Saturday, September 28, 2019

Managing World-Communication: the GNI example

Not a very modest title, I must admit. But someone has to think about that, at least. Why? You could ask, until know there was no real management of the world communication. The reason for the new exigency lies in one concept: Anthropocene! (Wp) It means that the mankind is now responsible for the well-being of its own planet. The assumption is that the basis of this concept is older and part of the ideas of Modernity. For example the famous "Operation Manual for Spaceship Earth", by Buckminster Fuller (Wp, the text can be downloaded from the URL). Fuller and cyberneticists are showing the technical conditions how a Green New Deal could indeed be implemented. However, it seems to be that central aspects of a Great Transformation of (World-)Society are disregarded: The political and the linguistic dimensions of the Great Transformation. One example is the Global Energy Network, which is which is supported by the GENI (Global Energy Network Institute), The Wikipedia-page of the GENI gives an overview about the history of the project. Looking at the GENI-Homepage covering the World Energy Congress 2013, the problem of merely technical solutions is getting obvious: Although it could be a good idea to connect the world with an Global Energy Network, networking some countries (here mentioned Japan, South & Nord Korea, China and Russia) is politically naïve. The new idea of improving the American Power Grid System with chinese technology (a very recent idea) seems to be a bit more straightforward, because it involves only American Territories, especially the USA. But of course with the Trump administration in the US also this national project is nonconvertible. The other problem seems to be that GENI is not linking to already existing projects. There are already existing Energy Networks worldwide the biggest of which is the (formerly) UCTE grid (Wp) in Europe. The Energy transition (Wp) especially in Europe (and there Germany and Switzerland) are showing that this transitions has to managed nationally and even locally. And here is the linguistic dimension of the World-Society is an important feature. But how could a World communication Management looks like that is really dealing with the climate crisis and other ecological problems? There has to be a mixture of top-down and bottom up approaches, just like in case of strengthening resilience (this blog, older post) And international organizations has to be involved. The UN has done an important contribution with the SDGs and helping young people with fight for future. But UNO can't go alone for various reasons. Especially the western countries are responsible for most of the climate change throughout history,  therefore a "Western" organizations should coordinating the actions of the National Governments: the OECD (Wp) should coordinate the efforts of the Western Governments for establishing a new Green Economy.               

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