The deep divide between the American people and mainstream politics and media
By Richard Eckersley, Resilience.org
To respond effectively to this situation, political debate needs to incorporate and reflect all the complexity and depth of today’s challenges, to encourage the conceptual space for a transformation in our worldview, beliefs and values as profound as any in human history.
Outdated cultures behind America’s failing political system
By Richard Eckersley, Resilience.org
The political systems of Western liberal democracy are failing. Blinkered by their cultures, most politicians and journalists do not see the extent of this failure.
COVID-19 Lays Bare the US’s Deep Problems, with Some Help from Trump
By Richard Eckersley, Resilience.org
With the COVID-19 pandemic laying waste to the country, and President Trump’s chances of re-election fading, America is at last beginning to look more deeply into the country’s problems.
Climate Change, Pandemics and Economic Turmoil Provoke Existential Fears for Humanity’s Future
By Richard Eckersley, Resilience.org
How people see humanity’s future may not simply reflect what they expect the future might hold. Their views involve complex and subtle relationships between expected future conditions, contemporary social realities and personal states of mind. Future visions can both reflect and reinforce social conditions and personal attributes.
Your Money or your Life? Putting Wellbeing before GDP
By Richard Eckersley, Resilience.org
The work on progress indicators is all well and good, especially in challenging the political priority given to GDP. However, over the years I have grown more sceptical of the possibility of measuring, accurately and fully, the state of nations and the wellbeing of their people.
The Demise of the Official Future
By Richard Eckersley, Resilience.org
I have long argued that people’s concerns about modern life and the future have been poorly reflected in politics, and it is this that lies behind the unease and disenchantment in the electorate, not just the conduct of politicians and the merits of specific policies.
The Ghosts of Past Political Failures Haunt Environmental Challenges
By Richard Eckersley, Resilience.org
We will not solve climate change and other pressing global threats until we admit, and learn from, the repeated failures of past proclamations and promises.
Getting to the Heart of Democracy’s Decline
By Richard Eckersley, Resilience.org
The crisis in democracy is much discussed these days, but almost entirely in political terms that ignore its deeper causes.