The Unstoppable Transition
We come out of decades of needed campaigning and protests against the world we don’t want and we move with exponential momentum towards the systematic and uncontrolable creation of the world we want. Transition involves being aware of the negatives of former but embedding ourselves in the positives of the latter. This video below, with dynamic speaker and author Paul Hawken, exemplifies exactly that.
It’d be interesting to find other video clips that hold a story of unyeilding positivity that’s not told through dreams or fantasies but through real life inspirations.
The tables have flipped, can you feel it? Probably not, it’s not portrayed in the media, nor in our political circles, it’s difficult to see at all in or every day lives but now, today and for the first time the status quo is on the back foot. Those supporting it’s continuation now make up the resistance movement. No longer is the great challenge to change the world, a far greater challenge is resisting the tide of change.
Every hole dug with a shovel, every seemingly boring community meeting, every humble local project started, every personal commitment made……..we have to gain a sense of it’s place in a sea of diversity of small changes across the globe that are building a new and nourished world, one dig of the shovel at a time.
I watched this video for the first time last night. I simply had to watch it a few times because it just moved me SO much. After watching, I actually wrote to Mr Hawken to ask him if he would be a guest on my radio show. I think his vision of the direction of the world is inspiring, and we need more people to raise this kind of loving, positive energy so that they feel motivated to locate and/or start groups in their own neighbouhoods, knowing that we ARE changing the world through our combined efforts.