The Four-Hour Work Day is loaded with inadequacies

The idea of the Four-Hour Work Day simply won’t work.

The beginning of
recorded history.

The concept is loaded with inadequacies; inadequacies that will see it do little to see society adapt to the demands of climate change.

Authoritative voices from around the world, climatologists who are conservative by nature, lean on undeniable evidence to illustrate that to mitigate human impact on the earth’s climate, we must reduce our carbon dioxide emissions by at least 80 per cent overnight.

Human activities of the past two centuries have bequeathed to the world and iron-clad guarantee that global temperatures will increase by a minimum of two degrees compared to pre-industrial times.

The present increase is less than one degree and already the world is being ravaged by weather events unique in recorded history.

We cannot change what is happening and some people, those with faultless climate related qualifications, are suggested that with positive feedback loops (the melting of the tundra permafrost that release billions of tonnes of methane gas, which is even worse than carbon dioxide) we could have a future in which global temperatures increase by as much as six degrees.

A six degree increase could end civilization as we know it.

The Four-Hour Work Day is nothing more than an essential first step in preparing society to prepare life in circumstances absolutely foreign to modern man – we have to learn to live where we live, valuing community and understanding that survival is not about controlling or competing with nature, rather living in concert with it.

The Four-Hour Work Day is about de-throning the economy and rather than prostrating ourselves before it, use that time to connect with neighbours, friends and others in the community to build the resilience that will be a prime requisite when our climate becomes fierce and the world’s finite resources, upon which our present lifestyle depends almost entirely, become almost impossible to excavate or extract from the earth.

The modern conception of work is exhausted, the idea is over and the sooner we recognise and understand that, the sooner we can, as a society, begin redirecting our efforts, our human energies, toward building resilient ways of living that don’t compete with nature, as has been the case in the “machine age” of recent centuries, and work with it.

The Four-Hour Work Day is inadequate in reaching the goal of true and genuine sustainability, but if nothing else it creates the correct mindset and redirects us form what is logistically, factually and most certainly a dead end path.