The Choice Is Ours Page #8

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We can build cities, hospitals all over the world

if we use resources.

But if you conscripted all the money in the world

there's not enough money

to build hospitals and housing all over the world

and finance the education of students.

But we do have enough teachers and enough

buildings we can use for universities.

We have the resources.

Money is an interference;

because it limits our ability

and it limits our dreams.

(Narrator) Imagine the possibilities

of an unprecedented mobilization

of scientific and technical alliances

toward problem solving

without the interference of money or politics

to initiate global unification and restoration.

This could easily enable

a high standard of living for all.

This is what Jacque Fresco had in mind

when he proposed a Resource-Based Economy.

(Jacque) If our planet ran out of resources

no matter how much gold,

or money, or possessions you had

you could not survive.

Our entire survival is based upon resources.

(Narrator) Growing up in the Great Depression

in the early nineteen thirties in New York City

was a catalyst for his life's work.

Jacque explored many different

social alternatives during that time

but all seemed insufficient.

He rejected the obsolete

teaching methods of the time

and was granted

special privileges by his principal.

He read books that furthered

his interest in human behavior and social change.

His early research with

training and observing animals

led him to similar findings with people as well.

He concluded that environment shapes our values,

our identity,

and generates our behavior.

Fresco witnessed great suffering and scarcity,

even though Earth was abundant with resources.

He saw it was the rules of the game we play by

that were at fault.

Jacque started with a lot of

technical things when he was very young.

And what gave him incentive for that,

some of the first designs,

was that his younger cousin

cut his fingers in a metal fan.

So Jacque came up with a fabric fan.

He was just a little kid,

and he took it to the fan company

and they said,

"Oh, nice idea kid, but it's not practical."

Then a couple of months later,

they came out with it.

This was his first introduction

to the Free Enterprise system.

It's not free, and it's not enterprising.

Fresco grasped the necessity

to develop an entirely new social design

which integrates

the best of science and technology

dedicated toward human

and environmental concern.

To accomplish this holistic approach

Fresco studied and worked

in a wide range of fields

such as architecture,

transportation,

medicine,

behavioral sciences,

industrial design,

and more.

For most of his life, he has lectured,

written books,

designed and produced models and media

to introduce methods that could work for all,

instead of only a few individuals.

(Jacque) Sometimes, when you

talk about a new kind of world,

it frightens people.

They figure "Well gee, everything is technical.

What about the human aspect?"

And I had to devise models

and make buildings and homes

to show people what kind of home

they might live in, in the future.

I really don't know what the future will be like,

but there are possible alternatives.

Thousands of different alternatives.

(Narrator) Fresco and

co-founder, Roxanne Meadows,

built the experimental structures

to test and illustrate his designs

and provide a research center

from which to continue

furthering the aims and proposals.

We moved here in about 1980

and this was all flat tomato patch, most of it.

We got 10 acres and then another 10 acres.

Jacque wanted an island in the Caribbean

which was $800,000 (US). We couldn't afford it

so we settled on $1,000 an acre, here in Venus.

So, we made it look like a tropical island.

We planted hundreds of palm trees and fruit trees

and dug the waterways.

And then the animals came.

We have deer,

lots of alligators, bear, fox, raccoons...

So it's really living in harmony with nature here.

This is kind of an example of what

the outskirts of Jacque's cities would be like.

There would be one building

very close to another building,

but there's so many trees in between

that it looks like you're living in a forest.

(Jacque) So what the Venus Project really wants

is to unify all the nations of the world

towards common goals, such as;

clean air, clean water, non-contaminated food

and make that available to everyone.

INTELLIGENT MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCES

What is really needed

is the intelligent management

of the Earth's resources.

A Resource-Based Economy is

based on the carrying capacity of the Earth

and its resources.

If you don't work in terms of existing resources

you're working in some metaphysical plan.

In a Resource-Based Economy,

all resources would become

the common heritage of all the world's people.

And access to the necessities of life

would be for all the world's people.

There would be no more monetary systems

or trade, barter,

or any other system of human servitude.

(Narrator) A Resource-Based Economy

allows social advancement

and worldwide reconstruction

in the shortest time possible.

(Jacque) Under scientific scales of performance

we could provide everybody

with more than they need.

I'm saying that the

average person in this Venus Project

will live better than

the wealthiest people today.

(Roxanne) But first, you take

a survey of the Earth's resources.

You don't leave it up to the opinion of somebody

or a group of people.

You find out what you have

and that gives you the parameters

of what you can work with.

So you find out where

your technical personnel are,

where your water is, where your arable land is,

the health of the people

and the needs of the people

and you build according to that.

That will determine where your hospitals go,

and everything else.

(Narrator) A Resource-Based Economy

operates as a balanced-load economy.

This means avoiding shortages and over-runs

thus optimizing efficiency and conserving energy.

There would be no excesses and little waste.

It would be balanced

to the environmental conditions

and human needs.

For instance, there would be

no houses without people in them

or cargo trains travelling empty

or stored in freight yards

dependent on the business cycle for their use.

This also ensures natural resources are

not depleted, as in our present system.

(Jacque) Here's where I got the ideas from:

the human body.

The brain says "If I do all the thinking,

I want most of the nutrients."

And the lungs would say "Just a minute!

If I don't oxygenate the blood,

you couldn't work as a brain."

So the brain says

"Alright. I'll give you whatever you need."

Then the liver says "If I don't filter,

the brain and the lungs will die."

So, every organ gets whatever the hell it needs.

And so, you have a system that works.

When you get an infection in your toe,

there's no commitee meeting.

No democracy, where

they send a committee to the brain

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