Global Action Plan International

Climate change is not a problem to be solved, still less 'fought'. The case is made by Tom Atlee that we need to listen to the message: climate change is a symptom of our lessening grasp on reality, from which we can learn to get back on track. If we will.

"We are rapidly moving into a realm where problem-solving becomes obsolete, if not downright dangerous -- especially at the global level, especially when we are trying to preserve our systems, our habits, our identities, our protections and privileges. Because these challenges are not primarily problems to be solved. They are realities to engage with, to come to terms with, to learn something from about who we are in the world, to be humbled by and creatively joined. Yes, joined. Because inside the realities of today are profound lessons about who we need to be next, individually and collectively -- about the cultures, technologies, stories, and social systems we need to create and move into. We won't learn those lessons if we see these realities as merely problems to resist or resolve -- or worse, to make another war on. We need to see them as embodying the precise information we most desperately need to take in right now."

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Six Degrees of Separation from Reality

When you are standing on the edge of a cliff, a step forward is not progress.
-- Anonymous