Yesterday, I saw somebody on LinkedIn writing a remark on how we deal with huge collective challenges. The answer is.. that we probably don’t. It has been lingering in my head since then. That, in addition to having finished a course on Coursera on democracy and climate change a while back, made me curious and made me want to write about it here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If we think that ‘somebody else’ will fix it, the truth is that they they probably won’t either- or at least, they can’t deal with it alone. Huge challenges are for the collective, something we only can solve together as ‘humanity’<\/strong> Or as humanity’s more tangible and sassy little sister: community, <\/strong>in whatever shape or form she comes in. Despite these huge collective challenges, I still have hope . Around the world, citizens are organizing, cities are leading, and youth movements are demanding accountability. Participatory democracy as well as other democratic innovations\u2014through citizens’ assemblies, climate councils, and grassroots organizing\u2014is showing us new ways forward. Together with businesses who are taking a stand, standing up for their values and beliefs and actually pushing the ball in the right direction. These are some of the people I have gotten a lot of inspiration from: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Yesterday, I saw somebody on LinkedIn writing a remark on how we deal with huge collective challenges. The answer is.. that we probably don’t. It has been lingering in my head since then. 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I have heard so many keynote speakers and CEOs talking about climate change and how we are in ‘dire need of action now’ and nothing that actually showcases how they are acting different. No substance, no 360 degrees around it.
The world is in need for everyone of us to step into our power use our imagination and start acting like we are the ones that are going to fix all our collective challenges as citizens and societies – because nobody will fix it for us.
<\/p>\n\n\n\nSo maybe – it’s fixable together?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
We have to wake up democracy, become accountable as citizens and use as well as develop our citizens rights – and develop a culture of shared responsibility and collective imagination on every level from personal, over local to regional, national and global.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nWhere hope lives: inspiring visionary thinkers and doers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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