Transition Bedford

I’ve always believed that the transition would be a mix of incremental and step change and that the step changes are largely psychological changes in the way we see ourselves. My belief follows that these psychological changes would come about through global events, festivals, celebrations and protests (not the traditional anti protests but protest in the modern more creative sense displayed in the video below), where people join together from across the globe for 1 day or 1 hour to do the same thing, whatever that thing might be. This global union or connection makes us conscious of each other in a new way. Well in my understanding a global shift is one step closer. Watch and enjoy!!

I’ve never believed that the “shift” or the “great transformation” would be some divine esoteric shift bestowed upon us. It has to be one created by the collective act of millions, if not billions, that makes us feel connected, empowered, unstoppable and irresistible. Again, the shift isn’t that one day we’ll go to bed in a exploitative and destructive world and wake the next morning in Utopia. The other side of the shift is our very same society BUT it has the foundations of a sustainable and just society/planet and that there will still be lots of work to do but a step change will have been achieved. And not too soon!!! Can you feel it? Nearly there!!!!! Work harder, dedicate more time, be more obsessed about the area you’re working to change, now is the time for oober dedication!! Just out of interest i predict 3 shift changes. The chasm is too large to jump all in one. Something like 2012 for the first shift, 2017 for the second and the final one in the early to mid 2020′s. This three shift idea is largely based on my understanding of Carbon Accounting and how business, communities and organisations could reduce their emissions to zero or near zero negative climate changing emissions. Structurally they’d need several major shifts as the task is too big to complete in one go. You kind of have to make the leap and shift your systems but then wait for all the systems that you are connected to to catch up before you can make another shift. Its perhaps more like a shuffle than a shift. The globe, in my understanding, will go through a similar shuffle over the next 15 to 20 years. It’s going to be a roller coaster.