Introduction: Imagining Positive Climate Futures
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Introduction: Imagining Positive Climate Futures
Faced with climate change and other interconnected existential crises in the twenty-first century, it is quickly becoming a cliché to say that there is a strong need to “imagine better futures.” But such a statement hides many questions and challenges. Who gets to imagine these futures? Who feels safe and supported enough, economically, politically... See more
Rahel Aima • Imagination Infrastructuring for Real and Virtual Worlds
Yes, we are riding and resting a bit on the vibe, and the mood and enthusiasm. It doesn't mean the problems aren't real. Vibes alone won't cure climate change. Climate change is real. The threat to us is real. The ongoing extinction of our friends and partners, it's real. But when we understand these challenges purely through the metrics and the fl... See more
Douglas Rushkoff • The Shift is Real
We need to become better storytellers in such a way that we can, through a variety of media, give people a visceral sense of what a positive future would sound, taste, feel and look like. We need to create stories where the kind of future we want to see becomes commonplace, everyday. We need to tell stories with an underlying sense that the mere te
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
One such think tank is Oakland-based Movement Generation, a grassroots laboratory that has devised an influential Just Transition organizing model and is thinking through (and, maybe more importantly,