Making Change: With Dr. Marc Gopin

07/06/2024

Demonstrations do not matter, alienate & polarize. Reach out to 1 opposed person, just 1, work on shared information & values.

04/06/2024

yet another possible gamechanger from the human mind to undo the harm we have done while holding onto modern civilization and lifespans. To do away with coal, oil, gas, and even batteries with revolutionary electrodes conducting the power of all light would change everything including how we all behave every day. Keep investing in great minds with good intentions.

Harvesting energy from any light source – even a candle – a new generation of ultra-durable and flexible solar cells means devices never need charging. ‘Our grandchildren will laugh that we had cables,’ one industry pioneer tells Anthony Cuthbertson

03/06/2024

Light emission fascinates me as a metaphor for the impact of our actions, teachings, and expressions of compassion in the world. Light, whether emitting in all directions from a point source or focused into a coherent beam like a laser, is the essence of the duality of quantum mechanics and wave-par...

26/05/2024

War, open and stealth, is not the first strength of open societies, which is why totalitarians push them there. Resist the push.

26/05/2024

A significant story of the many ways in which Russia is attacking Europe from within. All of Europe, left and right, needs to wake up to this. War is not the only answer, even though Russia has forced it by its brutal bid to destroy Ukraine as a nation. But still, the left/right polarization, as in the USA, is music to totalitarian regimes all around. It must stop, demonization must stop, and there must be a focus on issues, common values, command causes, and compromise.

Intelligence officials suspect Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek of colluding with the far-right Freedom Party on Moscow’s behalf.

24/05/2024

Agonistic Democracy should focus on issues and values, not persons & parties. The former is progressive, the latter regressive.

18/05/2024

We must continue to hammer away at these facts in order to move the economy toward killing oil and plastics more and more.

How much is invested in green energy?
In addition, BNEF's report finds that investment in the global clean energy supply chain, including equipment factories and battery metals production for energy technologies, hit a new record at $135 billion in 2023 (up from just $46 billion in 2020), and is set to surge further over the next two years.

The predicted costs of the green transition vary significantly, with estimates ranging from $100 trillion to $300 trillion between now and 2050. On an annual net basis, this requires investment of 2-8% of global GDP, which is substantial but far from impossible.

A 1C increase in global temperature leads to a 12% decline in world gross domestic product, researchers have found

13/05/2024

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israelis-palestinians-hold-joint-online-memorial-help-our-wounded-humanity-heal/ a must see of tens of thousands of Israelis and Palestinians together.

Amid war and lack of entry permits for Palestinians, annual controversial event is pre-recorded and livestreamed; Gazan who lost 60 relatives says all wanted to 'live in freedom'

10/05/2024

The need to have enemies to simplify a frightening world is primordial, but overcoming it is also primordial- if you know how.

10/05/2024

Each of our identities inhabits some space of bias that is exploited, especially the Academic Left that thinks they have no bias.

10/05/2024

If we allow hybrid warfare to divide us from within we will never unite to stop the burning of the planet.

10/05/2024

The only answer to the division and conquest of society by malevolence is to turn the division into conflict resolution.

10/05/2024

Authoritarian regimes are united to destroy free societies within by exploiting their weaknesses, failings and self-criticism.

06/05/2024

“Spirit is not in the I but between I and You.”
― Martin Buber, I and Thou

06/05/2024

“No purpose intervenes between I and You, no greed and no anticipation; and longing itself is changed as it plunges from the dream into appearance. Every means is an obstacle. Only where all means have disintegrated encounters occur.”
― Martin Buber, I and Thou

06/05/2024

“All real living is meeting.”
Martin Buber,
I and You

05/05/2024

Human ingenuity is highly adaptive where there is a profit to be made. Step 1: idealistic humans identify a danger and a moral problem, Step 2: profit-driven humans find a way to solve said problem and make money at it.

Query: How can we make peace far more profitable than war for for an overwhelming number of humans at the front lines?

Brilliant Planet says that its facilities capture 30 times more carbon per year than an equivalent area of forest, all without encroaching on arable land.

26/04/2024

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/compassionate-reasoning-the-future-and-reconciliation--59670969

This is my latest 25-minute episode.

Building relationships through compassion and moral reasoning has a distinctive effect on a country's future and its ability to reconcile with its past. There are specific ways to train the mind and incorporate this training into a new approach to education. We need more compassion, moral reasoning training, focus on the future, habit formation, and mind training to flourish as a society and truly heal the conflicts that are holding us back from a sustainable future.

Building relationships through compassion and moral reasoning has a distinctive effect on the future of a country and its ability to reconcile with its past. Th

26/04/2024

Building relationships through compassion and moral reasoning has a distinctive effect on the future of a country and its ability to reconcile with its past. Th

16/04/2024

One of the ways of overcoming tribalism may be an essential self-examination of the way we think when we see problems in front of us, in current events, as we watch the television, as we read the news, as we look at social media, we must start to try to ask ‘what’ questions, such as ‘what is the problem?’ ‘How is it to be solved?’ Or ‘What is going on, and how can I find out?’ ‘What is the possibility for the future, and how can I get there?’ As opposed to immediately looking at social media or the television and saying, ‘WHO did that?’ ‘Who’s responsible for this?’ ‘Who needs to be attacked here?’ ‘Who’s really behind this?’ All of those questions are basically about searching for enemies, searching for conspiracy, searching for evil in the world, and searching for the simplicity of hate.

The brain’s questions in its higher regions of ‘what; and ‘how’ are much more focused on our rational minds and the future instead of looking for scapegoats or somebody evil. If we can focus on, instead of the ‘who’ of tribalism, on the ‘what’ of a future civilization that we share that survives and flourishes, we can start to pull away from constantly fracturing and fragmenting. More, every day, we fragment as nations in a political situation that is out of control in many countries, including the United States. Social media has made us constantly move towards ‘who’ questions, towards ‘Who is responsible’ and ‘who is to blame’, instead of the basic scientific, rational, and compassionate questions of ‘What’s going on?’, ‘What is to be done?’, ‘How can we do that?’, and ‘How can we do it together?’

The most important thing to understand about tribalism and gang warfare is that it is deeply damaging to human societies and that it always has been for tens of thousands of years. We like to think that tribalism is somewhere else. It's not where we exist; it is very far away and primitive. But

15/04/2024

14/04/2024

Went with my students today to my old Iranian restaurant. They seemed grateful. No one should ever confuse regimes and people.

06/04/2024

Transcript of my recent podcast. See comments below

[email protected] shared who really crashed the cargo ship completed mix - 3:27:24, 3.35 PM.

01/04/2024

There will be 1.5 billion senior citizens across the planet by 2050, and there is an immense opportunity for them to participate the productivity and meaningfulness of the human endeavor. Come listen to how I propose this happens. 

31/03/2024

There will be 1.5 billion senior citizens across the planet by 2050, and there is an immense opportunity for them to participate the productivity and meaningfulness of the human endeavor. Come listen to how I propose this happens.

There will be 1.5 billion senior citizens across the planet by 2050, and there is an immense opportunity for them to participate the productivity and meaningfulness of the human endeavor. Come listen to how I propose this happens. 

29/03/2024

https://plan-international.org/hungriest-places-on-earth/

The world is in the midst of a devastating food crisis. Across the globe, in countries such as South Sudan, Bangladesh and Guatemala, conflict, climate shocks and COVID-19 are contributing to a dramatic escalation in food insecurity.

29/03/2024

Good information, bad information and how to know the difference, this episode offer the skills of the mind to discern current events in a more informed way that makes positive change in the world and in ourselves. Have a listen to what happened to the ship and the bridge, reactions to that event in...

28/03/2024

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Welcome to Making Change: A podcast on positive change, the art and science of what needs to happen to make ourselves better, to make society better, and make the earth better. The human mind is the key to reacting in a more constructive way to current events and life's challenges. Not only can trai...

26/03/2024

Making Change - Welcome to Making Change: A podcast on positive change, the art and science of what needs to happen to make ourselves better, to make society better, and make the earth better. The human mind is the key to reacting in a more constructive way to current events and life's challenges. N...