Common Sense for the 21st Century (excerpt)

By Roger Hallam, Resilience.org

What does a real Climate Emergency action plan look like? The answer is defined by the science − by the physics and chemistry. Some find it hard to imagine this is actually happening. Some think it seems ‘unrealistic’. But ask yourself about the alternative of risking the collapse of civilisation, the death of billions of people and the extinction of much of life on earth? Is that ‘realistic’? No economy on a dead planet.

Responding with Love to a Civilization in Crisis

By Brooke Lavelle, Zack Walsh, Open Democracy

What we face is a turning point between two futures: The Great Transition and the Great Unraveling. The Great Transition describes a future in which society is comprehensively reorganized to sustain itself in dynamic equilibrium with the Earth’s systems.

Charting How We Get There

By Guy Dauncey, The Great Transition Initiative

I share Bill McKibben’s sentiments 100%. I have worked in the climate trenches for twenty years, and I have always said that if you think you understand the climate crisis and you haven’t yet had that awful sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach, you haven’t understood the climate crisis.

Vivir Bien: Old Cosmovisions and New Paradigms

By Pablo Solón, The Great Transition

Like the system of world capitalism it challenges, the dynamic process of constructing alternatives is constantly evolving. Correspondingly, searching for complementarity and synergy among VB, ecosocialism, the commons, degrowth, ecofeminism, and other proposals yields multiple and diverse interactions.

How Do We Get There? The Problem of Action

By Paul D. Raskin, Great Transition Initiative

In our time of unprecedented interdependence and existential risk, we face a common predicament and an uncertain destiny. As the global quandary deepens and awareness spreads, the conviction that root-and-branch social change is needed to circumvent perils and seize opportunities draws more and more of us.

Global Capitalism: Reflections on a Brave New World

By William I. Robinson, Great Transition Initiative

We are in the throes of a transition to a qualitatively new stage of world capitalism. Its essence is the emergence of truly transnational capital, a transnational capitalist class (TCC) made up of the owners and managers of transnational corporations, and transnational state apparatuses through which the TCC attempts to exercise global political authority.

Journey to Earthland: Initiating a Global Citizens Movement for the Great Transition

By Adam Parsons, Share The World's Resources

‘Journey to Earthland’ is a recently released book by the Great Transition Initiative (GTI), a worldwide network of activist scholars with a unique purpose—to advance “a vision and praxis for global transformation”.

Towards the Tipping Point: Understanding Trump in a Larger Historical Context

By Jeremy Lent, Patterns Of Meaning blog

Every day, the news seems only to get worse.

Journey to Earthland: Branching Scenarios

By Paul D. Raskin, The Great Transition

Whither Earthland? The only certainty about the future is surprise, the one constant change.

A Higher Calling for Higher Education

By Cristina Escrigas, The Great Transition

We need a new conception of human progress that recognizes the interdependence of the economic, social, political, and environmental spheres.

Bounding the Planetary Future: Why We Need a Great Transition

By Johan Rockström, The Great Transition Initiative

We need an integrated approach, one that reconnects human development with the biosphere.

Review: The Great Transition – The New Paradigm

By Nafeez Ahmed, Degrowth.de

Here, I round up what I believe to be the five most significant ‘revolutions’ that constitute the positive components of this phase shift, and whose inexorable evolution and proliferation offer profound opportunities for systemic transformation that benefits humanity, and the planet: information, energy, food, finance and ethics.