why is the Alma Project necessary?
On the extent to which anthropogenic climate change is an established and urgent problem:
see x y z. kolbert, mckibben, wallace-wells, ws warning, ipcc, c. xu, global carbon project, to start
On the extent to which the reduction of biological diversity is an established and urgent problem:
see x y z. macfarlane, kolbert, n. g. dowell, p. e. kauppi
On the extent to which environmental degradation’s consequences are inflicted unequally upon our societies’ constituencies:
see x y z. aronoff, purdy, aziz rana
On the extent to which current economic systems and political structures enable and subsidize corporate interests over the health of individual human beings or ecological systems:
see x y z
On the extent to which our civilization has over-leveraged our planet’s material and energetic resources:
see x y z. smil (everything), zalasiewicz / haff (technosphere) , s.j. murray (water), nasa, ipcc, water footprint network
On the extent to which our governments have failed to provide meaningful solutions to profound and urgent ecological problems, and on the devastating consequences:
see x y z. purdy, lopez, etc. also governance theory: hobbes, thoreau, de montaigne
On the extent to which our international institutions have failed to provide meaningful solutions to profound and urgent ecological problems, and on the deficiencies of their operating principles:
see x y z
as to the potential for decentralized grassroots organizations to self-sustain and effect meaningful change in the face of established resistance:
see x y z
as to the Means and methods by which non-political organizations might be structured and managed to leverage traditional resources for the good of a commonwealth :
see x y z