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Although environmental awareness has reached a historical high point, due to advancing climate instability, there is the risk of shifting from do-little complacency directly into panic mode, with military spending rising and democratic freedoms diminishing in many countries. In the UK there is political support for waste incineration and nuclear power but no debate on switching the economy away from dependence on turning fuels (or anything else) into wastes.

A helpful development is the Chinese plan for a law on circular economy, which expresses their intention to shift from the dominant model of linear (waste producing) economics to a circular model, in which all products are planned to end up as new resources. On a global scale this would achieve a sustainable precycled planet.

_{BlindSpot's Plan}
Write and maintain this site.
Send paper to key people - their responses will be published on this site.
Write further articles to publicise options for sufficient global action.
Find somewhere for James Greyson and family to live and work. Please see www.livenearlewes.org.uk.
Find ways for the public to ask governments for precycling insurance.
The time available to do all of these, and more, will depend on the feedback and support received.

_{Progress with the plan}

April 2008: The UN Climate Neutral Network announce BlindSpot as a new participantat at an international press conference at the Business for the Environment (B4E) summit, held in Singapore on April 22-23.

January 2008: James Greyson invited to join a United Nations Economic and Social Council Forum on Sustainable Development, intended to gather ideas for the UN system on scaling-up and accelerating progress. See his contribution here.

November 2007: James Greyson invited to speak at a NATO Workshop entitled  “Energy options impact on regional security and sustainable development with emphasis on human & societal dynamics”, to be held in Split Croatia in September 2008.

November 2007: James Greyson invited to join the Scientific Advisory Board of the 6th edition of the biennial International Workshop "Advances in Energy Studies", to be held in Graz, Austria, at the beginning of July 2008. See http://www.aes08.tugraz.at

September 2007: Short article by James Greyson published in Autumn newsletter of International Simultaneous Policy Organisation.

July 2007: James Greyson presents a paper at a NATO Advanced Research workshop in Naples in July 2007. Precycling insurance and Gross Peaceful Product both presented. Proceedings to be published by Springer in a NATO Peace and Security Series.

June 2007: James Greyson contributes precycling insurance as a case study in a forthcoming book by sustainable design expert Prof Janis Birkeland. "Positive Development" will be published by Earthscan.

May 2007 Paper published. Greyson J. An economic instrument for zero waste, economic growth and sustainability. Journal of Cleaner Production. Elsevier 2007;15:1382-1390. www.blindspot.org.uk

March 2007: Precycling insurance is added as a prospective "simultaneous policy", among other changes best made internationally. See http://www.simpol.org.uk/policy.php

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