Post by garyriccio on May 10, 2020 17:04:26 GMT
The world's great religions (longevity, number of followers) collectively span the entire planet. Even individually, they represent a unique capability to observe and intervene in the work of humanity across social-constructed borders between nation-states.
There is a unique opportunity for religious institutions to do a kind of citizen science by witnessing the environmental impact of products, aggregating such impacts into a big picture, and promulgating this intelligence to powerful people, organizations and institutions that have an impact on our common dominion.
In this board, we are more specifically interested in how these unique capabilities of religious institutions and their interest in environmental stewardship can be utilized to observe the various impacts throughout the entire supply chain of products and the consequences of use, intended or otherwise.
There is a unique opportunity for religious institutions to do a kind of citizen science by witnessing the environmental impact of products, aggregating such impacts into a big picture, and promulgating this intelligence to powerful people, organizations and institutions that have an impact on our common dominion.
In this board, we are more specifically interested in how these unique capabilities of religious institutions and their interest in environmental stewardship can be utilized to observe the various impacts throughout 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 environmental impact 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?