PRESERVING CIVILIZATION

Political correctness can be appropriate or inappropriate, depending whether it serves a survivable civilization or not. You can't have stability (on which nuclear management depends, among other threatening forces) on the backs of disgruntled groups.

NUCLEAR THREAT: 

There are hundreds or thousands (depending what you count) of nuclear danger sites that are like Fukushimas in waiting. FE has made this point and it's well taken.

- needs sophisticated governance for indefinite management of all such sites, requiring:

- relative global stability

- a very high level of redundancy

- a very high level of regional buy-in and education

- major attention on regional land use planning

GOVERNANCE AND PSYCHOLOGY: 

You can't have reliable governance without addressing what's in people's minds.

GENDER: 

Women being a global category, as is land, makes the categories alike in some ways, and perhaps inseparable. Attention to gender might be a way to get beyond race. Gender appears to be a more structural (word) issue than race (a construction of civilization), in that it subsumes race and is not as artificial or arbitrary.

MAINTAINING CIVILIZATION: 

- The likely global formula for housing is backyard tiny houses, since they can supply income to existing home owners while housing masses of new and increasing low-income people (well educated or not) .

- The likely formula for food is ubiquitous gardening--backyard, workplace, schools, near-urban greenhouses, as well as industrial farms--all focused on making soil.

- The jury is out as to whether civilization can be made complementary to nature.

- Reliance on nature alone for any future way of life does not seem feasible.

NOTES: 

- Other people are much better at scholarship and the pedagogy than I-- mine is a lay person's view, using commonsense, although it requires (aesthetic) intuition to reach that commonsense level.

- The FE challenge expanded: Currently, I see an urgent need to study and practice life ways of indigenous peoples, especially hunter gatherers. A part of doing this might require ubiquitous application of the FE challenge (making it a means of status) within our management of civilization, however and for whatever durations that "work."

- Lots of issues are beyond common sense, and require the kinds of expertise that can be found on FW, in academies, in religion, in business and industry, but it could help to have a small number of commonsense guideposts that remain stable amid the inevitable sorting out of hyper complexity. 

- I look at only the simplest skeletal issues of relationships and synthesis, but even though the system is self organizing, it doesn't self organize in isolation of such heuristic (best guess) initiatives by humans.