[node-l] Who Wants to Be...? at The End of the World Game - streamed live from Copenhagen 18/12/2009

[Saul Albert]

Dear Nodellers,

In 1927, Buckminster Fuller started work on 'The World Game', a
simulation of world government that he hoped would enable a random group
of people to have discussions and make decisions that would:

    "make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible
    time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological damage or
    disadvantage to anyone."

The idea was that given enough information about the world's needs and
the world's resources, people could be relied upon to act rationally.
Of course, in 1927, the technology to enable this wasn't quite ready.

In Copenhagen for the next 10 days, there are two groups of people
meeting to decide what to do with the world's resources: the
politicians, lobbyists, mega NGOs and big business interests.

Then there's everyone else. On Friday 18th December, at 6pm-8:30pm GMT,
we will be hosting the 'End of the World Game', a dynamic, democratic
game-show where we ask the 300 people at the Climate Forum in central
Copenhagen, and as many Internet participants as we can muster to pledge
$10 each, then propose ideas, discuss, and then vote on how to spend all
the money they've pledged.

To try and raise enough money and ideas for the outcome of the game to
make a real difference, we've taken a lead from the global economy and
started a pyramid scheme... except this one will be to save the planet.

Visit http://pledgepyramid.org to sign up, pledge your $10, and start
seeding and voting on ideas for the show! We already have about 100
ideas and over $1000 in the bank - with 9 days to reach our $3000
target.

We hope to see you live/online in Copenhagen!

Saul

for The People Speak.

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