MUST READ piece by @JeremyRLent.
Our future is not determined. But our actions -- now -- will shape the future we get.
"A belief in the inevitability of collapse at this time is categorically wrong. The reason for this is the nature of nonlinear complex systems."https://twitter.com/TricksyRaccoon/status/1137512355531808768 …
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Regarding "complex systems: each of us plays a part in directing where that system is going. We’re not external observers but intrinsic to the system itself. That means that the choices each of us makes have a direct—and potentially nonlinear—impact on the future."
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"It’s a relay race against time in which every one of us is part of the team." Each one of us can make a difference. We can’t know in advance how our actions will ripple out into the world."
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"Incremental fixes are utterly insufficient. We need a fundamental transformation of society encompassing virtually every aspect of the human experience: our values, our goals and our collective behavior."
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"The meaning we derive from our existence must arise from our connectedness if we are to succeed in sustaining civilization: connectedness within ourselves, to other humans, and to the entire natural world."
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"We need to open our hearts to the agony of the truth that we’re facing—to the loss of our living earth, to the devastation already being wrought on millions of climate refugees around the world."
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“Our job is not to feel hope—that’s optional. Our job is to be hope, and to make space for the chance of a different future.”
@JeremyRLent quotes @enjohnston in his important piece refuting the harmful fallacies in "Deep Adaption."
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We don't get to opt out. "the way we leave this civilization behind, and what it’s replaced by, are all-important. An uncontrolled collapse of this civilization would be catastrophic, leading to mega-deaths, along with the greatest suffering ever experienced in human history."
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