🌱 Place X: Tier 1 Essentialist Lifestyle Model

Minimum Sustainable Lifestyle – Personal vs. System Impact

This model outlines the baseline per capita ecological footprint (in hectares/year) needed to sustain a life of dignity, community, and long-term regeneration. It represents the minimum viable lifestyle in the Place X system, post-collapse and post-consumer culture.

Note that this analysis splits the consumption into personal use cost and system cost — meaning that which is consumed by the individual vs. that which is consumed by the system that makes the resource possible for multiple individuals.

📊 Summary

• Total per capita footprint: ~1.18 ha/year
  
  

  • Personal use: ~0.459 ha (~39%)
    
    

  • System cost: ~0.72 ha (~61%)
    
    

🧬 Core Domains

🍽️ Nutrition

• Food: Plant-based, 2,300 kcal/day — 0.18 (Personal) / 0.22 (System)
  
  

• Drinking Water: 2–3L/day, rain-fed — 0.001 / 0.002
  
  

• Hygiene (bathing, dishes, toilet): Minimal, regenerative loops — Total ~0.01 / ~0.04
  
  

🏡 Shelter

• Housing: 22 m²/person, thermally efficient — 0.03 / 0.05
  
  

• Maintenance & Upgrades: Local salvage + design — 0.004 / 0.035
  
  

🔌 Energy

• Electricity: 100 kWh/month/person, solar — 0 / 0.05
  
  

• Thermal: Biomass or solar heating — 0.01 / 0.02
  
  

🚲 Mobility

• Primary: Walking, biking, shared EV — 0.017 / 0.054
  
  

• Secondary: Trains, ships, emergency-only flights — 0.007 / 0.032
  
  

🌐 Infocomm

• Coordination (blockchain ID, messaging): 0.003 / 0.025
  
  

• Digital Access (text/audio/local mesh): 0.002 / 0.005
  
  

• AI Use (daily planning, governance): 0.005 / 0.04
  
  

🛠️ Goods & Tools

• Clothing, tools, consumables: Local fiber & shared libraries — 0.016 / 0.035
  
  

🏥 Health

• Medical, mental care, basic meds: Community-supported — 0.006 / 0.03
  
  

🧘 Leisure & Creativity

• Play, sports, art, nature time: Modest shared spaces — 0.018 / 0.062
  
  

📚 Learning

• Literacy, practical skills, nature-based learning — 0.007 / 0.025
  
  

♻️ Waste

• Organic: Compost loops — 0.001 / 0.01
  
  

• Non-organic: Minimal, tightly controlled — 0.002 / 0.015
  
  

🌍 Civic Life & Governance

• Roles: Participation, aid, mediation, infrastructure — 0.013 / 0.065
  
  

🕊️ Spirituality

• Rituals, reflection, shared narrative — 0.002 / 0.005
  
  

📐 Hectare Model Logic

• 1 ha ≈ 10,000 kWh/year of solar PV productivity
  
  

• Personal vs. System ha split: ~39/61%
  
  

• Lifestyle supports up to 2.54 billion people globally with 3,000 M ha total available biocapacity
  
  

• AI accounts for ~74% of all system-side electricity, used primarily for governance, planning, and budgeting
  
  

• A future shift to PAIX (Post Anthropocentric Intelligence Exchange) is expected to reduce AI energy needs by 10–100×
  
  

❌ Zero Footprint Systems (Excluded)

These categories have 0 ha allocation, as they are incompatible with Place X:

• Militaries, police, surveillance, prisons
  
  

• Bureaucracy and centralized government
  
  

• Subsidy models or unequal access
  
  

• Fossil fuel infrastructure
  
  

• Institutionalized child/elder care