An over-idealistic subtitle that screams of naïvety and righteousness

What is The Venus Project?

We propose a fresh, holistic approach – one that is dedicated to human and environmental concerns. It is an attainable vision of a bright and better future, one that is appropriate to the times in which we live, and both practical and feasible for a positive future for all the world’s people.  We advocate an alternative vision unlike any social system that has gone before. Our conclusions are based on years of study and experimental research by many people from various scientific disciplines.  We call for a straightforward approach to the redesign of a culture, in which the age-old inadequacies of war, poverty, hunger, debt, environmental degradation and unnecessary human suffering are viewed not only as avoidable, but totally unacceptable.

The Venus Project is a veritable blueprint for the genesis of a new world civilization, one that is based on human concern and environmental reclamation. One fundamental premise is that we work towards having all of the Earth’s resources as the common heritage of all the world’s people. Anything less will simply result in a continuation of the same catalog of problems inherent in the present system.

Experience tells us that human behavior can be directed, either toward constructive or destructive activity. This is what The Venus Project is all about – directing our technology and resources toward the positive, for the maximum benefit of people and planet, and seeking out new ways of thinking and living that emphasize and celebrate the vast potential of the human spirit. We have the tools at hand to design and build a future that is worthy of the human potential.

The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture. Our proposition is not an attempt to predict what will be done, only what could be done. The responsibility for our future is in our hands, and depends on the decisions that we make today. The greatest resource that is available today is our own ingenuity.

“a radically different society, where ownership of material possessions is unnecessary”

“a peaceful and sustainable global civilization”

“where human rights are no longer paper proclamations but a way of life”.

“A world wide system of resource control based on a science approach”

This all screams of leftist globalist border-less gobble-de-gook..!  Fresco comes across sounding like the leader of a quasi-religious cult, like Scientology.

Concentric design presumably inspired by Plato’s Atlantis description

The so-called “Research City”, sounds very Orwellian..!   

Presumably this is the kind of lifestyle that the Fresco’ elite would enjoy.  Houses such as this one may look pretty but they also imply a very low population density, so the residents would be dependent on cars.    

The Venus Project is fuzzy-minded, over-idealistic and unrealistic on so many levels. The concentric city design is obviously modelled on Plato’s description of Atlantis, thus putting it in the realms of “Ancient Astronauts” and pseudo-science.

BASED ON ATLANTIS

The circular design may look esthetically appealing, but how do you add to or augment such a city, except by adding more circles..?  But each new circle will need to have an exponentially wider circumference than the previous outer circle.  Such a design would only be viable in a broad flat plain.  What if there are hills or slopes or other obstacles in the way?

Unlike a modular concept such as Oasis-Cities, which could be easily augmented by adding additional modules, the concentric-city model requires a wide flat plain and, for many reasons, is not a template that could be easily replicated.