HOW DO WE SOLVE GLOBAL PROBLEMS? (edited and re-posted from elsewhere) How do we

HOW DO WE SOLVE GLOBAL PROBLEMS?

(edited and re-posted from elsewhere)

How do we solve global problems of pollution, conflict, corruption, and dispute over resources?

a) a division of knowledge and labor using private property, money prices, accounting, contracts and rule of the common law: the science of cooperation;

b) a division of knowledge and labor using empirical tests against the natural world: the physical sciences;

c) a division of labor using rational tests of empirical results – logic and rational philosophy bounded by philosophical realism: the science of reason;

d) education of the willing in all of the above – cooperative, physical and rational sciences – and the economic, political and social ostracization of the unwilling.

In other words, the prohibition of authority and the elimination of the need for homogeneity of opinion, through the use of organized and self organizing trial and error by ratio-scientific man – accompanied by the ostracization and impoverishment of the magian and totalitarian man.

Currently we have insufficiently privatized the capital of the natural commons so that prices limit overconsumption, and we are engaging in redistribution without matching restraint on reproduction largely because of it.

That is how we solve global problems of pollution, conflict, corruption, and dispute over resources: science and reason bounded by rules of calculation and the elimination of authority, commons and consensus.

(oh, my, god. I think I made a funny…. Profound, but funny.)