Proposing a Global Jubilee
So I've been thinking for a few years about the idea of a Global Jubilee. A radical sabbatical.
The idea is: everything and everybody takes a well-coordinated break from all work-related activities. For a whole year.
All non-essential activities cease. Manufacturing, shipping, transportation, retail, design, engineering, entertainment, you name it; it all ceases.
In this year of ceasing activities, our fields and industries and individuals get to lie fallow. A global breath. The international shipping lanes no longer generate noise and waste. Planes stop flying. We stay home, with our family and friends; we walk, we connect, we rest. A chance to pay back debts, share with each other, and rest from our busy activity. People return to spend time with their families, to co-create, re-create, pro-create.
We plan for it over the course of the next — pick your timeframe. A decade from now? Should we pick 2030 as our year? Or earlier: 2025?
Anyway, there's much to be done. We'll have to build u…
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