About All Hands On Deck

“All Hands On Deck” is designed to be a determinedly positive response to our present world circumstances. It is not intended to be a revolutionary broadsheet, and accepts that at present we are stuck with a ramshackle collection of nations, institutions, companies, organizations and mechanisms within which we operate now, in 2022.

Movements which begin outside the normal tracks are commonly called “grassroots.” Any movement that starts anywhere else is a minority bid for power. We are grass first, and our roots are where anything good should begin. I am proposing this forum, “All Hands on Deck”, for the whole citizenry irrespective of age, and so embracing the young, including those normally discounted from public debate, not only because of a desire to respect the creativity of people of any age  and right to opinion that all should have, but also because of a belief in the power of our collective determination and will to survive if indeed we call upon all hands.  We are all entitled to a voice in the promulgation of ideas and reports on action at all levels in response to the crises upon us.

"All Hands on Deck" is designed to -

                                     -  review current events in the light of history, to better understand the present;

                                     - allow for the putting forward of any practical  ideas in a spirit of brainstorming, in that ideas or plans posted can be read without adverse comment in the first place;

                                     - report on plans and initiatives to be undertaken at the local, national and global levels - we are called to operate at all three levels in the modern world;

                                     - report on the progress of the plans and initiatives, and evaluate them.

These four functions are deliberately combined in one forum: at present many positive thoughts and suggestions are coming at us in separate streams which I submit need to be cross-fertilizing each other in one place.

The blog is designed to communicate and allow for conflicting visions and differences of opinion without malice or personal attacks. The editor(s) of the blog will reserve the right to  censor contributions which promote discord or division among our common humanity. All contributors are assumed to share the view that we and the planet in general face an existential threat, but that it is in our power to address it.  Extraordinary times demand extraordinary ideas and measures, but the small and the mundane have an essential place too.