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10 February 2009
- 00:2000:20, 10 February 2009 diff hist +131 Main Page added link to criticism of milliongenerations.org
8 February 2009
- 01:4401:44, 8 February 2009 diff hist +1,035 N Coexistence of different civilizations on this planet for millions of generations New page: Proliferation, competition and selection seem strong forces in nature that make life resilent. Could similar forces help lead to resilent civilizations? Any single civilization would...
30 January 2009
- 13:1913:19, 30 January 2009 diff hist +567 Related topics →Theories about sustainable economy: add Andrew Oswald, elaborate Easterlin
- 09:4909:49, 30 January 2009 diff hist −2 m Main Page small edits, clarify "some" conditions of sustainable civilizations, not "the" conditions, as the perspective should elucidate some necessary conditions but not claim to have a complete picture
29 January 2009
- 10:3210:32, 29 January 2009 diff hist +799 Energy clarified order, fission; added hydrocarbon fuels
26 January 2009
- 02:3102:31, 26 January 2009 diff hist +190 Conditions of sustainable civilizations add waste, materials
- 02:2402:24, 26 January 2009 diff hist +764 Related topics →Threats to survival of civilizations, existential risks: add Daemon
19 January 2009
- 13:0413:04, 19 January 2009 diff hist +589 Related topics →Enable the future of human civilization, increase resilence of human civilization, make human civilization sustainable: add millenium ecosystem assessment
- 12:5412:54, 19 January 2009 diff hist +370 Related topics →Explaining sustainability: add Ott, wikipedia, milliongenerations.org discussion
- 11:0311:03, 19 January 2009 diff hist +318 Sustainable Sustainable rather than sustainability. Years rather than generations. Cite wikipedia. Add "indefinitely within a system".
5 January 2009
- 02:0702:07, 5 January 2009 diff hist −58 Milliongenerations:Motivation remove Carl Sagan, not sure he was thinking about nearby centuries. He did raise the point though.
- 02:0402:04, 5 January 2009 diff hist +413 Milliongenerations:Motivation add common descendants, indefinite progress will be fatal if...
- 01:3401:34, 5 January 2009 diff hist +78 Main Page Clarify civilization in billion years evolved from today's, small expansions
31 December 2008
- 10:4010:40, 31 December 2008 diff hist +74 Main Page add means for disasterous conflicts or mishaps
29 December 2008
- 17:0217:02, 29 December 2008 diff hist +259 Civilization stressed that both civilization and intelligent beings could evolve and that assumptions should be as few as possible
- 14:4314:43, 29 December 2008 diff hist −1,032 Talk:Related topics removed comment that suggested a move of a comment after executing the move
- 14:4214:42, 29 December 2008 diff hist −794 Related topics moved entry that discussed the assumption to the discussion of the assumption
- 14:4214:42, 29 December 2008 diff hist +928 N Talk:Assumption moved contribution here was originally posted by 196.12.225.116 on 19:52, 28 September 2008 on the Related Topics page
28 December 2008
- 18:4118:41, 28 December 2008 diff hist −20 Actions to be taken to achieve a sustainable civilization Reorder, expand reducing consumption
- 18:2518:25, 28 December 2008 diff hist +144 Actions to be taken to achieve a sustainable civilization add existential risk, lifeboat foundation
20 December 2008
- 10:4310:43, 20 December 2008 diff hist +669 Consumption expanded ideas around cycles.
15 December 2008
- 01:1701:17, 15 December 2008 diff hist +67 Main Page add reference to guidelines
- 01:1101:11, 15 December 2008 diff hist +130 N Milliongenerations:Vision New page: The vision of Milliongenerations.org is that there will be millions of generations with individuals who realize life is wonderful.
- 01:0501:05, 15 December 2008 diff hist +701 Main Page small corrections, add how to edit, biosphere, why the collaboration
- 00:0800:08, 15 December 2008 diff hist +702 Main Page added "let us assume that intelligent life ... continues...
7 December 2008
- 01:3501:35, 7 December 2008 diff hist −44 Population growth backed up the claimed zero growth
- 01:3201:32, 7 December 2008 diff hist +1,355 Population growth backed up the claimed zero growth
- 00:4100:41, 7 December 2008 diff hist +272 Milliongenerations:Communication of milliongenerations.org →How could the cause of milliongenerations be communicated?: added inspiration
6 December 2008
- 20:3020:30, 6 December 2008 diff hist +828 Milliongenerations:Risks →Someone could find a dreadful solution or try to influence civilization to the disadvantage of others: added discussion on futures that may be worse than none at all
2 December 2008
- 02:3902:39, 2 December 2008 diff hist −4 Milliongenerations:Competition No edit summary
- 02:3702:37, 2 December 2008 diff hist +1 m Milliongenerations:Prize correct another link
- 02:3602:36, 2 December 2008 diff hist +2 m Milliongenerations:Prize correct link
- 02:3402:34, 2 December 2008 diff hist +287 Milliongenerations:Prize reference competition
- 02:2902:29, 2 December 2008 diff hist +372 N Milliongenerations:Competition New page: Milliongenerations.org plans to organize a competiton for a prize to go once or in regular intervals to one or more contributors or alternatively one or mo...
- 02:1302:13, 2 December 2008 diff hist +99 N Milliongenerations talk:Environment for the contributions New page: For discussion: * Is the prize concept beneficial? Discuss here.
- 02:0802:08, 2 December 2008 diff hist +70 Milliongenerations:Environment for the contributions corrected link to talk page, clarified prize concept
- 01:5801:58, 2 December 2008 diff hist +251 Milliongenerations:Prize elaborated on prize concept - user determined rather than panel determined
- 01:5701:57, 2 December 2008 diff hist +337 Milliongenerations talk:Prize elaborated on prize concept - user determined rather than panel determined
- 01:4801:48, 2 December 2008 diff hist +155 N Talk:Conditions of sustainable civilizations New page: * Claim: Sustainable civilizations maintain or increase their knowledge - Could we really know? It sounds nice, but does it follow from the assumption?
- 01:4601:46, 2 December 2008 diff hist −64 Conditions of sustainable civilizations remove # maintain or increase their knowledge - could we be sure?
27 November 2008
- 02:3602:36, 27 November 2008 diff hist +19 Actions to be taken to achieve a sustainable civilization replaced the vague "worthy actions" with "attempting to be a good ancestor" (thanks, Paul!) & "be sure" > "it helps"
- 02:2502:25, 27 November 2008 diff hist +23 Actions to be taken to achieve a sustainable civilization asking for more explanation to make a recent contribution more practicable
18 November 2008
- 00:2400:24, 18 November 2008 diff hist +88 Milliongenerations:Current events add questions, assumptions
15 November 2008
- 16:4416:44, 15 November 2008 diff hist +173 Actions to be taken to achieve a sustainable civilization add sharing and implementing information
- 16:3616:36, 15 November 2008 diff hist +230 Related topics →Online collaborative efforts: bioneers, wiser earth
- 15:4015:40, 15 November 2008 diff hist +658 Related topics →Enable the future of human civilization, increase resilence of human civilization, make human civilization sustainable: add wiser earth
- 15:0915:09, 15 November 2008 diff hist +1,421 Related topics →Enable the future of human civilization, increase resilence of human civilization, make human civilization sustainable: add Ecological Design Institute, Ryn, Dot Earth, La Marguerite, YESSS
- 14:0314:03, 15 November 2008 diff hist +641 Related topics →Enable the future of human civilization, increase resilence of human civilization, make human civilization sustainable: reference to "FAIR", critique of its approach
- 13:3613:36, 15 November 2008 diff hist +7 Related topics →Perspective similar to milliongenerations.org: probably not > ..none have been found...
- 13:3313:33, 15 November 2008 diff hist +112 Related topics →Perspective similar to milliongenerations.org: elaborate assumption
- 13:1413:14, 15 November 2008 diff hist +1,284 Related topics →Online collaborative efforts: add appropedia, ekopedia, transition handbook
6 November 2008
- 00:2100:21, 6 November 2008 diff hist +107 N Milliongenerations:Communication of milliongenerations.org New page: How should the cause of milliongenerations be communicated? Who would likely be interested to contribute?
1 November 2008
- 10:3210:32, 1 November 2008 diff hist +19 Related topics →Threats to survival of civilizations: added existential risks (Nick Bostrom
- 10:2610:26, 1 November 2008 diff hist +723 Related topics →Promoting sustainable development: change title to Enable the future, added LOKA, SEHN, guardians of the future
31 October 2008
- 01:0401:04, 31 October 2008 diff hist +67 Questions clarify question over knowledge, and danger that additional knowledge may be misused
27 October 2008
- 01:3901:39, 27 October 2008 diff hist +575 Related topics →Promoting sustainable development: add Earth Chater Initiative, Tim Prosser
26 October 2008
- 18:3118:31, 26 October 2008 diff hist +1,372 Related topics →Futurology: added World Transhumanist Association, added Predicting and Shaping the Future in title
- 17:3117:31, 26 October 2008 diff hist +29 Related topics →Long term thinking: reference futurology
- 17:2017:20, 26 October 2008 diff hist +378 Related topics →Long term thinking: added FHI
- 10:0410:04, 26 October 2008 diff hist +151 Related topics →Threats to survival of civilizations: added Global Existential Risk book
- 09:5309:53, 26 October 2008 diff hist +8 m Actions to be taken to achieve a sustainable civilization corrected some grammar mistake
- 09:5209:52, 26 October 2008 diff hist +242 Actions to be taken to achieve a sustainable civilization add cradle to cradle, designer's accord
16 October 2008
- 01:1101:11, 16 October 2008 diff hist +110 How many individuals could there be on earth? rearrange, clarify
- 00:5800:58, 16 October 2008 diff hist +51 Questions add how many people could there be on earth
- 00:5700:57, 16 October 2008 diff hist +1,625 N How many individuals could there be on earth? New page: This is depends on the carrying capacity (Click [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrying_capacity here] for Wikipedia article with several references.) The question of how many individuals...
9 October 2008
- 22:4522:45, 9 October 2008 diff hist +536 N Consumption New page: The assumption that civilization(s) continue on planet earth for millions of generations means that after millions of generations it is still possible to live. Essential resources ...
- 22:3722:37, 9 October 2008 diff hist +38 Questions rearrange, clarify link to consumption
8 October 2008
- 02:1002:10, 8 October 2008 diff hist −42 Milliongenerations:Motivation correct link to related topics
- 02:0002:00, 8 October 2008 diff hist +278 Milliongenerations:Motivation added reference to Fermi paradox + space travel at expense of other beings
- 01:3401:34, 8 October 2008 diff hist +54 N Events beyond control Events beyond control moved to Events beyond any civilization's control: clarify current
- 01:3401:34, 8 October 2008 diff hist 0 m Events beyond any civilization's control Events beyond control moved to Events beyond any civilization's control: clarify
- 01:3201:32, 8 October 2008 diff hist +56 Events beyond any civilization's control clarified collision with another galaxy - milky way not sun
- 01:2301:23, 8 October 2008 diff hist +1,640 N Sustainable New page: Sustainability should be regarded as the ability of a practice to be continued. Continued for how long? Without limit, except as posed by [[events beyond control | events truly beyond the...
- 01:1801:18, 8 October 2008 diff hist +981 N Events beyond any civilization's control New page: = God = Most Christian perspectives expect an end of this world. We should not bring it about ourselves (e.g., Gen. 24:2, Mt 24:36). =Science= The sun is expected to consume the earth i...
- 00:2800:28, 8 October 2008 diff hist −1 m Questions events beyond control instread of threats beyond control
6 October 2008
- 09:2109:21, 6 October 2008 diff hist +165 Related topics →Promoting sustainable development: added Urgenda
4 October 2008
- 11:5711:57, 4 October 2008 diff hist −17 Main Page replaced "the wisdom of crowds" by "you". Many contributions may lead inspiring ideas, but individuals make the contribution.
- 11:5011:50, 4 October 2008 diff hist +595 Related topics →Promoting sustainable development: added carbonrally and sustainlane
2 October 2008
- 00:1600:16, 2 October 2008 diff hist +17 m Main Page clarification on perspective of Keynes citation
- 00:1400:14, 2 October 2008 diff hist +421 Related topics move worldchanging to correct header
1 October 2008
- 23:3523:35, 1 October 2008 diff hist +1,293 Milliongenerations:Motivation added heading "why this perspective" and elaborated the question
29 September 2008
- 16:1416:14, 29 September 2008 diff hist +1,032 N Talk:Related topics propose to move recent edit to different page
- 16:1116:11, 29 September 2008 diff hist +99 Related topics →Perspective similar to milliongenerations.org: editorial note on recent edit
28 September 2008
- 00:2600:26, 28 September 2008 diff hist +14 m Milliongenerations:Current events update links
- 00:2400:24, 28 September 2008 diff hist +789 N Milliongenerations:Board of the Foundation New page: The foundation milliongenerations.org still needs board members interested in and capable of advancing its cause, shaping its development and improving ...
27 September 2008
- 23:2923:29, 27 September 2008 diff hist +272 Milliongenerations:Foundation added communication and independence
- 23:2923:29, 27 September 2008 diff hist +273 N Milliongenerations:Charter of the Foundation New page: A notary in Utrecht has drafted a charter in September 2008. The draft (in Dutch language) is currently reviewed and potential improvements are discussed. Support and thoughts on the chart...
26 September 2008
- 23:1023:10, 26 September 2008 diff hist +381 Related topics →Threats to survival of civilizations: add existential risk, Bill Joy, Nick Bostrom
- 22:4822:48, 26 September 2008 diff hist +426 Related topics →Promoting sustainable development: add desginersaccord.org
- 22:4422:44, 26 September 2008 diff hist +365 Related topics add lifeboat
21 September 2008
- 03:0803:08, 21 September 2008 diff hist +412 Related topics added TNS and Robert, rearranged
- 02:4302:43, 21 September 2008 diff hist +2,876 Related topics added Hamaker, added Petranek's list, Keuleman's book, dieoff.org,
19 September 2008
- 15:2515:25, 19 September 2008 diff hist −28 m Milliongenerations:Guidelines for contributions correct links
- 15:2415:24, 19 September 2008 diff hist −29 Milliongenerations:Current events correct links
- 15:2315:23, 19 September 2008 diff hist +28 N Organizations concerned with or work on related topics Organizations concerned with or work on related topics moved to Related topics: clearer title
- 15:2315:23, 19 September 2008 diff hist 0 m Related topics Organizations concerned with or work on related topics moved to Related topics: clearer title
- 15:1915:19, 19 September 2008 diff hist +474 Related topics rearrange, clarify