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book 4/1, building
book 4/1, building
campaigns & getting started
The town project have been offered an incredible site for the town and that by a powerful person. The only catch is that the uninterested government of the country in question needs to approve the project and the experiments, and that within six weeks, or the offer will expire.
What follows is a breathless account of how Alice and her team put together campaigns for the future on our planet to convince both the government and the public to support the project. At the same time another project team prepares everything near the prospective construction site so that building the town could start without delay.
Because the campaigns in this story are so relevant, I consider publishing an early draft of this story to make the ideas accessible to everyone who works for the future of our planet.
‘I thought politics was stuck in kindergarten. Turns out it’s still in the nursery.’
book 4/1, building
Author’s note
Originally, book 4 was to be published in two books. But since the original first part of this book has grown so much, I reconsidered. Now, book 4 will be published, fittingly, in four books.
CONTENTS
Prelude
breathe
- day 39, starting line
- days 38-37, seclusion
- days 36-33, press conference & first interactions
- days 32-31, Jellybridge
- days 30-20, campaigns, speeches, reactions
- days 20-18, Jellybridge
- days 17-13, pushing
- days 12-11, spring, defiance, Jellybridge
- days 10-8, more meetings, more defiance
- days 7-2, seven days left
- day 1, the final day
- day 1, the first day
- days 2-7, the first week
- days 8-23, Easter Holidays
- days 24-32, after the holidays
breathe
‘You know how people tend to say: “But who will pay for all this?” I thought about it, and I came to the conclusion that from now on my response will be: “So long as you find the money for subsidies, state receptions, the entertainment industry, the military, or for bribes for political and economical gain, and for all the other kinds of ambiguous expenses, I will not think about this question again.” And I might add: “Probable fun fact: if we build our town and do a good job with our experiments, then many government expenses won’t be necessary any more.”’
notes for book 4/1, building
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