A wicked problem with a simple, but somewhat uptopian solution

Climate change is a wicked problem, the resolution of which, if viewed through the prism of progress as is traditionally understood, is beyond our capabilities.

Confusingly, and sadly, most proposals for resolving the dilemma appears to be about the preservation of life as we know it.

Life “as we know it” is wonderful, if you are among those in the world’s developed nations who are favoured with education, opportunity and an understanding of the capitalist, corporate economy, and along with that you identify with processes.

Long have I pondered how we resolve the climate crisis, reassure people that they can still engage in the entrepreneurship the capitalist economy encourages, reach some sort of income equality, ensure all people have ample opportunity to live rewarding and fulfilling lives and broadly make our communities fairer, more resilient and inherently better places to live.

The answer is about the redistribution of money, spreading it more evenly and so more fairly throughout society, freeing people from a life in which they are obedient to the demands of others, allowing them substantially more time in their communities, more time to be with their families and friends, more time to live a life which is more in keeping with an energy constrained world and so play a key role in building a community that is resilient and so able to address the unquestioned changes evolving in a world in which the climate system has been seriously disrupted.

The answer lies in adopting a Four-hour Work Day – complex, yes, but no more than the capitalist corporate economy that is a human construct and has been, particularly in the past century, organized to favour only a few.

I have written some 30 000 words about the idea and rejection of the idea (manuscript) by just one publisher convinced me that I should simply publish the idea myself and if it has any legitimacy, it will be picked up and adopted by someone somewhere who has the influence to make it work.

The preface for what I originally imagined a book, is on my “Four-Hour Work Day” blog headed “Lessons from Leningrad”. As time passes, I will add more chapters.

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