The Crash Course, Revised Edition

CHAPTER 3A World Worth Inheriting

My mission, and the mission of my company and team, is to create a world worth inheriting. I have three children, and every expectation of having grandchildren someday. I fervently wish to leave them a world as good as the one I was born into. I want them to have the same opportunities that I enjoyed.

This mission extends well beyond my own small clan. I want your children and grandchildren to have access to an abundant world filled with interesting critters, meaningful relationships, purposeful activities, and ample career choices where they can apply their gifts and talents. I believe a world in which everyone enjoys a good measure of prosperity enriches us all.

I am concerned, however, that our current path and trajectory will deliver the exact opposite of these hopes and dreams. My worry is that the cultural inertia of those in power will guide us toward a series of wasted efforts to sustain the unsustainable. The social forces always conspire to keep the status quo chugging along but it is that very trajectory that will deliver us into a future of completely avoidable crisis and shortages. If we allow this to happen, what we will face is a future of scarcity, conflict, and diminished opportunities.

I cannot accept those outcomes and so I have spent nearly every day of the past 15 years building and operating the website PeakProsperity.com. Beyond being a repository of articles, videos, and data, Peak Prosperity is a vibrant community of ...