The Global Earth/Mars Initiative

<p><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>Join William Bookmaker a fictitious historian from the late 2050s as he chronicles the first thirty years (2025-2055) of the most remarkable project humanity has ever envisioned and attempted to execute.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>The project founded by Edward Fisher the world's richest person called for the realization of three bold interrelated goals:</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>�� The gradual improvement of the human condition through enduring changes in the distribution of knowledge and wealth among nations.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>�� A massive restorative effort across the world's environmental systems culminating in reducing human-generated emissions of carbon dioxide (CO</span><sub style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>2</sub><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>) to net zero by 2050.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>�� The creation of a long-term audacious near-impossible goal to spark humanity to new creative heights. Using published NASA theoretical work as his guide Fisher proposed colonizing and terraforming Mars.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>To fund what he named the </span><em style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>Global Earth/Mars Initiative</em><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)> (GEMI) Fisher raised $3.4 trillion from almost 200 nations thousands of businesses and organizations and individuals. He then handed over control of this unprecedented organization to an eccentric world-renowned scientist and a relatively unknown university professor of cultural anthropology.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>In a concise essay format historian Bookmaker describes the project - and the seminal events movements developments and characters that profoundly influenced our collective history over these thirty years - as we attempted to repair our damaged world while reaching for the stars.</span></p>