NOW

The sky is falling. Biz as usual ain’t gonna reverse this course. There are reasonable measures, if enacted ASAP, that can potentially mitigate some of the pain and suffering. Here are a few I’m championing:

(1.) IT’S THE SECRET BALLOT, STUPID.

THE PROBLEM

The future survival of our species is directly linked to the future survival of our so-called democracy. The USA has a disproportionate level of control on what global choices and strategies are enacted (or not) to tackle climate change, wars, hunger, et all. This should be a bed-wetting, hand biting level of concern for all of us considering the absurd state of our political system.

THE SOLUTION

What if we could repair nearly all that’s wrong with Congress in one fell swoop? We can: Return all Congressional voting to the secret ballots. Transparency has its place, but just not when it comes to the ability of our congressional representatives to courageously vote in our best interests. Click here to learn more: https://www.congressionalresearch.org/

Transparent voting essentially terrorizes every elected representative. Why? Because when everyone knows how you vote– be prepared to be pilloried, primary’d, and pummeled with death threats if you dare vote against the party powers (not hyperbole). By contrast, if this same vote was cast as a secret ballot, there’d be almost no way of knowing which representative cast the dissenting vote. Without a specific representative to attack, the monied mobs will be unsure how best to target their vitriol, smear campaigns and super-pac funds. If the vote to impeach Donald Trump (both times) had been secret ballot the smart money would have been on his going down. People (even congresspeople) will most often do the right thing when not fearing for their livelihoods or lives.

Indeed, even the Constitution itself was negotiated in secret. Both James Madison and Alexander Hamilton later reflected that secrecy had been vital to the 1787 convention’s success in reaching agreement on difficult issues.– Frances E. Lee, Princeton University (2019)

(2.) UNITED WE $TAND®

A wildly over-the-top politics and thorny social issues TV Game Show called UNITED WE $TAND / DIVIDED WE FALL®: Where Red and Blue America join forces to take back the facts! The only way to win is to Unite!

(3.) GANGPLANKER® WHo’s NEXT

CONCEPT: To create the universally accepted go-to site for the climate catastrophe. Somebody’s gotta do it. Global action will only happen if the critical mass is working off the same script.

Everyone is scared shitless of the now undeniably real and ever-snowballing impacts of the climate crisis (even the naysayers). This wasn’t the case 15 years ago when I began formulating the ideas that would eventually take the form of Gangplanker®: a concept I developed in 2012 with my friend William Hamilton, and attempted to find funders and foist on the world. Then as now (incredibly!), there is yet to be a cleverly designed, popular online one-stop-shop that encourages us to temporarily coat check our free floating fears, and to potentially inspire (incite) each of us to actually understand and address this seemingly unstoppable catastrophe.

THE PROPOSAL

Gangplanker® is a concept to individually personalize the crisis (for every human with access to the internets…), and to make chewable nuggets of the regularly updated unfiltered data. Most importantly, it’ll be the vessel for all of us to download our free-floating fears and allow us to actually take a crack at whatever possible solutions or mitigations are still available.

The first website to systematically and scientifically predict the likely future survival timeline for you and your friends. Research and statistical models provided by the sharpest and geekiest minds in the biz.

GangPlanker® • Social Networking meets Science. Life meets death. Fear meets reality

GangPlanker® will become synonymous with climate crisis as well as the vessel for all of us to download our free-floating fears. GangPlanker® will tackle the essential data and personalize it for everyone on the planet! Disastertainment® to keep you coming back for more!

If a bird falls out of the sky in your hood GangPlanker® will update your profile page with the best educated guess on why it fell and whether your touching it will give you genital warts.

Created by Vinnie Angel & William Hamilton @2012

GET OFF THE COUCH! CARTOONS®

The precursor to gangplanker®

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