Ecological tipping points are being breached all around us and yet the rhetoric from those who have the power to steer us in a safer direction remains essentially the same. They continue to tell us that we need more and faster Green Growth to solve this challenge DESPITE there being no proof whatsoever that it has made any difference. You can add EV's and solar panels to the equation and nothing changes.
Mindless consumption is the problem...purple, yellow, orange or green...it all leads to the same place.
People are being misled and it's delayed our ability to connect the dots.
BUT what if the cloak of manipulation was removed and it was revealed that our personal actions were actually the source of our physical and financial pain?
Ian Kaplan and I (along with dozens of the smartest people around) are building a multi-year Global PR campaign to help people understand this connection.
This is the first step in helping people understand that we can no longer count on politicians and green growth nonsense to protect our climate.
It's our job to jump ahead of the mainstream political rhetoric and make it clear that we need real (and difficult) changes, and that the politicians will have the support of the people, if they deliver, and if they don't, they will be looking for a new job!!
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Community oriented Transition Town and Reeconomy projects to provide community services - this could be elderly care, school lunches or whatever - and permaculture oriented projects with the planting of food forests and edible plantings on public as well as private land.
@Stephan Bianchi - I would suggest taking it a step farther. We are currently, albeit slowly, disentangling our economy from carbon consumption. What we have put in place thus far won't be enough, either in magnitude or timing. I think we have to disentangle our quality of life from our 'economy', to ensure there isn't a collapse of quality of life as fossil carbon use is drastically cut back. This requires specifically ensuring that we remove the obstructions that prevent people from meeting their needs. Any number of examples exist - from ensuring people have health care, to finding ways to ensure that elderly people can live at home, to installing para-ramps to allow mobility. Most of these things have no real cost, if there is sufficient long-term planning.
It's the only way I see of ensuring stable communities in to the future.