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Becca
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Posted: Mon 2008-02-18 21:06
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Inspired by my ongoing discussion about the Holocaust with JD-Sama, I was wondering if there is a way to positively change the World in all aspects you could possibly think of:
- The environment
- World peace
- Human rights
- Universal understanding
- Religious differences
- Political differences
- Fighting poverty
- Global warming
- Education for all
- etc. etc.
..and whatever else you can think of!
I'll come up with a few ideas soon, but I am really keen on finding out what you would do to change the world in a positive way.
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Posted: Tue 2008-02-19 08:25
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| Inspired by my ongoing discussion about the Holocaust with JD-Sama, I was wondering if there is a way to positively change the World in all aspects you could possibly think of: |
OK, I'll start you off, but my solutions are all a little predictable.
In the long term I think we need to focus more on gradual reversible planetary engineering projects. Whilst preventative measures are all well and good without curative measures to complement them we are simply delaying the inevitable.
In the short term we need to co-operate with workers in countries exploiting important natural assets in unsustainable ways and support a transfer to better asset management in a manner which is economically advantageous for the workers. We also need to impose strict penalties(along with confiscation) on the purchase and shipping of products not conforming to this standard.
I'm not sure if I buy all the conspiracies about the petrochemical industry squashing free energy research , but this is a direction we should certainly be looking into. I think it might be reasonable to demand a reduction in utility of vehicles to encourage better resource usage. Nuclear power may also be an important stop-gap but is in no way a long term solution.
Always a tricky one. I think the key to World peace is breaking down national and racial identities and making government more diffuse rather than conforming to the traditional nation state model. I would further argue that the breakdown of barriers to communication is an important step, one is less likely to believe all dutch people are evil if there are 6 in your counter strike clan (or maybe you play terrorists?). Expanding communication networks like the internet across the world and providing access across class boundaries is a step in the right direction but some form of worldwide lingua franca would also be important.
Other important factors in assuring world peace are the decentralisation of power and the education of the masses. The democratic peace theory may have its problems but surely we can agree that oligarchies and dicatorships are more prone to warfare. I'm trying to avoid the overly simplistic world socialism = world peace but well ... it ticks all the boxes.
Human rights are a natural result of education and decentralised/accountable power. Spreading these principles will result in the voluntary adoption of human rights.
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Communication and education are key here. Perhaps an increase in programs promoting geographic mobility. Having travelled a lot I can say it changed my views on the world immensely it's much harder to view blacks or asians as unhuman if you've had drinks in beijing and khartoum(well not IN khartoum more like hiding behind a sand dune a few miles out of the city limits ^^).
Specifically on education I think it is important that children study religions cultures and traditions openly and in comparison to one another.
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- Religious differences
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Less religion? ^^
More seriously I think religions, in conflict, are usually simply a means to give form to more fundamental problems. If we can successfully eliminate poverty, end wars and further universal understanding this one will disintegrate.
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vive la difference! I hope that political differences always exist. We will always need to challenge whether what we are doing is truly the right thing. If you mean political violence, it almost always results from inequity or disenfranchisement; a fairer economic system which limits these would limit such violence.
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Worldwide socialism!
Actually that is honestly my solution. We can gnaw at the edges of poverty through capitalism while we have enough people worked up enough to push such changes forward. Real change however requires a drastic shift in class power. I don't think that poverty will ever see its final dawn under capitalism.
See my thoughts on environment. I would add that I'm not like some on this board who are so quick to brush off global warming as a global scientific conspiracy.
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Worlwide Socialism!
Education starts at home, and if your parents are illiterate automatons living in a hovel your pretty much stuffed. The elimination of class divides is key in providing working education systems. A much higher standard should be placed on parents, raising a child is a privelege not a right, if a parent is raising the child in a detrimental manner it should be removed from them. All economic streaming should be removed from schooling systems and we should all pay through the teeth for the schools we have left. Schools should be like palaces, people should compete for teaching jobs, no cost is too great for the education of the next generation, it is the burden we, as the current generation, are obligated to carry.
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Posted: Tue 2008-02-19 14:55
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Environment:
Planned obsolescence means waste because products aren't designed to last as long as they could, not to be repairable and upgradable. So the products are waste when they are thrown away and pollution is produced in the process of making more of the junk.
Poverty:
The people who buy those products are losers in terms of NET WORTH due to the depreciation of the products. Economists added the purchase of the products to GDP but didn't subtract the depreciation from anywhere.
Education:
I just bought an OLPC. Use computers to teach accounting. Make understanding of accounting as common as the ability to ride a bike. Of course everyone understanding accounting might make it more difficult for politicians to talk BS.
The Economic Wargame is a continuation of the Military Wargame by other means.
Never trust a Capitalist to tell you about Capitalism. They will leave out the important information.
http://discussions.pbs.org/viewtopic.pbs?t=28529
I trained myself decades ago to ask myself how many Indians were wiped out in North America every time I hear about The Holocaust of the Jews in Europe. I tend to think of the NAZIs as simply one highly publicized instance of the same social psychology.
Here is an interesting bit of sci-fi about that:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/kate-wilhelm/killer-thing.htm
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Acebrock
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Posted: Tue 2008-02-19 20:36
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| RastaSista wrote: |
| Inspired by my ongoing discussion about the Holocaust with JD-Sama, I was wondering if there is a way to positively change the World in all aspects you could possibly think of: |
I'm game
- The environment
More environemental regulation and more use of renewables like Geothermal wind and solar
- World peace
Well, as strong states don't usually attack each other I would think helping out the third world economies (or as I call them global south economes) would be an important step forward, especially if they became democratic
- Human rights
This is tricky, but I would say call in the troops when there's a genocide going on (or suspected of going on) or when a state fails, and invest heavily in the global south, without resorting to sweatshops (talll order unfortunately)
- Universal understanding
My solution would take at least a generation to have effect, but teaching of tolerance and actually punishing intolerance during the childhood would ultimately have quite an effect I'm sure
- Religious differences
Less religion  (yeah I know JD said it first)
create more infrastructure and help those who may fall to extremism within a country and around the world
- Political differences
are necessary. Violence over said differences can be minimized by ensuring free and fair elections
- Fighting poverty
Social safety net a la Scandanavia
- Global warming
Reduce carbon emmisions any way practical (compact flourescents anyone?) as well as the solution to envoronmental problems I proposed
- Education for all
Ensure that all education is provided by the state and the funding is actually equally distributed (it's common sense, yet there are people who resist it)
- etc. etc.
well I'll add my own
- ethnic tensions
The question is how do we get people of different ethnicities to not kill each other (black vs hispanic aside) and live in peace. Thus comes out repeatedly in Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East(?). the best way to fix it is to use my soltion for universal tolerance.
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I'll come up with a few ideas soon, but I am really keen on finding out what you would do to change the world in a positive way.
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an interesting project I must say
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Becca
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Posted: Tue 2008-02-19 21:28
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- The environment - Global warming
I am not sure, whether I should believe in global warming or not. I still think we should take the steps to help preserve nature. I think capitalism and greed actually are the main problems concerning the environmental problems, unfortunately globalism can be seen as another problem. I am pro nature saving energy resources, I believe that solar-heating, windpower and waterpower could be great. Also we should try to safe wildlife the best we can. Saving wildlife though, is also connected to capitalism (those people who kill animals that need to be save are usually richer than others ) .
- World peace
I believe world peace can be established when people finally recognize what's important.Therefore we have to confront them with how bad things really are - it's so easy to close your eyes in front of something that doesn't take place anywhere near you. One could probably believe that we might need another worse war to realize how important peace is. As this is not such a good idea , hehe, there should be other ways to make people aware of this possible danger. I am thinking we should use our media for more awareness towards world's problems.
- Human rights
Should be accepted by all countries and every attempt to break them should end up in front of court. The top countries of this world when it comes to trade ,etc. should be rolemodels when it comes to human rights.
- Religious differences
For the three major religions we need more integration and should give up on hatred , since we are all based on the same idea, the 5 books of Moses ( that's a translation, I don't know if it's right but I hope you know what I mean ). I don't particularly see buddhism and hinduism as a problem , correct me if I am wrong. We do not really have to be afraid of things like Scientology, since most of us are aware of how dangerous Scientology is, atleast I think so.
- Political differences
I don't mind political differences, but like monarchy has become a bit outdated, maybe dictatorships might be a bit outdated some day, which wouldn't be that bad if we all think about it. We shouldn't try to bring democracy to each and every country( some might need a little bit longer than other countries, we are all aware of that ) but I also believe that we could still make democracy better than it already is.
- Fighting poverty
Instead of capitalism we should help the poor the best we can and share our wealth, enough said.
- Education for all
Definitely a must! We need the richer countries providing the poor countries with educational material and money as a support. |
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RAK
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Posted: Tue 2008-02-19 22:40
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Dodge Chargers for everyone!
But seriously, I think the far more pressing issue is the obvious growing shortage of easily obtainable oil, which is industry's lifeblood in more than one respect (fuel, feedstock for a lot of chemical reactions, including those which result in medicines - a subject close to my heart, as my current subject choice and that of my prospective future careers are closely related to this area). Luckily, many of the solutions for this problem also solve the (admittedly pressing) issue of global warming in some respect.
Reduce, reuse, recycle, sustainable energy (especially solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower), constant scientific development into these issues.
Nuclear satellites in space!
Again, seriously, I don't think we're going to have world peace - what we must do is make sure that any conflicts are as slight as possible, making sure especially that civilian populations have minimal effects inflicted towards them.
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Typical socialist stuff.
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