A few notes on how to get out of this mess

Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, October 2nd, 2022 - 7 comments
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From Imandeep Kaur – Transitioning Together: Building Community

Kate Raworth, of Doughnut Economics fame,

How can we escape outdated ideas? The ones that harm us because they disconnect us from each other and from the rest of the living world.

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I was taught that the shape of progress is an ever-rising line of growth. No matter how rich a nation already is, no matter how destabilised the climate, no matter how degraded the land, no matter how unequal the people, the answer always given is yet more growth.

If we are to learn to belong again in the community of life on this delicately balanced living planet, we need to escape that shape, and come to find something that enables us to thrive. And here’s how we could get started…

7 comments on “A few notes on how to get out of this mess ”

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  1. Robert Guyton 1
    2 October 2022 at 10:40 am

    Good topic. Have to spend the day teaching grafting apple trees, or I'd join the discussion. Looking forward to reviewing it tonight 🙂

    • weka 1.1
      2 October 2022 at 12:18 pm

      A worthy way to spend the day. I'm outside mostly today too, garden, river…

      Kate Raworth said something about making sure we have fun with the changes 👍

  2. Robert Guyton 2
    2 October 2022 at 10:15 pm

    Brilliant! First, we envisage, then we channel energy toward what we have imagined, lastly, we fabricate.

    (I did baulk at singing though, so guess I'll never hear the end of her Ted talk 🙂

    30 people came to learn to graft at Te Anau. A great deal of talking occurred. No one suffered a cut. Slightly sunburned now, but happy as!

    • weka 2.1
      2 October 2022 at 10:22 pm

      helping build a small island of coherence on the shores of Lake Te Anau.

      Don't think you missed much with the singing, although she does have a nice voice.

  3. weka 3
    2 October 2022 at 10:23 pm

    I'll put up another post at some point, I'd like to know how people see NZ living inside the doughnut. Probably need a different name. Living inside the Shrewsbury biscuit perhaps, but let's find something more Pacific flavoured.

  4. Roy Cartland 4
    2 October 2022 at 10:34 pm

    Great post, thanks for the dose of positivity!

    My takeaway was that individual actions CAN indeed make a difference (something I'd been doubting since one of Monbiot's articles). They won't solve crises, but can inspire mass change.

    I didn't quite get the singing either, bit I did get the bit about play and fun being useful.

    • weka 4.1
      3 October 2022 at 1:57 pm

      it's the mass change I'm counting on. We've never had more choice for action than now, it's how to get people involved that seems the sticking point.

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