Glossary
The Consumerium glossary is those terms which must be understood or broadened or narrowed in the Wiktionary to enable Consumerium's mission. In general this requires three types of terminology shift:
- adding terms that the general public does not yet know, e.g. ecoregion
- narrowing terms that are usually understood too locally, e.g. "safe"
- broadening terms that have many different ways to define, e.g. "fair"
In addition it might be necessary to simply fix definitions of terms that are wrong, e.g. "done" or "person", most people simply do not understand that legal and moral definitions of these can vary widely and drastically.
The preliminary list of terms to ensure are defined correctly and compatibly in all languages, without all of which Consumerium makes no sense or can't work:
- bad not evil
- biosphere includes terrestrial ecoregions, oceans, atmosphere, is a big body
- body
- buy can have moral criteria, one can do evil by buying
- commodity as services - a good backed by standard contracts, trade empire
- cost only calculable through risk, until you know what is done
- done as legal concept
- ecology of Earth
- ecoregion
- evil
- faction agrees what person, safe, fair, done, evil, forgive and ignore mean.
- fair as ecologically founded but socially negotiated
- forgive
- forgiveness as measurable
- good as services - a product backed by social custom, legal guarantees
- ignorance
- ignore outcomes you consider evil, which is ignorance, not always bad
- illth is opposite of wealth
- instructional responsibility - you tell 'em how, it's your fault
- measure
- person is not always human: could be ape, corporation. legal concept
- regret measurable
- resource includes waste
- risk only basis of cost
- service includes things states do, e.g. regulate markets, tax, set standards
- power in energy, social, instructional/knowledge/skill, buying sense
- safe as social not objective idea except via ecology to a degree
- sell can have moral conditions
- social trust
- waste as resource
- wealth as well-being
- well-being
Discussion of these is in Talk:urban ecology - discuss in Talk:glossary