Universal Basic Income: Has the Time Come?
Should society provide every citizen with a basic income, no strings attached? Some proponents of a "universal basic income" view it as a tool for system correction, but the focus of this GTI Forum is on system change. Two panels debate the question: Should a UBI be a central element of strategies for transformation?
The first panel makes the affirmative case, arguing that UBI resonates strongly with egalitarian ethics and basic concepts of justice. The second voices concerns that it encourages individualism and distracts from better alternatives, and urges the UBI debate to encompass issues of global justice and ecology at the level of Earthland.
Recent Publications
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How will today’s crisis alter the shape of tomorrow’s world? Which scenario—Conventional Worlds, Barbarization, Great Transition—has become more likely? How can we seize the moment to propel transformation? -
In our fraught time, we need coordinated action for deep social and ecological change more than ever. How can we build a unified global movement? Who will change the world? -
A Great Transition must rise on core ethical values attuned to an interdependent world facing a common destiny. What are the elements of this foundation, and how do we build it? -
Footloose corporations, obsessed with the bottom line, are fraying the social-ecological fabric. A forum on the struggle to tame and displace these behemoths—and new directions for the struggle.
Forthcoming
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Interrogating the Anthropocene
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Technology and Transformation
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Pedagogy of Transition
Popular
Journey to Earthland: The Great
Transition to Planetary Civilization
Paul Raskin
Debating the Sharing Economy
Juliet Schor
Economics for a Full World
Herman Daly
The Degrowth Alternative
Giorgos Kallis
Money for the People
Mary Mellor
Bounding the Planetary Future:
Why We Need a Great Transition
Johan Rockström
Climate: The Crisis and the Movement
Naomi Klein
Farming for a Small Planet:
Agroecology Now
Frances Moore Lappé
