Big Challenges Demand Comprehensive Solutions

Empowering humanity is like putting a man on the moon. Empowerment will not be our first great victory and it will not be our last.

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

"If I were to say, my fellow citizens, that we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston, a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of this football field, made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet been invented, capable of standing heat and stresses several times more than have ever been experienced, fitted together with a precision better than the finest watch, carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance, control, communications, food and survival, on an untried mission, to an unknown celestial body, and then return it safely to earth, re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles per hour, causing heat about half that of the temperature of the sun—almost as hot as it is here today—and do all this, and do it right, and do it first before this decade is out—then we must be bold."

—John F. Kennedy, We Choose To Go To The Moon

Go Big or Go Home. Half-measures won't cut it anymore.

The complexity of the challenges facing the modern world calls for comprehensive solutions that weave numerous threads together into a strong and expansive system that addresses all the interrelated aspects.

Solving problems with half-measures satisfies immediate needs but it doesn't lead to the fullfillment of our potentials.

Comprehensive solutions may sound complicated, but the effort is worth it,

A comprehensive solution takes more work to tie together, but it becomes an expanding platform on which to build.

"It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one."

—Sir Francis Bacon

Comprehensive solutions needn't be overwhelming. No one can do everything, but everyone can do something, and we can contribute to little pieces of the puzzle that ties into the pieces other people are working on and add up to a larger purpose.

Reaching Escape Philosophy

Gravitational friction pulls revolutions down before they get off the ground and how a successful transformation must reach escape philosophy in order to get enough momentum to break free from this tendency towards returning to business as usual.

Got Side-Effects?

Solving a food shortage problem without considering the environmental impacts may solve the food problems of today but it could be an even larger problem of tomorrow. 

A good example of such short term planning is the modern nuclear waste crisis.  Sure the problems of power shortages where alleviated at the time but now we are generating volitile waste to be the insolvent problems of tomorrow.

Solving one problem while creating another creates a half-solution.  We need complete and comprehensive solutions for our world and our lives!

Every solution must solve the problem on hand without creating additional problems down the road without having a sustainable plan to alleviate these aftershock issues.