FEATURES
True Cost Economics
The single greatest deficiency in
our personal or citizen education
is to be found in the area of true
cost economics. Pioneered by
Dr. Herman Daly, whose works
on Ecological Economics, For the
Common Good, and Valuing the
Earth still stand as foundation
stones, the true cost concept is
illustrated below. It took a year
of on and off research by JZ
Liskiewicz to achieve this understanding. Others have worked
hard on “the secret life of beef”
and there is greater understanding of how a vegan diet is better for both the human and the
Earth, but we have a very long
way to go – my vision is for a
hand-held application to show
the true cost of any product at
the point of sale.
Collective Intelligence
I credit Tom Atlee and his first
book, The Tao of Democracy:
Using Co-Intelligence to Create
a World that Works for All, that
opened my eyes to the possibilities of classical pure democracy
as an informed engaged citizen
possibility. More recently he has
published Empowering Public
Wisdom: A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics. I created the
graphic below before I was introduced to Tom’s work, but it captures a vision he and I share, of
returning to the practices of our
indigenous forebearers including inclusive democracy – everyone has a voice and vote – and
long-term “seventh-generation”
thinking.
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