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Cathedral Thinking - a term coined by Stephen Hawking in the article "Our attitude towards wealth played a crucial role in Brexit. We need a rethink" dated 29 Jul 2016 in The Guardian.

..excerpt: "These ideas are started by one generation with the hope a future generation will take up these challenges. I hope and believe that people will embrace more of this cathedral thinking for the future, as they have done in the past, because we are in perilous times. Our planet and the human race face multiple challenges. These challenges are global and serious – climate change, food production, overpopulation, the decimation of other species, epidemic disease, acidification of the oceans. Such pressing issues will require us to collaborate, all of us, with a shared vision and cooperative endeavour to ensure that humanity can survive. We will need to adapt, rethink, refocus and change some of our fundamental assumptions about what we mean by wealth, by possessions, by mine and yours. Just like children, we will have to learn to share..."