Missing blueprint

[raino]

Donut Economics by Kate Raworth - the first book on economics I have actually read more than 2 pages continuously without coming up with excuses (oh need to wash dishes, oh better go running now or it'll be too late, oh I'll just check facebook really quickly). But I'm worried it will end up like so many exciting books that first smartly and with great insight outline the problems and issues of the modern world, but feel like they miss the final chapter where they advise *what to do* to make it all better. Like, I just want to get the blueprint for a better world in my hands, so I can start doing something that actually helps. I mean I do stuff, I'm participating in Fashion Revolution 2019 and I'm writing a book about simple steps to being more environmentally friendly etc but it seems so small compared to what should be done!

There is the worrying possibility that no-one has managed to draw the blueprint for the world where everyone has enough without burdening the ecosystem too much, because such a thing is impossible. I really don't like to think about it. But it is possible that such a world is as impossible as a perpetual motion machine.

And yet, even if the fair and thriving world is an impossible utopia, I still want to strive toward it...

Comments

[cordjostler]

I like the idea of having a target to aim for even if it is unachievable. We live in a world of writing things off because we don't think we can go the distance, but tend to forget about the whole "the journey is more important than the destination" thing.

but then.. I wouldn't even know where to begin creating such a blueprint. haha.

[raino]

And also not starting the journey *right now* makes it so much harder to reach anywhere near the target later.
it's easy to come up with lovely futures, but I've learnt from my friend who's studying future research that there's this thing called "reality gap" that plagues future scenario work. Either start scenario building from now and end up nowhere impressive, or come up with an impressive vision and fall into the reality gap trying to bridge between the vision and world as it is now...