Review From Here: Interview with Aleksandr V. Bezgodov, author of Planetary Project

Title: Planetary Project

Author: Alexsandr V. Bezgodov

Publisher: XLibrisUK

Genre: Political Science

Format: Ebook

This monograph discusses current global economic and social issues. It describes the essence of the Planetary Project, based on the critique of the Concept of Sustainable Development. A model is proposed for solving global problems through global human unification aimed at saving the planet Earth from future cataclysms and catastrophe for present and future generations. The Planetary Project is in essence a paradigm of the world’s harmonious development. It is based on an integrated economy and rent incomes from planetary and intellectual resources held in planetary ownership. The Planetary Project provides solutions to globalisation problems caused by unrestrained economic growth and one-sided development of some national economies. The Planetary Project proposes a just system of world income distribution including rent revenues from planetary resources. This distribution system will work in the interests of all countries, including Asian and African countries, some of which experience serious socio-economic problems. New planetary economic resources and mechanisms will be able to: save the Earth’s biosphere; improve its ecology; and free humanity from hunger, epidemic diseases, and the threat of a Third World War. They will help people unite in the name of universal values of life, the harmony between civilisation and nature, and the welfare of present and future generations. Developing Planetary Project ideas could lead to creating a serious research tradition and a wide life-affirming and peace-loving social movement.

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Question1- What is your favorite quality about yourself?

Question2- What is your least favorite quality about yourself?

Answer for questions 1 and 2:

Most of all - the ability to catch up with the topic, get carried away by the project, see the results (even when they are not yet there), as well as discipline and diligence. The main thing is to feel organically and comfortably in the mode of reading-thinking-writing. The least is "sticking" on some separate sources of information, an unconquered habit of being distracted by something extraneous.

Question3- When did you first know you could be a writer?

Probably when our scientific and popular scientific works were published, when they had an opportunity to share their ideas with a lot of people in different countries and get interested responses to their works.

Question4- Who or what influenced your writing over the years?

Communication with colleagues, scientists from different countries. Creative and intellectual insights, coming in the mode of generation and thought-out of ideas, speech and writing, conversations with each other amongco-authors. And just coming literally from space. Everyone for himself determines the nature of his insights and sources of energy recharge.

Life in the mode of reading, writing, self-education. But the experience is not only office, but also practical, live. Acquired in travels across vast Russia and foreign countries, in acquaintance with other cultures, in dialogues with different people.

Question5- How did you come up with the title of the book?

Specifically, we did not have to invent it. Simply, we simultaneously put in the title the main idea of the book, the essence of its design and the movement towards its disclosure. The initial working hypothesis of our research consisted in the assumption that in the philosophical legacy of the Russian cosmists we will be able to find the beginnings of planetary ethics. Not just ideas, sprouts, namely, the beginning in the meaning of the sources-primary. The notion of "beginning" (Στοιχεῖα, Elementa, Origins) in this sense is a textbook in classical works on philosophy, physics, and mathematics. For example, the "Elements" of Euclid, "The Beginning of Philosophy" by Rene Descartes, Edmond Husserl's "The Beginning of Geometry." This classic term indicates a directed work to find and describe the load-bearing structures of thought - in our case - ethical thoughts.

Question6- What was the hardest part of writing your book?

It was not easy to write a chapter on the philosophy of the common cause of N.F. Fedorov. His eponymous book is a bibliographic rarity. Despite the fact that there is its modern edition, its circulation is very small, even scarce. And on the Internet to find the book did not happen right away. The texts of Fedorov are very resistant to modern perception, not all of his ideas coincide with our position. Sometimes I had to restrain myself from categorical objections and harsh comments. But the more interesting was the dialogue with this very special thinker, whose adherents of the main idea of the need to defeat death, we certainly are.

The author of this research monograph is Dr Aleksandr V. Bezgodov, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, who holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and a Doctorate in Economics. Born in Northern Russia in 1960, Aleksandr Bezgodov worked for companies specialising in innovation and high technology, as well as for organisations engaged in developing parliamentary democracy and civil society. Over the last 10 years, he has been involved in interdisciplinary research in macroeconomics and social issues at the world level using a systemic approach. He is not only a theoretician but also a practical researcher and research administrator. He is involved in both developing and implementing research-based technologies. Aleksandr Bezgodov is the author of over fifty scholarly publications proposing new original economic and sociological solutions to business administration. He is the founder and General Director of the Institute of Planetary Development in Dubai, UAE. In line with its logo “Serving humanity”, the Institute develops and disseminates the ideas spelt out in the monograph “Planetary Project: From Sustainable Development to Managed Harmony”. The Institute’s research activity is intended to provide solutions to the world’s pressing economic, social, environmental, political-legal, and cultural problems.