Emergencies, Frameshifts and What They Tell Us About Our Place in the World
As someone working in and seeking systems change, I can’t help but witness the clinging in how I relate to the ecological, social, and spiritual crises that we are entangled in. I cling to the despair that these specific systems we need are stuck and broken. I am attached to the contracted urgency of the problems that must be solved. I become so ob... See more
Harmonizing the Body Electric
We are aware of the existential stakes and the urgency, but even when we know that a war for our survival is raging, we don’t feel immersed in it. That distance between awareness and feeling can make it very difficult for even thoughtful and politically engaged people—people who want to act—to act.
Jonathan Safran Foer • We Are the Weather
Nowhere do we need these kinds of stories more than in the context of climate change. So far, our ambitions only extend as far as halting the damage before it reaches truly catastrophic levels – as, for instance, with current targets to keep global average warming to 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius. But what if we went further, and aimed to return the atm
... See moreAlex Evans • The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough
Or so E. F. Schumacher would have us believe. The author of Small is Beautiful and A Guide for the Perplexed distinguished between “convergent problems” (where attempted solutions gradually converge on one answer) and more super-wickedesque “divergent problems” (where different answers appear to increasingly contradict each other the more they are
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