“Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.” EarthPracticeSurvivalResourcesProductiveRelevantMonetaryPlentiful Author:Jacque Fresco
“If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.” PeopleIfsWorldEndsProblemEarthWishSocialCommonResourcesInternationalHeritageOngoingSocial Problems Author:Jacque Fresco
“As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, along with a complete inventory of Earth's resources, will form the basis for a holistic approach to cybernated decision-making.” NeedsHumansSelfEarthFormValuesWaterDecisionCommonPlansAirElementsApproachResourcesBasesCleanDecision MakingHuman SocietyHolisticSustenanceInventoryClean AirHolistic Approach Author:Jacque Fresco
“Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.” PeopleWorldCommonDemandResourcesOur TimeHeritageDeclaration Author:Jacque Fresco
“When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.” HumansEducationLimitsResourcesAvailableTagHuman PotentialPrice TagAccess To Education Book:Designing the Future Source: Designing the Future
“The uncreative mind can spot the wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot the wrong questions" The question has never been: Do we have the money? The question has always been: Do we have the resources?” MindAnswersCreativeResourcesSpotsCreative MindWrong Answers Author:Jacque Fresco
“This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up a building, say half a mile high, the material has to be available. Using statistics is not a dictatorship. It's a method of getting the most from existing resources.” IfsWantGivenHalfSupportBuildingMaterialsProjectsEvidenceResourcesMethodAvailableMilesStatisticsDictatorshipScientific Evidence Author:Jacque Fresco
“We have more than enough resources in the world. The only thing we don't have is brains in Washington.” WorldEnoughBrainResources Author:Jacque Fresco
“We don't want to hurt anybody, kill anybody, build any prisons, or build police. We want to make it unnecessary for people to steal - so they'll have access to medical care, health care, decent housing, all people, all over the world. As long as you don't share your resources, you are going to have trouble” PeopleWorldWantLongCareHurtTroubleShareResourcesPolicePrisonAccessMedicalStealingHealth CareDecentUnnecessaryHousingMedical Care Author:Jacque Fresco
“If nations join together now, before the big collapse and share their resources, they can maintain a level of sustainability. Sustain the people that is, and not banks and businesses.” PeopleIfsBigsTogetherNationsLevelsShareResourcesSustainabilityCollapse Author:Jacque Fresco
“I'd declare all the world's resources as a common heritage of all the world's people and get them to join and become one nation who takes care of the environment, the earth, the atmosphere. I'd abolish all separate nations because they are all corrupt.” PeopleWorldCareEarthNationsCommonEnvironmentResourcesTake CareAtmosphereHeritageAbolish Author:Jacque Fresco
“At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war.” WorldYearsFirstsWarEnoughFightingWinningAnswersClassAchieveProduceResourcesGoldMereProductionsAvailablePlanesWar Of The WorldsFundWorld War IiWorld War IEfficiencyAircraftFirst Class Author:Jacque Fresco
“Living through the 1929 Great Depression helped shape my social conscience. During this time, I realized the earth was still the same place, manufacturing plants were still intact, and resources were still there, but people didn’t have money to buy the products. I felt the rules of the game we play by were outmoded and damaging. This began a life-long quest resulting in the conclusions and designs presented in The Venus Project.” PeopleLongStillsPlayEarthGamesSocialFeltDesignProductsShapesProjectsConscienceResourcesPlantI RealizedConclusionQuestsLong LifeManufacturingGreat DepressionVenusRules Of The Game Author:Jacque Fresco
“We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us.” WorldWayPoliticalValuesLanguageSocialCitiesPolicyHealthWasteResourcesChaosAcquireGoodsModernityChaoticSocial SystemsDetrimentalOutdatedGoods And ServicesFuturistObsolescence Author:Jacque Fresco
“If you took the profit out of war, there would be no war. What the hell do you think war is? You think we go to another country to bring democracy? We go there 'cause there's oil, resources or something we need.” IfsThinkingNeedsWarCountryWould BeCausesHellDemocracyResourcesProfitOilNo War Author:Jacque Fresco
“In our search for more, we have blinded ourselves to our personal responsibility for challenging these absurdities. A resource-based society considers us all equal shareholders of Earth. We are responsible both for the planet and for our relationship with each other.” EarthChallengesResponsibilityPlanetsEqualResourcesResponsibleOur RelationshipAbsurdityPersonal ResponsibilityBlindedShareholders Author:Jacque Fresco
“All the world's people should share all the world's resources.” PeopleWorldShouldShareResources Author:Jacque Fresco
“The teachings or the information in the Venus project is not what Jacque Fresco dictates. It’s first doing a survey of the carrying capacity of a given environment and maintaining a population in accordance of the Earth's resources, not Fresco's opinion.” FirstsEarthGivenOpinionEnvironmentTeachingInformationProjectsResourcesCapacityPopulationMaintainingSurveysVenus Author:Jacque Fresco
“If orange trees grew all over the country, you couldn't sell oranges. Do you understand that? So, all our decision making is based upon scarcity or the availability of resources. If we have a shortage of any kind of resource, we put all the labs to work on making substitute materials. People always worry about 'What if we run out of a certain material?', but we have enough technology today to make thousands of different substitutes.” PeopleIfsKindDifferentCountryEnoughRunningTodayCertainDecisionTechnologyWorryTreeMaterialsGrewResourcesSellsDecision MakingWhat IfSubstitutesOrangeLabsShortageScarcityAvailabilityOrange Trees Author:Jacque Fresco
“We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth, and at the same time, we have the power to end life as we know it. I am a futurist. I cannot predict the actual future - only what it can be if we manage the earth and its resources intelligently.” IfsKnowsEndsEarthTechnologyResourcesManageParadiseFuturistParadise On Earth Author:Jacque Fresco
“Only when science and technology are used with human concern in a world in which all of the earth's resources are held as the common heritage of all of the earth's people can we truly say that there is intelligent life on Earth.” PeopleWorldHumansEarthUsedCommonTechnologyResourcesConcernIntelligentHeritageScience And TechnologyIntelligent Life Author:Jacque Fresco
“A Resource-Based Economy is in the application of the methods of science with human concern and environmental concern. If we used the scientific method throughout the world, the probability of war drops to zero. The probability of human suffering disappears. Deprivation, poverty, crime - all those things tend to disappear because there's no basis. I'm strictly concerned with the environment that people are raised in and if that environment is altered, so will behaviors be altered.” PeopleIfsWorldHumansWarUsedSufferingPovertyEconomyEnvironmentCrimeBehaviorResourcesConcernConcernedBasesMethodRaisedEnvironmentalDisappearZeroApplicationProbabilityAlteredDeprivationScientific MethodHuman Suffering Author:Jacque Fresco
“Money is only important in a society when certain resources for survival must be rationed and the people accept money as an exchange medium for the scarce resources. Money is a social convention, an agreement if you will. It is neither a natural resource nor does it represent one. It is not necessary for survival unless we have been conditioned to accept it as such.” PeopleIfsDoeHas BeensImportantCertainSocialNaturalAcceptingSurvivalResourcesMediumsAgreementConventionsScarceNatural ResourcesScarce Resources Author:Jacque Fresco
“Each system will depend on resources available, not from the bottom up or top down. In other words, if you put 500 passengers in an airplane that's designed to carry 100, it won't get off the ground. So all decisions are made based upon the physical equipment you're working with, or the environmental resources available. They're not made by Fresco or any other person. They're arrived at by studies and research.” IfsPersonsMadeDecisionStudyDependsResearchResourcesEnvironmentalBottomAvailableAirplaneEquipmentPassengersTop Down Author:Jacque Fresco
“War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.” WarNationsDifferencesWasteResourcesSupremeResolveStandpointPragmaticWaste Of Life Author:Jacque Fresco
