Listening for the Life Force We live in a time of undeniable peril. Every day the news brings fresh evidence of overshoot: aquifers running dry, forests burning, species vanishing. We know, if we are honest, that humanity is consuming and destroying far more than Earth can replenish. We are eating into the seed corn of the future. And yet, within… Read more →
Category: Meaning
The Possibility of a World that Works for Everyone
Can we imagine a new possibility for humanity? It may not seem probable or even plausible, but it remains a powerful idea, an idea that reveals a great deal that is positive about who we are. In a WorldThatWorks.org, we revisit the work of Buckminster Fuller, Werner Erhard, and others that suggests that we have the capability of embracing a… Read more →
Epilogue: A Universal Appeal (Enhanced Version)
Can We Speak to Everyone? Humanity stands, once again, at a crossroads. This is not a metaphor. It is the reality of our time. We can continue to deny the scale of the planetary crisis, as some governments and institutions still do—insisting that things are fine, that growth will continue, that nature will adapt to our needs. But pretending has… Read more →
Looking Ahead
Nate Hagens is a futurist for our times. In his podcast The Great Simplication he interviews a wide range of experts on energy, the environment, and economics, and occasionally posts “Franklys” in which he shares his own views of what is happening, and likely to happen as the polycrisis unfolds. In a recent episode he interviewed Rod Schoonover, a national… Read more →
The Ultimate Mystery
Of course, none of this addresses the ultimate mystery of Existence. Why are things the way they are? It’s of no help to say that God made them that way. Why did He (or She) make them that way? (Incidentally, isn’t it blasphemous to claim we know what God was thinking?) We need to keep asking this question, not only… Read more →