might hold under Joe Biden. As Mark Rowe has said: "Had John F. Kennedy been in the White House over the past four years, rather than Donald trump, he might have updated his most famous call to arms and declared: "Ask not what the climate is doing to your country, but what your country can do for climate." [IT] was in fact, another North American, the Canadian former governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, who came up with this phrase during a 2020 BBC Reith Lecture.Carney's call was directed at the international community, but it had a pointed reference to the USA. Much has been rightly made of the impact of our changing climate on the most vulnerable and developing parts of the world, where economies and peoples are least able to cope and sit in the crosshairs of extreme weather and rising tides. BUT the USA [IS] NOT EXEMPT.
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Added by Michael Grove at 16:16 on September 11, 2021
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in many cases our awareness • whether as individuals, organisations
or nations • [IS] still limited and local. To use an analogy from biology,
even though our actions affect the larger ecosystem of which we are
a part—in fact the multiple interacting economic, social, political and
environmental ecosystems—we sill behave as though our actions are
narrow in scope and impact. We see ourselves as part of a far smaller,
more isolated ego-system."
Scharmer and Kaufer explain why actions based on this “ego-system” awareness not only result in recurring crises, but doom any attempt to resolve them—we are trying to meet new challenges with an obsoletemindset. To show the shape of the emerging future they bring this ecosystem awareness to bear on areas such as labor, capital, production, technology, leadership, ownership and many others, offering a blueprint for a new society based on a profound understanding of how the actions of each affects the many.
This book’s journey is about a path and a method of dropping the baggage of old habits of thought and then crossing through the gate to an economy that operates more consciously, inclusively, and collectively.
THIS book addresses what we believe to be a blind spot in global
discourse today: how to respond to the current waves of disruptive change form a deep place that connects us to an emerging future,
rather than reacting against the patterns of the past, which usually means perpetuating them.
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