Mini Report: Volume 1, Issue 1

Top Conceptual Approaches
for Making the World a Better Place

Introduction
Experientialist.com has conducted a preliminary analysis on what people around the world believe are the best ways for the human race to make the world a better place. Naturally, such ideas depend on individual perspectives and the definition one uses for “making the world a better place.”

This initial “mini report” will simply be used to present the top ideas in a conceptual and broad sense; mini reports will also allow our website visitors to keep tabs on global idea trends in-between the publication times of our more full reports.

This information is current. As more data and ideas come in, we will issue regular updates and expand our reports to include more information and deeper and more expansive analyses.

Part 1: Conceptual Approaches for Making the World a Better Place  

Overview
Overall, the most popular concepts tend to be of an economic nature, with approximately one out of six (17%) of those who submitted an idea to Experientialist.com saying that this is the way to go.

Suggested by approximately one out of seven (14%) people, three conceptual solutions were tied for second place – those conceptual solutions include political approaches, environmental initiatives and the advancement of religion.

Perhaps most telling where the ideas that gained the least traction – rethinking religion and the use of technology. One might have thought that in the current technological age that we live in, technology might figure higher as a contender for improving the global situation. But it has not (aside from environmental and energy technology – more on this later).

Rather, those who submitted ideas to Experientialist.com tend to believe that that nothing can be done without solutions involving direct human actions with direct human implications.   

Part 2: The Details

Top Concepts in Depth

The table below shows the top ten approaches visitors to Experientialist.com have submitted.

Conceptual Approach	Frequency
Economic	17%
Political	14%
Environmental	14%
Religious	14%
Points of View	11%
Raising Children	11%
Morals/Ethics	7%
Energy	7%
No Religion	2%
Technology	2%
Other	2%

Economic Approach
Sixteen percent (16%) of all submissions, in one way or another, fall under the aegis of taking an economic approach to the world’s problems.

Just how can the world use economics to improve the global situation? According to many of our website visitors and idea submitters, the world can:

• Redistribute wealth such that everyone can have the freedom to uncover and work towards their true potential once they have been unshackled from the burdens of poverty, hunger and lack of basic necessities.
• Abolish money or limit the amount of money any single individual or entity may have and control, allowing for the bulk of economic resources to be used for communal purposes.
• Tax all multinational and large corporations a fixed percentage of profits to be used for humanitarian causes and worthwhile enterprises.
• Spread economic prosperity so that the allure of extremism, of whatever shape and form, is diminished. Prosperity leads to hope which leads to greater vision.
• Provide work for as many people as possible to foster greater dignity, reduce exploitation and give everyone purpose and a reason to work with, and within, society.

Political Approach
Fourteen percent (14%) of all submissions, in one way or another, fall under the aegis of taking a political approach to the world’s problems.

Generally speaking, the political approach involves one or a combination of the following concepts:

• Abolish war and weapons manufacturing.
• Abolish borders and the notion of countries and international competition – at least the antagonistic kind.
• Strengthen the United Nations by contributing more funds and military forces; allow the United Nations to take the lead in all international affairs.
• Stop thinking in terms of political and national rivalries and instead start viewing the world as our common home needing common solutions and concerted, mutually reinforcing actions.

Environmental Approach
Fourteen percent (14%) of all submissions say that we can make the world a better place by becoming a more “green” global civilization. 

More specifically, Experientialist.com visitors advocate:

• Being more conscious of how our actions impact the environment.
• Investing more time, effort and resources in tackling the world’s environmental problems.
• Doing everything possible to ensure that our planet’s ecosystem remains healthy and strong and capable of sustaining our form of life.
• Recycling everything and not buying/using/manufacturing anything that can not be recycled.

Religious Approach
Fourteen percent (14%) of all submissions, in one way or another, fall under the aegis of taking a religious approach to the world’s problems.

As a general rule, such ideas generally advocate enhancing the role of God in society, becoming more spiritually oriented and adhering to the basic tenets of the world’s major religions.

Adjusting Our Point of View  
Eleven percent (11%) of the submissions Experientialist.com has received advocate that the world’s people adopt a different point of view.

More specifically, such submissions say that each and every one of us must become more tolerant, more honest, more loving and more understanding and that hate, greed, jealousy, and old grudges must be eradicated. But this eradication must come from within – it can not be legislated from the outside. If we all forgave and forgot all of the perceived wrongs done against us, perhaps the world would indeed become a better place with less interspecies strife.  

The Children Are Our Future
Eleven percent (11%) of Experientialist.com visitors say that the key to building a better world is in how we raise our children. Given that our children do, indeed, represent the future of all societies and the global human civilization, raising children to be responsible, moral, ethical, productive, tolerant, caring, compassionate and upright human beings is essential to the future of our world.

Morals and Ethics
Seven percent (7%) of those who submitted an idea to Experientialist.com say that we can not improve the world without improving society’s morals and ethics. Tolerance, honesty, and integrity are key for a better world, as is respect for others and the world around us.

Energy Solutions
Seven percent (7%) say that the axis of the world’s problems is energy – plain and simple. Since energy – in whatever form – is the one thing that drives ever single aspect of this world, then solving our energy problems will solve all of our other problems. Consider, for example, that you can have the most ideal and altruistic society conceivable but without a plentiful source of clean, renewable and cheap energy, that society is bound to fail.

Abolish All Religions
Two percent (2%) of Experientialist.com visitors believe that the world’s major problems can be solved if religion, in all its forms, is abolished and forgotten. This point of view tends to be driven, at least in part, by the current global situation vis-à-vis terrorism and the way it is sometimes linked to religious motivations. 

Technological Solutions
Two percent (2%) of Experientialist.com visitors say that we must utilize our technological sophistication to cure the world of its problems. Note that ideas falling under this heading are distinct from those under, for example, the environmental aegis and energy aegis, which themselves would naturally involve the application of high technology.

Note: Experientialist.com does not necessarily agree or disagree with any of the ideas, suggestions and approaches presented above. We are simply providing a report that highlights major trends in public thinking.