Saving the environment sounds like a bitter economic pill. Yet, the state of our planet forces us to rethink global consumer-driven economics, which has served us well… until now. Reshaping our economies for sustainability is a less painful but necessary approach, and could even prove more lucrative in the long-run.
Category Archives: History
Is modern technology a benefit or a threat to democracy?
Democracy has historically benefited from technology, but in today’s Information Age, we are seeing an increasing misuse of modern technology that could potentially disrupt the function of political Democracy as we know it.
Given greater levels of international cooperation, how necessary is it for countries to engage in the arms trade?
Global cooperation has increased, true, but not to the point that nations can trust one another enough to finally put the arms trade out of business. We still have too many insecurities, too much paranoia for that to happen.
Examine the view that the scientist is concerned only with knowledge, not morality.
Can science be trusted if popular knowledge consistently paints scientists as insane, obsessed, immoral individuals, while IRL, we know of scientists that have been outed by the media for doing questionable things?
To what extent can any society claim to be great?
Anyone calling themselves ‘great’ opens themselves to derision, dissection, and a diagnosis of delusions of grandeur. Rather, greatness is deserved and is ascribed as recognition of the magnitude the the good they have done for others. For societies, that’s a very high bar to reach.
‘We shape our buildings, but then our buildings shape us.’ To what extent is this true of your society?
Buildings are costly so we only build when it’s worth the cost to us. The decision of what buildings to erect also reflect their builders’ needs and priorities, so our buildings are, in a way, telling on us too.