Monitoring Wise Civilization by Creating an Index

Authors

Andrew Targowski, Western Michigan University

Keywords

civilization, civilization future, wise civilization, Death Triangle of Civilization, Sustainable Society Index, Wise Society Index, Wise Civilization Index, ecologism, Semantic Ladder, cognition units, wisdom, knowledge, concept, information, data, brain, mind

Abstract

The Wise Civilization Index will assess how wise we are in developing and living in a sustainable civilization.

Recently, people have started to worry about the state of the climate. This has been reflected in the finding that the climate temperature should be kept to a growth of below two degrees Celsius by 2100 to save our species from a slow death (The Paris Agreement of 2015). After all, raising the human body temperature by two degrees threatens illness and even death by four degrees. The same (relatively) can be done with Earth. However, apart from the climate, the problem is the depletion of strategic raw materials and the dwindling supply of drinking water. To this end, the concept of the sustainable development of society arose, and then, its index was introduced.

Recommended Citation

Targowski, Andrew (2023) "Monitoring Wise Civilization by Creating an Index," Comparative Civilizations Review: Vol. 89: No. 89, Article 9.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/ccr/vol89/iss89/9