CAASHE

“Coalition for the Accelerated Advancement of Socially Helpful Enterprises”

This is a nonprofit I thought up years ago when I heard about the Georgia Guidestones and various theories in favor of reducing the world population or keeping it under certain limits, slowing the growth etc. It’s just a cop-out to shy away from meeting the issues that come with the human race growing head-on and addressing them. Why do we always seem to run from problems instead of finding solutions?

The thought process is that we have many technological solutions to a lot of the problems that come with an ever-expanding population, but many are limited by cost and issues associated with scaling. It’s interesting how China viewed their large population as a problem, tried to limit it, and then woke up to the fact that is was a precious resource to be leveraged. All they had to do was open up to economic freedoms, allow natural incentives to guide economic growth, and it allowed them to become the economic powerhouse that they have in a relatively short period of time.

I believe humanity as a whole will come to see the same in the future. More people means more minds, more solutions to problems and more advancement for all if the incentives are aligned and people are able to be educated. There are areas of the world where many, many people live in very high densities with comfort, who are happy. Technology can solve the problems that come with pollution, food insecurity, waste processing etc. Greed is typically the limiting factor, or cost, as most call it.

So, CAASHE was founded to offer incentives for emerging technologies, methods of scaling things that display value for facilitating population expansion, and to shift the discourse and perception regarding population expansion towards one of “how” instead of considering avoidance as a solution. Awards for things like scalable solutions for desalinization of seawater, urban farming methods, urban-design, ways to make typically inhospitable areas habitable, waste-processing methods etc. We plan to offer grants for milestones in technological innovation and awards for achievements in these areas as well as holding conferences where ideas may be shared and relationships made that could positively influence the future of humanity being one of abundance as opposed to stagnation.