The current world operating system is described as an implicit set of assumptions shaping economics, cultural behaviors, and norms. It drives exploitative and destructive outcomes that contribute to wealth disparity, wars over fuel, and overconsumption that harms the planet. A different perspective emphasizes that the natural state of humanity and the planet is mutuality and shared abundance. The book Ecocivilization is presented as a researched manifesto about the likely failure of entrenched systems and as a roadmap toward a radically sustainable vision for humanity’s next chapter. The goal is to change the underlying assumptions that govern collective life rather than only adjust surface policies.
"What does it mean to change the operating system of our world? What do I even mean when we talk about our operating system? And we can understand that really as the system that drives our economics and our cultural behaviors and our senses of norms that are so much part of our lives, we don't even realize that it's there. It's kind of the implicit underlying set of assumptions that we collectively live according to, a little bit like a fish in water th"
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"He argues that while our society's current systems are exploitative and destructive, the natural state of humanityand of the planet we live onis one of mutuality and shared abundance. His latest book, Ecocivilization, is a deeply researched manifesto on the inevitable failure of our entrenched systems, as well as a road map for a radically sustainable vision for humanity's next chapter."
"Are humans inherently selfish? We've covered research on this very show that says otherwise. But looking at the realities of wealth disparity, wars fought over fuel and casual overconsumption as the planet burns, it can certainly feel like our species must be somehow rotten at its core."
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