What is it about?
A brief speculation on how environmental activism might evolve toward reduced government regulation and more direct full-time volunteer involvement with benefits for all people.
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Why is it important?
By suggesting possible win/win outcomes to confrontations that may at first seem impossible to resolve, we encourage people to recognize that the future can be better for all if we will just devote our major efforts toward seeking ways to achieve sustainable coexistence rather than insisting that our own personal point of view must be dominant everywhere.
Perspectives
Forty years as a writer and editor for the World Future Society have convinced me that no single ideology or social system can satisfy everyone. People are too diverse in their tastes, abilities, and aspirations. But I believe multiple utopias can to flourish side by side if we will simply tolerate other people's preferences even as we cling to and prefer our own. This piece, like others collected in my book "Virtual Futures," attempts to offer realistic alternatives to one-culture rule.
Lane E Jennings
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This page is a summary of: Children of the New Forest (2030), World Futures Review, December 2014, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1946756715569194.
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