Indicators and the UN Social Progress Index So how do we measure success? Recently there has been a barrage of criticism focused on the use of GDP per capita as the prime indicator of “progress”. Counting growth certainly occupies many economists, accountants and others and among other effects has produced an obsession with growth as the […]
Progressivism – RSA Journal
Forward thinking: Rather than marching ahead, assuming that progress is linear and that others are following, we must stop to make the case for change When the RSA was founded in 1754, the concept of ‘progress’ as we know it was just emerging. Over the course of the 18th century, it developed from being an idea […]
Steven Pinker’s Ideas About Progress Are Fatally Flawed. These Eight Graphs Show Why.
I believe we should hold it [Progress] in our steady gaze, celebrate it where it exists, understand its true causes, and most importantly, ensure that it continues in a form that future generations on this earth can enjoy. I hope this piece helps to do just that. It’s time to reclaim the mantle of “Progress” […]
Keep your scythe, the real green future is high-tech, democratic, and radical
All markets need governance to protect a requisite Level Playing Field. The confusion between optimism based on the promise of human scientific progress and Capitalism as the means to further human and planet welfare helps create epistemological pathologies. “Radical ecology” has come to mean a kind of left-wing back-to-the-landism that throws off consumer culture […]