Articles published on LinkedIn and Medium during February and March 2026: Enhancing AI with Eco-wisdom – Do the suggestions in the Global Imperatives for the UK to provide global Leadership meet Elinor Ostrom’s requirements? This article uses a sophisticated AI tool, GADGET, to find out the answer. Siloed Thinking in Supply Chains – This articleContinue reading “Joining the Dots”
Author Archives: Barbara Williams
MAGA Morality
MAGA Morality – My Christmas message is a harsh one, but someone needs to speak truth to power and wealth. We cannot repent our sins, unless we first recognise what they are. Our modern culture is deeply harmful to ourselves and other life forms. These deeply entrenched unwise habits are: exponential growth economics, pronatalism, colonialism,Continue reading “MAGA Morality”
The Metacrisis Mindset
The Metacrisis Mindset – This article defines a new concept: ‘The Metacrisis Mindset.’ This mindset prevents us from challenging the ecocidal and unsustainable model of exponential economic growth. This mindset is taught in our schools and universities and keeps us trapped on the self-destructive path to climate breakdown and ecosystems collapse. (published 29/11/2025) Can theContinue reading “The Metacrisis Mindset”
Eco-destruction Hierarchy
The Eco-destruction hierarchy – this article suggests that we rename the wealth and power hierarchy ‘The Eco-destruction Hierarchy’. This helps us all to recognise the folly of admiring those people who are doing the most damage to Earth’s eco-systems and our collective chance of survival. Armchair Activism – this article links to many wonderful activists,Continue reading “Eco-destruction Hierarchy”
Eco-Equity
Can Fiction Help Us Thrive – Marcus Neves is the author of the Jackson’s Debate, in which aliens are debating the ethical issues preventing them from eating humans. In these sequel stories he weaves in some of my ideas. Envisioning Eco-equity This article explores the concept of equity. It suggests what sort of equity weContinue reading “Eco-Equity”
A Crescendo in Awareness!
The global awakening is gathering pace rapidly. Africans are seeing through neocolonial hypocrisy. For example, this LinkedIn post from Kenyan Rashid Abubakar revealing his disillusion with the operations within the United Nations. Degrowth advocates like Matt Tutt are challenging the ‘progrowth network’; the graphic above was taken from this post from Matt. Matt also providedContinue reading “A Crescendo in Awareness!”
Aspiring to shift the Mindset
My most recent four Medium articles October 19 – November 6th explain why I feel the election of Donald Trump as president of the USA might make academics more willing to consider promoting a mindset shift away from ecocidal growth economics and towards equitable economic downsizing. The Wealth Supremacy Mindset (19/10/2024) explains how an uglyContinue reading “Aspiring to shift the Mindset”
Neocolonialism
Article by my Kenyan friend Jack Mazingira
The Maasai Predicament
Paul Ole Leitura is the founder and executive director of Mulika Africa, an organisation focussed on empowering the Maasai people. The Tanzanian government are attempting to disconnect the Maasai from the land that they have roamed and loved for centuries, this puts Maasai people and their culture at risk of disappearing. The document below isContinue reading “The Maasai Predicament”
Are We Using Science Wisely?
3 September 2024 – Estimating Earth’s Carrying Capacity, this provides a simple guide to the factors involved when estimating Earth’s carrying capacity. 22 September 2024 – Storytelling and Science, this article is intended to help the non-scientific community to understand what formal science has to offer. It also explains how science has been corrupted byContinue reading “Are We Using Science Wisely?”