<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Shannon,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It certainly looks like it is and I have been looking at it since I clicked on the link in Stans mail last night.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The fact that you perceive potential in it has its own significance and may indicate some potential for collaborative forms of action that may be perceived and acted upon.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The principle that goes something like “build with sovereign loans and then earn back by revving up GDP” looks promising abut it has serious implications due to:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class="">1. the scale it requires in order to succeed</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2. tresources are scattered across the face of the planet unevenly</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">3. human skillsets combine uniquely in each person</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">4. the fact that payback will not be in cash but in units our levels of human perception of potential and engagement in its realisation - for which it will have to be a “payment” of sorts.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">5. it can easily be hi-jacked by what I have termed the “Growth Model of Development” lovingly known as the GMD that is partnered by RRD, P&GCC and GMC about which I will tell you when I find the time</div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And possibly many others that have to be perceived and examined and responded to</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Central to it all is the shift from “Earth has to be saved from the species" to “The species has to save itself from the outcomes of its actions” - this can be avoid, undo, cycle, neutralise through compensation, etc</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am trying to find the time to re work the Earth Charter which seems like a reasonably good document - amongst other stuff I am engaged with.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Those fellows who turned up at the press conference with the mirror deal have to be contacted and engaged along with others who are looking at geo engineering…guidance of planetary processes is a vital part of planetary guidance….</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It is much more than inquiry</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It is the carving out of a perceptual pathway along those who perceive can move forward….</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class="">Nirmalan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 26, 2020, at 23:33, Shannon McArthur <<a href="mailto:sparklingwithall@gmail.com" class="">sparklingwithall@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Nirmalan, the article offers the answer to your question: "<span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);font-family:Lato;font-size:18px" class="">China built 12,000 miles of high-speed rail in a decade: credit created on the books of </span><a href="https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/chinese-financial-system-elliott-yan.pdf" style="box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:currentcolor;color:rgb(147,98,0);font-weight:bold;font-family:Lato;font-size:18px" class="">government-owned banks</a><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);font-family:Lato;font-size:18px" class=""> was advanced to pay for workers and materials, and the loans were </span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704025304575283953879199386" style="box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:currentcolor;color:rgb(147,98,0);font-weight:bold;font-family:Lato;font-size:18px" class="">repaid with profits</a><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);font-family:Lato;font-size:18px" class=""> from passenger fees. "</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);font-family:Lato;font-size:18px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);font-family:Lato;font-size:18px" class="">This is interesting - I wonder if/how this form of banking could accommodate the financing of establishment of Our Heart Gardens. Holding the intention of participation in Oh-Gs being free, who would pay? Personally, I like the idea of tapping the government agencies who provide services to the participants, and businesses that use the facility to serve their mandate. I invite all imaginations to play in that field with me... Perhaps artists who sell the work they create with/in an Oh-G would pay (a tax or a fee?)... cooks who sell prepared meals (as opposed to those who serve participants freely) would pay - based on their income from sales - perhaps... </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);font-family:Lato;font-size:18px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);font-family:Lato;font-size:18px" class="">This is an interesting avenue of inquiry. There are <i class="">many</i> avenues down which I have never ventured and I value your input... This is the fun part!!</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);font-family:Lato;font-size:18px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);font-family:Lato;font-size:18px" class="">Love</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);font-family:Lato;font-size:18px" class="">Shannon</span></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 6:18 AM Nirmalan Dhas via ChatAction <<a href="mailto:chataction@communitymagic.org" class="">chataction@communitymagic.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">…"the country still needs trillions of dollars in infrastructure. Putting the unemployed to work on those infrastructure projects seems an obvious solution”<br class="">
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Who pays back and how…<br class="">
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