Pauline Sillinger is an environmental specialist raised in French Polynesia. She earned a B.A. Honours Environment from McGill University in Canada and she later strengthened it with two certificates in Permaculture Design and Design for Sustainability (Gaia Education). Pauline strongly believes that change comes from empowering people to take actions for themselves and their environment, which explains why most of her work has focused on working hands in hands with local communities to find tailor-made solutions that respect their livelihoods and traditions. In 2017, she started working for the Fédération des Association de Protection de l’Environnement “Te Ora Naho”, a Polynesian NGO that gathers the private stakeholders acting for sustainable development in French Polynesia. She is currently developing a training programme for individuals who live in remote Polynesian islands so that they can become agents of change in their own communities. Pauline is also very involved in preserving the Polynesian cultural heritage as she is a Tahitian dance teacher and travels overseas to share this knowledge and passion. (Note: this is a re-upload. An earlier version of this talk had the wrong name and data in the chyron) _____________________ For more information, visit https://seasteading.org To support the project, go to https://seasteading.org/donate Buy the book "Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians" https://www.seasteading.org/book/ Learn more about the company building the first Seastead at Blue Frontiers: https://www.blue-frontiers.com Follow us on social media. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seasteading/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seasteadinginstitute/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/seasteading ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkBT0qGwtuE

This episode is the first of a series of episodes in which the the seavangelist of The Seasteading Institute, Joe Quirk, and the Seavangelesse of Blue Frontiers, Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, drink two bottles of wine and speak for 5 hours. In the space of five hours they speak openly about seasteading, politics, governance, and about the misconceptions that the mainstream press has about seasteading. In this first episode Nathalie tells the story of how she fall in love with seasteading and tells the journey that in her life took her from her life as a painter of fractals to a political scientist, to doing a PhD on complexity science studying the Floating Island Project, and then becoming the seavangelesse of Blue Frontiers. 1:05 How did Nathalie become so passionate about seasteading 1:45 Fractals 2:20 Colombia’s political situation 5:15 Fractal governments 6:50 Chaos theory 8:05 Complexity science 9:00 The influence of complexity science in decentralising governance 9:50 Decision-making mediated by the internet and unbounded by nation-states 11:10 Open source global legislation systems 12:50 Network forms of decision-making 13:35 The Memorandum of Understanding 14:00 The selection of the Floating Island Project as Nathalie`s PhD case study 14:27 Nature is anarchic 16:20 The future is heterarchical 18:55 The iterative nature of the universe… all the way to seasteading 20:20 The misinterpretation about anarchism 19:50 Against governments and nation-states 22:45 Seasteading and lack of centralized-control 23:50 Heterarchy 24:30 Why did Nathalie, a complexity scientist and anarchist, decide to study the Floating Island Project 27:10 Primordial soup 27:50 Nation-States are outdated 28:15 Representative democracy doesn’t work 29:20 Voting is pointless 30:35 Nathalie will run for Colombia’s presidency in 2022 _____________________ For more information, visit https://seasteading.org To support the project, go to https://seasteading.org/donate Buy the book "Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians" https://www.seasteading.org/book/ Learn more about the company building the first Seastead at Blue Frontiers: https://www.blue-frontiers.com Follow us on social media. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seasteading/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seasteading... Twitter: https://twitter.com/seasteading ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTCLfemnN44

Minister on several occasions between 2003 and 2011 in various portfolios, he then joined the BANQUE SOCREDO group to become deputy managing director of the banking subsidiaries OSB, OFINA and ODI. He took charge in May 2015 of the Ministry of Economic Recovery, the Blue Economy, the Digital Policy, responsible for investment promotion, Assembly of French Polynesia and the CESC after having been elected Representative to the Assembly of French Polynesia as President of the A TI’A PORINETIA Group which he founded. Following a ministerial reshuffle, he is now Vice-President of French Polynesia, Minister of Economy and Finance, in charge of major investment projects and economic reforms. _____________________ For more information, visit https://seasteading.org To support the project, go to https://seasteading.org/donate Buy the book "Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians" https://www.seasteading.org/book/ Learn more about the company building the first Seastead at Blue Frontiers: https://www.blue-frontiers.com Follow us on social media. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seasteading/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seasteadinginstitute/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/seasteading ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxvoXOD5xkw

Sometimes people from the Navy and from oil rigs in the North Sea say Seasteaders are naïve. “Take it from an old sailor,” a supporter wrote. “The seas are brutal. Stormy. Freezing. With waves so high, seasickness makes you vomit and die. You better be prepared and trained.” But environments on the sea are as diverse as environments on land. Just as the continents feature the Himalayas and the Sahara, the oceans feature the North Sea and the tropics. Ocean Builders calculates that there is 3 times more area in hurricane-free ocean than there is habitable land in the world. Chad and Nadia’s first affordable single-family seastead was built in the Andaman Sea, because it’s the most benign ocean environment close to a thriving tourist destination. Winds are calm, waves higher than five meters have never been recorded, and it’s hundreds of miles from the nearest pirate. And that’s not all: there are thousands of miles of oceans just like this. With this technology we can populate the largest frontier on the planet, starting now. Many oil rigs have to be built in the North Sea, because that’s where the oil is. Many Navy ships must sail through stormy seas, because that’s where security is required. But seateaders will build where families want to live: calm, clear waters with beautiful tropical weather. If you’d like to learn more about real paradises at sea, go to Seastading.org and read Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngF6D-VMAAA