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MEC: Addressing Global Warming

Mar 28, 2008

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in Environment, Politics, Public Policy, Series: Must Everything Change?, Technology (Energy)

Today's hot environmental topic (pun intended) is anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change. The leading theory is that CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels are causing a greenhouse gas effect that is causing global warming. McLaren seems to take this as indisputable fact. I don't. However, I'm not interested in debating that point here. We will assume…

MEC: Destroying the Environment?

Mar 27, 2008

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mwkruse

in Economics, Environment, Series: Must Everything Change?, Sociology, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

From reading Everything Must Change, I think we have two options. An ascetic no economic growth world where we "live within limits" and protect the environment. An economically robust world that collapses from exhausting resources and destroys the ecosystem. Is there a third option? Is there an option that leads to robust economic development, human…

MEC: Exhausting Scarce Resources?

Mar 26, 2008

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mwkruse

in Capitalism and Markets, Economic Development, Economics, Environment, Series: Must Everything Change?, Trends: Economic

I've made the case that Everything Must Change suffers from a parochialism of the present. It fails to see the trajectory society has been moving. But there is another way this parochialism is at work. It merely projects the present into the future. It fails to sufficiently consider future adaptations in human behavior and technology.…

Brian McLaren Responds to Everything Must Change Concerns

Mar 25, 2008

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mwkruse

in Emerging Church

Tall Skinny Kiwi (Andrew Jones): Brian McLaren Responds to Everything Must Change Concerns Heres a little email chat I had with Brian McLaren recently. He agreed to let me post it on my blog. I reviewed Brian's book "Everything Must Change" but my mixed review was a little harsh and I had a few questions…

MEC: The Cycle of Prosperity

Mar 25, 2008

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mwkruse

in Economic Development, Economics, Health and Medicine, Series: Must Everything Change?, Sociology, Technology, Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Energy), Technology (Food & Water), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Technology (Transportation & Distribution)

We have seen that there has been a sharp rise in prosperity as measured by health and longevity and in terms of income. All this has come in an era when the world population has grown more than 600%. Economist Robert Fogel attributes this to technophysio evolution. Indur M. Goklany, in his recent book The…

MEC: Technophysio Evolution and Demographic Transition

Mar 24, 2008

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mwkruse

in Demography, Great Divergence, History, Human Progress, Series: Must Everything Change?, Sociology, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

Two "L" shaped graphs highlight the extraordinary changes in human prosperity over the last twelve thousand years. After millennia of infant mortality rates of 200-300 per 1,000 and life expectancy at birth of 20-30 years, most people today live in nations where infant mortality rates are dropping below 50, on their way to the single-digit…

MEC: Other Trends in Prosperity

Mar 20, 2008

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mwkruse

in Economics, Education, Great Divergence, Human Progress, Politics, Poverty, Public Policy, Series: Must Everything Change?, Sociology, Trends: Social

The previous two posts have illustrated the improvement in prosperity spreading across the globe as measured by long life and the soaring improvements in economic status. But there is at least one other measure of prosperity we need to visit as we assess Brian McLaren's Everything Must Change. What about political freedom and civil liberties?…

MEC: Measuring Income Past and Present

Mar 19, 2008

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mwkruse

in Economics, Human Progress, Series: Must Everything Change?, Trends: Economic

We have now seen how prosperity, measured in terms of long life, is spreading throughout most of the planet. Yet when most people think of the disparity between nations, they usually think in terms of income levels. Income is correlated with other factors that empower us to survive and thrive. The common refrain we hear…

MEC: Measuring Prosperity Past and Present

Mar 18, 2008

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mwkruse

in Demography, Economics, Human Progress, Series: Must Everything Change?, Sociology, Trends: Social, Wealth and Income

Brian McLaren's Everything Must Change suffers from a parochialism of the present. I mean two things by that. First, it is lacking in historical perspective. Second, it takes present circumstances, values, rates of consumption, and technologies and projects them unaltered into the future. It is like taking a frame from a video clip, ignoring everything…

MEC: Framing Story

Mar 17, 2008

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mwkruse

in Economics, Series: Must Everything Change?, Sociology, Theology

Brian McLaren devotes Chapter 9 of Everything Must Change to the framing story concept. You will recall from the previous post that at the center of Brian McLaren’s societal machine was a dark gear that represented the framing story, coordinating the other three societal systems. To elaborate, McLaren uses the analogy of a human body.…

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