.
Laws for our Planet
Beyond Law #1 for our Planet (Hungerless In Seattle), Law #2 for our Planet is what we call Seattle Cool, as its aim is to cool our planet. Our planet is overheating exponentially, despite what Frank Luntz would have you believe. From a “saving life on Earth” perspective, Seattle Cool is neck and neck with Hungerless in Seattle in terms of urgency. Both are insanely urgent.
How is Seattle Cool going to cool our planet?
In exactly the same way that Hungerless in Seattle is going to end world hunger, animal agriculture and commercial fishing: By first opening up the conversation on a city-wide and state-wide basis, expanding the conversation nationwide and worldwide, and finally establishing consensus that a) global warming is proceeding at an exponential rate, b) we have possibilities for stopping and even reversing global warming, but precious little time to do so, and c) arguably the best option is that being developed by the Marine Cloud Brightening Research Program, at the University of Washington’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences. The ultimate goal is to reduce global temperatures to a sustainable, life-supporting level.
Beyond Laws
The aforementioned two laws, Hungerless in Seattle and Seattle Cool, constitute the most urgent laws for the City of Seattle to implement, precisely because they are the keys to saving life on Earth in the very short term. There are myriad other laws which need to be drafted and implemented, and we will get to all of these in due time.
Beyond designing and implementing specific laws, there are a few other levels at which we can operate, which will help us to achieve our broader goals of saving, healing and transforming life on Earth to “that more beautiful world our hearts know is possible”:
Compassionate Seattle
transforming Seattle into the world’s first Certified Compassionate City — and defining exactly what that means.
Solving the planetary Polycrisis
the interconnected web of simultaneous global crises—global warming, the decimation of ecosystems, biodiversity loss, inequality, systemic racism, geopolitical instability, and more—that amplify and exacerbate one another, creating systemic risks beyond the sum of their parts. Seattle is uniquely positioned, with our amazing people, organizations, diversity, international connections, collective human intelligence and collective wisdom, to lead the world in addressing and actually solving the Polycrisis. A good place to start is Seattle declaring a Polycrisis Emergency.
Transformation:
We are on the cusp of a collective transformation, into the world’s first Compassionate City, leading our country and world to becoming, finally, a compassionate caretaker species on a compassionate planet.
Next Steps?
Seattle, this is our moment. Literally everything we care about is on the table. Life on Earth is on the table, including the very survival of humanity as a species, along with the countless other species with whom we share the planet. Everything starts with thought, followed by conversation, followed by “actions beyond conversation” (conversation is action). What do you think about the preceding thoughts? With whom would you like to share your thoughts, and with what intention(s)? What questions do you have? We look forward to being in conversation with you. For a complete schedule of meetings and events, including meetings on Zoom to which everyone is invited, please keep coming back and visiting us right here:
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