For every crisis there is a choice: to respond to it out of the same thinking that created it, or to respond to it in a way that undermines the thinking that created it.
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Hoarding wealth, using violence, building walls, extracting from the Earth to fuel emergency response to the consequence of extracting from the Earth - that's the downward spiral where crisis responses strengthens crisis drivers.
Creating just collaboratives based on mutual responsibility, restoring and backing off of natural systems to create resilience, easing off of consumption to do the same, forging the solidarity that helps weather shocks...
And though we can't have certainty in advance, if I had to bet, I would bet that these responses are more flexible, more improvisational, and more resilient to shocks, surprises, and uncertainty than the strategies of empire, command and control, and power through fear.
Consider: All that looks so strong right now might be brittle. And that which looks small and insignificant might last. Consider that putting your effort into the small and insignificant might be what it means to align with life.
If we all would start with just declining any beverage housed in plastic, that would be a formidable start. Or anything in the Project Drawdown list. I’m sorry I have not read your book. 💚
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