Barbara J. King joins NPR 13.7 Blog community as a guest blogger

Welcome Barbara!

“[W]e...forge our...responses to the world [in] a process beset as much by edgy negotiation and messy dissent as it is by coordinated thinking and harmonious cooperation.”

I have a proposal that I believe points the way to a sustainable and more just civilization:

http://gaiabrain.blogspot.com/2011/06/golden-rule-and-public-property-rights.html

OR

http://gaiabrain.blogspot.com/2011/04/natural-law-requires-respect-of-public.html

What we have created up to this point appears to me to be neither sustainable nor just. Systemic flaws that led to the collapse of civilizations past have not been solved. The growth that has followed the long period of relative stagnation after the fall of the Roman empire has been supported by innovations that have enabled exploitation of more kinds of natural resources from increasingly remote geographic regions.

The most helpful feedback I have ever received has been from people expressing *disagreement*. It has forced me to clarify my thinking and language. I experience first-hand the benefit of a free society that allows people to express differences of opinion. Society is stronger when ideas flow freely because the good ideas come out and are more likely to be shared more widely.

Minimum Wage vs. Minimum Income
– Equal ownership of natural resources promotes social justice AND sustainability