Post by garyriccio on May 10, 2020 16:41:52 GMT
The world's great religions (longevity, number of followers) all have initiatives that bring them into direct first-hand contact with the lives of people in the places where they live and in the full context of their lives. There is a unique opportunity for religious institutions to do a kind of citizen science by witnessing these diverse realities on the ground, aggregating it into a big picture, and promulgating it to powerful people, organizations and institutions that have an impact on everyone, especially on those who have little or no voice in public affairs.
In this board, we are more specifically interested in how these unique capabilities of religious institutions can be utilized to observe the effects of the entire supply chain of products and the consequences of use, intended or otherwise.
In this board, we are more specifically interested in how these unique capabilities of religious institutions can be utilized to observe the effects of the entire supply chain of products and the consequences of use, intended or otherwise.
- What are some of the ways in which religious institutions can provide such social justice intelligence?
- What are natural laboratories of such observation and intervention by religious institutions?
- How can religious institutions help industry and government internalize externalities for transactions that more realistically represent costs?