From Clock Running Out II.
The reality is that the financial markets never fix recurrent failures. The market did not fix apartheid, fascism or World War II. Politics did. Governance did. The yield of good politics is another kind of ROI, the Return on Insight. We own the necessary insight into the acute and massive ecosystems crises but not yet the responsible politics needed. Let’s invent them.
The Spiritual Importance
The world we live in is not static. The only constant is change. Either humanity will evolve forward or fall backward. But adopting conservative political views can not work. We can’t change the world back to an earlier paradigm. The world that conservatives long for no longer exists. Conservatives are death. We must find models that work in the world that exist as it is today. We can’t undo the internet. We can’t undo globalization. We can’t undo demand for natural resources.
Ideas are the seeds of change. One of the problems is that there are only a few of us that recognize the problems and are actively seeking to find and implement solutions. First we have to work on ourselves so we can be the most potent agents for change possible. Secondly we must be very strategic and find the solutions that require the least amount of energy to implement.
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