Ihave just read an excellent piece by the BBC’s Robert Peston about the need for a new form of capitalism and an end to greed and hyper-consumerism.
Although he doesn’t touch on issues such as Wellbeing and Climate Change, we see the twin crises of the nosedive into climate chaos and the nosedive into deep recession as more than linked – they have the same cause. Both are predicated on resources on which we demand impossible rates of return and debts that can never be repaid. In both cases we have denied the consequences.
Peston is right to partly point the finger at the media – and this is even more the case in terms of things like Climate Change – though the BBC is finally starting to help the public understand the peril we face if we do not make radical change fast. Sadly most of the advertising-driven media are still helping lock us into hyper-consumerism which both blocks moves to Wellbeing and speeds up the twin crises.
I have contacted Robert Peston and hope he might consider sharing some of his thoughts in the next iteration of Citizen Renaissance.
