Eco Pax Mundi Agora Offers a Promising Way Forward in the Post-Corona Panorama
Posted by Ruth Thomas-Pellicer on Friday, May 8, 2020,
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Re-embodiments politics
In
his
brilliant article 'Global
Boom, Pandemic, Crash: Is History Just Repeating Itself?'
Andrew
Nikiforuk
states that we face the end of a 300-year cycle, as did previous
far-flung empires. With the following rhetorical questions he points
to the way to move out of decadence:
“Can we build a simpler society that can survive random shocks? Can we re-localize the economy, tax the rich, support small farms, simplify our brutal technologies, power down and distribute authority more even...