Posts tagged systemic change
How to celebrate the 50th birthday of...
The 8th March 2016 is an important day for everyone concerned about resource consumption and waste issues, including climate change. It’s the 50th anniversary of the solution to these problems being offered by Kenneth Boulding. Boulding’s poetic vision of a future ‘spaceman economy’ on a ‘spaceship Earth’ more than encompassed today’s vision [...]
Seventh Policy Switch: Local and Cent...
“The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government’s greatest creative opportunity.” Abraham Lincoln (1865)
8.1 Where does money come from?
Almost all new money is issued into national economies as credit via the 500 year old fractional reserve system (UK Parliament, 1931 [...]
First Policy Switch: From a Strategy ...
How far wrong have we gone as a ‘civilisation’? About 180 degrees.
Time for a turn-around strategy!
Ah Has, Oil on linen 30 x 30 cm by Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox
2.1 Less bad is not good enough
The default strategy during decades of persistent global problems has been incrementalism – planning for ‘less bad’. However, less [...]
Security Means Global Security
Today’s problems can’t be solved with the same habits of thought that cause them. Here is a way for the scale of our ambitions to match the scale of our problems.
Image: Love , oil on linen 100 x 100 cm by Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox
1.1 Security includes non-military threats
Security in the modern world means far more than [...]
Seven Policy Switches for Global Secu...
Together the switches define a practical strategy for global security; for a serious attempt at revival of co-operation, ecosystems and prosperity.
Seven Policy Switches for Global Security
Published as ‘advanced research’ by the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme.
Abstract
Everyone desires a secure life. Yet the secur [...]