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New IPCR document "A Multi-Angle View of the Debt Crises"
January 23, 2012 - 07:58 PM
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(Full title) “Calling ‘the better angels of our nature’: A Multi-Angle View of the Debt Crises” (January, 2012) (398 pages).
The document described in this post was initially meant to be the “Statistics and Observations” part for the Debt Crises part (Section #6) of the “IPCR Critical Challenges Assessment 2011-2012” project. Due to accumulated evidence and unfolding events, it became a preview of what the final report for the whole “Assessment” project might look like.
The 398 page “Multi-Angle” document and the “Introduction” are accessible from the IPCR webpage for the “IPCR Critical Challenges Assessment 2011-2012” project, at http://www.ipcri.net/Critical-Challenges-Assessment.html (where readers can find three other draft sections for this project)—and from the IPCR Initiative homepage, at www.ipcri.net . Readers looking for a quick overview of the document can refer to many entries in the “Table of Contents”—and the 8 page introduction. [Note: All IPCR Initiative documents and resources are accessible for free.]
The eight main section headings in “A Multi-Angle View of the Debt Crises” are:
I. Definitions of Education, Suggestions for Questionnaires
II. Ghosts of Capitalism Past
III. The United States—and “Implicit Legitimation”
IV. Cultures of Violence, Greed, Corruption, and Overindulgence
V. Other Challenges Which Are Part of This Writer’s Ten Point List (see Appendix A) and Which Need to be Resolved as Part of a Sustainable Solution to the Current Debt Crises
VI. Four Summaries of Critical Challenges Ahead
VII. “The U.S. and many other countries will enter the next 15 to 20 years burdened by substantial public debt….”
VIII. Solutions (110 pages)
There is also a 55 page Appendices, which provides much detailed information about The IPCR Initiative’s “constellation of initiatives” approach, which can do much to create, develop, and accelerate solution-oriented activity.
Below are three excerpts from the “Introduction”:
The evidence in these sections suggest that many of the issues which have resulted in the debt crises (and many other critical challenges) are problems which are at the very core of our difficulties with being human beings…and thus will require much more than the usual amount of problem solving, if we are to “change course”. The debts owed are not just monetary. The debts owed include the quantity of human effort which will needed in the future to remedy the destructive consequences of the tragic moral lapses in the past—and the destructive consequences of tragic moral lapses in our present circumstances.
Again and again, in references to the debt crises, there is mention of the need for “economic growth”… Unfortunately, the kind of “economic growth” which is most often being referred to includes a vast array of “enterprises” which require the continued exploitation of flaws and weaknesses in human nature, fragile ecosystems, and already significantly depleted natural resources—and which are much of the reason why cultures of violence, greed, and corruption have become so common that most people believe they are inevitable. (see Section IV “Cultures of Violence, Greed, Corruption, and Overindulgence”).
The six subsections in the “Solutions” section are: “The ‘Constellation of Initiatives’ Approach of The IPCR Initiative”; “Transition Ahead: Less Megacities and More Ecologically Sustainable Towns and Village”; “Increasing Transitional Employment”; “About the ‘Interfaith’ in Interfaith Peacebuilding”; “Community Service Opportunities for Local Newspapers”; and “Re-defining Wealth--and Other Community Service Opportunities for Investors”, and “Evaluating the Effectiveness of Community Visioning Initiatives”. In the “Solutions” section there are references to many service-oriented initiatives, and much detail provided about their work, to illustrate as clearly as possible that we have the necessary knowledge and resources to overcome the challenges of our times.
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