Putting the Missing Bridge to Work
From Treating Damage to Changing the Conditions of LifeBy Dr. Bichara Sahely
Length2h 11m
About this audiobook
Why do societies become better at treating damage while continuing to reproduce the conditions that cause it?
Bichara Sahely follows this question through housing, food, work, education, environmental protection and finance, alongside climate change, debt and digital technologies. Drawing on John McMurtry’s life-value orientation and the Civilizational Healing research programme, the paper connects immediate care with changes in the arrangements shaping everyday life.
This essentially unabridged Listener’s Edition preserves the complete substantive argument and translates the diagrams and worked housing pathway into spoken prose. It distinguishes established findings from proposed connections and asks what makes protection, repair and accountable change practically possible.
For exact citations, references and diagrams, consult the scholarly edition.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning, Health and Wellness
Length2 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 29, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Listener’s Note
2Listening Orientation
31. The conditions of life are being changed
42. Following consequences without erasing differences: Combined exposures and the course of a life
5Combined exposures and the course of a life
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63. Housing: shelter on a warming and unequal planet
7Shelter is more than a dwelling count
8Quiet and public space are conditions of recovery
9How insecurity consumes the capacity to recover
10Repair, security and the ability to remain
11Worked housing pathway
12First, what changes?
13Second, which conditions change?
14Third, what happens to load, capacity and margin?
15Fourth, can regulation and repair occur?
16Fifth, which future options remain?
174. Food systems: from industrial organization to dependable nourishment
18The choice is made inside an environment
19Concentrating animals also concentrates waste and exposure
20Pesticides: protecting a crop without hiding other losses
21Nourishment without transferring the burden
225. Work and care: who receives the gains in capacity?
23When continued performance conceals growing demands
24When responsibility is blocked, not simply overloaded
25Artificial intelligence assistance is not yet a distribution of its benefits
26Care is part of the capacity to work and live
276. Education: completed output or enlarged understanding?
28Learning requires conditions, not just content
29Artificial intelligence makes the difference between performance and capacity visible
30The social and collective conditions matter too
317. Environmental protection: persistence, regeneration and infectious risk
32Damage can outlast the activity that produced it
33Microplastics: the useful object and the continuing release
34Ecological reserve is more than present output
35Habitat protection can be part of disease prevention
36Shared indoor air and the aftermath of infection
37Changing a source can protect present and future life
388. Finance and material production: what receives credit, and who carries the debt?
39Financing helps select the conditions that become real
40Repayment is a claim on future possibilities
41Planned obsolescence connects design to future expenditure
42Public finance must connect money to real provision
439. Digital conditions of life: attention, information, artificial intelligence and dependence
44Different digital arrangements, different consequences
45Attention is not the same as engagement
46Psychological support, dependence and the wider life
47Information integrity is a condition of collective correction
48Institutional power cannot be delegated away
49Dependable connection includes a way to recover from failure
50Efficiency per task is not the whole ecological account
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