Deliberate with Project Save the World

Project Save the World is planning to hold a series of “Deliberation Groups” for our members and paid subscribers. Each Group will meet by Zoom together with a host over a period of one month, with discussions and the following assignments:

3 meetings, each one-hour long, to deliberate by Zoom about a social issue.

3 hours of videos to be watched, one before each meeting

½ hour of assigned readings (online sources) before each of the 3 meetings.

½ hour writing a 300-word opinion to submit by the last day of the month. Total: 8 hours work within one month. No marks or grades.

Each participant who completes all assignments will receive certificate of completion.

All Project Save the World members and Substack paid or complimentary subscribers may register for any or all Deliberation Groups without charge. Help us choose which of these topics to offer, one each month, starting August 1? Do any interest you?

Should violent video games be banned to prevent school shootings?

Should governments begin brightening clouds over the oceans to reflect sunshine back into space?

Should we build nuclear power plants to help transition to zero emissions?

Should gain-of-function research on viruses be permitted with security?

Should AI production be halted for one year with the developers required to work on safety measures?

Should autonomous lethal weapons (“killer robots”) be banned globally?

Should the UN halt anti-satellite weapons tests to stop militarization of space and dangerous orbital debris?

Should every nation set a carbon price of at least $100/ton by 2030?

Should coastal cities issue climate-resilience bonds to fund large-scale seawalls and flood barriers?

Should governments subsidize renewable-powered desalination plants to provide freshwater?

Should wealthier nations forgive drought-stricken countries’ sovereign debt in exchange for verifiable sustainable-agriculture reforms?

Should a global air-travel levy be introduced to double the funding for pandemic rapid-response systems?

Should all high-containment virology labs be placed under one transparent international inspection regime?

Should each nuclear-energy country be required to build its own deep-geological repository for spent fuel?

Should large-scale cryptocurrency mining be regulated as a critical-infrastructure energy consumer, capped during power shortages?

Should companies with annual revenue above $500 million be required to publish independent cybersecurity audits every year?

Should social-media platforms be held liable for algorithmic amplification of extremist or violent content?

Should governments create a universal privacy-preserving identity managed by an independent public trust, not private firms?

Should a “right-to-repair” law force electronics and farm-equipment makers to provide parts, manuals, and software access?

Should cities reserve 30 percent of their land for public commons—parks, libraries, community centers—to strengthen civil society?

Should mass facial-recognition surveillance in public spaces be banned to protect civil liberties and prevent discriminatory policing?

Should Diversity-Equity-Inclusion rules be enforced in all hiring and education admission decisions?

Should all essential websites (e.g. social security applications, complaint departments of corporations and e-banking) be required either to be user-friendly or to provide easy access to human assistants?

Should all governments have programs to buy back guns and require strict licensing for private gun owners?

Should a UN agency be created to study climate repair proposals?