NOT A SPEED BUMP · 2020-04-17 · EAARTH: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet ... presence on this...
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Philip Clayton
The Cobb Institute and EcoCiv
April 14, 2020
NOT A SPEED BUMP
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WHAT IS THE INSTITUTE FOR ECOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION?
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JOHN COBB TO THE UCC ANNUAL CONFERENCE:
• “The more progressive denominations on the whole have been
losing members and resources. There are many reasons. But I
think the deepest one may be that what we do and say does not
seem to be terribly important. This is true with regard to our
children whom we bring up in the church. They may have a
positive attitude toward it, but they do not see any reason to give
much, if any, of their time and energy to its support.”
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Bill McKibben“Thus human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past nor be reproduced in the future. Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.”
― Bill McKibben, The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing about Climate Change
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Bill McKibben
EAARTH:
Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
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WHY NOT A SPEED BUMP?
• Scientific data, virology: transmission of the virus
• Economic data:
• Individuals
• Small businesses
• government
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*THE* COLLAPSE, OR ONE OF MANY LITTLE COLLAPSES?
We don’t know. What do we know?
• Biological systems are interconnected
• Economic systems are interdependent
• Market calculations notwithstanding, in a finite system, the future
will not necessarily be similar to the past.
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WHAT'S NEXT AFTER PANDEMIC?
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WHAT TO THINK?
• Name the trend(s)
• Name the decision points
• Name the long-term goals for a sustainable human
presence on this planet
• Help as many people as possible to see that these goals
are crucial – and to live accordingly
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WHAT TO BUILD?
• The article that was sent – “communities of communities”
• “Communitarianism”
• Not abolishing trade or giving all to government ownership
• Sector by sector…
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EcoCiv.org
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EcoCiv Message – 2016 draft
Culture | Social Structures | Living Together
• Social Structures
• Law, Politics, & Political Structures
• Worldviews, Philosophy, Ethics
• Spirituality & Religion
• Communities
• Creative Arts
• Education
Sectors of Society
• Business/Economic Sector
• Political Sector
• Family Sector
• Religious Sector
• Education Sector
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Honing ourMessage in 2020
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EcoCiv Message
What EcoCiv does
• Facilitation and project management
• Visioning, Backcasting, Roadmapping
• Consulting, Convening, Catalyzing
• Not bringing all the answers, but knowing how to bring folks together to
figure it out.
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EcoCiv Message
What we do:
• Convening experts
• Helping to find solutions
• Disseminating the results to leaders and to the broader public
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CONCLUSION: “DON’T IGNORE THE LITTLE THINGS”
• Thought change, but even more…
• Lifestyle change!
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MY QUESTIONS TO YOU ALL
• How will you think differently?
• How can you organize smaller-scale communities?
• How can you retain different lifestyles among friends and
family?
• How can you expand these innovations to the community
level?
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THANK YOU