Peter Barnes' Atmospheric Trust initiative (http://www.earthinc.org/earth_atmospheric_trust.php) to reinvent capitalism as more directly protective of the environmental commons and more directly benefitting the people that inhabit the planet is similar to a trust proposed by myself in "The Lifesaver Manifesto, 1 Jan. 2006" last retrieved at http://linuxboxchatter.livejournal.com/90842.html in July 2008.
Like Barnes I proposed using a financial trust mechanism to aleviate effects of global warming. My proposal differed from Barnes' in that I did not believe in empowering individual "trustees serving long terms and provided with a clear mandate to protect Earth's climate system and atmosphere for the benefit of current and future generations." Instead, I proposed to create a much larger trust answerable to technology-enabled global direct democracy. His may have improved upon mine by including equal transfer payments to all world citizens, though this greatly reduces the working capital of the trust to adapt to and mitigate global warming. I have no idea how to avoid relatives that collect the shares of those recently dead, other than hoping that communities of people police themselves.
I suppose the biggest difference in the proposals, however, was in who made them. I am no corporate titan, sorry folks.
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