Imagining a World Beyond Consumerism
It may be true that we need a new story, as many social change organisations now suggest, but we can’t buy one off the shelf that speaks to our civilisational predicament, nor brainstorm our way to one that works.
Jonathan Rowson • Now that you’ve found the others what are you going to do? - Emerge
Stuart Evans added
Many of us have clear visions of what kind of world we don’t want to live in, but are struggling to imagine the kind of world we would live in - let alone how to build that world. We need new narratives to illuminate what’s broken in our society and hands-on solutions for a more sustainable, equal and resilient world.
Marjolein Pijnappels • Designing the Future Using Science Fiction
Keely Adler and added
It has become hard to be intentional about the future — to imagine and shape the worlds we want to live in — because the modern state rarely assumes any role in doing that or in encouraging us to do it either.
Substack • Imagining a World Beyond Consumerism
Stuart Evans added
But I start with it because we live in a time bereft of such stories – stories of what life could look like if we were able to find a way over the course of the next twenty years to be bold, brilliant and decisive, to act in proportion to the challenges we are facing and to aim for a future we actually feel good about.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
But I start with it because we live in a time bereft of such stories – stories of what life could look like if we were able to find a way over the course of the next twenty years to be bold, brilliant and decisive, to act in proportion to the challenges we are facing and to aim for a future we actually feel good about.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
But I start with it because we live in a time bereft of such stories – stories of what life could look like if we were able to find a way over the course of the next twenty years to be bold, brilliant and decisive, to act in proportion to the challenges we are facing and to aim for a future we actually feel good about.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
The Consumer Story has come to feel inevitable, unbreakable. But it is not the true story of humanity; it is simply the story of self and society that most of us – almost all of us – have been brought up within.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Keely Adler and added