mahb

MAHB starts with the perspective that the science is good
that we have real problems with the globe and its ecology.
But what is unexplored sufficiently is the social, political and
psychological circumstances.

MAHB currently has two foci.

• Help sustainability efforts be more successful by being
more strategic?

• Why are we so stuck? This means institutions and people.

MAHB wants to enlist the humanities, social sciences and
the arts in both.

MAHB starts with

For ten thousand years humanity has moved through time
organized in empires. They conflict, they organize status
and ambition, they use technology, and they fight, they
increase population and devastate the adjoining land.

The Enlightenment was a serious move to end the
repression of monarchies. The belief in human initiative,
freedom from constraints on thinking, belief in reason as a
way to improve the human conditions, is a good starting
point and MAHB does so. But the enlightenment itself had
excesses of zeal and fostered its own authoritarian
governments and too rabid a belief in materiality with a loss
of concern and understanding of the life worth living.