Author: Madeleine Aubrey, Ottawa.
Beyond Expectations: the Possible Dreams
Group Members: Madeleine Aubrey, Mary Hegan, Sheila Murray, David Pollock, John Verdon and Robert Hoffman
Defining our Quadrant
Vertical Axis: Planet + 2050
This is a flourishing planet open to adaptive change. We enjoy a healthy biosphere and biodiversity is valued and protected. All vital signs of a healthy planet are evident. The world political governance is more complex and dynamic and assured by a better distribution of wealth and power.
Horizontal Axis: Engagement 2050 E+
This new world is characterized by a collaborative commons approach. There are various groupings, self-organizing systems that assure shared decision making and a governance model centered shared values and on our ecological imperatives, clean air, clean water, biodiversity and a respect for all forms of life.
Our Story
- In 2050 we will have a flourishing planet, a healthy biosphere and there will be a resilience and abundance for all. Negative climate changes coming from years of misuse of hazardous products and lack of husbandry of the earth will have been overcome.
- In 2050 we will have a flourishing planet, a healthy biosphere and there will be a resilience and abundance for all. Negative climate changes coming from years of misuse of hazardous products and lack of husbandry of the earth will have been overcome.
- This new world will be governed not only by states but also by regions using a new map of the planet. Our world will be regarded as a collaborative commons. New institutions will be created to assure a more equitable market system. There will be self-organizing systems.
- Education will be scaled learning. Guaranteed minimum wage a universal given. New ways of assuring shared decision-making and distribution of power will be instituted. A ‘Code of Engagement’ will be developed and implemented through education for all citizens of the world.
- This will compliment our ‘Human Rights Declaration’. A deep respect for all life will be promoted. We will need to create new myths of inclusion as opposed to exclusion.
How do we get there?
Using the scanning lenses: social, technological, economic, environmental, political, legal, ethical, security… and backcasting… here is what we need to do.
2050
- All negative effects and decline resulting from Climate Change have been resolved or controlled and the earth’s biosphere’s is no longer in eminent danger.
- All citizens of the world share distributed responsibilities and powers to assure good husbandry of the world’s biosphere and ecosystem.
- Various types of groupings- organizations, networks, institutions, co-ops, coalitions- oversee all critical path legislation and engagement acts that have been enacted.
- Issues around gender, transgender will be resolved and the world will need to deal with a new species of humanoids that may and may not have any organic parts. Some of these will be more fit and adapted to colonize some of the earth’s new satellites.
- All negative effects and decline resulting from Climate Change have been resolved or controlled and the earth’s biosphere’s is no longer in eminent danger.
- All citizens of the world share distributed responsibilities and powers to assure good husbandry of the world’s biosphere and ecosystem.
2045
- Systems thinking will be a way of life and a tool used by all.
- Canada will be seen as having a desirable future and measures to limit population size will be used to assure a quality of life for all.
2040
- Money is no longer our currency of exchange and a complete change using the Blockchain technology ledger is a global standard.
- Global citizens will use this Blockchain technology ledger to keep tracks of the learning credits earned. There will be protocols and standards across all institutions.
- We will have governance for autonomous city-states and for regional groupings along ecological lines. There will be a free flow of goods and services.
- The melting of snow-caps has been stabilized and the health of the oceans is improving.
2035
- The United Nations Proportional Representation Act
- New authorities of newly created ecological zones completed
- The Global Resettlement Act
2030
- The Joyful Living Cultural Engagement Challenge
- New world maps will be drawn indicating city-states and new regions identified using an ecological parameters
- Work begins on powers and authorities of ecological zones identified on new maps
2028
Canada’s provincial boundaries will disappear
2025
- The Limits to Wage Disparity Act
- The Methane Containment International Research Project
2022
- The DNA shared research Results Forum
- Media, Engagement and Opinion Leaders Dialogue Forum
- The Duties, Responsibilities and Opportunities of Citizens Act
2020
- The Maximization of Hydro and Interprovincial Authority Act
- Universities, Colleges and Digital Knowledge Forum
- First Nations Engagement for Regenerative Prosperity Act
- The Call for International Ecological Mapping Zones Project
- The Authority for Ecological Zones Act
- The Guaranteed Living Wage Act
- Tobin Tax Negotiations
- All fossil fuels will have been phased out
2019
- Distributive, Renewable and Battery Storage Energy Authority Act
- The Electric and Non-fossil Fuels Transportation Act
- The Green Mortgage Banking Act
- The Molten Salt Nuclear Waste Clean-up Authority Act
- A national financing meeting will be help every five years to re-image how money/credits- value is created and distributed. With timetable by when no new fossil fuel vehicles can be manufactured or imported and then dates for retiring old vehicles established
- The Green Mortgage Banking Act
- The Green Bonds Act
2018
- Seventh Generation Energy Act
- Citizens Engagement Green Transformation Bonds
- The Tommy Douglas Prize for Innovation and Sustainability
- The Canadian Proportional Representation Act
2016/2017
- Global Climate Emergencies Act
- General Provisions and Powers
- Capital Flight Protection Act
- Healthy Futures Workers Adjustment Support Fund
- Phase out of coal generation Act and timetable
- The Sustainable Buildings ACT
Least you think group 4 has too optimistic we invite you to read this book or listen to the following interview on the CBC website. We heard of this a month after our great foresight session.
Utopia for Realists: The Case for a Universal Basic Income, Open Borders, and a 15-Hour Workweek (Rutger Bregman, Published by the Correspondent, USA, 2016)
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Bio: Madeleine Aubrey is president of MADARTE Inc., an art education consulting firm specializing in the area art education curriculum, policy and assessment, evaluation of arts resources, curriculum development and in-service training. During her long career in art education, she has been a visual arts specialist, an arts consultant, a professor at Ottawa University Faculty of Education, researcher and an education officer with the Ministry of Education of the province of Ontario. Madeleine has worked as a rapporteur for arts education consultations in Canada, for the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, and as an art consultant for several television art series for TVO. She is current co-chair of the National Roundtable for Teacher Education in the Arts. Madeleine has also had a long career in organizing events.
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