ALERT – ambitious regeneration … faces rapid global decline! Lauren, I’ve been active in the movements for decades but have been unsuccessful in pointing out how we should address the symptoms AND the causes of rapid global sustainability decline. That has not been happening at all, though. While trying to heal the world, the UN, … Continue reading Note to RegenPollination
Thinking about the global crisis, the people who feel it think so differently than those who don’t, and the solutions of the latter seem to be at the very root of the problem (problem A). We need solutions that would work in practice. That would take a real understanding of the problem and its origins. … Continue reading We have more than one problem
Also part of the path of discovery of where our cultures came from and the foundation we still need to learn from: The apparent Bronze Age roles of Hestia and Hermes In terms of the ancient Greek history of our split consciousness marked by the emergence of modern science, between family order and societal order, … Continue reading Bronze Age roles of Hestia and Hermes
It’s wonderful to have so much movement in the movement now, the passion and connections making such awakening waves around facing our global crisis of growing crises. Capitalism isn’t amenable to the kinds of change mostly offered, moral suasion, that I hear voiced by the great host of determined voices rising in response. The people … Continue reading Behavioral ironies for our moral values
The radical separation of humans from nature, our being so self-absorbed and seeing nature as defined in our heads rather than the other way around, has been a deep mystery for a long time. My interest in it came from noticing how mathematics became our standard for representing nature but cannot describe or help us … Continue reading Betrayed by the power of our minds
The imbalance of information about the costs and rewards of money; the intensely felt rewards and zero information on the environmental costs, has fooled humanity for ages. Even in our effort to stop climate change today, we aim to pay for reorganizing all our energy uses to continue the compound growth of using them that … Continue reading How we can know for sure
Paul Maidowski @_ppmv offered to respond to some of the tough questions about Climate change. On Jan 16 I posted the following image of how climate change has only accelerated parallel to economic growth, with no recent bumps or bends in the curve, starting the short discussion below (w/ minor edits for clarity). Paul, Why … Continue reading a leading edge of the research
From a natural systems science view, every culture change is a growth process. As with all growth processes, the start is small exploratory steps that if successful settle on some main direction, or directions of new development. That development then either switches to refining its internal design and maturing its environmental fit, to establish a … Continue reading What A-R-E we doing?
_________________“Natural growth” is nature’s way of creating long-lasting new lives, of all kinds. Intro: How system responsiveness is expressed in natural growth is as anticipation of the opportunity to end growth by perfecting the emerging system. To do that, the system’s steering needs to switch from multiplying to harmonizing (i.e. maturing) its design and place … Continue reading Why natural growth is our natural and likely only way out of our world growth crisis
To make our escape there’s not just one requirement, but the main path is to join the emerging understanding that our new age of growing environmental chaos is a natural result of overextended compound economic growth. In nature, growth is a tricky two-edged sword, the greatest of gifts to begin with then the greatest of … Continue reading How our world can Escape its long DEATH SPIRAL