Fix the World

Nov 09 2023 14 ep. 10 mins

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The world is falling apart. You can ignore it, and let the kids deal with the damage, or you can change the way you live and mitigate that damage. This show’s about changing: Take less, give more, and leave more alone. It’s simple. If you do it well, you’ll fix the world. If you don’t, you can do everything else and accomplish nothing. That’s my summary statement after 80 years of struggling to make meaning of life. I'm not paid to do this podcast, and I'm not selling anything. I just want a better life for my kids, and your kids, and their kids. If that's what you want, I can help you make it happen. Think critically about what you want. There's probably a big difference between what you think you want and what you really want. Fix the world by knowing this difference, and working for what you really want.

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Episode 14, Peace and War

Nov 09 2023 5 mins

Peace is a state of contentment. War precludes this, but the absence of war does not ensure peace. Soon, hopefully, war will end in Palestine, and a United College Plan for Enduring Peace in Palestine is begging for attention in MOMS Blog. But it's a misnomer. No one find contentment just because the shooting stops. Even after the dead are buried and the war memories fade, if there

Episode 13, Review Questions and Answers

Oct 29 2023 4 mins

When you want to fix the world, start with the Millennium Development Goals: End hunger and poverty, empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, fight infectious disease, protect human habitat, and foster a global partnership for development. These eight goals were the unanimous choice of the UN General Assembly in 2000. These Millennium Development Goals were a

Episode 12, Forge a Global Partnership for Fixing the World

Aug 18 2023 11 mins

Education was supposed to be the global partnership for development. As more people were educated, old problems would be solved as new ones were prevented. But that hasn't happened. As education has increased, so have our problems increased. This correlation might reflect a cause-effect relationship. Of itself, correlation doesn't prove causality, but it does suggest it, and we're

Episode 11, Protect the Environment

Aug 02 2023 8 mins

Forests are shrinking, deserts are expanding, glaciers are melting, etc. Our kids will pay the price if there are any kids. We're in the fight of our lives for the lives of our kids, and we're losing. That ought to bother you. We're losing because climate change doesn't matter. Ending hunger and, then, poverty are higher priorities. We few rich people care about climate because we'

Episode 10, Fight Infectious Disease

Jul 28 2023 15 mins

Globally, more than 8.3 million people, most of them poor, die of infectious disease. Some 80% of these diseases are waterborne and spread by hands. Clean water, sanitation, and soap are effective and cheap means to preventing infection. But almost half of all people lack adequate sanitation, and half of these lack clean water and soap. A billion people have no toilets. Many more l

Episode 9, Protect Women and Children

Jul 19 2023 13 mins

We can end preventable maternal deaths along with achieving the other Millennium Development Goals for some amount of money. But gender-based violence is not about money, but sex and the fear of being alone. We all want a partner, we want the best one we can get, and we'll deceive to get and keep him or her. Gender-based violence derives from this gender-based deception. It siphons

Episode 8, Eliminate Preventable Child Deaths

Jul 07 2023 14 mins

Global under-five deaths fell from 13 million in 1990 to 5 million in 2021. This major progress in such short time inspire optimim for fixing the world. But we must finish the job. It's neither a difficult nor expensive feat. But it does require popular will, and that's what's lacking. The World Health Organization lists immediate causes of child deaths, birth complications, birth

Episode 7, Promote Female Empowerment

Jul 01 2023 9 mins

In 1900, no fully sovereign state allowed women to vote in elections for public office. Now Vatican City is the only fuly sovereign state not to allow women to vote. This major progress in such short time inspires optimism for fixing the world. And the progress is not restricted to suffrage. Composite measures of gender equality show continuous progress since 1900. But something is

Episode 6, Ensure Universal Primary Education

Jun 29 2023 15 mins

According to UNICEF, the number of kids without instruction on reading, writing, and arithmetic has decreased by 35% since the millennium. But something is terribly wrong. If universal primary education could fix the world, the world should be better now than at the millennium, but, in fact, it's worse. Primary means first, and reading, writing, and arithmetic are not that. Priorit

Episode 5, End Poverty

Jun 24 2023 12 mins

If all the money were distributed equally, every adult would have $87,000. Poverty exists because rich people think they want excessive wealth more than an end to poverty, so they hoard. We'll end poverty by teaching kids, rich and poor alike, that hoarding may seem attractive at first glance, but it's never what anyone really wants. At any given time, every bit of money is owned b