Complete proposed policy statement text
1] Climate change policies and actions should be solution-oriented; they should emphasize viable, positive alternatives and not dwell on fears or political posturing. Humanity should appreciate that implementing these solutions will bring opportunities for a better life.
2] Proposed solutions should emphasize dealing with the root causes of climate change, and …
Version 1, approved by Global PROUT Policy Parliament on May 4, 2011
Global climate change is no longer a conjecture; its effects are now evident. Nine of the ten years of hottest global average annual temperatures on record have occurred since 2000. And the three years of greatest Artic ice melt happened in the past four years. Along with rising …
Global climate change speaks to the need for humanity to adopt a new values base, one that expands humanistic concerns to embrace the welfare of the natural world. Such a value base would be grounded in the proto-spiritual and non-sectarian realization that all life is interconnected in a wholeness of being.
Humanity …
Version 1, approved by Global PROUT Policy Parliament on February 25, 2010
Earth’s resources are the common inheritance of all humanity. So all people should enjoy the fundamental right to the goods and services required to maintain their existence and to support their development and their expression.
The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights asserts that, “Everyone has the …
Mark Friedman
It is more efficient to structure an economy so that it distributes income equitably in the first place than to attempt to redistribute income through taxation or other means. Without denying the present necessity for a progressive tax structure to redistribute income, Galbraith wrote,
For promoting equality a reasonably equal distribution …
Mark Friedman
It is often argued that wide disparities of income are needed to encourage the most talented to be more productive and accept jobs that are more challenging. We have accepted that some income inequality can be beneficial to society if it actually provides an incentive for greater productivity. …
Mark Friedman
There is little that has more impact on income and wealth distribution in a society than the attitudes of that society toward the institution of private property. The philosophical origins of attitudes toward private property which are dominant in the U.S. today will be discussed in this chapter, …
Mark Friedman
In the U.S. ninety percent of the people own less than a quarter of the nation’s wealth (as measured by net worth). The richest half of one percent own almost a third (Mishel and Frankel 1991). Many hard-working people have negative net worth, and almost thirteen percent are in poverty. When confronted by such statistics …
Trond Overland
To understand PROUT involves understanding revolutionary dynamics. Apart from formulating an original concept of revolution, PROUT discusses a number of revolutionary concerns such as the spiritual, historical psychosocial cycles and the structural.
PROUT defines revolution as “the application of tremendous force within a short time to destroy the formidable control of any era and replace it by the …
P. R. Sarkar
The fifth fundamental principle of PROUT is as follows: “The method of utilization should vary in accordance with the changes of time, place and person, and the utilization should be progressive in nature.” This principle has its peculiar speciality. Let us examine where this speciality lies.
Everything in this universe is subject to change and the relative …