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Julian Burnside's Amazing Proposal


While specializing in commercial litigation, Mr Burnside has acted pro bono in many human rights cases, in particular concerning the treatment of refugees.

Lies and corruption may become a relic of the past and virtuous politicians may soon be the norm, if Julian Burnside, prominent Australian barrister, sees his vision come true. On May 15, 2007 this article appeared in The Age, an Australian newspaper. Here's the beginning:

THE Future Summit, being held in Melbourne this week, is a hotbed of ideas, solutions and attempts to imagine a better world.

Global warming, reliance on fossil fuels, the growing gap between rich and poor, all have been debated by academics, captains of industry, religious, community and political leaders.

But one solution — put forward yesterday by the top silk Julian Burnside, QC — met with more acclaim than any other, and received rapturous applause.

"If we really want to make things better, I suggest we introduce a law that makes it an offence for politicians to lie," he told the conference.

Julian Burnside has intuitively sensed what the Dueling Loops model (see below) analytically shows: that political deception is so damaging it should be illegal. See this thread for more on this promising development. Be sure to read the draft letter to Julian.

Related to this, here's an earlier essay on The Return of the Virtuous Politician.

Dueling Loops Paper

The most popular page on the site. This paper presents a simple model showing why activists have been unable to solve the sustainability problem, and an alternative solution strategy based on high leverage points.

A Little Story about Corporate Dominance and the Occupy Movement

Here's what one reader wrote us about this article:

"This is the most lucid, focused, analysis of the economic quandary of the nation that I have seen. It exposes the indisputable root cause of the widening gap between the goals of people and the goals of for-profit corporations, and demonstrates how those respective goals are mutually exclusive. It does not condemn corporations but offers a solution for refocusing them toward the general goals of people. I urge each member to go over this analysis - it is not long or boring - and challenge it if you think you can."

Change Resistance Paper

This explains why the crux of the sustainability problem is change resistance, rather than what conventional wisdom thinks it is. That's why the problem has remained unsolved for over 30 years. The paper describes a high leverage point that's never been pushed on before that can solve the change resistance problem.

Common Property Rights

This book summarizes all the work at Thwink.org. This includes the System Improvement Process, a rigorous analysis of the complete sustainability problem, and 12 sample solution elements.

The Powell Memo

The most eye popping short read (7 pages) on the site, if you have never heard about it. The memo was written in 1971.

Dueling Loops Videos

These average 8 minutes. They give a quick introduction to the Dueling Loops model and how it explains the tremendous change resistance to solving the sustainability problem.
 

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