Category: Building the future
There is much that needs to change to mitigate against climate change, but we must build more people-centred societies to make it a reality.
- Building the future
- In getting to a future that serves people, what are the steps we need to take from where we are now?
- Affordable housing
- Being able to buy houses has long been a dream for most, but their advantage for investment has over-inflated prices.
- Class struggle is misdirection
- Those framing the inequality in societies as a class struggle are still framing people as economic entities.
- Degrowth – the only alternative
- We are outstripping the earth's capacity to supply the current demands of even a small part of humanity, while preventing the majority from ever having the ability to consume so much.
- Demonetising society
- In building a human-centred society, basing everything around money tends to dehumanise people. Perhaps we need to find alternatives.
- Globalisation is not bad in itself
- The problems with globalism have largely resulted from it being used by corporations creating inequality for economic exploitation.
- Homelessness
- To many, the homeless are an unsightly blot that should be kept out of sight. But the homeless will always be with us, so we need to find another approach to them.
- Nationalism creates inequality
- Nationalism is the favouring of one's own nation over others, and so necessarily requires denying equitable distribution of resources throughout the world according to need.
- Reversing climate change
- We keep getting told that we are rapidly approaching the point where we may not be able to reverse the severe effects of climate change, yet we are still increasing the amount of greenhouse gasses.
- Saving capitalism
- Money allows organic social mobility, but when too much focus is placed on it, people suffer and the monetary systems become dysfunctional.
- Saving the future
- The earth will not wait for us to change our ways, so we must change them quickly if we are to survive as a species.
- Society and disability
- There is growing recognition that there are a lot of people with some sort of disability, and this is presenting a challenge to societies as to how to deal with them economically.
- Spending to benefit humanity
- Many tout the benefits that have resulted from military and space spending, but is that the most efficient way to get those benefits?
- The trouble with socialism
- Socialism is becoming more appealing to some as the excesses and instability caused by capitalism is contributing to increasing levels of wealth inequality.
- Whistleblowing is a duty
- Whistleblowers reveal crimes, but are often treated as if they were the perpetrators or even as traitors.
- Why are we here?
- Are we really here just to be exploited by those who don't care for us at all but use us for their own aggrandisement?
- Why is society built for extroverts?
- Advertising constantly implores us to spend on entertainment and consuming to impress. But are all of us really into that?