29/5/2019
TransitionsTo transition is generally defined and understood as a period to change from one state or condition to another. The impacts of the industrial revolution have accelerated in the last 50 years and effects on our natural world and species extinction prompting concerns of unpredictable and unknown impacts of climate warming. Our communities are undergoing change whether it accepts it or not. For some there is an understanding of the urgency of transition needed so as not to be added on the list of species every minute going extinct. But, if our climate is warming at an accelerating rate, never recorded in the history of the planet and reducing this warming and its impacts, whilst putting in policies and programs where we act locally but think globally to reverse the damage we are having on our environment and survival needs to be a priority. However, this transition isn’t just from fossil fuels to renewable energy, it is from animal industrial agriculture to plant-based alternatives. It is from shareholder short term benefits of a limited few to community beneficial programs that meet the economic needs of most if not all the community. Communities coming together and having barbeques over tree planting events, with storytelling of these ancient and natural wonders and recognition of why we need to protect them. It’s about transition on boards of community and corporate organisations being represented by wider cross sections of the community they propose to represent. The transition to value a tree more than a historic building and our oceans and marine life as living treasures with the right to exist and essential for our own species survival. This transition is not a question of how so much but an urgent question of when … |
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