How To Think About Change

“if we can recognise that change and uncertainty are basic principles,” as the futurist and environmentalist Hazel Henderson put it, “we can greet the future… with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic .” You can take a crisis very seriously indeed without fooling yourself that you know the worst outcome is certain.

The way Lackner sees things, the key to avoiding “deep trouble” is thinking differently. “We need to change the paradigm,” he told me. Carbon dioxide, in his view, should be regarded much the same way we look at sewage. We don’t expect people to stop producing waste. “Rewarding people for going to the bathroom less would be nonsensical,” Lackner ha

While Gopal acknowledged that “catastrophe is inevitable,” he followed it right up with, “but change is also inevitable; transition is inevitable.” And he laid out some strategies to guide us forward. But how do we proceed at the heart level? How do we break down the walls inside our psyches, reconnect with our neighbors, and take those first steps

what can we do? At one level, there’s a quite a number of things we actually can do, both individually: bike more, fly less, recycle, compost, go vegan, put solar on your roof; and collectively: divest your self/work-place/city/church/school from fossil fuels, make a community resiliency plan, block a pipeline, sue an oil company, pass a Green New

what can we do? At one level, there’s a quite a number of things we actually can do, both individually: bike more, fly less, recycle, compost, go vegan, put solar on your roof; and collectively: divest your self/work-place/city/church/school from fossil fuels, make a community resiliency plan, block a pipeline, sue an oil company, pass a Green New