Listening to a talk by Gunter Pauli¹ in which he admonishes us – almost everyone – for our cramped thinking, I realised, again, how frightened we are, as a society, probably as a species, of the possible consequences of the changes we need to implement to save ourselves.  We seem even more frightened of this than the likely consequences of doing nothing effective or in time.  Even talking of needing change is probably less than useful, as it implies doing things in incremental steps rather than engaging in very different ways of thinking and behaving.

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