The Possibility of a Sustainable Future
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 11:34PM How can we best achieve a sustainable future?
We have to change our behaviors and attitudes both individually and collectively across global societies.
How are we going to be able to do that?
Through education?
Research has shown that education for sustainable development and sustainability has had a minimal effect so far.
Through incentives?
Both punitive and reward incentives have had a minimal effect.
The answer is we have to change our very selves. Who we are.
This requires a recursive loop of brief navel gazing followed by action.
Introspection and then learning through action. Repeat.
That’s the only way. Learning through cycles of reflective collaborative action.
We have to get who we are and what we are doing.
We have to change our ways, through our ways of being, through our very being.
We have to become sustainability, individually and collectively.
We have to identify in not just with sustainability.
EJ Wensing
Ecosphere Net
US Virgin Islands
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