Richard Eckersley
Richard Eckersley is an independent researcher and writer on progress, wellbeing and the future. www.richardeckersley.com.au.
Richard's recent articles
20 November 2024
The US political system and its capitalist, imperialist agenda has failed
Trump’s victory has exposed, for a second time, the failings of the entire US political system and its pursuit of a capitalist, imperialist agenda.
6 October 2024
Indigenous cultures show other worlds are possible
‘I think the natives held privately that in taking such pains to make things grow where already things grew of their own accord I was maybe a little mad…. As for myself, there were times when…. it came to me with considerable force that perhaps in this private opinion there was a deal of truth…’ - Jack McLaren, ‘My Crowded Solitude’, 1926.
26 August 2024
Fiddling while the world teeters on the brink
We need a no-holds-barred attack on corporate power to meet global threats.
8 May 2024
Being young is getting worse, but we are not sure why, or what it means
Ill health, perhaps especially mental ill health, is generally seen as a personal issue, requiring diagnosis and treatment. But at the population level, mental health problems have a profound message for our societies and their futures. We need to pay it more heed.
27 May 2023
In the eye of the hurricane, can we find truth?
To survive this critical century, we need to know the truth about it.
20 February 2023
Subjectivity: the overlooked dimension of the debate about economic growth
The continuing debate in Pearls and Irritations about economic growth and sustainability has largely ignored a critical dimension: the role of human subjectivity.
1 September 2022
Why invisible cultures will determine humanitys future
A deeply flawed culture is spreading throughout the world epitomised by todays global, technocratic and managerial elite with growing inequality and concentration of wealth and power.
1 March 2022
The deep divide between the people and mainstream politics and media
The deep divide between the people and mainstream politics and media
9 August 2020
COVID-19 lays bare the USs deep problems, with some help from Trump
With the COVID-19 pandemic laying waste to the country, and President Trumps chances of re-election fading, the United States is at last beginning to look more deeply into its problems.
14 February 2018
Closing the gap between the science and politics of progress (Part 2 of 2)
Global politics is based on an outmoded and increasingly destructive model of human progress and development. In the second of two parts, RICHARD ECKERSLEY examines the critical nexus between science and politics in redefining progress.
13 February 2018
Closing the gap between the science and politics of progress (Part 1 of 2)
Global politics is based on an outmoded and increasingly destructive model of human progress and development. In the first of two parts, RICHARD ECKERSLEY examines what is wrong with the model with respect to sustainability and quality of life.