Arthur Shaw on Copionics

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Plowboy: It's not in the natural way of living.

AS: It's not in the natural way of living nor is it consistent with fact. We have presupposed that there is not enough and the laws of the market have been devised to accord with this idea of "not enough" . . . which is wrong. We're challenged. As soon as we have begun to talk of sufficiency, and this is the nature of our present knowledge, we are faced with a challenge.

Plowboy: How do we effect it then? How do we deal with this sufficiency?

AS: In World Economic Organization - which, again, is the demonstration of Copionics - we take factual and actual data and conditions and assemble the data into a flow chart, a visible directive for our actions. To be more specific, we know what's produced in various areas of the globe. Certainly we know the need - need which we somehow accept today - in terms of two-thirds of the world's people being hungry and 10,000 starving to death per day.

We note these two series of facts - free availability and need - in the W.E.O. computer-programmed flow chart and, in the expression of the satisfaction of the need, we demonstrate the feasibility of free-flow exchange.

The prime question that occurs and will occur to any economist is, "how to effect payment, how to make free exchange happen, how to motivate free exchange." And here a notion of Copionics called resource credit is employed.

Plowboy: Could you give us some figures of the abundance of the food that could be distributed? How much do we waste, how much is there . . . how much most people don't even know about?

AS: The first expression of Copionics, in W.E.O., is in food, the food program. For there is the most apparent area for us to demonstrate sufficiency. The isolated pieces of news we have about the glut of wheat in Canada or the oversufficiency of potatoes plowed under out west is not persuasive enough. However, we have arbitrary and objective data.

For instance, the amount of cultivation on this planet - in terms of vegetation per day - comes to something in the area of over 200 pounds per capita. This represents vegetation which can be reprocessed, which can be extracted.

Plowboy: Over 200 pounds a day?

AS: Yes, per person. Presently, we share (or fail to share) two-thirds of a pound per person per day, and you and I know that when we eat one and a half pounds of food per day, we've lowered the amount for someone else, elsewhere.

This cultivation I refer to, by the way, is an unplanted amount of vegetation. This does not come by man's hands or effort. It is indicative of the abundance of nature itself.

Plowboy: Can we eat this vegetation?

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