We need to work together to change the underlying stories that have served some of us in ‘the West’ well for the last couple of centuries. These stories have underpinned the growth of European and American power as we used the industrial revolution, colonialism and resource extraction to improve our lifestyles. But these stories are now leading us towards global catastrophe, by destroying the biosphere that supports us along with all other life, by driving up poverty, famine, war and death. These simplistic stories that we’ve learned in childhood, adolescence and early working life, have become our mental models of […]
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How Change Might Happen: from what Kuhn says about big changes in science
We can learn from Thomas Kuhn’s book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. There are clear parallels between the paradigm shifts in science and those in political & economic thought.
Continue readingHow we might reach a better world? The story of Emergence.
Across the whole of nature, including human society, we see amazing creativity and cooperation at moments when there are significant changes in some parts of the environment. At times like this we see new forms of cooperation between the different actors, and even new forms of life, creating a new pattern of existence in this new space.
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