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Today is the day after the Canadian federal elections. It's also
Blog Action Day on Poverty. Admittedly, poverty is an important issue,
and so are politics. But there is an intractable problem we all face
that is the context for poverty, economics and politics. And that
is the environment. Our elected leaders in Canada and the U.S. will not
only set the course for
North American environmental and economic policies for the next few
years, but will also impact our long-term future as well. And we all
(developed and developing countries alike) need to transition to
clean energy economies if we want to avert global disaster. [ Read More]
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Memorial Day is about remembering the sacrifices of our countrymen and
women in past wars—it is all about patriotism and not forgetting that
every American must do their part to sustain our democratic freedoms.
As I listen to folks talking, however, there are no conversations about
this or about much of anything other than reminences about last week's
golf games or past adventures or what is so-in-so doing these days.[ Read More]
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By David Korten | Great Turning website
Read more posts in The World We Want series.
This brings us to the third element of the
big picture of the human confrontation with the limits of our Mother
Earth: the governing institutions to which we give the power to set our
priorities and our collective course. We might wonder how such
injustice could happen in a world governed by democratically elected
governments. The answer is simple and alarming.[ Read More]
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After seeing the movie The 11th Hour, I have been thinking a lot about The Eldering Institute. The idea all along has been a strategy for mobilizing a lot of people, both retired and younger to “take on intractable problems”. The foundation for this has been the observation that most older people want to make a difference and leave the planet in better shape than we found it, and younger people are faced with a sufficiently uncertain future that most would love to have partnerships with older people if there could be an authentic relationship—one based on mutual learning, respect and appreciation for the differences between our world views. Finally, the idea of Eldering recognizes that most of the larger ‘problems’ confronting us are paradigmatic in nature. This means that ordinary thinking and attempts to ‘fix’ things won’t work. We must create a new paradigm and doing so requires that all of us participate. No one has “the answer”, but together we can create possibilities that neither of us can see without the other.[ Read More]
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My friend Chauncey Bell recommended The 11th Hour, a movie about the state of our environment and the kinds of things that need to happen if we’re going to have much of a future to think about, on his blog. It didn’t contain a lot of new information, but did a great job of focusing the mind and will hopefully mobilize a lot of people into action through The 11th Hour Action website. Several of the commentators and experts in the movie drew a parallel between the ‘state of our mind’ and the state of our environment. It reminded me that was exactly the way we used to talk about consciousness at work. [ Read More]
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Recently I saw a CBS story about the strange mystery of the bees. It
seems that we have another ‘horrible’ to add to the growing list of
threats to life as we know it. The facts are that a lot of honeybees
are disappearing in what is being called the “Colony Collapse
Syndrome”. I have no idea what this means from a biological point of
view, and I gather the phenomenon of billions of bees disappearing has
the scientists stumped as well. But whatever the cause, a lot of folks
are getting concerned because the honeybees are the workers that
pollinate a good piece of our food chain. It was reported that about
one in three bites of food are directly linked to the honeybee. [ Read More]
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I was reading the findings from David Suzuki’s latest environmental awareness campaign.
It's a series of conferences and town hall type meetings called “If YOU
were Prime Minister…”. It’s a good idea in terms of expanding the
discourse and engaging lots of people in an important, even critical
aspect of our public life. It grabbed me in part because I’m with my
parents this week and listening to lots and lots of people confidently
saying all this ‘green stuff’ is just a fad, global warming is
alarmist, Fox News said that Al Gore’s movie was wrong on the facts,
and besides he uses too much electricity…etc. [ Read More]
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I’ve been musing about David Suzuki’s campaign some more…. If I were
leader of a major nation, I think I’d be overwhelmed by all the input
from every imaginable camp, not to mention the politics of
decision-making and the drift toward ‘governance by poll’. I don’t
think there is a centralized institution in the world capable of taking
on all the items that need to be addressed in the timeframes that are
necessary if anything will make a difference. The only viable strategy
I see for addressing the myriad problems confronting us as a society is
the same strategy corporations have found is central to their
viability: specifically, to inspire and empower people to declare their
personal responsibility for the issues they care about and then take on
projects and initiatives to do something about them. In other words, we
can’t wait for ‘them’ to do it for us. [ Read More]
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