
Preserving Life, Transforming Power
Civil Commons, Living Coordination, and the Conditions of Corrigible TransitionBy Dr. Bichara SahelyLength1h 4m
About this audiobook
How can societies change harmful institutions without losing the essential services on which people depend? In this Listener’s Edition, Bichara Sahely explores how protection, political agency, and accountable institutions might develop together. Drawing on financial resolution, energy-supplier administration, Jackson’s drinking-water intervention, and the Montreal Protocol, the paper distinguishes preserving life-enabling functions from preserving the power of their current controllers. It proposes binding transition agreements, examines successor capture and ecological burden displacement, and asks what evidence would support or weaken the framework. A full spoken adaptation of the academic white paper, including its objections, safeguards, and proposed tests. The framework remains a hypothesis for inquiry, not an empirically validated transition formula.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning, Politics and Government
Length1 hr 4 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 29, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2About this edition
3Series relationship
4Scope and method
5Listening roadmap
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61. The central problem: people depend on arrangements they may need to change
72. Preserve life-enabling functions, not every incumbent activity
83. The proposed mechanism: protection can change the conditions of power
94. Existing mechanisms show that function and control can be separated
104.1 Financial resolution
114.2 Energy-supplier administration
124.3 Jackson's drinking-water intervention
134.4 The Montreal Protocol
145. Overcoming the political circularity
156. A binding transition agreement
167. Govern loss without making vulnerable people finance the transition
178. Living coordination: the capacity to change together without compulsory agreement
189. Prevent the successor from becoming indispensable and unanswerable
1910. Bioregional responsibility: continuity cannot be purchased through displacement
2011. Constitutionalize the capacity for institutional correction
2112. Testing the proposal without claiming that it is already validated
2213. The limits of the proposed resolution
23Conclusion: preserve the conditions of life while changing the conditions of power
24Appendix A. Testable propositions and contrary findings
25Listener’s Guide in one pass
26Scholarly and production note
27About the author