A CONSTITUTION perennial ?

Quite remarkable result of this Manifesto which proposed to make an analysis of the global situation of the human species facing:

the planetary boundaries overshoot,
the emergence of global automation technological capacities,

and attempting the exercise of finding solutions... is the result of a new separation of powers.

This key principle, already studied and tested in history (theory of the separation of powers developed by Locke (1632-1704) and Montesquieu (1689-1755)) has only concretely addressed the breakdown, the "separation", of the functions of State (State = group of people representing and responsible for the coordination of a given society) which have been concentrated in a single person for a very long time (Monarchies, Empires, etc.).

These major functions to be separated are:

Legislative power: elaborate the rules (Laws),
Executive power: execution of the rules,
Justice power: settlement of disputes.

Their separation is a necessary protection against despotism (concentration of personal power) and allows the balance of the exercise of power guaranteeing the protection of human rights.

If this functional separation is necessary at the level of the orchestration of a society, the result of this Manifesto summarized by the 3 requirements below, is that it would also be necessary to achieve an operational separation of powers concretely in the daily life of the inhabitants of the world, to guarantee independently:

the adaptive organization of the living: "legislative power",
the action of all: "executive power",
the distribution for all: “justice power”.

Powers that are concentrated today in a single counter, disconnected from the reality of our nature, on which our entire human organization is defined, money.

This result led to another rather remarkable observation, taking France as an example, which is precisely that this exchange tool, money, would be neither declared nor defined in its constitution. The role, the functions, the limits of the central tool of our human organization, money, would not be defined in the reference text defining the framework of our organization; tool to which, by cultural heritage, we simply delegate all authority and all value: hence the permanent confusion between "political power" and "economic power".

Then who really has the power? The human species or our exchange tool? How do we build a democracy when one of our own tool, money, holds all the authority? How can we build an EQUALITY to ACT and to HAVE between human beings while respecting the limits of our FINITE BIOSPHERE when we abdicate in front of a single counter that we print ourselves, money?

The human species with its exchange tool would therefore have "a big hole in the racket" in terms of authority and ability to respect the biosphere in which it exists.

These results and findings may lead us to reinvent our organization, certainly through a new CONSTITUTION.

It is not a question of falling into the traps of a dogmatism which abdicates in the face of a text written by predecessors, a document whose role would be to “fix” fundamental laws and for which we would be ready to fight.

Such a document, if it exists, must “remain alive”, be able to be modified and continually integrate the extension of knowledge, to best serve the coexistence of living beings.

Its first part must therefore describe what CONSTITUTES the world (to return to the original meaning of "constitution"), that is to say the current understanding of the physical existence of living beings in the Universe.

Inspired by the complete analysis proposed by this site, this page gives an example of construction of the first levels of a CONSTITUTION which would respect the principle of separation of the powers of ACTION and DISTRIBUTION in order to ensure living beings perenniality on the very long term. It is also proposed in a pdf format in the following document:

UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF LIVING BEINGS COEXISTENCE

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ORGANIZATION REQUIREMENTS

1. Any organization shall exist, be designed and be capable to adapt itself in order to be at the service of the perenniality of the living beings.

2. ACTION of all shall be:

PERMANENT,
RELEVANT for oneself and for the coexistence of living beings in a given ecosystem,
DIVERSIFIED with a maximum FREEDOM of orientation;

3. DISTRIBUTION for all shall:

cover our NEEDS exactly, without growth nor decrease (= no one dies of hunger, cold or mild disease),
fairly VALUE our action (involvement, results, skills, responsibility),
RESPECT the limits of resources in a given context to allow their perennial renewal.

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HYPOTHESIS
(KEY INDICATORS)

FINITE VIABLE CONTEXTS: (currently Earth + ISS)
- TIME : duration of viability of a context: estimated start and end dates of life in the given context.
- SPACE: Definition of the occupation of space (Seas/Lands/Sky):
  - space to be left inoccupied by the human species to leave room for the profusion of biodiversity and the establishment of the living perenniality.
  - continuity of this inoccupied space through the terrestrial biosphere to allow the co-evolution of living beings to be preserved.
  - space exploitable by the human species.
  - space habitable by the human species.
- MATTER:
  - solid/liquid/gas interface (Lands/Seas/Sky),
  - Volume, pressure, temperature,
  - Composition of the context: (minimum for the existence of terrestrial life)
    - atoms of "terrestrial life", constituting on average more than 95% of the mass of terrestrial living beings: C, H, O, N, ...;
    - molecules of "terrestrial life": water H2O constituting more than 60% of the mass of all living beings, others.
  - gravitational field and/or training and Coriolis accelerations for non-negligible rotating reference frames (spaceships rotating on themselves or base on an asteroid rotating on itself).
- ENERGIES:
  - “Primary” energies: “permanent” at the scale of a solar system (star system).
    - “solar” (radiation from the sun, from the star),
    - gravitation (hydraulic energy from falling water, tides, etc.)
    - wind power
    - “Internal” thermal energy (molten core of a planet).
  - “Secondary” energies: finite resources at the scale of a planet produced from the transformation of "primary" energies.
    - “fossils”: molecules “storing” solar energy (carbon chains resulting from the photosynthetic construction of living beings), others,
    - “atomic”: atoms “storing” the gravitational energy of a star (radioactive atoms).
- LIVING:
  - Autotroph living beings ("plants"),
  - Heterotroph living beings ("animals"):
    - Species capable of technology (able to build tools to cross the space emptiness): number of human beings (at the moment).
    - Maximum of living beings "capable of technology" viable in the context.
- TECHNOLOGY: context-specific tools to be developed to ensure the perennial survival of the estimated maximum number of inhabitants.

ACTION : 1 time counter TO ACT: action relevant, rich and diversified throughout life - cf. page Equality/Action for more detail - for instance on the following pace :
- from 6 months to 58 years old: 36h/week with 10 weeks vacation per year (1500h/year).
- from 59 years old to 70 years old: 2h/week less each year, going from 36h/week to 12h/week gradually between 58 years old and 70 years old (always 10 weeks of vacation per year).
- from 70 years old to the end of life: 12h/week (at best according to each person's capacities), 10 weeks of vacation per year.

ACTION organized like so:

0. ADMINISTRATION FINITE BIOSPHERE, TO ACT, TO HAVE INSTITUTIONS MANAGEMENT

A.    PRACTICE    Cohabit-Knowledge-Skills
B.    ACHIEVE
   1-10 Production of 10 RESOURCES
C.    TEACH - RESEARCH

=> PROTECT Peace and Security

ACTION evaluated on criteria:
- Involvement
- Result
- Skill level
- Responsibility

To deduce a PARTICIPATION:
- Annual
- Cumulative

=> PARTICIPATION allowing to evaluate our rights to HAVE.

DISTRIBUTION of the 10 RESOURCES: 10 counters TO HAVE

Distribution which covers our needs, proportionnal to our PARTICIPATION, while respecting all forms of life:

Vital resources :

1.a Water

1.b Food

1.c Housing

Operational resources:

2.a Energy

2.b Tools

2.c Transport

Social resources:

3.a Clothes

3.b Home furniture

3.c Culture and hobbies

+ Health

This identification of key indicators and main separation leads to a proposition of three independent institutions at the service of the cohabitation of the living beings, to ensure the perenniality of the living over the long term:

FINITE BIOSPHERE ORGANIZATION: rules/limits definition and update (finite viable context)
TO ACT: all the human beings
TO HAVE: fair and respectful share of the production between all.

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Demographic and space structuration

The issues to be dealt with by the inhabitants of the world would be scaled and prioritized according to their spatial and temporal scope, for example:

the management of eggs and chicken production could be done locally at the scale of 1,000 to 10,000 inhabitants,
managing energy production could be maintained on the scale of a country and a few tens of millions of inhabitants,
while managing the manufacture and the sustainability over a century of a space station should be done on the scale of a continent and a few billion inhabitants.

The management of the 3 institutions (FINITE BIOSPHERE, TO ACT, TO HAVE) at each level would be carried out by trained people (whose skills and capacities for objectivity and impartiality for the living perenniality would have been validated), renewed regularly for example according to the proposed pace in the Administration column of the table above.
The "democratic elections" would not have as their object the choice of its coordinators, but the prioritization of projects and orientations to be given at each level, from local to global.

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On the basis of these minimum requirements, indicators and organization structure propositions, the exercise must be continued to go into the details of the invention of a concrete organization that would be sufficiently respectful of all living beings so that the majority of human beings feel useful and respected throughout their life.

The exercise amounts to imagining a realistic organization that puts the Universal Participation Notice to music:

Universal Participation Notice

Maybe on a slightly adjusted pace, as for example based on this new calendar:

Earth Universal Calendar

Page in progress, CONSTITUTION invention to be continued...

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LIVING BEINGS MANIFESTO

Let's invent an organization perennial for the living beings !

HYPOTHESIS
(KEY INDICATORS)

This identification of key indicators and main separation leads to a proposition of three independent institutions at the service of the cohabitation of the living beings, to ensure the perenniality of the living over the long term:

FINITE BIOSPHERE ORGANIZATION: rules/limits definition and update (finite viable context)

TO ACT: all the human beings

TO HAVE: fair and respectful share of the production between all.

Demographic and space structuration

The issues to be dealt with by the inhabitants of the world would be scaled and prioritized according to their spatial and temporal scope, for example:

the management of eggs and chicken production could be done locally at the scale of 1,000 to 10,000 inhabitants,

managing energy production could be maintained on the scale of a country and a few tens of millions of inhabitants,

while managing the manufacture and the sustainability over a century of a space station should be done on the scale of a continent and a few billion inhabitants.

The "democratic elections" would not have as their object the choice of its coordinators, but the prioritization of projects and orientations to be given at each level, from local to global.

LIVING BEINGS MANIFESTO

Let's invent an organization perennial for the living beings !

HYPOTHESIS (KEY INDICATORS)

This identification of key indicators and main separation leads to a proposition of three independent institutions at the service of the cohabitation of the living beings, to ensure the perenniality of the living over the long term:

FINITE BIOSPHERE ORGANIZATION: rules/limits definition and update (finite viable context)

TO ACT: all the human beings

TO HAVE: fair and respectful share of the production between all.

Demographic and space structuration

The issues to be dealt with by the inhabitants of the world would be scaled and prioritized according to their spatial and temporal scope, for example:

the management of eggs and chicken production could be done locally at the scale of 1,000 to 10,000 inhabitants,

managing energy production could be maintained on the scale of a country and a few tens of millions of inhabitants,

while managing the manufacture and the sustainability over a century of a space station should be done on the scale of a continent and a few billion inhabitants.

The "democratic elections" would not have as their object the choice of its coordinators, but the prioritization of projects and orientations to be given at each level, from local to global.

HYPOTHESIS
(KEY INDICATORS)