Secrets and Hope in Our Mad World

Early in 2017 I read George Marshall’s book ‘Don’t Even Think About It: Why We are Wired Not to Think About Climate Change’ and I decided I would think about it. And I would read about it. Then I would write about it.

I write as a 'non-expert' and I'm hoping that your comments will help me to see whether the insights I've

gained make sense, whether the conclusions stack up and whether it's realistic for me to start feeling

hopeful about the future .

May 17th - Inequality



 For reasons which I don't fully understand FMUIC leads  inevitably to inequality and recent thinkers have come to the conclusion that inequality isn't good for us.  Two interesting reads are The Spirit Level: Why equality if better for everyone by Robert Wilkinson and Kate Pickett and Injustice: Why social inequality persists by Daniel Dorling.  Have skimmed through both and I'm sure if I had the time to sit and read them through I would understand more. Be great if someone could send me a brief paragraph or two ... 
Listened to an account of life in Mombai on good old Radio 4 today and if ever there was a city which shows massive inequality it's Mombai.   Then there is the USA with massive riches yet nearly 50 million people are in receipt of food stamps.
So I've reached the point when I've understood that the simple answer to my question 'What's gone wrong in our world' is that free market unregulated industrial capitalism has taken us up the wrong road. 
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  1. An Essex Man of Letters18 May 2013 at 14:20

    Thing is Eileen – the way I see it anyway – is that it never has been a fair system we all labour under.

    No enlightened souls sat down together and devised the ‘Market’ as a way of organising ourselves … it just evolved out of the unfair melee of a violently burgeoning human existence.

    In fact, unfortunately, I think that here is a lot more unfairness to be gone through yet before humanity decides enough is enough and that providing goods, services and caring for each other is not just a by-product of profit-seeking.

    Let alone the care of this planet we call home.

    Or Homo sapiens will, very unwisely, end up – like the other 90% of life that has ever existed on this planet – as just another thin band of carbon in the fossilised record of Earth.

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