Geoff Mulgan Post crash, investing in a better world

The parallel collapse of a grownup Republican presence in the executive branch.

And this has already saved millions of lives, and it has prevented entire economies from capsizing in Sub Saharan Africa.

In 1687, parts of the mine collapsed in a landslide, creating an 100 m deep pit.

But there is one thing that is particularly remarkable and novel about slavery today, and that is a complete collapse in the price of human beings expensive in the past, dirt cheap now.

As the Director of the International Bureau of Education, he declared in 1934 that only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

And because we started this work around the time of the financial collapse, around the time when foreclosures were hitting the news, we said, hhmm, maybe we should actually start in the financial domain.

Now, when your state is collapsing, your economy is heading south at a rate of knots, the last people you want coming on to the labor market are 14,000 men and women whose chief skills are surveillance, are smuggling, building underground networks and killing people.

Now, the system may gradually under pressure of climate change, erosion, biodiversity loss lose the depth of the cup, the resilience, but appear to be healthy and appear to suddenly, under a threshold, be tipping over. Upff.

There's an ancient and universal concept that words have power, that spells exist, and that if we could only pronounce the right words, then whooosh you know, an avalanche would come and wipe out the hobbits, right? So this is a very attractive idea because we're very lazy, like the sorcerer's apprentice, or the world's greatest computer programmer.