From Exploitation to Elevation
Human rights are natural, inherent, irreducible, and unalienable. They are born with us, live with us throughout our lives, and are a transcendent expression of our having been here. They embody and convey human dignity and connect us to each other, as allies and protectors. Corporate rights are created by law, because corporations are created by…
Building our future on hope
We live in a time of profound and pervasive, multidimensional crisis. Pollution is altering Earth’s atmosphere, while heating the ocean, melting glaciers, depleting watersheds, and taking lives. Agriculture is eroding its own potential, degrading rich naturally occurring ecosystems and destroying Nature. The food we do produce is so highly processed it is causing non-communicable diseases…
A fund to turn climate data into local opportunity
CONCEPT: The Resilience Intelligence Fund will support data systems innovation and cross-platform insight-sharing, to deliver actionable climate resilience insights. All business activity is a kind of economic development. ‘Integral and holistic human development’ refers to policies, investments, and business activities that meet everyday needs, do so without polluting or harming people or Nature, expand opportunity…
Resist the phantom menace
To succeed in their quest to dismantle the safeguards of all human rights, thugs and tyrants need to convince a large number of people that other human beings are their own biggest problem. Then, they need those who have chosen fear over humanity to…
Jobs vs. tech: How to avoid a dystopian future
Artificial intelligence (AI) poses three main threats to human health and wellbeing: Hyperagentic interference is preventable Hyperagentic interference is the extreme scenario, but it is already happening. Reporting around the planning for military strikes against Iran suggests some targeting decisions were made by AI…
Assessing the balance of hidden costs & co-benefits
Industrial activity creates many efficiencies, but it also creates a new problem that human societies have not been able to effectively address—the tendency toward depletion of resources at scale, with speed and effciency that no person or entity can manage or control. That has…
Something went wrong. Please refresh the page and/or try again.
The Ecopoet 