How on Earth can 10 billion Live Well?

This is primarily for people born in the twenty-first century. It’s about creating the world in which you and your children will actually want to live and retire in. That means creating a better world for more people now and in the future.

That’s a non-trivial challenge. And, while others may help, it’s essentially down to you. What older people can tell you is that if you are going to change the world, start early, mapping a course, in your teens, for your life and what you are going to do in it. People in their twenties do most of the thinking that changes the world. By the time you are in your thirties you will increasingly be directing these efforts. After that, for most people, it’s increasingly contributing valuable experience to help bring those efforts to fruition.

For some this means heading the affairs of state. For many more, individually less pretentious, but collectively with greater consequence, your impact will be via your work and how you generally live your life and influence others.

This website provides ideas and things to react against to help you do this. If you want to know more about me, you can read it in the Afterword, but it’s not important. What is important

“… All sensible men for decades past have been substantially in agreement with what Mr. Wells says; but the sensible men have no power and, in too many cases, no disposition to sacrifice themselves. Hitler is a criminal lunatic, and Hitler has an army of millions of men, aeroplanes in thousands, tanks in tens of thousands. For his sake a great nation has been willing to overwork itself for six years and then to fight for two years more, whereas for the common-sense, essentially hedonistic world-view which Mr. Wells puts forward, hardly a human creature is willing to shed a pint of blood. …”

George Orwell, Wells, Hitler and the World State (1941)

“… there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them. …”

Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1515)