we also have to say 'thou shalt not' to an economy of exclusion and inequality.
Such an economy kills,” the Pope wrote. “As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world's problems or, for that
matter, to any problems.”
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JECTS. Indeed that is what has been so exciting
within Transition to see a host of new leaders and people in
communities creating ways forward.
IT IS about starting with the strengths and assets of communities -
then we are more likely to see how people can take control of their
future rather than relying on other people. Harnessing the skills and
experience of local people helps create sustainable change....
Comment from Philip Booth on the POWER of Not Doing Stuff…
ciousness, and the mapmakers of the terrain". And as Scandinavia is one of the regions centred on the tipping point to second tier, it's within our potential take on this challenge, "to provide for the rest of the world the kinds of models that the world needs."Don Beck quoting EinsteinThe urgency and level of caring necessary must now be no less than planetary in its scope. It's taken some fourteen billion years for life and consciousness to gain the capacity for self- consciousness, while at the same time the biosphere, which makes life possible, is now threatened. But to generate the quality of solutions and level of moral caring that will be necessary to save the biosphere, society, our education system, and ourselves, we must change the level of our own thinking. It's time to focus our energy and exploration on the inward dimension of what it means to be an evolving human being.…
es things like regenerative agriculture and permaculture
to heal the soil, replenish the aquifers, and sequester carbon. It includes green energy
technologies, conservation technologies, bioremediation, wetlands restoration, zero-waste
manufacturing, anything that contributes to the health of the planet and its ecosystems.
Today, painfully, we are becoming aware of the folly of the delusion that we can, with clever
enough technological solutions, avoid the consequences of what we do to the world.
We are learning that we are not separate from nature, and that it bears a wholeness that we ignore
at our peril. Our techno-utopian dreams and basic scientific paradigms are unraveling in tandem with
many of our social institutions, because the underlying narrative of separation is unraveling as well.
- Charles Eisenstein
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