Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Deliberation creates a process for educating ourselves—and each other—into citizenship and gives rise to what Daniel Kemmis has called “neighborliness—to finding within shared space the possibilities for a shared inhabitation.”
The world is heating up; parts are it are already ablaze. But democratic deliberation isn’t futile fiddling—it’s a precondition of dousing the flames.
Our belief and focus in this series is that the dysfunction at the top of our system is both a cause and a consequence of what’s broken at the bottom, and that the power of deliberative democracy is fundamental to fixing that.
Our aim is to support a movement of “democracy preppers” who want to stockpile social and community capital rather than dried beans and ammunition.
I want to talk to all of you today about the humans that survived the current planetary predicament. How did they organize their lives? What was the key to their success?
But what, exactly, is progress, and is humanity preordained to achieve it? What if the modern concept of progress costs more than it’s worth and turns out to be a harmful myth?
Vanessa is one of the founding members of the Gesturing Decolonial Futures Collective (decolonialfutures.net) and “In Earth’s CARE”, an international network of Indigenous communities located mostly in Canada and Latin America.
Vanessa provides her insight on What Could Possibly Go Right?
What if we don’t look back on 2020 as the year from hell, a painful and surreal slip on the otherwise generally smooth path of progress? What if, instead, we look back in five or ten or twenty years to 2020 as the moment when everything started to really and truly unravel?
As we search for ways to remake the way we garden, farm, and live in a time of climate change, extreme inequality, and political disarray, looking back at the innovations of Europe’s hidden agroecological past can provide invaluable lessons on how we might collectively move forward.
Event_08 Gravity Form: Event_08 two-button non-GF solution:
“How do we respond to collapse?” may be the most important question each of us needs to ask—and re-ask—ourselves and one another over the coming days, months, and years.
Have you ever fallen in love with someone who is dying? That’s some of the sentiment of this time. Some of what we know in the world will no longer be here, that’s the world we have created.
