Social Elements that Impact Sustainability
Business Greed
Planned Obsolescence – industry conspiracy limiting product life to force increased sales
Video about the government bail out of the banks – mortgage foreclosures
Wall Street Journal March 22, 2011, Paul Farrel New Civil War erupts, led by super rich, GOP
Half of US Mortgages Effectively Underwater – CNBC
How the Money System Allows Elite Bank and Corporate Executives To Rule The World
85 people own the same amount as 50% of global population
Automated generation of fake academic papers
Collapse of Society
Collapse of the First Global Civilization
Large summary of facts about the coming collapse
A broad collection of topics, with some about social collapse
Cultural Evolution
David Loye on cultural evolution
Democracy – Principles
Innovations in Democracy
State-by-state solution to fix the U.S. electoral college problem
DebatePedia – A debate format to collect ideas on issues
The Concord Principles – Ralph Nader 1992
Roadmap to a New Economics – Riane Eisler
The Demosophia Paradigm – A3 cooperation
Beyond Public Opinion to Public Judgment – Tom Atlee
Ayn Rand on Altruism
Democracy – Problems
Democracy Barometer
The public’s trust of government in the U.S.
Lobbying – inside look – Jack Abramoff
Accurate Democracy – voting problems and solutions
Education
Information about getting a teaching degree or education job online
UNESCO 2017 Obstacles for Education That Society Is Not Yet Aware Of – Nappi
Charter School Review 2015
Charter School Review 2015 – source data
The failure of modern education
Clash of Modern Technology with Assembly-line Education
How to Fix Math Education – NYT
Relevance of Math Education
Math or Quantitative Literacy?
Being Left-brain in a Right-brain World
The STEM Myth
STEM crisis myth – educational biocapital
STEM Myth – Chronicle of Higher Education
Myth of STEM – the Atlantic
Congressional Testimony – Ron Hira
STEM: Still No Shortage – Freddie deBoer
President Obama! There is no engineering shortage – Vivek Wadhwa, Duke U.
Family
Global divorce statistics
Human psychology
The Moral Matrix – Jonathan Heidt
The shortcomings of personal CHOICE
Human fears are not driven by rational thinking
Labor
Civilian Labor Force History for ages 25 to 54 years
Civilian Labor Force Participation Rate History
2011 Labor Crisis
Dropping Labor Participation Rates
Various labor rate categories tracked
U.S. labor participation rate collapse after 2000 crash – interactive chart
Medicine is Broken
Medicine is fractionated – Maureen Bisognano
Revolutionizing 21st century-medicine
U.S. Health in Perspective – National Academies Interactive data base
Mentally ill treated as criminals – The Economist
Occupy Wall Street
Shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy
Survey of Occupy Demands 11/11/11
Occupy Wall Street Demand List from 9/28/11
Cops arrest Citibank customers attempting to close accounts
Florida’s Alan Grayson stands up for the Occupy Movement on the Bill Maher show
Elizabeth Warren about Wall Street Greed
Robert Reich on the American Dream
Robert Reich in San Francisco
Robert Reich – The REAL Public Nuisance
Push for 28th Amendment to Limit Corporations
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker interrupted by Mic Check Protest
Harvard Economic Students Walk Out of Class Claiming Failed Theories
How Wall Street Blocked Criminal Action Against Itself – William K Black
What Are The 99% Asking Us To Do?
How the Money System Allows Elite Bank and Corporate Executives To Rule The World (also in Cases of Business Greed above )
Steve Jobs Did Not Create Jobs By Inventing the iPhone
Rich People Do Not Create Jobs
Constitution Amendment Idea collection website</a
Video – What it’s like to live on $7 an hour
Mortality toll of not having health insurance
Politics
What administration built up U.S. Debt
Political elites and the media dominate public opinion – academic paper
Science
Reginald Cahill, on Roland De Witte’s experimental confirmation of the aether
Conrad Ranzan, summary of cover ups of positive proof of the aether
Multiple Flaws in the Theory of Relativity
Social Conflict
Timeline of War
Conservative vs. Liberal Beliefs
U.S. Union Growing More Unstable – California 6 State Split
Big money using professionals to disrupt discussions in social media
Article – Political Discourse Theory – Boehm
Global Warming and the Syrian War
UN Report on Torture in the U.S.
Society in general
World statistics displayed in interactive graphic format.
Humanitarian Early Warning System – World Hazard Map
Center for the New American Dream
Global Database of Events
UIA Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential
UN Report on Torture in the U.S.
The Skeptical Inquirer, Michael Shermer
Scott Ewen’s large video collection of world wide problems
Ayn Rand Mike Wallace interview – Pt.1
Ayn Rand Mike Wallace interview – Pt.2
Ayn Rand Mike Wallace interview – Pt.3
How Scientific Information Flows Through the Media
Real Time World Statistics
Creation “Science” Debunked