By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
As it was in the beginning… farmers need protection from those who have taken privileges, not protection by the military might of those privileged marauders. The least we could do is get the story straight.
By Martin Shaw, Resilience.org
The mess out there is because of a mess in here. Inner and outer talk to each other. That’s the truth of things. Let’s get to work.
By Karen Lynn Allen, Musings
I’ll also point out that while one set of choices is promoted, reinforced, and made as convenient as possible, the other set is shamed, challenged, or made as dangerous as possible.
By Dick Rauscher, Dick Rauscher blog
The temperature of our planet is rising, and I’m not talking about global warming. I’m talking about the rising social anger temperature and its potential to create a social, civil, and economic collapse.
By Ugo Bardi, The Seneca Effect
Thomas Huxley said that "it is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions." It is a sentence that describes the cycle of ideas, -- call them memes -- which tend to have a life-cycle similar to that of living creatures. They are born, grow, and disappear.
By Vicki Robin, Kim Stanley Robinson, Resilience.org
Kim Stanley Robinson is widely recognized as one of the foremost living writers of science fiction. From his perspective, he answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Julia Steinberger, Medium
Rather than believe in the fake embrace of predatory capitalism, where vast crimes are supposed to benefit humanity, we should believe in each other and ourselves, our capacity to work for each other, and ultimately win against this predation.
By Patrick Noble, Towards a Convivial Economy
Yes. Cultures are what people do. The future is created by present actions – for better and for worse. Targets, achievements, status… can change nothing.
By Dawid Juraszek, Dark Mountain Project
If human ingenuity were a story, one of its main motifs would be transportation. Creatures of land by birth, we have transcended our limitations, reaching across air and water, beyond our own biosphere.
By Vicki Robin, Resilience.org
The third set of What Could Possibly Go Right? kicks off with host Vicki Robin reflecting on past episodes, sharing her motivation for creating this series, and revealing what she hopes to find as we embark on a new set of interviews.
By Andrew Curry, the next wave
Visionary fiction-writing is a practice we can use to imagine and prepare for the future together, to generate the ideas that we want to see more of in the world
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
As its name alludes, this visionary new fiction quarterly seeks to challenge our current mental maps of the future.