The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution › About Vinay Gupta

Head over to Re.silience.com. It’s a much better starting point than here! Click through to Re.silience.com. (if you are interested in my professional work, try here) I am trying to keep you alive. There are lots of threats which governments are either ignoring or causing. Nuclear war, bioweapons, even plain old conflict are driven by resource scarcity. A likely response to increasing resource scarcity (manifest as economic problems and rising prices) is centralization of power (fascism). Finding better solutions than centralization and war is my life’s work. To this end I’ve worked extensively with government, the military, some large companies and think-tanks – but most of all with the Free and open source community – to solve real problems. Click here if your browser doesn’t support HTML5 video This video me in action at Surviving the Event. Here is a visual index of my activities. If you are professionally interested in my work, read on. You may find my perspective useful in three areas:

The Causemopolitan - Cause-Filled Living TED openMaterials POCLAD - Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy Deep Change Open Source Ecology Hunger and Environmental Nutrition - Welcome Op-ed: CO2 Atmospheric CO2 is approaching 400 parts per million for the first time in about 15 million years. That's more than a 40 percent increase since the 19th century. It's currently increasing at least 10 times faster than during the previous record high, which by strange coincidence was set right before the end-Permian extinction, 250 million years ago. A mountain of evidence has convinced the overwhelming majority of scientists that our skyrocketing CO2 emissions have very likely caused most of the global warming since 1950. The National Academies recently projected about 1 to 5 feet of sea level rise along the Southern California coast by 2100. The increased chance of extreme heat waves increases drought severity and frequency, such as those in 2005 and 2010 in the Amazon, and 2011 in Texas and the Midwest. Heat waves, droughts and wildfires will be more severe in continental interiors, such as during the 2010 Russian wheat crisis. Over a billion people depend on seafood.

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