To achieve thriving future, what will you do? Example: To achieve thriving future [for all forever], we (Thrive!) created and lead “Thrive! – All Thrive Forever” and the “Thrive! Endeavor”.
Our endangered future. Some don’t believe it and act accordingly. Some don’t want to believe it and act accordingly. Some believe it but do not act. Some believe it but do not act well. Some believe it and act well, but they are not enough. Together, we must believe and act well enough to change an endangered future into a thriving future for all. A Thrivist’s belief and actions. http://www.Thrivism.world
How do we survive and thrive while being unselfish.
We all must be unselfish if we want a surviving and thriving future for all. We all must unselfish ourselves and other humans. We all must stop being selfish! If we want to avoid early extinction for humans and other creatures and avoid greater damage to Earth.
We have a choice to make. Wise choice is a surviving and thriving future for all. Thrive! is a way to change our behavior and change our future to a much better surviving and thriving future. Thrive! is all of us together, a vast human endeavor, building a thriving future for all.
How to survive & thrive while being unselfish. We all must stop being selfish! We all must unselfish ourselves & other humans. We all must be unselfish if we want a surviving & thriving future for all. @ http://www.unselfish.world/index.htm @ http://Amazon.com
Be Unselfish. This one change in human behavior can achieve a thriving future for all – humans, many other creatures and Earth. Avoid a very bad future for all. We all need to be unselfish. “Unselfish” book free download @ http://Unselfish.world Also at http://Amazon.com
Message: Facing a future filled with uncertainty but within their control, humans must choose and achieve a thriving future or live a future of early extinction for humans and many other creatures and great damage to Earth. www.GChris.com
Thrive! A thriving future for all if and only if humans stop being selfish, shortsighted and stupid. Then and only then will there be a thriving future for all humans, all other creatures and Earth. http://www.ThriveEndeavor.org
Thrivist, as a person and people, strives to achieve surviving and thriving future. A Thrivist succeeds only if remains positive, is sustained long-term, and produces thriving for self and all others, including Earth. A Thrivist’s ultimate aspiration is achievement of thriving future for all – all people, all other creatures, and Earth. www.ThriveEndeavor.org
Many, many humans thought that if the human species faced threat of a global disaster, it would unite to stop the threat. To stop the global disaster. Wrong! So very wrong!
For much of human history, it was thought that a global disaster would unite humans in a common cause. Together prevent the disaster. Or worst case, together minimize the damage.
Threat might be from an approaching asteroid. Might be from a deadly virus striking globally and killing millions. While the first one has not happened and may not happen, the last one has. What happened? What does it tell us about the human species and its future?
What happened? Though not even the most deadly and devastating virus that humans might still face, it was very, very bad. Globally, over 550 million were infected by COVID-19. Over 6 million died.
When the moment came to stop the virus early enough to limit deaths to less than 1,000, we failed. When the moment came to mitigate virus’ devastation, we were more divided than united. We failed. Failing even to take easiest of measures (vaccination, masking, physical distancing) to mitigate devastation. To stop the virus from infecting. A preventable global disaster. An unmitigated global disaster.
COVID-19 was the test. We failed the test. Failed miserably.
What does it tell us about the human species? We have the ability to avoid a very, very bad future. But we are likely to have failure of will.
Did we learn anything? Anything likely to give us necessary will to avoid the very, very bad future which is coming? Coming far too quickly. Coming with far too devastating impact on humans, on other creatures and on Earth.
As a species, there is pretty much nothing we learned. Nothing that will sufficiently change our behavior. Nothing that gives us comfort that we will avoid the coming very, very bad future.
Does this have to happen? No!
We can do better. Much better. We have ability to avoid the coming very, very bad future. Have ability to build and achieve a thriving future for all. A much, much better future.
The human species developed great knowledge on how to build a better future. Developed tools and skills necessary to build a better future. Developed resources necessary to build a better future. The human species, as a species, is very smart. Unfortunately, it is often not very wise.
Is there much hope that humans will find the will to avoid a very, very bad future? Find the will to build and achieve a thriving future for all? If we are truly honest with ourselves, the answer is likely no.
Very sad. Very, very sad. How do we explain this or justify this to future generations whose future is a very, very bad future? We can’t. We can only say that we are very, very sorry for the mess we made. For the mess we failed to prevent or clean up when we had the chance.
Future generations should be very, very angry. They should accuse this and past generations of dereliction of duty. They should scream. Should wail. Should mourn the loss of a thriving future.
But there is still a chance. A chance to avoid the coming very, very bad future. To build and achieve a thriving future for all. But it is a rapidly diminishing chance.
A chance if and only if we join together now. Join together as we have never done before. Behave better than we have ever done before.
What will be the legacy of the human species? Will it be failure of will? Will it be loss of thriving future? Or will we, the human species, change enough to achieve a thriving future for all?
Our world not surviving. Why positive, massive and urgent behavior change now? Why stop being selfish, shortsighted and stupid? Why choose a thriving future? If we don’t, we should immediately fear and will face immediate threat of our world not surviving. www.EndangeredFuture.orgwww.ThriveEndeavor.org
From above, a faraway set of eyes try to understand what is happening on Earth.
They are happy for the child thrivist. The child is so hopeful. So committed to pursuing the thrivist path. So committed to building a thriving future for all.
They are encouraged by those around the child who stop being selfish, shortsighted, and stupid.
To achieve surviving and thriving future and avoid early extinction for humans and many other creatures and avoid greater damage to Earth, we humans must positively, massively and urgently change human behavior now.
That requires large, direct and positive action by almost all humans (individuals, communities, countries, world) now. Most importantly, we humans must stop being selfish, shortsighted and stupid.
Happy, Thriving New Years?? If we have the will, we can achieve thriving future for all! All we must do is: Stop being selfish! Stop being shortsighted! Stop being stupid! With these bold actions, we go from facing early extinction of ourselves and other creatures to a thriving future for all. Best New Year’s Resolution for ourselves, all other creatures, and Earth! Happy, Thriving New Years For All! www.ThrivingFuture.org
As humans and many other creatures face early extinction and Earth is more and more damaged, the Whimseys Angel and Wiley come to Earth. They join the dinosaur at the United Nations who pleads with humans – “don’t choose extinction”. Angel and Wiley plead with humans to avoid early extinction. Plead that humans stop being selfish, shortsighted, and stupid. www.ThriveEndeavor.orgwww.EndangeredFuture.orgwww.Xtinct.org
Humans, other creatures, and Earth are living on razor’s edge.
We must change our behavior if we want to avoid early extinction and greater damage to Earth and to build a surviving and thriving future for all.
Over human history, there have been several large and positive changes in human behavior. These changes demonstrate that humans are capable, even more now, to change their behavior sufficient to build and achieve a thriving future for all. Only if humans have the will.
We all must stop being selfish, shortsighted, and stupid if we want a surviving and thriving future for all. If we want to avoid early extinction for humans and other creatures and greater damage to Earth.
We have a choice. Wise choice is a surviving and thriving future for all. Thrive! is a way to change our behavior and change our future to a much better surviving and thriving future. Thrive! is all of us together, a vast human endeavor, building a thriving future for all.
Available via Amazon.com or free download. Throughout this thought piece, GChris sculptures are used to reinforce key points
Important to understand that early extinction, a terrible outcome, need not be our future. Early extinction, our current path, is our future only if we continue to behave so as to cause this very bad future.
We have a choice to make. A much better choice is the thriving path to a surviving and thriving future. Thrive!, building a thriving future, is a way to change our behavior and change our future to a much better surviving and thriving future for all.
[Includes Thrive! sculpture and thoughts by GChris.] More at ThriveEndeavor.org
Some humans may survive and thrive longer than other more vulnerable humans. But not long term and only as long as they can take advantage of more vulnerable humans, other creatures and Earth. And not by migrating to other planets.
All humans survive and thrive long term only if all humans, all other creatures and Earth thrive together.
If not, early extinction for humans and many other creatures and great damage to Earth.
New Video: Thrivism (Thrive!®) is the path to, belief in, and vision of thriving future for all – all thrive forever. It is hopeful path. Inspiring vision. Positive belief system. Positive way of life. www.Thrivism.worldwww.Thrivism.blog
Bottom Line: Unless global and immediate positive change in human behavior, highly unlikely that human behavior will change sufficient or soon enough to ensure a surviving and thriving future for humans, other creatures and Earth. www.EndangeredFuture.orgwww.Thrivism.world
To generate type, magnitude/amount and direction of human behavior sufficient to ensure survival and possibly achieve thriving, there would need to be a global catastrophe (or the intensely felt threat of one) of enormous magnitude such that it would ensure sufficient positive human behavior. But it can’t be so enormous as to prevent sufficient positive human behavior, that is, not so enormous that it effectively disables the human species or effectively kills the human species.
Catastrophes of that size might be global nuclear war, global conventional war (e.g. WWII), untreatable bacteria or virus, large asteroid, or global warming or cooling in less than a decade.
Even with a global catastrophe, humans are more likely to address that single issue and then revert as much as they can to previous behavior. Consider human behavior after previous world wars (e.g. WWI, WWII) and worldwide disease outbreaks (e.g. bubonic plague, HIV, flu, cholera).
Not clear what would be human behavior after large asteroid impact or major invasion by non-earth intelligent life. Both have often been subject of science fiction speculation.
What can we do so that all will survive and thrive?
If we stop selfishness and shortsightedness now, the natural human force (the need to survive and the desire to thrive) will fully and positively engage to cause all to survive and thrive forever.
We stop selfishness and shortsightedness when and if and only if:
we care enough about self, everyone, everything else and Earth and
we care enough about today and both near- and long-term future.
If we do, all (people, all other creatures and Earth) will survive and thrive long-term.
New Art Book – Thrive! Sculpture & Thought. Over 100 sculptures and thoughts in new art book available @ Amazon.com as paperback or Kindle book.
Thrive! Sculpture & Thought by GChris supports Thrive! and the Thrive! Endeavor to create and sustain large, positive and timely change and building a surviving and thriving future for all forever.
Acquire Thrive! Sculpture by GChris and 100% of Chris’ payment goes for Thrive! Scholarships at University of Wisconsin – Madison. Chris donates his sculpture. For sculpture acquisition costs, see list. To support scholarship and acquire sculpture, contact Chris at GChris@GChris.com or 301 318 3760.
Thrivism as a path, a positive belief system, and a positive way of life for a person and people for today and the future, addresses four key elements:
Our nature, as person and people, is our need to survive and desire to thrive in the current world and a thriving future world.
Our relationship with other persons and the surrounding world is driven and governed by our need to survive and desire to thrive in current world and thriving future world.
Our knowledge of our selves and the world comes from 1) inputs resulting from striving to survive and thrive and 2) the mind processing inputs to achieve greater knowledge.
Our actions are driven by our need to survive and desire to thrive but influenced by 1) other persons and surrounding world and 2) our need and desire for a long term, thriving future.
Solving even a problem as large as climate change is not enough.
Thrivism is a positive, holistic path to, belief in, and vision of thriving future for all – all thrive forever. Not just for solving problems. It is hopeful path. Inspiring vision. Positive belief system. Positive way of life. More @ Thrivism.world
New Book: The Thrive! System® – Achieving Thriving Future For All. Thrive! Systems’ vision is thriving people and communities with highest levels of thriving for all everywhere. To achieve thriving people, Thrive! Systems provide community and personal level support systems for surviving and for achieving thriving. Available via Amazon.com (paperback and eBook) and free download at ThrivingFuture.org
New Thrivism Blog:www.Thrivism.blog Thrivism (Thrive!) – Path to Thriving Future For All.
Thrivism (Thrive!®) is a path to, belief in, and vision of thriving future for all – all thrive forever. It is hopeful path. Inspiring vision. Positive belief system. Positive way of life.
Thriving Health System – Achieving healthy and thriving people and communities for all everywhere. In our lives, if we survive birth, only two things are sure about our health. We are born. We die. Everything else varies from person to person and over a person’s lifetime. Better than our current “health system”, a Thriving Health System gives us our best chance to be healthy throughout our lifetime. Our having a Thriving Health System for our community ensures we are healthier and potentially thriving people in a healthier and potentially thriving community.
Thrive! Discuss and strategize our future. Extinction? Just surviving? Thriving? “All thrive forever”? Maybe you join Thrive! Endeavor – Call to action and a rallying cry for a better future. Thrive! – Vision and mission for those wanting to build a better future for all.
HealthePeople. Discuss and strategize achieving healthy people. Best personal, community or country health system? HealthePeople – Integrated strategy and effective reform that would result in accessible, affordable and high-quality health systems everywhere.
Thrive! Sculpture by GChris. Tour Studio/Gallery. Interact with 200+ sculptures. Copper and wood. Sizes from a foot to dozen feet. Some make sounds. Some move physically; some move conceptually. All generate shadows. All payments go to Thrive! scholarship fund.
Thrive! Park. See great scenic views of Mississippi River and Lake Pepin. Walk/hike bluff side/top roads and trails year-round Experience goat prairie restoration on bluff sides/tops.
Historic 1885 Era Bluffside Farm. Tour fully renovated/restored house, barn and beehouse with views of Mississippi River and bluff. Learn about life on small bluffside farm in 1880s.
New Thrive! Park [Nelson, WI] – Open for Public Hiking/Walking
Thrive! Park is a new public park of the Village of Nelson and was donated by Gary “Chris” Christopherson.
The Park is unique in that it consists of over 25 acres of Mississippi River bluff top and bluff side. The primary bluff is Three Sisters (northernmost Sister is private land) and Lost Brother. The three southernmost bluff tops (two of the Sisters and Lost Brother) are in the Park and accessible via hiking roads and trails.
On the bluff tops and bluff sides are “goat prairies” that have recently been cleared as part of a larger prairie restoration effort around Nelson. The prairie restoration removes invasive and non-prairie plants and releases prairie plants to flourish in their native habitat.
As shown on map [See Park map below], the Park consists of hiking roads (marked in red going along bluffside and back through valley). Also, there are several hiking trails (marked in green) that go to restored bluff and prairie areas and can be accessed off the main hiking roads. Signage in the Park serves as guides to roads and trails.
No hunting or trapping is allowed since this is a park and wildlife safety area.
Thrive! Park is located east of Highway 35 in Nelson (WI). Take Cleveland Street toward bluffs. As you enter woods, turn left on Christopherson Road. Just after turn, there is a parking lot on right to park. Park entrance and road/trail markings are just left of parking lot.
Thrive! – All Thrive Forever - Vision and aspiration of a thriving future forever for all (family/friends, communities, countries, world). www.AllThriveForever.org
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Thrive! Endeavor - Mission and actions to build a thriving future for all forever. www.ThriveEndeavor.org
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Gary "Chris" Christopherson
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