Understanding Power
It’s high time we discussed power more honestly, compassionately, and intelligently. But first we have to understand what we’re talking about.
Power
A letter to real power: a letter to us
I started to re-assess my assumption about who this letter would be directed to. When I looked up the dictionary definition – “the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behaviour of others or the course of events” – and I recalled the way the world has changed since 2018, it became clearer where the power really is.
With us, the people.
Power, the Acceleration of Cultural Evolution, and Our Best Hope for Survival
We humans are aggregating more power, and doing so more unequally across society, than in any previous period in history. Power is good; without it, we would be powerless. But it is possible to have too much of a good thing, and that’s an apt way of describing the human predicament in the early 21st century.
Inequality Metrics and the Question of Power
One of the main reasons we are concerned about inequality in the first place is that it allows rich people to exercise power over the lives of the poor.
Why the Distribution of Wealth has More to Do with Power than Productivity
How the fruits of wealth creation should be divided between capital, land and labour has been subject of considerable debate throughout history. In 1817, the economist David Ricardo described this as “the principal problem in political economy”.
Logic Of Power
When a group outdominates the current dominators, they become the new dominators.
Energy Crunch: Losing power?
Should we be worried about the threat of a cold dark winter?
My Environmentalism will be Intersectional or it will be bullshit
The environmental movement will never save the planet unless it actively focusses its ire clearly on those who are most to blame for the crisis – the powerful.
The End of Power: Review
“Moises Naim’s new book THE END OF POWER should properly be called “The Decay of Power”. His thesis is that while it is becoming easier to get power, it is also becoming harder to use it to control others and harder to keep it once you have it.
Social Inertia in the face of Climate Change
Why is it that human civilization has been unable to take the steps required to forestall the devastating consequences of climate change, which may even include societal collapse, when faced with a scientific consensus that it is a very real phenomenon and requires urgent action?