By Otto Scharmer — 2013
Two words summarize the shortcomings of mainstream economics: externalities and consciousness. The solution to global crises begins between our ears.
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Four years ago, I opposed reparations. Here's the story of how my thinking has evolved since then.
Black women are 37 cents behind men in the pay gap—in other words, for every dollar a man makes, black women make 63 cents.
Think of gentrification as a localized version of climate change: uprooting species and cultures, punishing the poor and rewarding the rich.
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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The biggest question that Jared Diamond is asking himself is how to turn the study of history into a science.
We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.