Here's some first throughts:
As the industrial growth society[1] frays at the edges and starts to unravel, we face an unknowable future. We simply can’t know in advance if our many efforts to create new, more resilient world structures will bring about the life sustaining society we need for us and our planet to flourish together. We can’t know in advance if we’ll be able to change our minds enough to step out of one way of being and into another with good grace and creativity.
- How do we each get used to the idea that we are acting into the unknown?
- How do we learn to respond to the unexpected complexities of ecosystems collapse and regeneration?
- How do we stay present as our world shifts shape around us and as we shape it through our actions and attitudes?
- How do we learn to perceive our utter dependence on and interconnection with the planetary systems of which we are a part?
How do you respond to these questions?
More later... including news of a workshop with ecologist Joanna Macy...
[1] “Industrial growth society” was coined as a phrase by Norwegian ecologist, Sigmund Kvaløy, and has subsequently been taken up extensively by systems thinker and ecologist, Joanna Macy. It refers to an economic system dependent on accelerating growth.
