The Venus Project "Welcome to the future" Part 1

Provided by permission from the Venus Project. This film even with it's primitive special effects has the best presentation for the Venus Project I have ever seen on film. The dialogue is great.

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News & Politics

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• Venus Project
• Zeitgiest
• Science

[1519kyle]

@Mumiaw18 "Sustainability is evil." That's funny. I guess you don't care about the future. It depends on what YOUR PROJECTION of what sustainability IS. I agree with you, a reduction of standard of living is unacceptable, but what if you could have all the things you enjoy, and be sustainable, but, a radical shift on how things get to you and other engineering was required. Peak oil is not a lie. Oil in a finite resource, no one knows how much we have left, and yet we depend upon it.

[1519kyle]

@Mumiaw18 People don't know what the hell they want, it dependent upon the state of technology, and most people are ill informed and brainwashed. And yes, money should be backed by a physical resource. The money we use is printed by our nation, but if our nation prints more money than physical things or our ability to innovate to back it up, that money has no value. Our wealth is based on faith of future (infinite) growth.

[Mumiaw18]

@1519kyle Sustainability is evil. My ancestors has the misfortune of living "sustainably." It was a horror; it's better to die than go back to that. Anyway, Peak oil (as presented by most greens) is a lie; and we have nuclear and other non-renewable options going out for several millenia. Never support sustainable living unless you want others to live in poverty.

[Mumiaw18]

@1519kyle The freedom to have money is not a thing; it's a power. It's the power to buy what I want rather than to take what someone wants to shove up my backside :-) Since money is a medium of exchange, it doesn't need to be backed by natural resources. So long as I have the legal right to use money to get access to the resources I need, money is valuable to me. If you think money is worthless, give me all of yours :-)

[1519kyle]

@Mumiaw18 This is just a circular argument. The freedom to have money is a nothing thing. It doesn't represent anything, it's not backed by anything. A gold standard just backs money to gold, not energy or resources. Things will continue to get worse, because there is no basis or structure for sustainability, social or Envtl. As things get worse, people will do whatever they need to, including taking things. Man lives by mans law, instead of Natural Law.

[muffinspuffinsEE]

@Schlitzerix Exactly, the ability seem to rare now days. :(

[Schlitzerix]

I know its Youtube and people like flamming, but it really is just sad to see that the comments are so narrow-minded.

It is a relativly old documentary (1998) however I still love watching it and are fascinated by the ideas. Im just disappointed that there seem to be many people who simply cant analyse a new idea from an objective point of view.

[FitnessByMatt]

@TheBambooooooooo You pretty much explained why you are naive. This movement is going nowhere and you perfectly summarized why.

[arhangel00010001]

Welcome to Ukraine!

[Mumiaw18]

@clearly LOL. The only thing to do would be to buy a tee-shirt saying "Venus Project = I'm screwed." However, you won't have any money, so you won't be able to buy anything; you'll have to get what the government produces, and the government won't produce tee-shirts like that!