We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Implications of Arctic Permafrost Thaw

Click here to access article by Ian Dunlop from The Club of Rome. 
Business, supposedly the experts on risk management, should take leadership, but have abrogated any responsibility, given that realistic action will require a fundamental redesign of the economic system, undermining established vested interests. [my emphasis]
How true! The choice is basically ours. It's either capitalism, wars, exploitation, unemployment, climate extremes and environmental crises OR inclusively democratically controlled societies, peace, social justice, cooperation, productivity for the needs of all, living within and respecting the limits of our planet's ecology.
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