Earlier this 12 months, I used to be approached by a significant writer – a division of Penguin Random Home – and requested to think about writing a ebook for them.

I wrote a fairly in depth proposal which described what I known as the politics of care, about which I’ve already written this morning within the context of Donald Trump‘s acknowledgement that a lot of his behaviour is pushed by hate.

When engaged on that concept, I grew to become considering the potential for care not simply being a phrase, but additionally a mnemonic probably representing an entire vary of concepts, utilizing the letters CARE to discover how such pondering might be used to look at simply what the time period ‘care’ would possibly imply.

In the long run, I got here up with seven mnemonics for care, though I by no means decided which one needs to be used above all else.

I am considering what readers right here would possibly suppose, and I will likely be asking utilizing 4 polls, that are on the backside of this put up, and I’m genuinely within the solutions if you’re prepared to take part on this.

My pondering recommended the C would possibly stand for:

• Cooperation: politics grounded in working collectively fairly than in competitors
• Care: recognising human and ecological wants as central
• Group: valuing collective belonging over particular person objectives
• Connection: recognising interdependence amongst folks and with nature
• Frequent good: prioritising what advantages all fairly than the few
• Compassion: treating all with dignity and kindness
• Creativity: imagining new options past present orthodoxies

Equally, I got here up with this record utilizing the letter A (which was the toughest to do):

• Accountability: energy have to be answerable to folks and communities
• Motion: turning ideas into apply
• Entry: guaranteeing everybody has the necessities of life
• Company: enabling folks to form their very own futures
• Aspiration: creating hope and imaginative and prescient for higher futures
• Authenticity: performing with honesty and integrity in politics
• Autonomy: defending freedom of thought and motion

Then I compiled the next potential meanings recommended by the letter R:

• Renewal: establishments and society needs to be regularly refreshed to satisfy actual wants
• Restoration: repairing what exploitation and neglect have broken
• Resilience: constructing power to face up to social and ecological shocks
• Redistribution: sharing assets pretty to sort out inequality
• Accountability: taking collective responsibility for each other severely
• Reciprocity: mutual respect and obligation in social life
• Regeneration: renewing society and nature for future generations

Lastly, I got here up with this record of concepts that the letter E may signify:

• Fairness: truthful outcomes throughout earnings, gender, race, and era
• Empathy: grounding choices in understanding and compassion
• Ecology: putting planetary well being on the coronary heart of coverage
• Empowerment: giving voice and capability to these excluded
• Earth: holding the planet central to each alternative
• Engagement: encouraging participation and shared decision-making
• Enjoyment: valuing pleasure, tradition, and fulfilment as political objectives

I reckoned that by the point I had received this far, I had pushed the concept sufficiently to suppose that, amongst these choices, probably the most helpful is likely to be discovered.

That mentioned, I did realise that placing these collectively in several methods would possibly end in completely different spins being placed on the assorted combos that may make up the mnemonic CARE.  Though I gave this a little bit of thought, I can’t pursue that additional, right here and now. As an alternative, would possibly I ask that you concentrate on which of those phrases you like? In every of the 4 polls, you need to use a most of three votes. I’m wanting ahead to seeing the solutions.

Ballot 1 – What would possibly the C in CARE stand for? You have got three votes.

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Ballot 2 – What would possibly the A in CARE stand for? You have got three votes.

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Ballot 3 – What would possibly the R in CARE stand for? You have got three votes.

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Ballot 4 – What would possibly the E in CARE stand for? You have got three votes.

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