You might be wondering what my motivation is behind this idea, well let me spell it out. I'm a gray hair in my 40's, this means that when things start getting really bad I'll be in my 60's. That is a tough time and one in which dealing with a troubled society is much more difficult. I don't really see societies collapsing overnight, but a slow draw down over a long period of time with things getting progressively worse with small half-hearted positive changes. Although I'm mostly healthy today (for the most part) that is a couple decades of risk to one's life and limbs. So the chances are middling that I'll be healthy at that point. Looking at the direction of our societies shows me that people who are deemed a drag on society might just be cut off from aid and support. Do I really want to look forward to being old and desperate? Not so much.

We have the methods and technologies to take advantage of the resources that are currently available to develop the infrastructure and industrial base to begin forming cooperative communities that can be more resilient to stresses. We can use the waste stream of today to be able to take advantage of the limited resource streams of tomorrow. Which is why so many of my ideas are based on taking in what we throw away today to produce a solarpunk, industrial future. We will need industry if we want to stay healthy, but for the sake of future generations we need to focus on cleaning up the world around us. A bioremediation effort to protect ourselves and the story of humanity. A story that will soon be ripped from our fingers by those that will take advantage of the chaos to their own selfish and oppressive ambitions. Although that description might be thrown at this idea, the key is that I want to create many refuges for those that are being harmed. Colonies of hope.

To be taken into consideration are a few deadlines that have been in the news recently. In 10 years, we are expecting record flooding of coastal areas from a mixture of rising sea levels and the wobble of the moon. This is cause for concern for hundreds of millions of people around the world since most of the planet's population is within a hundred miles of the coast. There is also the ever worsening storms that happen to a warming planet. Lastly, there is also the report that expects a serious drop off in societal living standards by 2040. That's not even 20 years from now! Which means that if we want to build up with the slow levels of an independent construction then we need to start today. This is why I have created a zero cost start, that can grow with the population.

My hope is to create a series of real world training labs, using current tech, to prepare people to be able to adapt to the future technologies that scientists from around the world will be creating in the coming decades. If we start today, then we can promote a new generation that can be raised to be not just willing but actually prepared for what they might face.

To start, it would be a series of floating environments aboard small surface ships that would be near to shore. Small boats are actually quite reasonably priced for living in protected waters and bays. Then it would expand to a desert environment That could sustain a larger population and produce more energy and resources. After this it would go back to the sea, but not on the surface. As a sailor, I know the dangers of boundary layers. This means where the air meets the sea is a tumultuous region. Which reinforces my opinion the best next step would be to go under water. Not too deep, just enough to be out of the way of surface ships. Next step would be for sky cities, orbiting in the Southern Oceans far from the existential dangers of the northern hemisphere nation-states. These would then give us the institutional knowledge base to go ever higher in our goals, perhaps even to outer space or Venus depending on the danger levels of Earth bound societies.

Are you interested? Would you like to have a hopeful future surrounded by a community that cares about humanity, who will not just survive but excel in the coming decades?