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Grant Symons's avatar

Thankyou Hans, I have been reading your posts for a few months now and really appreciate them. You capture and explain the important and difficult topics so very well. I spent 3 years writing posts about the great Transition and ran out of energy in 2023. I came to the realisation that it is very unlikely that civilisation will proactively transition in a sensible way, things will need to break before the openings for the new truly emerge. This process will be difficult and probably unevenly distributed. I'm now devoting my efforts to helping people, organisations and communities to build adaptive capacity and resilience. It turns out that much of this is about trying to become better humans with greater empathy, acceptance, ethics... and increasingly intelligent about seeing the opportunities as they emerge. Your writing helps build the awareness, thank you very much and please continue.

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Isabelle McAllister's avatar

Thanks! Very good all of it! I love the quote by prof. Kevin Anderson: there are only radical futures. Either we transform in a radical way or the planet will do it for us.

(I mean “love” =find it useful, not loving the prospects of our futures)

In my book many incentives are totally useless when not looking at it this way, and others make totally sense!

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