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In the past decade, the world has changed more than most of us could have imagined, and this change is accelerating. It stands to reason then, that such a narrowly focused blog like Resource Based Living would quickly reach the end of its life.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. – Arthur Schopenhauer There are certain revelations which many of us will have discovered, perhaps quite recently, that are not only self apparent, but to think otherwise seems ridiculous. Just as the Earth [...]

How many times have people said to you: “I like your enthusiasm, but isn’t it all a bit, you know, ‘idealistic’?” People always look at the end result and because they can’t see all the steps to get there, they see it as unacheivable. Or, they see one problem, and write off the idea completely. [...]

In this RSA Animate, radical social theorist David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane?