Jim Brumm
Jim Brumm has been in turn a writer, editor, and magazine publisher for over twenty-three years, during which time he wrote a weekly newspaper column and helped start four publications. He has served as the staff writer at an environmental restoration firm in Sebastopol, California, and a Web design firm in Santa Rosa, and has written hundreds of business profiles and other articles.
For the past several years Jim has undertaken an in-depth study of the ills facing societies today and in the past, and realized they have a common theme: a lack of long-term thinking, something little understood and rarely discussed directly though it has plagued humanity for thousands of years. He is currently writing a book, Long-Term Thinking for a Short-Sighted World. This piece is excerpted from that larger work.
Jim has recently created a Web site/blog, Long Term Thinking, to provide a forum for articles and discussion on the subject of long-term thinking. He is a member of Slow Food, USA, and The Long Now Foundation.
Jim is a resident of Santa Rosa, California. He rides a Vespa.
Stories by Jim Brumm
The United States of Generica
No matter how large the problem seems, or how insignificant our efforts may seem in the short run, over the long run, if we stick together, we can shift the dominant economic paradigm from one of greed, power, and profit, to one of balance, fairness, and a mindset of making decisions for the common good, and long-term best interest of all.
