A Proposed Framework For Thinking About Existential Threats – OpEd
Today’s existential threats to humanity might perhaps be classified in four categories: 1. Ecological collapse. Ecological collapse has already begun.
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Author: Prof. Howard Richards
Prof. Howard Richards is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment. He is a philosopher of social science and Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, USA. He was educated at Redlands High School in California, Yale, Stanford, University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Toronto, Harvard and Oxford. He currently teaches in the University of Cape Town`s EMBA programme. His books include: The Evaluation of Cultural Action, a study of an application of Paulo Freire´s pedagogical philosophy in rural Chile (London Macmillan 1985); Letters from Quebec; Understanding the Global Economy; The Dilemmas of Social Democracies; Gandhi and the Future of Economics; Rethinking Thinking; Unbounded Organizing in Community; and The Nurturing of Time Future. His new book, written with the assistance of Gavin Andersson, Economic Theory and Community Development: Why Putting Community First Is Essential for Survival, is now available from the publisher, Dignity Press, and from Amazon and other major booksellers, as a print book and as an eBook. [email protected]
Articles by Prof. Howard Richards :
Who Or What Will Do What Must Be Done? – OpEd
In a previous editorial (What Must Be Done TMS 11 Sep 2023), I made the point that public discourse may not manifest
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What Must Be Done – OpEd
Videos produced by The Drawdown Project –a project that appears to be well-funded and to have the support of some (but
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Why More Upstream Care Ethics Are Badly Needed – OpEd
The time has come for ethics of care. In the plural. Reverberating through revivals of venerable old spiritual caring traditions.
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The Crisis (Or Crises) Of Civilization – OpEd
Recently the Polish sociologist Krzystof Wielicki has made a case for regarding the democracies of the world as in a
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Creating Dignified Livelihoods – OpEd
My title is taken from the last speech of Martin Luther King Jr. It was given in Memphis, Tennessee, less
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The Rules-Based International Order And The Foggy Bottom Blues – OpEd
The four words “Rules-Based International Order” (RBIO) are surrounded by controversies. I will review some controversies as a prelude to
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The Failure Of Development – OpEd
In the closing years of the 1940s, when World War II had ended and its winners were reorganizing human life
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The Failure Of The Expected Peace And The Suggestion Of An Unbounded Way Forward – OpEd
By the “expected peace” I mean the peace that was expected after World War II: In a few short years
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Achieving Socialism By Definition – OpEd
Among all the conflicts that divide humanity –historically and now when humans should be working together racing against time to
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