When I say "we need to have a serious discussion", I mean to open up dialogue. Because this crisis, and the catastrophe it will cause if we don't address it, can only be solved by many minds coming together for the common good.
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I have my own ideas. I have been working on this for the last 50 years to understand the situation we are in. But everyone needs to beware of any one person telling them how things are. This is what has got us into this mess, the false idea some great leader knows best.
The solution has to be us - the people - the solutions have to emerge from many minds coming together, with all minds solely focused on creating a sustainable society, and not on how to maintain business as usual.
The one thing I will go out on a limb to say, is that we must at some point all acknowledge that the present system we're living in has been a massive mistake. That humanity took a wrong turn a long time ago.
Humanity has learned and discovered some important things, and we mustn't throw out the baby with the bath water, but we won't address this crisis by clinging to business as usual.
There are many routes to a sustainable society, but something is either sustainable, or it is not sustainable. There is no such thing as partly or more sustainable. That which is not sustainable, will collapse. That is what unsustainable means.
Therefore, the way to judge all suggestions is will it be possible to sustain that? Nearly every current suggestion about how to address the climate and ecological crisis, is plainly unsustainable.
The last thing we want, is individuals suggesting their plans about how to address the crisis at this point in time. We simply need consensus on that this is a crisis, things cannot go on as they are.
Only, when the majority are committed and totally focused on seeing this as a crisis and taking ALL the necessary action to address this crisis, will realistic plans start to emerge. In the mean time, plans just create division and discord.
Overall, what I am mean dialogue about is recognising this as the crisis it is, recognising the full magnitude of the crisis we face, and getting enough of a consensus to say, we have got it wrong.
My own thoughts on this is that we need to suspend the current system. To put it on hold until we have properly thought this through. This is what I mean about the real solutions can only emerge when all minds come together to think about this.
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