Problem: Sustainable development has been discussed world-wide for decades but the problems, mischievously keep getting worse. Could we have been missing something big, maybe huge? The recent documentary Blindspot (http://www.blindspotdoc.com/) shows how the most basic assumptions about our future are wrong. How wrong? It is as if modern civilisation has got stuck in reverse gear, with economics that systematically, relentlessly messes things up.  Millions of...

Action: 1.  Notice the blindspot.  Notice that we've been trying to solve global problems with the same thinking that caused them. Do problems really become more manageable when tackled separately, here and there, a bit at a time? Don't get so distracted fiddling with pieces of the puzzle that the big picture is ignored.  For example our struggles to recycle a bit more have masked the ease with which all resources could be rescued to help our economy and planet. When we grieve about the latest armed ...

Problem: The problem in today's world is that we strongly rely on a economic and financial system which is totally unreliable [20], unstable [21], unfair [22] and which enables ecological disasters. It lacks built-in responsibility for the participants to the consequences of their actions. Money and greed cause wars, poverty and starvation. Furthermore, units of currency have deliberately been decoupled from well-established units of measurement. There is most certainly not a SI-defined [5] unit for...

Action: Our current economic system is held responsible for a series of ecological disasters. This system is also suffering from instability and experts are awaiting its full demise. In this paper we have identified the root of these problems: the monetary unit that is floating and undefined, and economic system lacking optimisation for recycling and energy scarcity. Instead of proposing changes to the current system, we have unrolled the design of an alternative: Rainbow Trading and the RGB unit o...

Problem: Creating an integrated taxation and social security system that guides the invisible hand of the market to help everyone.

Action: A fair system for setting tax rates using the average earnings of the population and by linking the use of tax revenues to the cost of providing the basic services that underpin society.   In order to form a more perfect tax system that represents these principles and is readily adopted and embraced, LIFE proposes an income tax structure that is based on two clearly observable features of a society: the average income of a citizen and the cost of providing those services that are deemed to be...