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A ‘Council for the Future’ Could Break Australia’s Climate Paralysis

By Helen Camakaris, The Conversation

Like most people, I hoped climate policy would improve, but years of infighting and adversarial politics have resulted in a dearth of climate action, where cooperation might well have yielded positive results. One solution to this frustrating deadlock is to place the responsibility for climate policy at arm’s length from political actors. We need a Council for the Future, tasked with the long-term thinking that eludes so many of our elected representatives.

Brexit: Systemic Risk and a Warning

By David Korowicz, Geneva Global Initiative

But the reality of our lives, irrespective of wealth or position, is that we are thoroughly interdependent with each other, the socio-economic networks that bind us, and the planet and its living system that holds us all. When we tear at the fabric of our relationships, we undermine the welfare of all, and our capacities to face the dire challenges ahead.

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Now is Not the Time to Defend Britain’s Democracy – we Need a Democratic Revolution

By Laurie Macfarlane, Open Democracy

So despite the good intentions, now is not the time to be defending Britain’s broken democracy. Instead, we should be demanding a democratic revolution.

Our Forever War: How the White Male Hegemony uses Violence to Cling to Power

By Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian blog

The war is because the future USA will not look like the past USA, in who is here and who has rights and powers. The question is how we survive the transition – or rather how we shape it so that the vulnerable survive and thrive.

From the Royal to the Prophetic to the Apocalyptic: The Case for a Saving Remnant

By Robert Jensen, Resilience.org

The royal, prophetic, and apocalyptic traditions in the Hebrew and Christian bibles provide a compelling framework for understanding progressive intellectual and political work today, as we face the task not only of struggling to create a just and sustainable world but also imagining a saving remnant that will negotiate a radically different future in which both new and old skills, stories, and spaces will be necessary.

Stepping Up and Reaching Out – Stories and Mapping

By Richard Couldrey, Mike Thomas, Transition Network

It was great to have 146 Transitioners, from 84 different groups, come along to the workshops. But what brought them here? What was their passion and when did they begin their Transition journey? All of this fed into the beginning of our conversations about connecting regionally.

Toward Climate-Catalyzed Social Transformation?

By Diana Stuart, Ryan Gunderson, ROAR Magazine

While we recognize the powerful forces of social reproduction that stymie progressive change and make addressing climate change in time highly unlikely, a trajectory for social transformation has begun and we must stand up together to demand change.

On Finding Our Authentic Selves: or, the True and the False in the Age of Rousseau

By Erik Lindberg, Resilience.org

If I have a overriding theme, it is this: unless as a society or civilization we can conceive of a good that celebrates a low-energy and low-consumption way of life, one that offers intrinsic reasons for living simply and within the Earth’s ecological limits, we are likely either to consume our selves into oblivion, or should expect external or extrinsic limits of the sort imposed by heavy-handed governments.